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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.
"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.
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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
"It Took Forever to Fall Asleep" reflects on the opportunity for the potential rebirth a post-COVID world offers, whether this rebirth comes by public policy or public self-determination. Just as the 1950s came to a close, so too will COVID. Eras end, and with them come change.
Artist talk with Basil AlZeri
Interplaying the metaphor of grapes, this father-daughter documentary is characterized by the labour of love it is to make wine, but also the labour of love that is love itself.
Open Water is an immersive short documentary film about a 61-year-old woman's attempt to swim across the largest freshwater lake in the world.
A documentary with experimental approaches exploring the experience of a professional artistic swimmer.
Roland, 91, walks during the winter in a field as wide as the eye can see where the borders are disappearing and in which he meets and confronts his fear.
Degraded by toxic lake water, 16mm film moves through time as an everchanging landscape.
Water bodies grow restless as they awaken from winter’s deep freeze.
A young man struggles to untangle his identity from the selfish actions of his grandfather in an effort to save his future.
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.
Short experimental, found footage film.
Let the House of Venus take you on a freaky ride in a funhouse of the bizarre and horrific.
A gay man speaks about his body image and growing older in the age of the internet.
The Summer of Thought was unleashed upon the citizens of Winnipeg in 2007. For three months, Consideration Liberation Army agitated for unbridled thought and thoughtfulness.
A woman, a transgender man, and their cat travel towards a mysterious roadside attraction known as "The Thing.”
The Body of Others, is an experimental video that engages the tensions between sexuality, identity, visibility, representation and the body, as it relates to queer subjectivity.
There are challenges one faces as a New Canadian.
Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to have super powers?
This atmospheric short film alludes to a catastrophic event that has left two women grief-stricken and isolated in a barren snow-covered wilderness.
"In this quintessential 'coming out' film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement." - Images Festival of Independent Film & Video catalogue, 1995
Did you ever have a crush on Anne Murray, singing her greatest hits with your dress tucked into your pantyhose? And what about Anne of Green Gables?
Based on stories my grandmother told me, I re-imagine while working as a cleaner the experiences of my ancestors during the Holodomor (forced famine) in Ukraine during the Stalinist-Soviet era.
Paths is a vibrant trip across the globe, painting an atypical portrait of humanity.
She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, bringing the hidden to light drawing on that light to encircle each successive generation.
Found film from the future. The last human on Earth wonders "why make a film".
A young mother looks to connect with her Aboriginal culture in order to teach her children.
An experimental documentary that abstracts the roads I travel on a daily basis.
Grand Mother Tongue pairs poetry, spoken in Plains Cree, and breath with the intimate imagery of strawberries being consumed bite-by-bite, and finger lick for finger lick.
September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal’s decision.
Check out granny's bingo card collection and more on everybody's favourite morning show, coming to you from Darryl's basement and over your local cable television network.
The re-imagination of the generational passage of traditional knowledge between a woman and her grandmother moon.
WÎSKACÂN is an experimental contemporary dance film utilizing Bunraku-style tabletop puppetry and object performance. Video, Puppet Design, Performance, and Music by Tyson Houseman. This project was made as part of Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals initiative, and I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Burning an Effigy considers intergenerational legacies of the Indian residential schools, the colonial presence, and its persistent impacts on community.
From the heart of the planet’s slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, is referred to as 'the longest kiss in history'.
Tundrunning is part of a larger project titled Erlking of a malevolent figure whose beguiling power pulls us inextricably in; calling the unsuspecting traveler to her fate in the depths of the wilderness.
Visitors to the Carnegie Library Pittsburgh expound on a myriad of thoughts and opinions, while a caricaturist listens on and captures their likeness.
Gerry Barret: The Original Aboriginal takes us from studio interview to the stage at Rumor’s Comedy Club and the Cat Sass Tavern. Gerry’s repertoire includes topics like: what should an Indian D.J. sound like on the radio?... A day in the life of Canada’s first native prime minister... a ballad to Elijah Harper and much more, including a stop at a movie shoot.
Toronto, July 27, 2013, shortly after midnight.
The guertita, a white American woman, and the prietita, a South Asian Canadian woman, have an affair while on a tourist trip to Mexico.
"Death by Popcorn" follows the ill-fated Jets through their many travails with arch-enemies Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers, soul-crushing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other agents of Winnipeg annihilation. Sadness on ice.
"Francophone-hybride" is a short documentary that was shot in Winnipeg during the Festival du voyageur, an annual winter festival which celebrates Manitoba’s Metis, Francophone and First Nations heritage.
This video poster for “Idle No More” was inspired by the young students at the Native Education College, that are engaged, often for the first time, in having their voices heard by Canadian society and the Canadian government.
A Johannesburg neighourhood unites five people’s ambitions, desires, and struggles to survive over the course of a Friday.
Irina, a child of long distances and virtual spaces, tries to understand what it means to lose family.