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Foretold
In this mixed-media animation, Lulu Keating ponders a prescient dream and ruminates on mortality, alongside artistic output and worth.
Homecoming Song
Homecoming Song tells the story of the ancient song that Angela Sidney sang for her son Pete when he returned home after being away at war for 6 years.
I See Stars
A fluke brain injury begins a young woman's lifelong battle with addiction, depression and medication.
Our Home
A Latin American family is celebrating the birthday of their youngest child, until they get rudely interrupted by two immigration officers.
Chanterelle Rain
Chanterelle Rain is an evocative, animated love song to the summer rains that give us the treasured culinary gift of chanterelle mushrooms.
Sourdough Starter
Sourdough Starter is an animated musical tribute to discovering love and leavening.
Agawa Canyon
In this collaboration with Lorna Boschman's Digital Stories project, Harris Taylor recalls the influence of her family's connection to the Agawa Canyon in Northeastern Ontario.
Gratitude
A community of Syrian women hold a dinner for the homeless in Saint John, New Brunswick as a gesture of gratitude for what Canada and the community have offered them as refugees.
Home Care
This short drama follows an elderly woman who feels the need to strike out on her own. Little does she expect that she will be the one who is struck by her controlling husband.
Relatively Speaking
A candid and often humorous monologue creates an off-beat portrait of a young woman who speaks about the evolution of her lesbian identity, homophobia, her first relationship and grief.
It's Only Monday
A harrowing tale of two women on a quest to have an uninterrupted conversation--a short fiction set in the future, with all the familiarity of the present.
Lida Moser Photographer: Odyssey in Black and White
Lida Moser (1920-2014), a New York photographer, created over 1,000 photographs of rural Québec in 1950. Sixty years later, she recounts her road trip along the St Lawrence to Montréal director and animator Joyce Borenstein.
Saving Our Tongues
Arcangelo, Zouriya and Rita all live in Toronto and speak languages under threat of extinction: Franco-Provencal, Sri Lanka Malay and Urhobo. Thousands of miles from their homelands, they work to preserve these languages before it's too late.
The Fifth Region
Canada's Arctic is divided into four territories. Inuit children were affected greatly by the 60s Scoop and a large number of Inuit people now live in the South, which they call "the fifth region." Two young urban Inuit people share their personal journeys to reconcile mixed identities and reconnect with tradiional Inuit culture far from home.
Kwadacha by the river
In the 1960s the people of the Kwadacha First Nation were flooded out of their traditional northern British Columbia territory by one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world, the W.A.C. Bennett dam. Now, they share their story of loss and resilience.
My Name Was January
When a trans sister, January Marie Lapuz, is brutally murdered in her own home, a community reacts. Her friends and other trans women of colour come to voice their issues, concerns, and challenges.
Cesna'em, the city before the city
In cə̓snaʔəm, the city before the city, members of the Musqueam First Nation reflect on the 24-hour, 200-day occupation of 2011-12 to protect a 4,000-year-old ancestral Musqueam village from destruction by a condo development planned in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Finding Peter Bryce
Andy Bryce uncovers the story of his great-grandfather, Dr. Peter Bryce, who revealed health abuses in Canada's Residential Schools with the 1922 publication of The Story of a National Crime: Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada.
Mixed Match
This exploration of what role race plays in medicine addresses timely concerns with the multiracial community becoming one of the fastest growing demographics in North America. Being mixed race is no longer just about identity--it can be a matter of life and death.
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Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury [30min version]
Sharon McGowan salutes the work of Vancouver artist Rosamond Norbury in this edgy and humorous documentary exploring notions of gender and identity.
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