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A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
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.
A group of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers prepare to view a total eclipse.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
An intimate portrayal of the closed-off Russian city of Norilsk through the eyes of its youth, mine workers and truth seekers.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
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.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
An optimistic Filipina woman who has just immigrated to Canada is excited to try an apple for the first time. Similar to her experiences as a new immigrant, the apple isn't what she expected.
Captured over five years in 18 communities, INDIAN TIME paints a personal, up-to-date portrait of 11 of Quebec's Indigenous peoples. With some forty people speaking in turn, INDIAN TIME makes for exceptional encounters and immerses viewers in "Indian time" with their eyes and hearts.
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, they head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road between two places.
"Those That Will Come, Will Hear" constructs a portrait of the erosion of languages; a global phenomenon that is still largely unexplored. This exploratory film will be a way to discover the essence of First Nations and Inuit languages still spoken in Quebec via the richness of their unique sounds and the rendering of this inherent musicality into visual imagery.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
An austere film with touches of offbeat humour
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the filmmaker’s lack of relationship with her cultural background
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 short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity.
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 wintery sun sets on a scene of loss and mourning. The grieving protagonist plummets capriciously from one state of sadness and confusion to another. Battered by forces malevolent and absurd, mirroring his unpredictable emotional states, he repeatedly falls into an avalanche of ice. Down into a barrage of helping hands, down into a winter forest, down into rooms full of memories, and finally down into the place where he must accept the truth.
In their familiar, humorous style, Millan and Dempsey explore the elements of passionate lesbian love. A woman stands in isolation, clad in a paper ball gown that is both fragile and stiff. On it, and on her environment, are reflected projections of her desire and its denial.
EXPOSURE is an experimental documentary that explores issues of race, sexuality and cultural identity. A dialogue between two lesbians of colour (Japanese-Canadian and Afro-Caribbean women) is intercut with photographs, texts, paintings and voice-over.
When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover.
A deathbed tale. A skeptical daughter. A genealogical goose chase to the remote Icelandic highland.
In "Bustin' Brown,” the fourth installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, CHRISTEENE confronts the ever-present bastardization of anal sex from mainstream bourgeois heterosexuals by returning "da buh-hole" to its rightful owners.
Let the House of Venus take you on a freaky ride in a funhouse of the bizarre and horrific.
Eddy, a psychic, nervous, little satyr and part-time on-line sex worker, makes crafts with viewers as he speaks about the pain of witnessing sexual violence.
Three queer Winnipeggers reflect on their erotic relationship with the automobile.
Using the voice as a metaphor for political voice, Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced with prejudice and marginalization back in Singapore, and later in North America.
Incongruities between body and gender become an obstacle for lovers as they navigate the painfully awkward rift between dysphoria and desire.
The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.
Colours appear, long enough for thoughts to arise. At this point only an image emerges.
This documentary tells the story of the Kazakh film industry, and through it, that of a country, Kazakhstan. From the Soviet propaganda films to the Perestroika New Wave, movies from Kazakhstan have played a fundamental role in the life of a nation.
An obsessed woman confronts her reluctant relatives about their family's participation in World War Two.
An impressionistic portrait which conjures haunted images from the ether of one family’s collective memory.
Two children experience a lifetime together when they imagine what it would be like to travel through a black hole.
In Camouflage (Boulder/Iceland) the artist utilizes the photograph object to investigate the difference between a lithic and a human sense of time.
a Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWGs)
Cliff Eyland looks back on his life as a visual artist after a successful double-lung-transplant.
Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from its corporal form.
The fading impressions we struggle to hold on to.
A girl confronts her own judgment in the bathroom of her school.
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world, home to 700 000 Rohingya exiles fighting for their survival.
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 distinct world – that is often an isolated part of a larger world – is viscerally envisioned in this uniquely hand- processed film.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
A film about the annual gathering at South Indian Lake, Manitoba.
Covered, remixed, and sampled by hundreds of artists and fans alike, Creep by Radiohead is an epic 90s anthem of nihilism and self-loathing.
Irreverent homage to the city of my birth.
Funambule moves between the open expanses of the grasslands to the dark shadows of a cedar grove where a traveler and a hunter beckon us to the heart of the forest.
A young mother looks to connect with her Aboriginal culture in order to teach her children.
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
When human souls break up, they seem irreconcilable. Is there an antidote for heartbreak?
Rachki is an experimental video short looking at memory, migration, translation, and loss.
A boy becomes music.