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Sitting at the dining-room table, Janet and Laurel talk to us about their friendship's evolution in the midst of a threatening situation; Janet is an abused woman. They tell the story of Janet's isolation, the fear that even Laurel felt, and the process of Laurel dealing with this new, scary and intolerable circumstance. Janet and Laurel had reached an alien frontier in their relationship. And Laurel set new boundaries, in support of a friend in danger. When all is said and done, she's there for Janet.

Learn how to paint lovely spring flowers with watercolor by following this easy style and instructions from artist and studio owner Jean McDonnell.

Connolly shows Ashoona at work in the Kinngait Studios, where she has been working for over 15 years, and in the surrounding streets and landscapes of Cape Dorset, a small hamlet in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. We discover what it means to the mischievous Ashoona to be an artist and how the source of her art in traditional Inuit culture is shot through with Western modernity.

Jason Kenzie, a local pet photojournalist discovers a myriad of exotic animals living in the backyards of the lower mainland of British Columbia Canada.

The ehMTee Show is a homegrown, webcast variety program of original songs, music interpretations, and light comedy, starring Michael Thorner, Marker Starling, Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini.

Who would have guessed that there is such a rich history of Jewish farmers in Canada? In the early twentieth century, Jews fleeing persecution and poverty in Eastern Europe came to Canada as homesteaders and built a Jewish life in Western Canada. Filmmaker Dov Okouneff (Montreal Jewish Memories, TJFF 2005) also travels to the Laurentians in Quebec where descendants of farmers return to the former Jewish communities of Ste. Sophie/New Glasgow to attend High Holiday services. Filled with archival materials and personal stories of hardship and joy, this fascinating documentary explores an important aspect of Canadian Jewish history and identity.

An intimate portrait of the film maker's family home located in an apartment above his parent's Chinese restaurant in Saint Catherines, Ontario.

A mysterious work of art examines its own existence after being abandoned in the Sahara desert, revealing the great secrets of the edges of reality.

When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

Uses the final fragments of home movies to create a series of "endings," each one being obliterated by the white dots that appear at the end of each filmstrip.

Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, "landing" is made from hand-processed B&W 16mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. "landing" examines moments of respite in between flight and movement, where landing becomes refuge.

Recovering Love peels away the layers of prejudice and punishment that confront women, especially mothers‚ who are dealing with addiction. This documentary shows the impact of that condemnation, but also looks deeper into the systemic issues that lead to addiction in the first place, including trauma and abuse, racism, and discrimination. This is a documentary about women who are deeply committed to their relationship with their children and who are also committed to recovering from their addictions. The documentary includes the wise voices of their kids who have experienced their mothers' substance use and who are so much a part of their mothers' reclaiming their hopes.

The true story of an Iranian survivor from Stalin's death camps.

What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?

"Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals within their body, chemicals that didn't exist prior to 1945. This concentration of chemicals within every human being on the face of the earth is called the "body burden" and it is considered our common legacy from the processes of development and industrialization. "

How does a woman’s body move? skin•es•the•si•a scrambles the cultural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images from the work of performance artist Hannah Sim with images of Sim working as a nude dancer in a peep show. It explores the rapport between one woman’s body and two performance environments. How are women perceived and typed through our own physical movements? What might a response of power to these codes and norms look like? What do we discover by embracing our otherness, by transforming it into a means of confronting the world?

A video dealing with the experience of a despised body, focusing specifically on the queer male subject grappling with societal attitudes towards the homosexual in the context of the AIDS crisis. The phrase, "We do not go instinct," is lifted from a Lynda Barry cartoon, and is indicative of the way the video shifts between humour, rage, despair and resistance. In its appropriation and critique of popularized AIDS images, the video points to the lack of oppositional queer subject positions within the mainstream media AIDS discourse.

generally credited as the first known film by a Canadian filmmaker

The Pilgrimage: a tale of the Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage that spans nearly a thousand kilometers across Spain. In 2010 over 300,000 people attempted the arduous walk - each individual in search for something. The Pilgrimage documentary is the story of two brothers seeking adventure, inner wisdom and peace of mind.

Darkness never emerges but it is present. Some kind of teenage wasteland feel, unexpected storms and inviting landscapes are intermeshed. In a bewitching atmosphere, proximity and distance are revealed through a thoughtful structure where images and sounds confound the imaginary and the real. Sensuality and desire are seen as forbidden, somehow, as if faced with a glass wall. Only by looking back do we find ourselves in a moon-like space/place.

The unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Calgary Soldiers' Memorial.

This documentary was made at the request of Vidéographe on the occasion of the Montreal Olympic Games and as part of the series Sports à part. A broad perspective on the world of bodybuilding, it calls on cultural analysts and trainers as well as a few of those vying for the title of Mr. Montreal to give the viewer insight into the mindset and motivations of the bodybuilder.

When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born. Directed and produced by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar, the video was shot over a two-year period by the subjects and covers what the media touted as the first lesbian marriage in Canadian history, a graphic sex change operation, and the daily lives and most intimate moments of a relationship generally hidden behind the iron curtain of societal taboo.

Stephanie’s brother Gregor is about to make the biggest decision of his life. He has joined the Catholic order of the Steyler Missionaries to become a monk. If he doesn’t have a change of heart, he will take his final vows in a year’s time and commit to a life of chastity, poverty, obedience and service to the Catholic Church. Stephanie is highly critical of his choice. They come from a Catholic background, but Stephanie had her own reasons to break with the family tradition. They haven’t spoken in ten years. This film is Stephanie’s quest to understand her brother’s extreme decision and explore his world that lies behind the thick monastery walls. What she discovers may prove to be far more than she bargained for.

Documentary about a Pole expedition.

Documentary profile of people with unique odd collections

An indigenous lawyer represents the division among his people between traditional caring for the land and developing the resources it contains.

Lammert Koonstra, a proud dairy farmer getting close to retirement, reflects on 25 years of organic farming, the effects it’s had on his family, the consequences of corporate greed, and a shrinking Canadian farming industry.

A classic (un)silent film using metaphors to explore concepts of constriction and freedom. "No person or thing can satisfy her thirst for more moisture and freshness"

River of Life chronicles the experiences of one group of racers, the determined women who make up the 2006 Paddlers Abreast team. Candid and revealing, this beautifully realized documentary follows the women from the moment they climb into their boat in Whitehorse to the cheers that greet them in Dawson City. Set against the stunning backdrop of Canada's north, the film combines lively race footage with touching and humorous interviews.

Aided by machine learning, a bioengineer creates a mutant enzyme inspired by larvae capable of digesting plastic. Insects, sapiens, models, and machines are consumed by extraction, ingestion, excretion, and an unconscious drive to return to a state of matter before life.

OneBC Caucus is proud to present Making a Killing: Reconciliation, Genocide, and Plunder in Canada. Making a Killing is a feature documentary film exposing the massive scandal behind the taking of wealth, land, and power from the Canadian public to benefit indigenous tribes. It debunks the worst lie in Canadian history: the lie that 215 bodies were found at the Kamloops Residential School and that Canadians committed a mass murder against indigenous children. Making a Killing is the first documentary film produced by an elected caucus.

A woman recounts the thoughts of an anonymous film editor witnessing the GWOT. - Flash - The bodies of Midwestern proletarians set in motion on a bed and on the battlefield.

"Run & Drive" refers to those cars that have been in accidents and are declared "total loss" by American insurances. Thousands of drivers seek these wrecks in the United States to bring them back by road to their home countries in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to sell them once they are repaired.

Ethan Weigelt documents five months of travel through North America, culminating in his eighteenth birthday. In a stream-of-consciousness manner, he captures his everyday experiences while stepping into adulthood.

This documentary brings together a group of long lost classmates who used to belong to an after-school film club. Formed at the initiative of a Grade 8 teacher eager to pass along his love of cinema, the club attracted a klatch of immigrant kids eager to embrace their new country. Stimulating and creative, the club was a complete departure from anything they had known and provided a safe haven from the harsh world around them. Together, they made a tiny 8mm award-winner called Ohh Canada. Twenty-five years later, the group looks back to marvel at their childhood dreams and the bond they share with the teacher who brought them together.

While green spaces have long been neglected in cities, citizen mobilization has for several years helped to rediscover the beneficial effects of urban forests. Exploring various innovative nature restoration projects in Canadian cities, Urban Forests acts as a real antidote to pessimism by showing us that the ecological solution is closer than it seems.

Shafiq Hoque works at a store in Toronto's neighbourhood of Regent Park by day and drives an Uber at night. Trying to make ends meet while juggling two precarious jobs, he finds solace and strength in community.

A day in the life of a spoon takes a dramatic turn as the common kitchen utensil becomes the key catalyst of a prison escape that embodies the resilient spirit of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Presented through an abstracted perspective and visual storytelling style, this poetic short takes the liberatory ideals of the now infamous Gilboa prison escape and generalizes them onto a much more encompassing demographic: freedom defenders worldwide.

This documentary reveals an intimate portrait of Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall who is world renowned for his realistic paintings and ability to capture Atlantic Canada landscapes. In this program, Forrestall speaks candidly about suffering with epilepsy and how the condition influences his art.

A ghostly ride through some of Canada’s most haunted locations with documented sightings of apparitions, poltergeists, and other paranormal phenomena.

One courageous man, considered by many to be a Saint and a Hero, overcomes numerous challenges building schools, orphanages, creating sustainability and delivering much needed care to children all over the world while inspiring others to do the same by his example of selfless service, love and compassion.

At 74, Azdyne Amimour should be contemplating peaceful retirement. But his days are fuelled by an overriding goal: to make reparations for crimes he didn't commit and find his missing granddaughter, whom he has never seen. Amid family trauma and longing, the story of Azydyne and those who share his predicament shines a light on the far-reaching and shattering effects of war and terrorism on families as they seek to assemble the pieces left behind.

Canadabis Hemp Rap is the portrayal of Western Canadian and American Hemp activists, voicing anti-prohibition and pro-legalization positions in contemporary society. Activists, through dialogue, represent the political, sociological and economic interests that have been developing in the twentieth century. This documentary raises questions concerning the positive aspects of Cannabis Hemp plant (Dope, Reefer, Bud, Marijuana...) often not represented in the media.

A documentary in which the director, a longtime precarious contract teacher, lifts the curtain on higher education's dirty little secret. He travels Canada to capture the experience of precarity and the fight against the exploitation of contract faculty in higher ed. The film tells the stories and struggles of a few compelling characters and groups, while examining the issue of precarious work. Subtitles available in English, French, Spanish.

In 2019, Blank Collective Films were on a search for an explanation to their insanity. Anticipation. Inspiration. Creativity. Perseverance. Experience. Exploration. And Satisfaction. These 7 Stages are designed to postulate a progression of the emotional stages during a ski season. Simply, the Blank Collective takes you on a journey through the 7 Stages of Blank, a lighthearted look into the bond that develops around the sport of skiing.