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Fanny meets her high school friends for the annual Switch & Bitch Party.
A look at the community response to the murder of Nirmal Singh Gill, a caretaker at the Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey BC by 5 white supremacist skinheads in 1998.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Chilean refugee Daniela (Carmen Aguirre) wants to travel back to Chile to learn more about her family as her father is reluctant to talk about his past. But she is about find out much more than she expected.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
"C'est à qui, cette ville?" is a response to the 1984 film, “Ville, Quelle Ville?” This original super 8 film documented various places in Toronto’s east end and reflected upon a young woman’s life in the city.
Did you know that many First Nations schools get less money than provincial schools? Shannen Koostachin, a young leader from Attawapiskat First Nation, knew this was wrong, and so does Spirit Bear.
While narrating letters written to her ex, a woman attempts to cast away the lingering shadows of the relationship and overcome feelings of rejection and failure.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
An optimistic Filipina woman who has just immigrated to Canada is excited to try an apple for the first time. Similar to her experiences as a new immigrant, the apple isn't what she expected.
What of our homes lasts within us? Shea stretches the answer across a diaspora.
Oh Canada - Oh Covid documents the opening days of the coronavirus pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
A spoken word poem and minimalist audio track about a sexy highland stream, a love letter to the beauty found in nature, and the mysterious way beauty is suffused in the natural world, written in English and Anishinaabemowin.
A young man struggles to untangle his identity from the selfish actions of his grandfather in an effort to save his future.
Venus is born again in the Canadian wilderness, as muse, artist, and catfish
A mysterious artwork speaking with a Germanic accent re-examines its own existence after being abandoned in the Sahara desert, revealing in the process the greatest secrets about objects, mirages and the outskirts of reality.
“Perdere: to lose, to waste, to destroy” explores the rapidly deteriorating landscapes surrounding Tuktoyaktuk, NT along Canada’s northwest coast. Through contemplative drone footage and a soundscape using hydrophone and natural soundscape recordings, this work bears witness to the tragic effects of climate change along the shores of the Beaufort Sea.
Discover four new teaching guides produced as part of the "Beyond the Narrative: Preserving and Mobilizing Canadian LGBT2Q+ Films from 1970 - 2000 in the CFMDC Collection" Case Study. Featuring 4 programmess curated by Chris Chong Chan Fui, Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, Mahlet Cuff and Axelle Demus and Chloë Brushwood Rose.
Since launching our platform in 2017, we have collaborated with curators and programmers from across the country to present film and video programs available for free streaming for a limited time. Each program includes a critical curatorial essay that explores the overarching themes and selections. After the free viewing period has expired, we encourage the public to read the essays and rent the works individually.
When human souls break up, they seem irreconcilable. Is there an antidote for heartbreak?
When relationships get moldy.
In an Algeria divided between tradition and modernity, two young adults named Karim and Hadjer could not love each other free.
"This film is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos." "Timbré" est une fable. Une fable d’amour touchante, absurde et tragique à la fois.
O, celibate ocean, Wet with death, Do not grieve
A Johannesburg neighourhood unites five people’s ambitions, desires, and struggles to survive over the course of a Friday.
In this fiction 2 women talk about their lives and different issues that come with aging...
A party ignites a spark between two strangers.
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.
As they get ready for the day, three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in relation to their cultivation of a strong sense of self. Wash Day is an intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts such as washing your hair or putting on makeup become a significant re-acquaintance with the body, before and after navigating the politics of one's outwardly appearance.
The attempts of a young man (Neale) to consummate his love for a young woman (Heck) are thwarted by a fish monger (Fehr). The woman's beloved (Gottli) cuts bark fish.
The fall in its simplest manifestation : the movement unfolds ; the words fall with cool indifference. Dream, incantation, rite of passage.» Nicole Gingras
This film is available in French only.
Ce documentaire présente l'opinion de différentes femmes (médecins, activistes, écrivaines) sur les problématiques entourant le VIH/SIDA.
Cette vidéo relève plusieurs facteurs qui déterminent l'accès à l'information sur le sida au Mali, ainsi que les conditions qui influencent la diffusion de cette information auprès des femmes maliennes.
Longboy outs himself as a First Nations FAG - who is living with HIV - hoping to sever attached preconception of two spirited peoples. In a contemplative search, the artist recollects how HIV/AIDS has affected him and his surrounding community, revealing a strength through loss.
Commissioned by the Plug In Gallery to do a Performance/ Installation for ART OVER AIDS in November 1990, Alward poured 5 gallons of blood and semen on the floor of the gallery during a private ritual of mourning, and spent the next several hours cleaning it up.
A series of tableaux vivants revisit the paths that have been traced by a diagnosis.
YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY a public service announcement for HIV/AIDS awareness. we will walk the land, breathe the air and drink from the stream. i came across the living tree, branches flowing in the breeze its roots adhering to mother earth YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY
Nobody wants to tell Skye, a nine-year-old girl, what is happening in her family. She sees doctors come and go, and she knows something has to be going on...
"gay shame '98" is a lo-fi document of an event of the same name that took place at dumba, a queer collectively run arts space in Brooklyn.
"Bloodstorm" considers the paralells between the unpredictability of a storm and the turmoil of living with HIV/AIDS.
In this alternate-history fable set in the 1980's AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
A Filipino dreams he captures the affection of his love interest by performing a Filipino indigenous courtship dance.
Among all human rights, the right to food is certainly the most constantly violated on our planet.
The historic establishment of the northernmost mosque in the western hemisphere.
Rachki is an experimental video short looking at memory, migration, translation, and loss.
Increasing numbers of so-called honour crimes are being committed against girls and women in Germany, France, Britain, Norway, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Australia.
After 15 years of living in Montréal, Hind returns to Morocco, her country of origin.
The eponymous narrator (a ghost in the form of a coconut) resists a singular place and time, moving freely, if not lightly, through personal photographs, contemporary commentary and archival material.
The result of a collaboration between artists Nahed Mansour and Kandis Friesen, this work is based on the original footage from an unrealized documentary found at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives in Winnipeg Manitoba.
Nine women from Montreal reveal themselves to the camera. They are lesbian, bisexual and two-spirited. They come from Malaysia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Guinea and Ghana. Some are First Nations women. They reveal their sometimes painful, sometimes effortless passages leading to the acceptance of their sexual orientations...
Escribiendome explores the ways in which words and languages shape our sense of self.
The video explores gay Asian men's (GAMs) cruising strategies on American gay sex hookup websites.
Manila Road depicts the Filipino community’s significant impact and strong roots in Winnipeg, Manitoba.