What’s Available On AIFF Online? (Sept. 17 - 21)
Eight days. More than 100 films. So much to fit into one festival week…
If you missed a screening (or two) during the in-person festival, here’s your chance to catch up from the comfort of home. AIFF Online is streaming select Atlantic Canadian features and shorts until Sunday, September 21. Available exclusively in Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island).
Whether you want to revisit a favourite or discover something new, AIFF Online brings some of the festival’s most exciting films right to your living room.
Feature Films
Blueberry Grunt by Sherry White.
Blueberry Grunt (Best Atlantic Director Award— Sherry White)
In Sherry White’s moving drama, a marriage begins to unravel under the weight of shared trauma. Joel Thomas Hynes and Liisa Repo-Martell star as Vivian and Harold, spouses whose annual camping and blueberry-picking trip takes a devastating turn. When faced with a life-or-death situation, both must confront the anxieties they’ve carried for years. Get Tickets
Hangashore by Justin Oakey.
Hangashore
Haunted by recurring dreams, Vera (Hera Hilmar) travels from Iceland to a remote Newfoundland village to search for her missing father. There, she’s drawn to Jack (James Frecheville), a mysterious seal hunter, and into a world of buried secrets. With Hangashore, Newfoundland writer-director Justin Oakey (The King Tide, AIFF Best Editing winner) delivers a visually arresting thriller steeped in folklore, superstition, and supernatural dread. Get Tickets
What We Dreamed of Then by Taylor Olson
What We Dreamed of Then
Award-winning alumni Taylor Olson returns with his third feature, What We Dreamed of Then—a vulnerable portrait of a man struggling to hold his family and life together. Known for intimate, socially conscious storytelling, Olson shines a quiet light on invisible homelessness with empathy and urgency. Get Tickets
Vermilion by Amy Trefry
Vermilion
Canadian-Ukrainian filmmaker and performer Amy Trefry’s narrative feature debut is a gentle, introspective, ardent road romance across the majesty of British Columbia’s countryside. Starring Trefry and Lyndie Greenwood, it follows two women who spark an unexpected romance and set off for a summer of van life, sharing parts of their lives with each other as they go along, and chasing freedom, intimacy, and the quiet ache of knowing it can’t last. Get Tickets
Short Films
Alongside amazing Atlantic features a wide range of short films, packed with fresh and daring storytelling and much more are also available via AIFF Online.
The Muse by Wanda Nolan.
The Muse (Best Atlantic Short Documentary Award)
A much-anticipated part of the festival every year is the Reel East Coast Shorts Gala, which spotlights talent from the Atlantic region—from emerging voices to AIFF legends. Almost all of these diverse, compelling new short films are available to stream on AIFF Online.
Louis, A Place To Wait and Watch, Dike Bar, talking to humans about the end of the world.
Reel East Coast Shorts
A much-anticipated part of the festival every year is the Reel East Coast Shorts Gala, which spotlights talent from the Atlantic region—from emerging voices to AIFF legends. Almost all of these diverse, compelling new short films are available to stream on AIFF Online.