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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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
"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.
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 presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Artist Talk with Farrah Miranda & Evelyn Encalada Grez
Comprising five hundred images McFadden assembled to investigate the nature of homosocial and queer male relationships, A Separate Peace includes the reading of an eponymous essay the artist wrote in response to this collection and the end of his longterm relationship.
Artist talk with Basil AlZeri
Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws is a project about love, death, connection, the future, and the afterlife. It is an exploration of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and embodiment that troubles deeply held convictions about what it means to be alive, to be a person, and to be in conversation with another.
Manhattan Project Revisited" is a digital reconstruction of the Manhattan Project, where the first atomic bomb was created during the Second World War. This artwork recreates critical structures from its three main sites: Los Alamos - New Mexico, Oak Ridge - Tennessee, and Hanford - Washington.
Artist Talk with Nelson Wu
A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee.
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.
A gender-bending heavy metal carnival ride.
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.
They Met In A Garden is an exploration and analysis of the archetypal romantic love story.
A lovelorn protagonist illicitly collects objects of desire in a state of transfixed love.
"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.
An impressionistic elegy for Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew.
"Heartbreak" is a tribute to black mothers. It was written and produced in response to the constant threat of brutality they and their children (particularly boys) live under.
Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora.
A young trans man notices himself, becomes transfixed with his image and starts flirting leading up to a tentative, yet hot kiss.
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.
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.
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...
This film is available in French only.
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
"Bloodstorm" considers the paralells between the unpredictability of a storm and the turmoil of living with HIV/AIDS.
Ce documentaire présente l'opinion de différentes femmes (médecins, activistes, écrivaines) sur les problématiques entourant le VIH/SIDA.
A series of tableaux vivants revisit the paths that have been traced by a diagnosis.
"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.
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.
‘Video Home System’ traces the convergence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. This video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism, and how bootleg economies kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.
On a cold fall evening, Leila is left alone to tend the family convenience store. A series of strange clients keep her in a constant state of apprehension. Language and cultural barriers also contribute to the making of a nerve-racking evening.
"Taxi for Two" poetically and visually explores the universe of two eccentric Montreal taxi drivers.
Khoa Lê chronicles his trip to Vietnam, visiting his remote family for the end of the year festivities.
Asmaa Ibnouzahir and Geneviève Lepage, two concerned, free-thinking, well-educated young Quebecers, happen to be veiled women. Geneviève converted to Islam in 2001, after the events of September 11.
This film offers a snapshot of Little Portugal, a neighbourhood in Toronto using Super8 film.
After 15 years of living in Montréal, Hind returns to Morocco, her country of origin.
Among all human rights, the right to food is certainly the most constantly violated on our planet.
Picariello and Lassandro investigates the real-life story of Filumena “Florence” Lassandro and Emilio Picariello, Italian immigrants who were convicted and hanged in 1923 for the murder of an Alberta Provincial Police officer.
This video is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos. Elles sont venues au Québec par amour, pour étudier, pour fuir la guerre ou pour offrir un meilleur avenir à leurs enfants. Six femmes de 45 ans et plus, originaires d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Europe, racontent leur parcours migratoire et les défis relevés pour refaire leur vie.
Manila Road depicts the Filipino community’s significant impact and strong roots in Winnipeg, Manitoba.