Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative Afcoop Movies

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.

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

In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the...

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

A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

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.

Alyssa and her friends make their way home from school and spend another afternoon in the suburbs, navigating the new pressures they face while...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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

This Docu Poem narrates a game played by time, time itself being a card played, that makes human existence both a tragedy and a comedy.

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

Experimental documentary by Lulu Keating

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

A documentary unlike any other, The Moody Brood explodes the myth of the idealized, normal family-a popular and pervasive post-WWII notion. The film...