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How Can a Boy (2012)
A young Karen man, a refugee at the age of ten when the Burmese military attacked his village, deals with loss and the guilt of being one of the lucky ones to survive the horrors of the civil war by helping his community and telling world the truth about...
Directed by Ed Kucerak
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LOST YEARS is an epic documentary touching upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia, covering four generations of racism as revealed through the journey and family story of Kenda Gee. Kenda, a Chinese Canadian,...
Directed by
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High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau follows Dr. Isaac Harry Sobol, Chief Medical Officer of the Northern Canadian Territory of Nunavut, and his volunteer medical team as they assemble and conduct a primary care clinic in a remote Tibetan...
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan
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Glimpses of Heaven (2006)
As a small child, Peter Gary lay helpless while his mother took the brunt of Nazi machine gun fire meant for both of them. Left to die in a desolate forest with only a handful of other survivors, Gary narrowly escaped his own extermination on a frigid...
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan
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Tin City Voices (2011)
'Tin City Voices' is the story of survival in a third world slum. Filmmaker, Elijah Marchand, explores a shantytown in Georgetown, Guyana. We discover an abused woman, a pregnant mother, and a man struggling to find redemption for his violent...
Directed by Elijah Marchand
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The Courage To Stand (1999)
The Province of British Columbia Ministry Responsible for Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Immigration presents " The Courge to Stand".
The film depicts the recent experience of communities in B.C., it's relevance will hold for many...
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Global Television's documentary: "D-Day, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny". Made for TV and DVD. Certified Platinum in Canada, Over 10,000 in DVD sales.
Directed by Lance Goddard
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The Last Conversation (2005)
As the last companion of Molinari, Jo Légaré was a privileged witness of his final years. Listening to him speak of his life and his work, she came to realise she would one day make a film about him. On screen, Molinari brings to life his childhood, his...
Directed by Jo Légaré
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Moli Who? (2006)
Moli who ? Molinari the enigma is a well-documented, humorous, compassionate and passionate portrait of the painter Guido Molinari. Artists, friends, art historians, former students and journalists from Montréal, Toronto and Paris recount stories and...
Directed by Jo Légaré
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believers (2012)
In 2008, Sacha Sewhdat returned from attending school in England, and saw that the same irreverence for religion had become more prevalent in North America. He observed that people's inability to understand religion was a direct result of negative...
Directed by Sacha Sewhdat
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On the World Stage (2011)
In order to expose the inner-workings and real-time influence of international diplomacy, On the World Stage tracks the journey of a group of university students during their preparations for and participation in the biggest United Nations simulation in...
Directed by Julien Fréchette
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How Beautiful We Are (2010)
Tram, Nadine, Julia and Khadija. Four young women of different ages, social standing, ethnic and religious origins. They have in common to have attended the same school, the International College of the Marcellines, founded by Sister Louise Bonta. Woman...
Directed by Jo Légaré
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Can a sacred plant from the Amazon heal our minds and spirits? For centuries, indigenous people of South America have used ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant medicine, to cure all manner of psycho-spiritual ills.
Today, thousands of Westerners, seeking...
Directed by Richard Meech
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Borealis (2008)
From Portage and Main in downtown Winnipeg to the family cottage near Parry Sound in Ontario, filmmaker Frank Wolf and his inexperienced friend Taku Hokoyama tackle raging rapids and gruelling portages on a 3,100 km canoe trip through Canada's...
Directed by Frank Wolf
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Mammalian (2010)
Departing the arctic capital of Yellowknife with 40 days of food loaded into their canoe, Frank Wolf and Taku Hokoyama strike out on a 2,000 km journey through the largest wilderness area in North America. The region contains one of the highest...
Directed by Frank Wolf
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On the Line (2011)
An eco-adventure documentary like no other. Follow Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan on a 2,400 km journey by foot, bike, raft and kayak as they seek to uncover the truth about a proposed 5.5 billion dollar oil pipeline.
Directed by Frank Wolf
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Quarantaine (2010)
“Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer's marvelously entertaining multi-disciplinary take on the male mid-life crisis. Mixing solo dance, collective scat, humour and pathos, Victorian gothic animation and great music, this Montreal stage adaptation is...
Directed by
Philip Szporer |
Father of three, successful TV actor and artist and proud member of the First Nations two-spirited gay community, Byron Chief-Moon is a fascinating mesh of dynamic personae. But when he dances alone in the forest, the complexity of the real world washes...
Directed by
Philip Szporer |
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Life Under Mike (2000)
A look at the Mike Harris years in Ontario featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Layton and John Kenneth Galbraith. Post production was funded by Michael Moore.
Directed by James Motluk
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An unflinching look at the heart of racial inequality in Canada
This one-hour documentary unearths the story of the children, women, men who were students and teachers in Canada’s racially segregated schools. With a vibrant musical score composed...
Directed by Sylvia D. Hamilton
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Homosexuality remains illegal in roughly 80 countries and in six it is punishable by death. Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride follows the Vancouver Pride Society’s (VPS) President Ken Coolen and his VPS colleagues as they travel to places where Pride is...
Directed by Bob Christie
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"A Perfect Passion" is a documentary about one man's extraordinary talent, and his influence on an art form that he has embraced as his life's purpose. Using "Edmonton Hopak", Kanevets' tribute dance to his chosen home...
Directed by Gail Currie
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The Faces of Cheremosh: A Forty-Year Reflection tells the story of the Edmonton-based Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company from its beginnings in 1969 to its 40th anniversary celebrations. Through its people and its performances we hear the story of...
Directed by Gail Currie
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Whose University Is It? (2003)
The story of corporate influence on public university education.
Directed by
Mark Wright |
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Living In The Shadow (2011)
A look at the relief effort put together by the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster and how that potentially led to independence. Includes never before seen first hand photos and video footage of the disaster zone, taken a...
Directed by James Motluk
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Second Bodies (2010)
Second Bodies is a Machinima film that poetically explores the avatar experiences of three women (including the filmmaker’s) in the virtual reality world of Second Life. This point-of-view, semi-autobiographical documentary intimately reflects on self-...
Directed by Sandra Danilovic
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Jajo's Secret (2009)
Filmmaker James Motluk traces his family history and discovers that his grandfather (Jajo) was one of thousands of Ukrainians put into camps by the Canadian government and forced to work as slave labour during the first world war.
Directed by James Motluk
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Finding Identity (2011)
North American Indians migrated to Europe in the 1800s to find a better life. Some escaped coercion. Two Sioux descendants share their experience of discovering and preserving their aboriginal roots and culture in present day France.
Directed by Patrick Bensen
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PEEP CULTURE (2011)
Why are we tripping over ourselves to get on reality television, post intimate secrets online, or drop our drawers for amateur non-profit porn?
Peep Culture plunges the lonely and ornery pop culture writer Hal Niedzviecki into reality TV and the...
Directed by Sally Blake
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Bump and Grind (2004)
In the Wild West, strippers like Kitty travel from club to club, city to city, in search of big money - thousands of dollars a week. It's hard to give up, though Kitty, like many dancers, has to hide her profession from the world, even from her...
Directed by Lynn Booth
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I Want A Woman (2003)
I Want a Woman follows the quest for love of four Russian immigrant men over the course of a year. Director Julia Ivanova gets up-close-and-personal with Denis, Alik, Boris, and Sasha, and discovers what these men really want in a woman. Exposing...
Directed by Julia Ivanova
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The name "Tim Horton" dots the Canadian landscape. But few know the tragic and tangled story behind the hockey icon who founded on of Canada's most successful donut chains. What begins as a fairy tale got lost in bad luck and bad...
Directed by Daniel Gelfant
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Mandrake: A Magical Life (2001)
Mentalist. Illusionist. Escape Artist. Mandrake was not one magician, but many.
Who was the real Leon Mandrake? This biography draws back the curtain once more for the great magician who mesmerized North American audiences for over 60 years. The...
Directed by Mary Ungerleider
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Pretty Boys (2002)
Ultra style; yet verité. A trip. From the catwalks of Milan to Stony Plain Alberta, meet the men who want to be cover boys.
Directed by James Dunnison
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Enter the world of Chow Dong Hoy, a photographer with a rare vision of life in a frontier culture. C.D. Hoy moved from China to British Columbia at the turn of the century. This documentary chronicles his extraordinary life from Vancouver in 1902 to...
Directed by
Faith Moosang |
SECRETS is a film that is both tender and frightening, with unique access to the lives of some very candid teens. Dating is out. "Hooking up" is in. And then there's "friends with benefits". Viewers travel the front lines of...
Directed by Arlene Ami
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