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A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume contains videos 55-78: Symposium, Jin's Dream, Ghost Production, Minnesota Inventory, Re-enactment of a Performance, Three Examples, Sparky, Black Heart, Box, The End of My Death, Muriel, Attempt to sing, Assplay, Love Among Corpses, Harvey K., Dr. Asselbergs, Corey, My Fear, Dumbo Climax, Apology, How to Build an Igloo, Microscope, Amoeba, and Treehouse.

This film/video hybrid explores the connections between militarism, HIV phobia and straight iconography in the gay male community. Through the visuals and prose the viewer is exposed to the hypocrisy and violence that exists within ourselves. At what point do gay men become our own enemy? We face an access to power that forces us to choose between liberation and assimilation, that may ultimately create our own demise.

The first of a five-part series of short documentaries: This story begins over a century ago, when the City of Winnipeg decides that the water surrounding the traditional Anishinaabe territory of what is now Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will be diverted and used as Winnipeg’s primary water source. The community, their ancient burial grounds, environment, and ways of life are forever disrupted, and access to opportunities and essential services are severed. Enforced residential schooling and a tainted water supply compound the devastating impact. Community leader and former combat engineer Daryl Redsky sheds light on how generations of complex planning, cultural preservation and mobilization have led us to the current moment—and to the construction of Freedom Road.

In the collective imagination, Western Canada has long been a mythical destination for the people of Quebec. The fascinating thing about this social phenomenon is that it still continues after so many years. But what has become of it? During the summer of 2010, the director followed some young Quebecers to learn more about this initiation trip. From Quebec to B-C, he gave them the floor and ... leaves with this film a trace of important memory on the phenomenon. A sociological portrait of what the majority of young people can experience during their summer trip to the other side of the continent. This documentary "roadmovie" will charm the older ones with the memories it evokes and will give precious information to young people wishing one day to venture on The Western Route.

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.

Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A follow-up to his award-winning film Twelve (2009), BIRTHMARK is a wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology. Soliciting fellow mark-bearers to add their testimonies to his own, Lester documents his journey to find peace and forgiveness, and to quiet the voice in his head. “It’s not only about the marks we are born with but the marks we imagine for ourselves.”

The film explores the utopian visions that inspired the Brutalist movement and the material and aesthetic connection between concrete and celluloid.

In a little house all for herself, an elderly woman moves through her day. While she tends to every chore on the docket, we learn some things about her. She has a green thumb, she speaks Polish while on the phone, she likes to nap. A prayer sounds. They are words from her mother-in-law, Polish poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, who was also displaced from her native Poland. Three generations meet, one by writing, one by living, and the third by the very making of this film, a composition of her ancestors through sound and image.

This short film takes you behind the scenes of the Quebec Nordiques. Coached by the legendary Maurice Richard, the team is playing its opening World Hockey Association game at the Quebec Coliseum. Experience the pre-game tension, the on-ice action and the dream-contract signing.

Pretty Dangerous follows Seleziya 'Sparx' Esho. A professional wrestler, and the emotional divide between her obsession for what she loves and the physical & mental strain it puts on her body and family.

Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth.

Trevor provides a voice-over narration of Edmonton's High Level Bridge and drops his camera from the bridge in memory of those who have jumped.

Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake.

A documentary about maximalist Toronto media artist and sculptor Allyson Mitchell as she preps her Ladies Sasquatch installation – a fake fur creature wonderland. The large-bodied sasquatch ladies are feminist exclamation marks and icons, celebrating their “different bodies,” as the artist explains in a winning voice-over that drives the movie. Thrift store accumulations and found handicrafts are repurposed, blurring ideas of craft and art, high and low. How to turn what is overlooked, discarded and without value, or even feared and despised, and put these bodies at the centre of a new conversation? Mitchell’s work provides a blueprint for how to love our monsters.

Alanis Obomsawin talks about how she got her start at the NFB and the overarching importance of sound/story in her work.

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

Celebrated as an authority in the world of muskie fishing, Larry Ramsell now finds himself estranged from the tight-knit community of Hayward, Wisconsin—the so-called Muskie Capital of the World. At 82, Larry is a man consumed by obsession, his encyclopedic knowledge and unrelenting passion for muskie fishing having cost him dearly: three marriages, lifelong friendships, and his place among the very people who once revered him. Set against the icy, unforgiving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Muskie Man follows Larry as he prepares for one last hunt to claim the fish of a lifetime. As he navigates the physical toll of his age and the emotional weight of his exile, the film explores the fragile balance between obsession and isolation.

The Great Thaw is a project about permafrost thaw and how landscape is changed by it. We take a close look at ecosystems like the boreal forest, the tundra and the arctic coastline to document the impacts of the melting permafrost caused by climate change and to present the beauty of permafrost itself. After Antarctic Traces, The Great Thaw is a new part of the Ecological Grief Series which focuses on different aspects of human interaction with nature in the Anthropocene. The series investigates environmental melancholia and the loss of places, species and ecosystems. (directors' note)

A portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation becomes a visceral, sensory meditation on what it means to live in a broken world.

A close look at the author, journalist, Quebec's ambassador of South Africa, a mother stretched out between two continents, a woman, a lover, both so strong and so fragile. Lucie reveals in all sincerity chapters of her life. From her childhood in English Canada where she felt rejected. The influence of her mother who introduced her to all forms of art. Her meeting with South Africa... and her soulmate: Jay Naidoo.

A stunning virtuoso turn from these two partners in life and art. A home movie where the library musings and theory shuffles are re-rooted in domestic space, in relationship. The tape insists that artmaking, and even the utopias it conjures, cannot be separated from the way we love, eat, or wash the dishes. It celebrates the hand-made, the make-shift, the provisional (no more monuments! unless they’re made of cardboard and felt and wool), and everywhere there is ingenious invention and a generous good humour, particularly when the artists don flesh suits and hoist a giant-sized sharpie to underline their fave utopia reading bits from the oversized texts that surround them.

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.

A Chris Marker style documentary commemorating the 10th anniversary of the director's father's death.

The Walking Man follows an 82-year-old man with a passion for the cosmos who has walked the equivalent of the Earth's circumference nearly four times.

Douglas Bacon, member of the Quirk-e Riting Kollective for elders, gives a touching, intimate account of his life and the process of coming out.

Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after years of struggling with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals in the field rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume includes videos 15-30: Walking the Dog, After Baudelaire, Language of Rats, Language of Flowers, Introduction to the Logo, Deaf, Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray, In the Realm of Perpetual Embarrassment, 80 Prominent Dermatologists, Visuals Elf, Pus Girl, Wish, Disturbed Sleep, Testimonials, Little Faggot, and Long Train Ride.

"Unless You're Living It" is an edgy, unsettling portrait of place and power in rural white Ontario that challenges the correlation between seeing and knowing, and the ravages of late-stage capitalism. Hand processing, contact printing, tinting and toning engages the film as a body that, like the residents of Mt. Forest, sustains injuries, wounds and burdens, but also has the capacity for delight, revelatory pleasure, and transformation.

I documented the First Story's walking tour with Elder Carolyn King with a manual time-lapse on Super-8. Reconciling myself as a mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler 'walking the red road' while being a person with physical disabilities. Learning to live mino-bimaadiziwin as a settler to Turtle Island and Tkaronto. (Jaene F. Castrillon)

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins’ hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.

Obsession, fascination and confusion in a world of objects that refuse to disappear.

This short animated film explains the primary and secondary characteristics of sexual development during puberty of boys and girls. The problems associated with physical and glandular growth in both sexes are covered, as are the general problems of adolescence.

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries has been pressured to adopt different standards and customs. All of the women featured share a belief in the importance of tradition as a source of strength in the face of change.

"The Art of the Animator" series examines the creative thoughts and processes behind the meticulous work of several animators; this part examines the work of Co Hoedeman, Jacques Drouin, George Ungar and Gayle Thomas - animators who create motion out of still images, in what is often lonesome and painstaking work. By observing these artists at work, the filmmakers show the deft and quite magical process of animation that requires great commitment, patience and artistic cleverness.

In the span of one year, the Diodes opened Toronto's first punk club, released Canada's first punk album on a major label and helped instigate an explosive punk scene. Their influence, however, was short lived.

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making. *Please be advised that this film deals with themes of trauma and suicide.

Discover in all intimacy the life of the singer and actress Michèle Richard. From her first performance on film at the age of ten until the acquisition of her new residence in the Laurentian Mountains.

In "Self-Portrait", Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis.

A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.

This short documentary studies the fate reserved to young people through the ages. Drawing from paintings, archival footage and various other documents, the film demonstrates that during the 16th and 17th century, young people lived happily alongside their elders. This equilibrium was broken in the 19th century, when the defense of the young and the protection afforded by reformers and educators created the generation gap evident in Western society today. Will dialogue between society’s young and less young ever resume?

It is an ocean of plenty, a vast aquatic pasture teeming with many species of fish and other marine life. Most sought is the salmon, but sometimes they do not "run." This film shows extensive studies of the ocean to determine how temperatures, winds, currents, and plankton affect the sea harvest.

The Room phenomenon in Montreal.

A lyrical gaze at the city of Toronto as seen one September not long ago.

Moments before boarding a plane to Toronto, the Director's boyfriend handed her the challenge of documenting her six day journey. The result is a six minute sense-weaving experience.

Carried by the music of Sofia, a Quebec-Colombian singer-songwriter performing under her artist name Lapelúda, a moment unfolds between her and her grandmother Nicole. In the gentleness of everyday life, they speak of death — not as an end, but as a form of transmission. Through their gestures and their words, an intimate dialogue slowly takes shape, exploring the bond between generations and the traces we leave behind when our bodies fade away.

When a strong-willed perimenopausal documentary filmmaker is told there isn't a lot of help available for her symptoms, she goes on mission to find out more about menopause, and ends up on a quest that makes her relearn everything she thought she knew about aging.

A filmmaker's struggle to resolve their dual heritage.

This film consists predominantly of scenic footage, mostly in colour, of various European locales, including the Gota Canal, the Rhine River, Lake Lucerne, and Venice. The film opens with footage shot on an ocean liner during the voyage to Europe. Also includes footage of women weaving and tending gardens in a small village. Excellent camera work and editing for an amateur film, with title cards introducing each location.

In the fall of 2007, Vancouver's Bend Sinister set out to answer the question: is it worth it to tour Canada? The answer came back with mixed results. Along the way, the group loses its bass player, van and sanity.

Through Soul of the Foot, Mustafa Uzuner delivers a meditation in three movements that reflect a piece of Turkish history: the country’s interrupted attempt to join the European Union, which is still pending. The film spans 25 years and explores the intimate and collective memory of this project. First, families and the media gather to bear witness to the 1999 eclipse. Then, there’s a leap in time as politics infiltrates the filmmaker’s daily life and family interactions in the context of the country entering into negotiations. Finally, a present time unfolds like an urban symphony, where a collection of fragments of existence, captured on film, documents the aftermath. Without nostalgia or resentment, this essay attempts to animate Turkey’s past and future potential with sensitivity and detail.

Blending horror and humour, Lethal Ethel is an unique mockumentary that follows the story of a Naskapi vampire who goes to murderous lengths to protect her land and her culture.

Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Léa, Julia, Anne and Flavie.

In this cinematic essay, the filmmaker uses her own "images" to illustrate the memories of Lisa (Yelyzaveta), an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far apart yet so close.