Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the...
The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.
An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thought and personal reflection.
Documentary - Part of a trilogy of experimental documentaries done on South East Collegiate students. South East is a boarding school in Winnipeg for Aboriginal youth coming from the North. This short film recalls the esthetic of traditional Japanese cinema. It portrays a young solitary figure...
Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
The traumatic events that occur over the period of one night in a Canadian residential school infirmary. In 1930, 8 year old Elizabeth and her infant cousin are taken from their family and quarantined due to a tuberculosis scare.
A journey by canoe into the city creates a dynamic interconnection between natural and urban spaces, in this evocative short set to a hypnotizing soundtrack by Inuk artist Tanya Taqaq.
Gephyrophobia – meaning fear of bridges – is a film about movement, landscape and the tension between two very distinct identities sharing the Outaouais River as their common border. The Situated Cinema Commission Project for WNDX - Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video art.
In her striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, Caroline Monnet eloquently demonstrates and celebrates the athlete's inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.
Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty of the northern landscape.
This short film introduces us to Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of Manitoba's Opaskwayak Cree Nation. He works as a graphic artist for a living, but he's embarked on a personal spiritual and identity quest on the side. Attempting to transcend the material world, he's apprenticing in...
Six regal Indigenous women relish in an opulent feast. This dazzling and sumptuous fantasia is a vivid celebration of their majesty and power and a signal of new beginnings.
