The Sunny Side

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

Tom fights with another cat over Jerry.

Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

Hawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.

John Mulaney relays stories from his childhood and "SNL," eviscerates the value of college and laments getting older in this electric comedy special.

This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.

A wild, wallifornia-style quirky film.

Meowth and Wobbuffet sit on a cliff near a crystal cave, with Meowth thinking about how beautiful Meloetta is. Suddenly, Meloetta flies past, searching for something, then flies off. Meowth and Wobbuffet take off after it.

The before and after of a break-up between a young couple, told from both perspectives.

A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.

A self-involved but seductive beauty engineers his two lovers to fight over him. And we mean, really fight.

A nice guy who always finishes last discovers a potion that helps him turn the tables on the rude, stick it to the inconsiderate, and maybe overcome his own meekness.

Meeper and the ChubbChubbs go to the North Pole; when Santa Claus is injured and can't deliver his presents, he is replaced by Meeper.

In the 1970s, child prodigy Lucien Spelman was billed as the youngest professional Classical/Flamenco guitarist in the world. A documentary crew has caught up with Lucien as a middle-aged man who has laid down his guitar to immerse himself in the competitive brutality of mixed martial arts. Lucien falls under the tutelage of an 'energy manipulator' he meets online, and when a seedy fight promoter allows Lucien to buy a shot at redemption both student and teacher realize that there is much more to the fight game then they anticipated, and just maybe more to themselves as well.

In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.

A handful of Sally Cruikshank’s characters come to life once again to explore a gallery celebrating her career highlights.

Notodofilmfest short.

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson

After getting on the "dance cam" at a professional sporting event, Drew quickly loses his mind along with his sense of reality.

Mary Lou is unhappy in love and decides to reconnect with her religious roots by marrying a practicing Jew. In order to get married, she has to pass the Shidduch test, which will determine whether her life will be a success or failure.

A mysterious remote falls from the sky.

A young couple plans to spice up their love life when their friend, Holly, comes over for dinner.

Enby, a 20 something human living in East Van has finally found the words that match their identity. Ironically it's been their nickname all along. Enby has come to realize that in order to thrive as their authentic self they must carve out a path that doesn't conform to the traditional gender binary. Now they must negotiate explaining this to their family while simultaneously taking the first steps to building a life in which they feel comfortable in their own skin. Confusion, misunderstandings and awkwardness ensue, what's an Enby to do?

On his 25th birthday, The Kid, an unpublished novelist, finds himself in a dark bar, drinking alone, and experiencing a quarter of a life crisis. He strikes up a conversation with The Bartender, an older veteran of the bar, who is the only person remaining after last call. Venting to The Bartender about his current existential crisis they both end up drinking together, but when The Bartender goes to make sure everything is cleaned up for the night, he returns with a .38 Special Snubnose Revolver, also known as a "Saturday Night Special", and informs The Kid that someone must have left it behind. The two speculate where the gun could have come from, all the while they continue to drink, which makes things quite chaotic once the Kid decides to pick up the gun.

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes attempts to save his five-year marriage to Alice.