Winston Smith is interrogated by a member of The Party about some of his journal entries. In this scene, Smith struggles to differentiate his reality from the reality of The Party.

Winston Smith helps Julia after she trips. This seemingly mundane interaction upends Smith’s world when he reads the note Julia slips into his hand.

A playful duet between romantic partners that offers a comedic take on a sinister secret.

An alarm goes off, triggering a pat-down at airport security.

A man and woman meet for the first time on a summer's evening.

A nighttime confrontation between a mother and son. The son accuses her of having an affair with his uncle, and killing his father. He’s found a doctor in Chinatown who will be able to prove his father was poisoned. The mother claims she did it to end his pain.

A francophile from Toronto walks into a café in downtown Montréal. His coffee order and small talk with the barista turns into a political rift that eventually leaves him lost in translation.

A box office worker longs to be on the opera stage.

A box office worker longs to be on the stage. When the lead of the production is injured, she begs for her chance in the spotlight.

A famous blues singer is warming up in her dressing room before the show. Her partner, Jack, enters and a fight begins.

A dying father and his son drink their last bowl of water. They need oil for the machines that will keep them alive and purify their water. A truck rolls past with a huge barrel of oil in the back. The son flags it down, only to discover the person driving the truck is a monstrous creature from the nation they’re at war with.

A blind dancer and the shadow of her former sight share a final dance.

Democracy lies dead in a coffin, mourned by two citizens... But slowly Democracy raises her weak head and begs the two citizens to keep her alive by executing a difficult but necessary task.

Each of two brother bulls attempts to convince the other to enter the barn. Neither wants to go, knowing their lives are at stake. The two flatter, dare, and challenge one another, until a race finally settles it: first one to the barn wins. Sort of.

An entire relationship in microcosm, from first meeting to last sunset together. This piece uses a couple’s dancing together as a metaphor for their time passing.

Elvet is struck with grief over the death of his newborn child, not yet named.

A son gets caught sleeping with his father's girlfriend, Eva. A three-way fight erupts, the son professing his love for Eva and vice versa, while the father warns they’ll betray each other soon enough. They leave, and the father grieves the loss of them both.

Robert helps Charlie, who is sick, check his stool and be calm in the face of death.

First meeting of an adult son and his birth mother.

A couple fights as a woman leaves to pursue her dream.

While claiming sovereignty of an ice floe, Harper meets a seal, then drowns as the floe melts.

Ex-lovers encounter each other in hotel lobby with their new partners and insult each other.

An undersea monster sings to the scientists observing her.

In a deep sea submergence vehicle, a crew voyages in search of a sea creature whose gaze can cause burns to the eyes.

A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.

A figure skater and coach review a disappointing routine together.

A figure skating coach reminisces about her own time in the competition spotlight.