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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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
"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.
Cliff Eyland looks back on his life as a visual artist after a successful double-lung-transplant.
Stay Away is a video poem about the feeling of being apart.
A loving portrait of Winnipeg's crown jewel: Portage Place Mall.
What of our homes lasts within us? Shea stretches the answer across a diaspora.
Jesse has a hard time getting home
Oh Canada - Oh Covid documents the opening days of the coronavirus pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
A young man pursues the apparition of a loved one who disappeared one turbulent night.
Discover 4 teaching guides produced by A/CA with VUCAVU's content partner CFMDC's film collections that feature 4 programs 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, VUCAVU has collaborated with several curators and arts organizations from across Canada to present film and media art programs. Each program includes a text exploring the themes addressed, and many also include recordings of roundtable discussions and artist talks for you to discover!
A resourceful young Métis man comes to the rescue of family, friends and strangers in this amusing short film.
A woman sets off on a journey to establish her career just as she learns that she is pregnant. This twist in her destiny leads her down an unexpected path.
A veritable aesthetic fresco blending portrait, political documentary and experimental cinema, Miron : a man returned from outside the world recounts the people of Quebec’s collective journey through the work of their greatest poet, Gaston Miron.
Within the mystical spaces of a Judaic self-doubt, falls a dreaming painter from the fallen Polish city of Lodz.
Neither dogmatic nor sanctimonious, "The Theory of Everything" offers a convoluted discourse and a slew of perspectives that challenge accepted notions and spark the imagination.
A young Aboriginal man's thoughts and emotions iterate his personal growth through this lyrical story.
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
A non-linear narrative about women, witches and contemporary reclaiming of women’s spirituality.
Part of the ongoing “Supa” series, Supa Stition is a glimpse into the unseen world of magic and the occult.
Riverside Queerness reveals hard moments in the Prairies' shadowed queer history. Three storytellers navigate muddy waters that is Manitoba's subconsciousness; where truth is blurred by the power of the currents.
"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.
The performer attempts to apply make-up while wearing electro stimulators on both arms set to maximum power.
Waking up after thousands of years of being encased in ice, the voice of a creature is heard, emerging to find that the world is a much different place, although some things remain the same, he is hungry, and he is still an Apex predator, at the top of the food chain. The soundtrack is composed of samples of audio from the largest mass calving event in recorded history (when arctic ice melts and collapses into the ocean). There's a new monster in town.
An experimental documentary that explores the complicated process of decolonization and reveals how our memory and history are ingrained in our sense of identification.
After Birth, an inter-generational journey to return to a ceremonial custom of burying the ‘after birth.’ Together three women and their kids walk the land and affirm their intergenerational knowledge and active presence in ancestral memories and matrilineal leadership.
Filmmaker Coleen Rajotte returns to Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario, a community with an unusually high suicide rate.
A spoken word poem about Indigenous issues from the perspective of three different Native women.
Exploring the legacy of the Indian Residential School system by looking at its history, present conditions and hopes for the future.
"Americano" is filmmaker Carlos Ferrand’s road-movie about his trip through the Americas from Patagonia to the Arctic.
A woman reconnects with her grandmother's past through drawings done by Daphne Odjig
"The Law Is in the Seed" is a video of a poem by the same name written by Alex Jacobs, a Mohawk Indian poet from Akwesasne (New York State).
"A re-creation of my journey to the sweat lodge ceremony through sound image and narration."
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
From the heart of the planet’s slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
In this looped video, women in a quilting-bee configuration weave delicate replicas of spider webs.
In Crystal Skin provides a glimpse into the lives of four individuals living with the same rare disease in Bogotá, Colombia.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
An irreverent commercial for a fictitious diet program.
Follow Jackie through the 1960s Toronto Yonge Street music scene, the tabloid rumours and scandals, to the mysterious disappearance. What ever happened to Jackie Shane? You have to watch to find out.
Afro hair goes Beyond Curls & Kinks
"Love on The Prairies" brings light to current-day homophobia in Saskatchewan, Canada. We have come far, but there's still a ways to go.
shoppin’ celebrates the liberation of the overworked shopping cart- set free into nature.
Table Dance is a celebration of the handwork produced by women during the mid to late 20th century. Over 160 doilies take to the dance floor, throwing off their matronly reputations to prove age is no barrier to having a good time.
Filmmaker Jesse Green travels to his home community of Shoal Lake 40 interviewing people about the impacts of the City of Winnipeg aqueduct in the 100+ years since it was built
Why I Hate Bees, is a comedic journey into a young girl's memories of near death, based on the short story by Nancy Jo Cullen.
How to Make Love In An Earthquake is a six minute experimental video comprised of seven postcard stories, each 100 words in length.