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Awaskinawason (Children of Earth)
Director
Antony Dubé (Atikamekw)
Writer
Antony Dubé (Atikamekw)
Genres
Animation, Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Environment, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
Other Language
Language Versions
EN Subtitles, FR Subtitles
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Ute Kanata (Here in Canada)
This poignant take on “O Canada” adapts the national anthem to the reality of the First Nations of Canada, and provides a rallying song for all peoples.
Director
Virginie Michel (Innu)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
Other Language
Language Versions
EN Subtitles, FR Subtitles
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Hyphen: Gabriela’s Story
Renaud explores her hyphenated identity through a portrayal of the complexities of her multiracial family.
Director
Gabriela Warrior Renaud
Writer
Gabriela Warrior Renaud
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Female Filmmaker
Original Languages
English, French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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De Face Ou De Profil (Face or Profile)
Director
Sharon Fontaine (Innu)
Writer
Sharon Fontaine (Innu)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Global Experiences, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
Enfants de choeur! (The Choir Boys)
Director
Magnus Isacsson
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Interest
Arts and Culture
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Anirniq (Breath)
Director
RJ Sauer
Writer
RJ Sauer
Producers
RJ Sauer, Amy Jones
Genre
Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
Inuktitut
Language Version
EN Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
Brüdder Productions
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Le chemin rouge (Red Path)
This moving documentary tells the story of Tony Chachai, a young man who goes on a journey to reconnect with his Atikamekw roots by dancing in powwows.
Director
Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw)
Writer
Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw)
Producer
Johanne Bergeron
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Leftover
Director
Eui Yong Zong
Writer
Eui Yong Zong
Producer
Andy Kloske
Genre
Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Global Experiences, Newcomer Stories
Original Language
Other Language
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Wapawekka
Director
Danis Goulet (Cree/Métis)
Danis Goulet is an award-winning Cree/Métis filmmaker from La Ronge, SK, now based in Toronto. Her films have screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance, Berlinale, TIFF, and MoMA. She is a former programmer and current board member for TIFF, and was the former Director of the imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival. Her latest projects include the TV series Reservation Dogs, and the upcoming feature film Ivy.
Writer
Danis Goulet (Cree/Métis)
Producers
Christine Kleckner, Danis Goulet (Cree/Métis)
Genre
Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Languages
English, Other Language
Language Versions
EN Subtitles, Other Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
Vtape
Vivre à 35 milles à l’heure (35 MPH)
Directors
Jean-Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné, Dominic Leclerc
Writers
Philippe David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy, Dominic Leclerc
Producers
Jean-Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné, Dominic Leclerc
Genre
Drama
Interest
Sports
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
Ma boîte noire (My Black Box)
Director
Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Discrimination
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Noeuds (Knots)
Director
Aïcha Morin-Baldé
Writer
Aïcha Morin-Baldé
Producer
Fabienne Colas
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Discrimination, Female Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Envers et contre tout (Against All Odds)
Director
Kimberley Ann Surin
Writer
Kimberley Ann Surin
Producer
Fabienne Colas
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Discrimination, Female Filmmaker, Sports
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
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Origin of the Dream Catcher
Director
Donavan Vollant (Innu)
Genres
Animation, Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, History, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
Inuktitut
Language Version
EN Subtitles
- Own Voice
Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves
Director
Neil Christopher (Inuk)
Writer
Neil Christopher (Inuk)
Producers
Neil Christopher (Inuk), Louise Flaherty (Inuk)
Genres
Animation, Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
Inuktitut
Language Versions
EN Dub, EN Subtitles
Canadian Distributors
Inhabit Media, Taqqut Productions
Vive la rose
Based on the last recording by one of Newfoundland's foremost traditional music performers, Emile Benoit's tender delivery of the 18th century French song is the heart of Vive la rose. The story of unrequited love and tentative obsession throughout the beloved's life, sickness and early death is the narrative focus, accompanied by an emotional interpretation of Benoit's strong Newfoundland French accent and wavering old man's voice. Vive la rose is animation on location, rooting the film in a location that evokes the past, and combines ink drawings with a variety of romantic and associative elements and objects.
Director
Bruce Alcock
Producers
Tina Ouellette, Annette Clarke, Michael Fukushima
Genres
Animation, Romance
Interests
Arts and Culture, History
Original Language
French
Language Versions
EN Subtitles, FR CC
Canadian Distributor
NFB
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
This Canadian documentary chronicles the era of lesbian-themed pulp romance paperbacks of the 1950s, a time when titles such as “Odd Girl Out” spoke to the isolated and confused young lesbians of the era. Ten women (including one of the authors of these novels), talk about being queer in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, discovering these books, and going through their own first love affairs and painful breakups.
The hardships they faced (from being shunned by their families to enduring police raids) are interspersed with archival footage and four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, Forbidden Love. The desperate measures resorted to by the protagonists in these works of pulp fiction are shown to have been quite tame compared to the real-life experiences of these women.
The film won the Genie Award for best feature documentary.
“It is testimony to how clever the film and filmmakers are that a documentary about history continues to seem so utterly timeless.” – Matthew Hays, POV Magazine
Directors
Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie
Writers
Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie
Producers
Margaret Pettigrew, Ginny Stikeman
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Female Filmmaker, LGBTQ2S+
Original Languages
English, French
Language Versions
EN CC, EN Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
NFB
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
This powerful documentary takes you right to the heart of the action, painting a sensitive and deeply affecting portrait of the people behind the barricades.
Winner of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Best Canadian Feature Film prize.
Director
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Legendary Abenaki filmmaker Obomsawin has made over 50 documentaries on issues affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada, including Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Trick or Treaty?, Is the Crown at War with Us?, Our People Will Be Healed and Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger. Her most recent film is the short documentary Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair. Next, she is set to appear in an episode of Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows: The Series.
Writer
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Producers
Wolf Koenig, Colin Neale, Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Classics, Environment, Female Filmmaker, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Language Versions
EN CC, EN Subtitles, FR CC, FR Dub, FR Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
National Film Board (NFB)
La passion d’Augustine (The Passion of Augustine)
Céline Bonnier stars as Mother Augustine, a passionate and resilient Catholic nun who teaches music to children of all backgrounds in a convent school in rural Quebec in the 1960s. When her rebellious but musically gifted niece (Lysandre Ménard) joins the convent, Mother Augustine must confront a past that she strives to forget.
With the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the local government threatens to shut down the school in favour of public education, and Mother Augustine must search her soul for a solution – or perhaps a new calling. She and her fellow nuns are forced to confront the waves of modernity, but can Augustine move forward, or will she perish with tradition?
The film was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards including Best Actress for Bonnier, and Best Original Score.
Director
Léa Pool
Pool has earned three Genie Award nominations for Best Direction. Her films include Emporte Moi, Mouvements du désir, Lost and Delirious, La dernière fugue and the documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. Her recent films include the doc Double Sentence and the features La passion d'Augustine and Et au pire, on se mariera.
Writers
Léa Pool, Marie Vien
Cast
Céline Bonnier, Lysandre Ménard
Producers
Lyse Lafontaine, François Tremblay
Genre
Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, Female Filmmaker, History
Original Language
French
Language Versions
EN Subtitles, FR CC
Canadian Distributor
eOne
Les affamés (Ravenous)
In the bleak aftermath of an outbreak of zombies in rural Quebec, Bonin (Marc-André Grondin) struggles to survive along with the rapidly dwindling remaining population. When he encounters a group hiding in a house that is in the path of an invading horde of the undead, he must decide whether or not to save them, as doing so would put him and his companions in danger.
Les affamés is a brilliant and fresh take on the zombie genre, maintaining a tense atmosphere with exceptional moments of horror. It won the Best Canadian Feature prize at TIFF in 2017 and swept the Jutra Awards (now the Prix Iris) with ten wins, including Best Film and Best Direction.
“Robin Aubert's idiosyncratic and nuanced drama breathes fresh life into the zombie apocalypse subgenre.” - John Leydon, VarietyDirector
Robin Aubert
Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés premiered at TIFF 2005. Aubert also directed the feature films À quelle heure le train pour nulle part, À l’origine d’un cri, and Tuktuq, and starred in De père en flic, the critical hit Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre, Jeune Juliette, and Mon cirque à moi. His latest film, Les Affamés won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 2017 and ten Prix Iris. He is currently completing his next film, Tu ne sauras jamais.
Writer
Robin Aubert
Cast
Charlotte St-Martin, Marc-André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Micheline Lanctôt
Producers
C.S. Roy, Stéphanie Morissette
Genres
Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Original Language
French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
Les Films Seville