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Padayatra (Walking Meditation)

David Rimmer

A meditation on the act of walking, combining the photographic image with hauntingly beautiful hand-painted images applied directly onto the surface of 35mm clear film. Original electronic soundtrack by composer Dennis Burke.

Painted on the Spot: On the Road with Ernie Luthi...

Fiji Robinson, Rudecat Pictures

Saskatchewan artist Ernie Luthi is remembered in this film that salutes his love of nature and the large body of landscape drawings and paintings he created.

Painting Catfights

Kirsten Johnson

A painter, performer and filmmaker explores society's fascination with female conflict while questioning her motivation to do so.

Painting with Fire

Catherine Hahn

British Columbia potter Cris Giuffrida is featured in this documentary which chronicles the unique and mesmerizing ritual of the semi-annual firing of the "Anagama," a Japanese wood-fired kiln.

Paradox of Attribution • Ravens and Eagles: Haida Art (Series 1)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Ravens and Eagles Productions

Haida director Marianne Jones looks at the debate in academic circles about who created turn of the century masterpieces of Haida art.

Paris Stories: The Writing of Mavis Gallant

Lynn Booth, Make Believe Media

This documentary explores the fiction of the Paris-based short story master, Mavis Gallant, considered by both critics and her literary peers to be one of the most talented women writing in the English language.

Les passeurs

Hejer Charf, Nadja Productions

Ulysse, Maya, Adam, Barbara and Thomas are the Fictional characters of this film built with true stories. Quebecers of various ethnic backgrounds tell their sense of Quebec identity.

Patience and Absurdity

Paula Cole, Sylvi MacCormac, Siobhan McCarthy

Family love triumphs over Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis as a spunky Irish immigrant, "new to Alzheimer's" joins forces with her daughter, who is living with MS, to make a cup of tea.

Perilous Gateway: The Conquest of the Fraser Canyon

H. Leslie Smith, Macubah Productions

This documentary traces the struggle to find a practical route through the mountains from the fur-trading forts of the northern interior of British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.

Peter & the Space Between

Sitji Chou

This animated short explores the difficulties of communication, it’s effect on relationships, and how one’s internal logic has the tendency to be grossly exaggerated.

PICTURE START

Harry Killas, Ric Beairsto

The members of the so-called 'Vancouver School' are the biggest international art stars to ever come out of Canada, yet they remain little known, even to many Canadians. PICTURE START tells the remarkable, and unlikely, story of the emergence and rise of the original generation of this esteemed group: Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace.

Pictures Don't Lie - JJ Van Bibber

Lulu Keating

Pictures Don't Lie portrays traditional life in the Yukon through the black and white images of JJ Van Bibber, a prolific Métis photographer who travelled the interior with his family, hunting, trapping and surviving on the land.

Pinch

Jody Kramer

Pinch is the story of a young woman and the ferociously adorable pet monster who lives on her arm. Using quirky humour and horror, this nervous little animation explores the emotional turmoil of a rather vicious cycle.

Pioneers of X-Ray Technology (a film about grandpa)

Ann Marie Fleming

Pioneers of X-Ray Technology is a portrait of the filmmaker's grandfather, Dr. Ernest To, a 91-year-old Chinese man who watched Hong Kong enter the twentieth century while he voraciously made images as a photographer, moviemaker, and radiologist

Plastic Surgery

Chris Gallagher

Plastic Surgery is a hyperbolic tract on the exploitation of nature by man. Plastic Surgery becomes a grand metaphor for filmmaking: degraded optically-printed images of actual surgery on the body of the filmmaker "cut" to a knife ripping celluloid.

Plastic Warriors

Amy Tall Chief

An eye-opening and much-needed examination of common harmful First Nations stereotypes.

Play Ball

Gail Noonan

A woman finds herself symbolically spinning from scales to roulette tables, marriage to baseball. This humorous animated short shows how one individual deals with life's curve balls.

Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story)

Ann Marie Fleming

Talented Canadian actor Valerie Buhagiar tells a story about an intriguing Iranian man living in Vancouver. She recounts a powerful and symbolic tale that emerged from his dreams.

Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist

Mehdi Ali, Fountain Productions

Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist explores the development of an art career spanning five decades. It follows Granirer's life in art, from Romania during the war, to Israel, the U.S., and finally Canada.

Policy Baby: The Journey of Rita/Bev

Michael Glassbourg, Susan Stewart, TickleScratch Productions

A riveting and powerful one-hour documentary of an Ojibway woman's struggle to reconnect with her Aboriginal self.

Polio Hunters

Jack Silberman, Homeward Bound Productions

Polio Hunters follows a two-week polio virus immunization campaign in the province of Uttar Pradesh located in Northern India. The campaign was conducted in 2005 by Toronto's Dr. Yakub Vaid for the World Health Organization.

Portrait of a Mask Maker: Reg Davidson • Ravens and Eagles: Haida Art (Series 1)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Ravens and Eagles Productions

A maker of the most elaborate and sometimes outrageous masks, Reg Davidson is at the top of his class. Portrait of a Mask Maker joins him in his studio to watch him carve and share his views about Haida art.

Portrait of a Musician

Al Sens

In this short film, the portrait of a classical violinist changes by the second in artistic style and medium as he plays.

Posonut: The Maliseet Basket • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 1)

Marianne Jones, Jeff Bear, Kristy Assu

Posonut: The Maliseet Basket visits the northern reaches of New Brunswick's Tobique River, where the Bear clan of the Maliseet people have harvested ash and made baskets for countless generations.

POTLATCH...a strict law bids us dance

Dennis Wheeler, U'mista Cultural Society, Tom Shandel

POTLATCH...a strict law bids us dance looks at the history of the traditional potlatch ceremonies of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations people. It is based upon historical research compiled by the U'mista Cultural Society of Alert Bay, British Columbia and features important testimony from Kwakwaka'wakw elders.

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