Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative Afcoop Movies

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

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 man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

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.

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 woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

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

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.

In this first of Lulu Keating's films, she animates photos she's accumulated that celebrate her extroverted spirit.

A banana gets invited to a party

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

A co-production between the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and the Winnipeg Film Group, this documentary shows children and youth speaking frankly...