Most of the Positions depicted here lean toward the prone. You have to want the sustained feeling of meditative torpor that hangs over these Canadian shorts, but they are rewarding.

Some feel like talent in search of a story. Slight tales of a church-cleaning group, a woman cycling through Toronto’s summer streets, and a field recordist capturing creaking sounds don’t quite pay off, but are soothingly well-shot. A brief look at Vancouver’s Georgia Viaduct is far more opaque than the catalogue suggests, and one about a middle-aged runner is actually tangentially related stills and footage held together by abstruse titles.

The most complete items capture a girl’s ambivalence at competitive ice-skating in 1994 Istanbul, a British woman’s public-bathroom standoff with a strange man, and a young Canadian’s search for a female violinist who loomed large in her uncle’s musical life.

That last one, called “Veslemøy’s Song”, is the latest subtle winner from Maison du bonheur’s Sofia Bohdanowicz, who turns openhearted (and open-ended) tentativeness into a surprisingly sturdy kind of soul-searching mission statement.