Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, ON Videos

Today is your *last chance* to purchase advance tickets for our live music + film performance by Ottawa’s own Jakean and Annie Socoria! Don’t miss this unique audiovisual experience of moving indie electronic music and distorted visuals created in real time, creating a compelling fusion of light and rhythm. Exclusively at at LabO Theatre this Friday July 21 at 7pm. Visit our website for ticket info! bit.ly/3JHuxzd

Today is your *last chance* to purchase advance tickets for the magnificent feature film Y'a une étoile (There's a Star)! Don’t miss your opportunity to see the Ontario premiere of this joyous documentary set to the music of Acadian icon Angèle Arsenault, at LabO Theatre this Saturday July 22 at 7pm. Visit our website for ticket info! bit.ly/3JHuxzd

An agoraphobic woman resists going with her partner to a funeral, triggering a crisis point in their relationship. PICTURE YOURSELF explores the short but impossible distance between the threshold of the front door to the world outside, and between two people separated by a mental illness. Ottawa premiere of this affecting short drama in MOVING IMAGES, at LabO Theatre on Saturday July 22 at 1pm!

H.O.M.E. (HOARDING OLD MEMORY EGGS) is a 3D animation depicting a search for companionship in a place of lived memories. In a surreal dreamscape, filmmaker Marcella Driver-Moliner explores their own relationship with a collection of personified sentimental objects and the idea of belonging. See the Ottawa premiere in our animation program LINES DRAWN on Sunday July 23 at 3pm.

Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an increasingly unreal outside world. Archaic illuminations, old slides and the pin-lights of a camera obscura crawl across the walls. Connections fray. Time loses meaning. See the Ottawa premiere of LIGHT LEAK in our experimental program NEW VISIONS on Sunday July 23 at 5pm.

Y a une étoile (There's a Star) feature film trailer
We are proud to present the Ontario premiere of Y A UNE ÉTOILE (THERE’S A STAR), a joyous and uplifting musical documentary about Samuel, a young transgender musician on a quest to find a rural Acadian queer community. See this amazing, heartfelt feature film on the big screen Saturday July 22 at 7pm at LabO Theatre, with director Julien Cadieux in attendance!

TIME CRYSTALS is a film about time and temporal material, narrated by a synthetic entity with an ambiguous relationship - sometimes uncanny, sometimes illuminating, sometimes dissonant - between what she says and what we see. See the Ontario premiere screening in our experimental short film program NEW VISIONS on Sunday July 23 at 5pm at LabO Theatre!

ALL THOSE SENSATIONS IN MY BELLY is a unique animated documentary telling the real-life story of Matia, a transgender woman who shares her experiences of transitioning and her struggles forming genuine relationships with others, but more importantly finding peace with herself. Catch this beautifully-told short film as part of our documentary program TRUE STORIES on Saturday July 22 at 3pm at LabO Theatre.

Experience original films from the world’s most unique creative minds at LabO Theatre in downtown Ottawa this July 21 - 23. From groundbreaking independent dramas and documentaries, to alternative animation and experimental works, to innovative live performance and interactive media - it’s more than a festival, it’s a state of mind. Tickets and passes on sale now at our website!

Tune in to CHUO 89.1 FM between July 10 - 23, and you might hear our new 2023 radio spot, with a voice-over from Mirror Mountain board member Renuka Bauri, and fabulous music by Ottawa's own Yarns!

A woman crossing a bridge feels a sudden impulse to peer at the river below and is transported through a watery portal into uncanny territory. Can she evade the force that drew her into this grim domain? The surreal odyssey CANAL screens as part of STRANGE HOURS on Saturday July 22 at 9pm. Director Will Rahilly in attendance!

The discovery of a curious collection of 35mm slides reveals the secret history of a boundary-breaking university course and its powerful impact on three students in THE VAGINA SLIDES. See this thought-provoking and often funny documentary in DOUBLE BILL on Sunday July 23 at 1pm at LabO Theatre. Director Amanda Feder in attendance!

AT LAKE is a surreal meditation on nature and the relationships between movement, landscape and chance, and also a revisioning of Maya Deren's iconic 1944 film AT LAND interpreted through the lens of our current time. Screening in our experimental program NEW VISIONS on Sunday July 23 at 5pm at LabO. Director Mistaya Hemingway in attendance!

Discover the street art of SAM (Street Art Miniature). Watch as SAM unveils their latest work, and follow along as they make and install an original piece in downtown Ottawa. Catch this short in LOCAL HEROES at LabO on Friday July 21 at 8pm. Director Craig Conoley in attendance!

Through the images Anne-lise Maurice filmed since her mother passed 11 years ago, she discovers a world where she can fit in, a lineage, a shared, living and vivid story that drives her forward. See ONZE in our documentary program TRUE STORIES on Saturday July 22 at 3pm at LabO Theatre!