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Changing Gears traces the diverse journeys of three community organizations operating in Canada (Charlie’s FreeWheels), Nicaragua (Comision de Mujer Joven) and Uganda (Union of Hope) in their efforts to use bicycles to create a more just, equitable and sustainable future.

The true horror story that even the great Johnny Carson talked about on the Tonight Show in 1970.

A parallel encounter of two queer identities seeking to deconstruct the ideas that prevent them from existing, and of their body in transition navigating the complex path of physical transformation.

Bands of the image network wrap and overlay elements in the landscape, decomposing them into a structure of panels, cut-outs and colours. Artworks in open space are transposed into systems of image and sound elements, and wandering through the place becomes an adventure through the bends of bird's eye perspectives, light compositions and 3D scans of objects protruding from uneven surfaces.

Chef Hooni Kim’s quest for mastery of Korean home-cooked meals at his restaurant highlights his dedication to authenticity and cultural identity through food.

Examines the lives of two doctors in the mid-20th century: Henry Shibata, a Japanese Canadian born in Vancouver, and Stuart Cooper Robinson, a Canadian born in Nagoya, Japan. Their worlds are upended by WWII, with Shibata facing internment in the Rockies, while Robinson is pushed from his lifelong home in Japan amidst growing intolerance. Charting their transformative journeys, the documentary captures their resilience and the indelible marks left by displacement. Through their stories, it reflects on the Japanese Canadian struggle from a new perspective and redefines what it means to find home against a backdrop of war and loss.

Shot in two downtown Toronto parks over the course of the pandemic, LINES DRAWN looks at various measures of persuasion, containment and control that were brought to bear over the course of the City’s attempts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, space was defined by how the social bond was re-formed and which barriers were designed for mutual and directional protection. What are the shapes of the pandemic and how did they shape our interactions with each other ?

A group of musicians embark on a collaborative journey of healing over the course of a year, pulling apart and collaging fragments from Bach’s Chaconne while meditating on ghostly layering of story.

A trip around Sam's Farm.

Follows MC de Natividad, who immigrated to Winnipeg from the Philippines at four-years-old, on her journey to reclaim her lost language and identity.

To heal their wounds, women from the same family reveal their connection with the sea.

This six-minute short documentary captures the eclipse of July 20, 1963, in the small town of Grand-Mère, Quebec. The eclipse was plainly visible and attended by scientists, stargazers, and an influx of visitors who came to see it and join in the accompanying festivities.

Work and life of the industrial hunters in Kazakhstan. Follow Nikolai and his team on the annual marmot hunting season where they have to hunt 600 marmots for the period of one month. And learn why this massive killing is essential for marmots' survival.

Unveils the nuances of Asian queerness at a crossroads with upbringing, kinship, desire, and disclosure, juxtaposing the complexities in which identity and community are kept private, shared, experienced and misunderstood.

A word abandoned, a meaning misinterpreted, a tradition upheld, an economy satisfied.

Sugaring time marks the end of the Quebec winter, and the traditions associated with this highlight of the year are centered around the sugar shack. The production of maple syrup, as much as the gatherings it causes, has been anchored in Quebec culture for hundreds of years, and the transmission of the know-how it requires is more often than not a story of family. Our meeting with 5 Quebec families producing maple syrup, professionally or artisanally, highlights this tradition which is still evident and lived today. From tapping trees to manufacturing maple products, Oh Sirop is interested in maple growing practices that are part of history, which are passed down and adapted from generation to generation.

A 2004 indie documentary about Tokyo's gaijin houses and some of their strange inhabitants. In between here and there and consequently, nowhere.

In 1973 a military coup was staged in Chile, Ernesto lived through these tough times and shares his story about what happened to him

Civilian victims of Russia’s terror, Oleksandra Ikonnikova and her 6-year-old daughter Nadiia, spend three weeks at a Ukrainian field hospital for the wounded of heart. Oleksandra, who struggled to keep Nadiia alive, is suffering acute post-traumatic stress. Nadiia has stopped eating. Psychologists help them recover and build resilience for more pain still to come. The survivors learn to become warriors, not victims. Their determination to thrive is their way to fight back against Russian aggression. Oleksandra and Nadiia grow stronger in the supportive community but leave with no home to return to as the war rages on.

Shaping a memoir of my personal return, in the jasmine vines is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belong, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines.

This animation addresses the need for education to address easily accessible internet pornography, especially as it impacts young people’s lives.

The village of Pubnico, located at the southwestern most tip of Nova Scotia, is the oldest Acadian settlement. Almost all of the village's inhabitants are descended from a few families who settled on the peninsula more than three hundred years ago. For two and a half centuries, the village of Pubnico lived in complete isolation. Today, its people have only one occupation: fishing.

A popular bingo game broadcast on a reservation radio station helps to revitalize the Mohawk language.

An experimental film exploring the digital infinity and degradation. Upon release, the film looped and streamed constantly for one year between April 2021 and 2022. With each day of play-through the film restarted at a lower bitrate and left the best available quality behind until it was finally destroyed.

A rag-tag documentary team seeks to debunk the rumors of what lies in the Cold-War era tunnels beneath their high school.

This moving-image and sound performance remixes promotional films from the 1920’s to the 70’s that advertised the Canadian wilderness as a holiday destination.

Country life in Quebec. Houses, farming tools, family life.

This film deals with the problems affecting the remote communities of the Labrador coast--particularly the relocation of families in more populated centres that offer better employment opportunities, school and medical facilities. The role played by the Labrador Film/VTR community development project is outlined.

Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.

The Air We Breathe is an experimental documentary that thinks through the complexities of air pollution by weaving together themes of environmental catastrophe, environmental racism, cultural and political shifts, and conspiracy. Combining research into air pollution along with personal storytelling and speculative imaginings, this project deeply considers the complicated ways in which our air impacts us: from the way that smells travel through it and the memories they evoke; to the physical impacts of pollutants through shared inhalation; to the ways in which the air serves as a metaphor of connection in a cultural sense.

Created entirely from shots filmed through the window of a moving train, two good friends make conversation as they travel through the beautiful Vietnamese countryside.

Go west, young man, to Deadman Creek, and the quixotic world of Matt Sandvoss, a Wild West-obsessed visionary determined to build a “ghost town” in a remote part of British Columbia. But Matt’s mission raises questions for Gerald Carter, a Cree resident of Deadman Creek, about the age-old stereotypes of cowboys and Indians, the commodification of sacred land and the troubling gap between fantasy and history.

An unflinching documentary that explores the surge in violent crime, homelessness and drug addiction in the heart of one of Canada's wealthiest cities.

This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole, who shares his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness echoes in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.

The De'panneur Sylvestre in Gatineau, Quebec, was founded 20 years ago to address the growing number of people experiencing social isolation. Destroyed by a fire three years ago, it has now reopened using new models of sustainability to stay relevant for another 20 years and beyond.

Mufflers, honks and drilling: the perpetual soundscape of Toronto. Fed up with sleepless nights, a couple of activists take the fight to City Hall in the hopes of changing the outdated noise bylaws.

"This is an inspiring film for trailblazing mothers and parents around the world. Climate Change Babies, which takes a hopeful approach to the climate crisis, is focusing on people taking action to secure a better future for their young children."

Shot over the entire first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Kharkiv Files documents the life of soldiers and civilians from Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding oblast. The first half of the film shows life in the late winter and early spring, when Russian forces were relentlessly bombarding the city from its outskirts and Ukrainian forces were stubbornly resisting. The second half shows Ukrainian forces slowly pushing the Russians back towards the border, culminating in their famous counteroffensive in the fall. The film ends with the return of winter. The Russians have been almost entirely expelled from Kharkiv oblast, and a semblance of normality has returned to the city. But with the war still raging, no one knows if the battle for Kharkiv is truly finished.

A young Mother dying of cancer, her children, husband and close friends talk about it with filmmakers Bronwen Wallace and Chris Wynott on a beautiful autumn day in Eastern Ontario countryside. Sometimes uncomfortably honest and forthright with comic moments.

A surreal animated documentary based on historical records, The Pioneers is a mesmerising rhythmic experience honouring the animal passengers aboard their 59 rocket test flights prior to the first human voyage to space. This film aims to remind us of the sacrifices, experiences and tragedies of these forgotten and overlooked pioneers. Directed by auteur Australian animator Simon Cottee and scored by renowned Canadian composer Kid Koala.

Every summer, Geneviève and Patrick leave Montreal for a campground close to the St. Lawrence River to explore what is deep below under the surface. They encounter creatures with names that stimulate the imagination: sea cucumbers, frilled anemones, rough-mantled doris, pink shrimps, and Atlantic wolfish. Jacques Cousteau used to say that “people protect what they love, and they love what they know.” By uncovering the beauty and the richness of the depths of the St. Lawrence, Geneviève and Patrick hope to encourage people to come to love it… and protect it.

This documentary film is about Martha, Winnie, Stella, and Yvonne who, as people wanting to immigrate to Canada, are struggling to deal with having been denied. State bureaucrats have deemed them to be social, legal and health risks. The film asks the viewer to consider and contemplate answers to this question: How would you feel about being discredited, singled out, disproportionately probed, and rendered ‘medically inadmissible’ based on your bodily status?

Montreal Jews strike roots along a narrow strip dividing the French and English sides of town, and cope with discrimination and the Depression. Stories of soup kitchens, the growth of mutual aid societies,the building of the Jewish General Hospital, and Zionist and Socialist sports clubs. Promenading along Park Avenue, seeing Maurice Schwartz at the Monument-National, climbing Mt. Royal, the lights, the shadows… and a war in the offing.

Old-time residents of Cadieux, de Bullion, “upper” and “lower” St. Dominique St. etc., share their stories of pogroms in Russia and first days in Canada – home life, childhood games, youthful idealism, school fees, first jobs, building unions. Stories of hard times and high spirits.

A look back at First Nations Chief Roger Joseph Augustine's 45-year-long struggle against anti-Indigenous racism to rise to his leadership position.

A documentary that unpacks and addresses inequities in the music industry through intimate first-person accounts from Queer, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, women+ artists. Their intersectional identities inform the creative process, from the first lyric to the polished track. In an industry where authenticity is rare, these artists unapologetically sing their truths. But the industry is cutthroat – our characters are dissuaded from following their passions even before they pick up an instrument. Their identities, the very thing they most value and prioritize, presents as their biggest obstacle.