Two Cars, One Night
Situé dans le stationnement d’un bar rural à Tek Kaha, Nouvelle-Zélande, ce court-métrage comique primé réalisé par Taika Waititi conte l’histoire de deux frères, Romeo et Ed, qui attendent dans la voiture pendant que leurs parents boivent à l’intérieur. Romeo remarque Polly, une jeune fille de onze ans qui attend également ses parents. Plein d’agitation […]
Water on the Table
Water On The Table is a character-driven, social-issue documentary by Liz Marshall that explores Canada’s relationship to its freshwater, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film asks the question: is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air? Water On The Table features Maude Barlow, […]
Here and Mars
JK est une astronaute qui a été sélectionnée pour effectuer une mission sur Mars à l’an 2035. Alors qu’elle se prépare pour ce jour mémorable, elle réfléchit à son passé et à ceux et celles qui l’ont aidée à se rendre là où elle est aujourd’hui.
Bonum
After they cycle through two steps back and one step forward again, the dangers of complacency are revealed and the reward that is nestled in perseverance is imagined. Conceivably this is the taste of BONUM. Calgary-born dancer Sabrina Naz Comanescu enthralls audiences with her choreography for video — artistically shot by Aran Wilkinson-Blanc — making dance accessible as a […]
On the Side of the Road
Lia Tarachansky grew up in a settlement. When the second Intifadah broke out in 2000 her family moved to Canada. There, for the first time she met Palestinians and « discovered » their history and learned why they were fighting Israel in the first place. When she became a journalist, she returned to Israel to become the […]
Nous aurions pu être des héros
À l’an 2020, tous les minéraux n’ayant pas été extraits par l’exploitation minière sont dilués et transformés en émanations toxiques par la Tempête Aqua Regia (mieux connue sous le nom de la Grande dilution). Évacuées par toutes les mines ouvertes de la planète, les émanations ont tué environ 80% de la population mondiale en moins […]
Berta Didn’t Die, She Multiplied!
In Honduras, the most dangerous country in the world to be a land defender, Berta Cáceres’ death has not silenced the many campesinxs fighting for justice and Indigenous Sovereignty. They mourn Berta’s assassination with powerful chants of ‘Berta Didn’t Die, She Multiplied!’ This documentary will show the Indigenous Lenca and Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people of Honduras […]
A Right to Eat
With a jug of milk ringing in at over $14 in some of Northern Manitoba’s lowest income communities, it’s not difficult to imagine how grocery bills can account for up to 80% of the household budget or why diabetes rates have hit 50% in some regions. Local studies have shown that food insecurity rates in […]
Deir Yassin Remembered
DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED considers the repercussions of a largely forgotten massacre of almost 100 Palestinians in 1948. The massacre at Deir Yassin was pivotal to Palestinian dispossession. Though Deir Yassin has been partially acknowledged by Israelis, many other massacres of the time have not. The video not only gives an account of what happened at […]
Trading the Future
TRADING THE FUTURE is a video essay that questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on environmental urgencies. Starting with a personal memory, the fear of the rapture, the video addresses the Christian narrative for the end of times, and draws connections to secular apocalypticism and our ready acceptance of a cataclysmic end. The […]
Fresh Blood, a Consideration of Belonging
FRESH BLOOD, A CONSIDERATION OF BELONGING is a hybrid documentary or video essay which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, belly-dancing and memory. This video essay, formed by personal narrative and including a return to Israel/Palestine, engages issues of: Jewish racialized identity, Arab/Jewish dichotomies and the way these come together in Iraqi Jewish […]
Ayiti Toma, in the Land of the Living
Beyond the country that overcame slavery to become the first Black Republic, beyond the country that has survived numerous natural disasters and even humanitarian aid, lies Ayiti Toma (« the country that is ours »). AYITI TOMA, THE LAND OF THE LIVING aspires to present this lesser known, more inclusive Ayiti as it is retold and illuminated […]
Little Palestine, Journal d’un siège
Dans son premier film, LITTLE PALESTINE, JOURNAL D’UN SIÈGE, le cinéaste Abdallah Al-Khatib offre un aperçu de la vie quotidienne des habitants de Yarmouk, le plus grand camp de réfugiés palestiniens au monde. Abritant des milliers de Palestiniens, Yarmouk a été saisi en 2015 par l’État islamique/Daech en alliance avec al-Nosra. Les forces gouvernementales syriennes […]
Terms and Conditions May Apply
No one really reads the terms and conditions connected to every website they visit, phone call they make or app they download. Regardless of privacy settings, your data is being collected and your behaviour is being monitored—even as you read this, in fact—leaving the future of civil liberties uncertain. But how can we be living […]
The Universe According to Dan Buckley
Dan Buckley parts the veil on the origins and future of the universe. He investigates the disorder and delight that proliferates in between; the worlds and ideas that rub up against each other and, at times, collide. A reflection on assigning meaning and shedding preconceptions while in free fall.
Signal et bruit
Quels sont les sons du centre de détention de Guantánamo Bay ? En 2015, le poète Jordan Scott a entrepris d’enregistrer les sons ambiants de la prison afin de contourner les règles strictes de censure des médias. Aujourd’hui, Mansoor Adayfi, ancien détenu, raconte comment les sons ont façonné son expérience de la torture et de […]
