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Why not make a documentary of your vacation? During the summer of 2004, Tori Foster travels across Canada to meet lesbian, trans and queer women, and this film queer women, and this film takes us on a journey. In front of the camera, these women reveal themselves, define themselves define themselves and have fun. From the simplest questions to the funniest questions to the funniest, from the most sincere reflections to the most difficult experiences, they tell us about they talk about their daily lives, and we feel as if we are and you feel like you can hear yourself!

Wake Up Screaming is a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes look at the Vans Warped Tour through the eyes of Texas-farm-boy-turned-punk-rock-road-warrior Jason Bayless. Bayless, along with extreme documentary filmmakers David Bergthold of Blockhead Skateboards and pro skateboarder Laban Pheidias, was granted exclusive access to all aspects of the tour. Follow peta2's Jason and crew as they spend nine weeks traveling through 48 cities, rubbing elbows with the hottest bands of today and hundreds of punk rock all-stars.

After an apocalypse eradicates almost all life, an entity finds a film highlighting some good humanity has done.

Beating the Streets traces six years in the lives of Marilyn Brighteyes and Lance Marty, two inner-city Aboriginal teenagers struggling to turn their lives around. And it is the story of Joe Cloutier, the teacher -- and former dropout -- determined to help them.

In this follow up to the Longshots (1994), a group of at risk youth spend a weekend with a group of former street kids who did a similar workshop a decade earlier. Now in their 30s, they share their stories with their younger counterparts. Surprising, and often disturbing, parallels emerge between the two groups, along with glimmers of hope for the youth.

My Favorite Food is Indian Tacos, my Favorite Drink is Iced Tea and my Favorite Thing is Drumming is about the passion for drumming and traditionnal singing that Derius share with his friends. This film is the affirmation of Derius' courage.

In Les quatre récits d’Alice, Myriam Jacob-Allard explore a story which, because of its persistence, is part of the family lore. This story, told countless times by her grandmother, is an implausible tale of the time a hurricane worthy of The Wizard of Oz, when she was a child, picked her up and sent her flying.

It's the end of WWII. Many Canadian military men are returning back to Canada to resume a working life as a civilian. Seven percent will work in the resource sector, which includes not only extraction of natural resources such as minerals and wood, but also food resources such as agriculture and fishing. Eighteen percent will go into some form of schooling - half in an academic or professional field, with the other half in a technical or trades related field - before they re-enter the workforce. Sixty-eight percent will work in urban areas, including in industrial employment. Twenty-five thousand are returning in the ranks of the physically disabled, who require additional support to reintegrate into working civilian life.

A look into bike couriers' community, their work, and philosophy of life.

Through an intimate and touching lens of looking at the relationship between a mother and her queer daughter, “Carla & Hayfa” investigates the impact of historical trauma on communities of refugees and their queer family members.

Three sisters have spent years bracing themselves for the pivotal moment that opens this film: the final verdict in their trial against their cousin, their childhood sexual abuser. From there, the story returns to their memories of growing up in a large and insular Punjabi-Canadian family in the small mill town of Williams Lake, British Columbia. With unflinching candour, the sisters discuss their family's dark secrets and expose a toxic family culture that relied on female subservience and obedience. These roles, they acknowledge, have deeper roots and have in part been reinforced by the Bollywood films that have structured their fantasies of romantic relationships. While the film tells a difficult and confrontational story of abuse, it is also a celebration of the loving sisterhood that allows these women to demand justice for the wrongs of their childhood years.

Powerful As God - The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario is a documentary that delves into society's most controversial and secretive topics. The film navigates 'truth' by engaging twenty-six witnesses with diverse experiences into conversation. By facilitating a voice for individuals whose lives have been tragically affected, with observations and recommendations by experts who have worked directly with the agency (such as doctors, social workers and lawyers), the film reveals a child welfare system plagued by systemic and bureaucratic abuse that urgently requires public attention. Financed by tax dollars and wielding extraordinary power, the Children's Aid Society is deconstructed to reveal a broken system where employees have been heard to describe their influence over children and families to be as powerful as god.

In 1936 an Inuk woman departs her homeland in the North forever. But why?

A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us? Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?

Kasha Sequoia Slavner, aka The Sunrise Storyteller, is an 18-year old filmmaker, photographer, entrepreneur, young global leader and peace advocate. As a concerned high school student, disillusioned and outraged by the negativity and powerlessness she felt as a consumer of mainstream media, Kasha was compelled to find an alternative narrative. On her 16th birthday on an ambitious mission to travel the world for six months with her mom, camera in hand and no clear road map, she finds herself intersecting with the lives of people determined to rise above adversity.

Meeting the Needs of Adolescence deals with a brother and an older sister, each a distinctive personality. Janet and Tom's parents accept each child--they recognize Janet's need for independence and support her early experiences with boys, and they respect Tom's efforts to think things through in his own way. Teachers viewing the film will note the suggestion that the school, by providing opportunities for student planning, free discussion and individual projects, can contribute to the adolescent's need for mental challenge and self-directed mental endeavor.

A film study of a Montréal metro station, not as a link in the transportation system, but as a subject for the camera--a place of echoing tunnels, long perspectives, speeding trains, larger-than-life advertisements. The camera sweeps everywhere, wherever there is a scene of intrinsic interest, compiling vignettes of the underground between rush hours. Filmed in black and white, printed on color stock.

This sequel to the 2015 documentary "Hurt" picks up as Steve Fonyo recovers from his coma and admits that he needs to make changes to his life if he is going to be able to continue on.

The Bloorcourt village is one of Toronto's most diverse neighbourhoods. Walk through its streets and gain fascinating insights into the challenges and achievements of the immigrant experience.

“The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement. In this film, the incident is revealed through a poetic text, derived from my written journals. The poetry mixes primarily with Mexican streetscapes which compliment the text in a tonal sense. Most images are twenty-eight seconds long, the ‘breath’ of the 16mm Bolex camera. A lone saxophone (Mike Callich) weaves its way through the narrative, blending to make stronger the tomes and accentuations of the images.” (PH)

Bryan Adams is one of world's most enduringly popular singer/songwriters. But he is most at home in his Vancouver studio, surrounded by his collection of vintage microphones and guitars. Adams calls it "a very analog space in a very digital world." In this short documentary, we witness an intimate rendition of his song "One World, One Flame" and hear him speak of his audience-centered approach to performance: "I want it to be fun, I want it to be real."

A man travels to Ireland to discover its history but finds himself reflecting on the life of his sick father.

The workers of the clothing factory Brukman in Buenos Aires continue production during Argentina's financial collapse in 2001.

Mary La Trobe-Bateman talks with Richard La Trobe-Bateman about the Gap Bridge & his design practice.

In a dance class, a group of ten year olds is led through a series of exercises which increases both in complexity and imaginative involvement. Dancing is presented as a physically beneficial and creative experience.

Featuring accounts from victims, a police officer, and a Crown prosecutor, this documentary examines the risks women face on dating platforms, as well as the mechanisms intended to protect them. Drawing on the phenomenon of "Are We Dating The Same Guy?" support groups on Facebook, *Féminisites* sparks a vital conversation about online gender-based violence, platform accountability, and the rise of digital sisterhood. One thing is clear: behind the matches, algorithms, and carefully curated profiles, the consequences are very real.

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?

Risograph originated in Japan during the 1980s, and a new movement of artists are redefining this printing technique, including Yolkless Press based in Calgary, Alberta. This short documentary highlights their artist-driven projects centered around the Asian diaspora experience, and how they provide a much needed platform for underrepresented voices.

The story of Tierra del Feugo’s vanished indigenous population. With the help of nature footage, historical photos, texts, and drawings, a dialogue emerges between past and present. In interview sequences, descendants of indigenous people speak, while research reports recount the brutal missionary campaigns.

A poem, drawings, interviews, anthropology conferences, and fungal forays. "do i know you, mushroom?" is an assemblage that reaches toward the feeling of going on a mushroom foray — the textures, the journey, the contemplations on life and our interconnectedness, and the great wonder of fungi.

Crux follows Harvey Wright, a recovering addict who uses rock climbing to work through his ongoing struggle with mental health.

44 Houses is a film that reflects the process of revisiting the 44 homes I have lived in since birth, and examines the impact of constant uprooting as one nears 50 years old. This 16mm experimental short film explores generational memory and personal experiences. It features exterior shots of 44 houses, recorded over a 3-day road trip, with family audio snippets.

Zach presents himself as an enigmatic figure, oscillating between controlled vulnerability and an almost mythological confidence. Through answers that are sometimes too perfect, sometimes unsettling, he builds a portrait that constantly slips between sincere confession and calculated fabrication.

In northern Iran, this docu-fiction captures a family's week-long reunion from arrival to farewell. Showcasing tradition, daily life, and music into a quiet portrait of memory, connection, and time's gentle passing.

Musical culture is part of the DNA in the Nova Scotia Acadian community of Baie Sainte-Marie. Brimming with talent, members of the local music scene are reinventing tradition and taking their vibrant rhythms far beyond the region’s boundaries. Rich in dialect and bursting with local tunes, Trécarré invites us to discover the magic of music that asks us not just to listen, but to share it, dance to it, and live it.

In this documentary-narrative hybrid, two friends attempt to chronicle a story of their old game universe while reconnecting with the friends from their past.

A look at graffiti and efforts to eradicate it in Vancouver, BC.

A delicate exploration of the Demi-Lune center, in Quebec City, where insomniacs come together at night to combat loneliness.

Well-known sociologist and activist Guy Rocher has been involved in many of the major reforms that have shaped Québec society, namely as a member of the Parent Commission and a high-ranking official in the René Lévesque government. He has been both an attentive witness and a key player in the development of modern Québec. In this documentary, Guy Rocher takes a lucid, optimistic look at the Québec he has been observing for nearly five decades.

A genre-defying documentary film inspired by a medieval musical play created by an amazing company of artists living with and without Down Syndrome.

This short documentary follows an individual’s journey to shaving their head for the first time, exploring the complex relationship between hair and identity.

Rebel Angel is about identity, love, dysfunctional families, the redemptive power of art, and the long, relentless reach of mentorship. The film paints a portrait of professor Ross Woodman (1922-2014), Jungian author Marion Woodman, and their extraordinary marriage. A champion of creative imagination, Ross was also an original interpreter of depth psychology in the context of his knowledge of world literature and religions. His generosity as a mentor, and his artistry as a lecturer on the poetry of Blake, Shelley and the Romantics made him unforgettable, life changing. He played a key role in the 'Regionalist' art scene in London, Ontario in the 1960s which gave us many of Canada's most significant artists. Ross accompanied Marion through her journey as a pioneering Jungian analyst who brought the Feminine into depth psychology. Through the prism of Woodman's troubled life, the film maker explores the dynamic among, love, creativity and madness in movies, poetry and art.

The short documentary A Wolf’s Way: Dempsey Bob (2023, 17 minutes) is the outcome of a meeting between artist Dempsey Bob and Montreal filmmaker Mathias Arroyo-Bégin during a film shooting in 2019. That meeting led to a collaboration on a documentary about Dempsey Bob’s life and artistic vision. While the two co-directors may be of different cultures and generations, they share a profound mutual respect; together, they made A Wolf's Way, which celebrates the sculptor’s authenticity and humility.

Dancing For Change is a story about secular and socialist women of the Islamic world, their ideals, activism, and visions for a better world. It focuses on six Kurdish Iranian women from three different generations. These women live with their male comrades in a mountain camp.

Cat, a transgender woman in Tennessee who has been institutionalized since she was four years old, got off parole in 2020. This film documents her first months of freedom. The piece was composed from phone videos sent to the filmmaker, Skype calls, archival material, and some footage that a friend had shot a few years before. Cat shares stories from her childhood and her life inside men's prisons, including her relationship with her husband and former cellmate Doc who remains incarcerated.

Directors Roger Bill and Tristram Clark explore the plight of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland.

A young woman from North Preston, NS goes on a journey to seek an in depth understanding of the complexities within Canada’s largest Black community. While showing how lovable and strong the community is, she tries to understand why the media continuously chooses to paint a negative portrait of where she’s from.

Experiments with 8mm home movie footage of the filmmaker to explore how familial roles are represented in the space of the home movie.

Explores the decay of memory and the filmstrip using super 8mm footage taken by the filmmake'’s father.