Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative Afcoop Movies

  • 1970
    Take 2

    Take 2

    Take 2

    01970HD

    Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

    Take 2
  • 2011
    DWB

    DWB

    DWB

    42011HD

    Two Black Nova Scotians are pulled over by a white cop while on their way to do a CBC radio interview about police racial profiling.

    DWB
  • 1980
    Rude Questions

    Rude Questions

    Rude Questions

    01980HD

    A portrait of Larry Loomer, the owner of an antiquarian bookstore located in a small town. Larry is a colourful and amusing character who shares his...

    Rude Questions
  • 1980
    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    01980HD

    A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a...

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe
  • 1995
    Cherries

    Cherries

    Cherries

    01995HD

    A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

    Cherries
  • 1983
    City Survival

    City Survival

    City Survival

    01983HD

    A young woman leaves the comfort of her small rural community to pursue opportunities in a big Canadian city. She encounters obstacles that almost...

    City Survival
  • 1981
    The Jabberwock

    The Jabberwock

    The Jabberwock

    01981HD

    Based on the Lewis Carol nonsense poem "Jabberwocky," this three-minute animation brings to life the fearsome Jabberwock, the Jub-Jub bird, and other...

    The Jabberwock
  • 2022
    The Year Long Boulder

    The Year Long Boulder

    The Year Long Boulder

    02022HD

    Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with...

    The Year Long Boulder
  • 2021
    Deadstick John

    Deadstick John

    Deadstick John

    02021HD

    Regular life is still a struggle for John years after his fall from grace. If he was marvelled at by the world again, life wouldn't be so bad.

    Deadstick John
  • 1977
    Gene

    Gene

    Gene

    01977HD

    A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

    Gene
  • 1998
    Nine

    Nine

    Nine

    01998HD

    The year I turned nine I became pathologically afraid that my parents would die. I stopped letting them leave the house at night, even for a walk...

    Nine
  • 2004
    Pitfall

    Pitfall

    Pitfall

    02004HD

    A depressed archaeologist is banished to work in Nova Scotia as punishment for taking too many drugs.

    Pitfall
  • 1985
    Linda Joy

    Linda Joy

    Linda Joy

    01985HD

    A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

    Linda Joy
  • 2014
    Hive

    Hive

    Hive

    02014HD

    A woman deciphers a message received in her dreams, sent by a colony of bees.

    Hive
  • 2023
    I'm Just Trying To Have Fun

    I'm Just Trying To Have Fun

    I'm Just Trying To Have Fun

    02023HD

    A blood-red sky. A man descends into darkness.

    I'm Just Trying To Have Fun
  • 1977
    Joe Sleep

    Joe Sleep

    Joe Sleep

    01977HD

    Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea...

    Joe Sleep
  • 2021
    The Agnostics

    The Agnostics

    The Agnostics

    02021HD

    The Agnostics follows freshly-relapsed alcoholic Suzanne and her father Mark to an Easter gathering, which they hope will result in a much-needed...

    The Agnostics
  • 1970
    Gathering Limits

    Gathering Limits

    Gathering Limits

    01970HD

    Short film made during the COVID-19 pandemic about two estranged former lovers spending Christmas Eve together in isolation.

    Gathering Limits
  • 2023
    Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss

    Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss

    Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss

    02023HD

    Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories...

    Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss
  • 1975
    Masterpiece

    Masterpiece

    Masterpiece

    01975HD

    Masterpiece is a futuristic existential short film directed by one of the founding members of Nova Scotia's Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.

    Masterpiece