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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.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
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.
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 paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
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.
The film depicts a society controlled by an autonomous system.
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.
Are you who you believe yourself to be?
A portrait of artist and seed producer Patrice Fortier, who dedicates his passion and expertise to preserving plant biodiversity.
Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era.
When Marc Roger, a public reader, sets himself the challenge of walking from Saint-Malo, France, to Bamako, Mali, along with a donkey laden with books to be read aloud, filmmaker Catherine Hébert (The Other Side of the Country) joins him in Morocco, her camera rolling."
"ôtênaw" is a film documenting the oral storytelling of Dwayne Donald, an educator from Treaty 6, Edmonton Canada. Drawing from nêhiyawak philosophies, he speaks about the multilayered histories of Indigenous peoples’ presence both within and around amiskwacîwâskahikan, or what has come to be known as the city of Edmonton.
A study of spectral colours during a walk through the streets of Winnipeg for WNDX's 6th annual One Take Super 8 event.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
Early 20th Century farm house burns, then merges into the prairie landscape.
Alexandre Castonguay, actor, undertakes a poetic pilgrimage through north-western Quebec, covering more than 700 km by foot under the hot July sun.
There are challenges one faces as a New Canadian.
Paths is a vibrant trip across the globe, painting an atypical portrait of humanity.
This film offers an extraordinary and beautiful view of the land that grows the wheat, and a portrait of a way of life under economic siege.
A found footage experiment about gender roles, consumerism and hunger.
After years of repression, an old woman's common sense goes head-to-head with the fantastic imagination of her inner child, who yearns to be free.
Tundrunning is part of a larger project titled Erlking of a malevolent figure whose beguiling power pulls us inextricably in; calling the unsuspecting traveler to her fate in the depths of the wilderness.
Made for camera performance about the tyranny of white sugar
Busy Napping imagines sleep being embodied in and behaving like wax and examines this idea in extreme close up. In this scenario, waking up creates a mess that needs to be addressed using laundry tips for getting wax out of linens.
A woman simultaneously adorns and disfigures herself by sewing tassels onto a flesh-coloured cloth mask, creating a beard. Perhaps she is guarding herself against vanity; perhaps she is atoning for it.
A 21st century update of Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2"
That formidable force of conservation officials, Lesbian National Parks and Services, presents three portraits of lesbian species in crisis. Not unlike the renowned 1970s Hinterlands Who's-Who series, these public service announcements point to the perils of habitat loss and poaching. The Marxist Feminist, the Lesbian Separatist and the Bull-Dykus Americanus are featured in this parody of nature education.
"Cave Small Cave Big" is a magical and surreal short film written by five-year-olds Madeline Harker and Adelaide Schwartz.
The Lesbian Ranger Corps is a fast growing and dynamic force of professionals dedicated to lesbian wildlife in all its forms.
The intention is to portray the ritualism and victimization of dating and mate selection. The tape explores the chain of events initiated by the main characters as they unfold.
"Territoire" is an essay on identity and perception. It is the interweaving of fascination and slowness. It is the contrast of loneliness and eluding. It is two women evolving through their bodies, through movement and space.
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.
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.
A true story of hope, ethnic cleansing and letting go.
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.
The little-known editor of the epic opus Shoah, Ziva Postec delves into her memories, where personal recollection mingles with the shards of History. For the first time, she tells her story, bringing previously unseen footage to the screen.
SURGES is an online ecosystem of seven virtual environments presented by IOTA Institute in partnership with VUCAVU. This project invites artists to design online exhibition spaces with technical support, to create experiences for audiences beyond linear visual aesthetics. Artworks explore vibrational haptics, interactive instruments, 360 video, and augmented reality to create multisensory online experiences and encounters.