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- A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
- An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.
- In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
- John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, and other legends unite for the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival music festival.
- A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
- Cree code talker Aline Spears survives her traumatic past in Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight against systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.
- Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
- Psychological drama told through the eyes of matriarch Aline Spears, who survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational struggle in the face of systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.
- A teenager is magically transported to China and learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior.
- Six very different teenagers try to unravel the mystery behind a long line of clues and puzzles set out by a mysterious person.
- A romantic comedy about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more "experience".
- A young man with cystic fibrosis, along with the sister of a fallen friend, goes in search of a legendary healing shrine in Mexico.
- Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.
- In the summer before she heads off to college, 17-year-old Tanya starts up a relationship with an older family friend who, unbeknownst to her, had an affair with her mother, Laura, a decade earlier. What Comes Next is an intergenerational coming of age story that follows seventeen-year-old Tanya and her mother Laura as they each navigate the liminal space between action and consequence over the course of a single summer. When Laura's father passes away, Grant, an old friend of her deceased brother that she once had an affair with, returns to town to help with the arrangements. His presence serves as a reminder of the past and forces Laura to accept the truth that her marriage has run its course. While Grant is in town, Tanya takes an interest in him and they start up a relationship as she impatiently waits for her real life to begin when she heads off to university in the fall. Before telling their kids, Laura and her husband Andrew decide to take them on one last normal family vacation. On that trip, Tanya's younger sister is assaulted by their brother's friend which sets off a wave of repercussions that ultimately touch every member of the family. Following the vacation, Tanya and Grant's relationship intensifies, causing a rift in Tanya's relationship with her longtime girlfriend and fellow relationship anarchist Astrid. Laura and Andrew move forward with their divorce. But an unexpected visit from a real estate agent pushes Laura towards Grant leading to secrets being revealed, and a transformation of Laura and Tanya's mother-daughter relationship.
- Mike Maquinna returns to his home town of Gold River on Vancouver Island to attend the funeral of his father, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations Chief Ambrose Maquinna. With a troubled past including alcoholism, Mike does not intend on staying to claim his rightful place as Chief, but intends on returning to his current life as a logger in Bella Coola. Meanwhile, a lone Orca whale - dubbed Luna by western media - has been spotted in the area, the whale unusually socialized to boats and humans. Luna, suspected to be a missing juvenile from a pod now living south of the area in Puget Sound, becomes a public sensation, both as a spectacle and a human interest story. The Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO) administration, led by Ted Jeffries, plans on reuniting Luna with his pod, which means capturing the young Orca. This move by DFO does not sit well with Mike and the band, who see the spirit of Ambrose inhabited within Luna. They feel it best for Luna to decide where he chooses to live. This issue - in combination with caring for a troubled band youth, Adam Ross - reintegrates Mike into his band life. The band does have an ally in local DFO officer Jill Mackay, who - behind the scenes - is continually butting heads with her boss, Jeffries, the public face of the DFO.
- An innovative 'magic realist' documentary set in Iraq. Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just 700 people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras. They make little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice. Despite the production being stopped twice by the Iraqi secret police, The First Movie is about wonder and the power of the imagination.
- Garnet, 8 years old, has a father who has difficulty showing him love, since Garnet's mother died during his birth. Only getting affection by his 16 year old sister Flower, the situation changes when she leaves when she gets pregnant.
- This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
- Retelling the history of British Columbia from a diverse and inclusive perspective - Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, Punjabi, Black, and European stories are woven together for an astute look at the complicated histories that shaped BC.
- Dr. Magnusson is a brilliant geneticist racing to isolate a cancer-causing gene. All that's standing in her way is competition from a well funded French lab, pressure from a multinational pharmaceutical company, her ticking biological clock, a risky office romance, and the fear that she might carry the same Huntington's gene that prematurely ended her mother's life. Based on the award winning play by Electric Company Theatre, THE SCORE explores human elements and revolutionary implications of the rapidly advancing world of genetics and uses humour, music and dance to transform scientific ideas into universal themes of identity, freedom and creation.
- Narrated by former driver and motorsports enthusiast Jason Priestley, Girl Racers is a documentary series that charts the course of North America's leading female race car drivers, Danica Patrick, Milka Duno, Melanie Paterson amongst others, over the course of the 2004 racing season. Going behind-the-scenes in one of the most highly watched sports on North American television today, we capture for the first time the unique world of female race car drivers, as they navigate one of the few sports where women compete directly with men. Girl Racers is a story of hopes and dreams, heartbreak and victory and despite their differences, the defining characteristics that bind these women is the conviction that they were born to race.
- Artist and designer Yolanda Sonnabend resides in decaying splendor in the last un-renovated house in a posh suburb of London. Surrounded by fifty years of painting, sculpture, frames, fabric, books, the archeologia and the ephemera of her frenzied imagination, Yolanda says "I'm a prisoner of rubbish". Meanwhile, her older brother has moved in with his grand piano. The esteemed New York AIDS physician, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, has returned reluctantly to a country he has little affection for, a house he hates and a sister with whom he feels he has nothing in common. Into this heady mix, filmmaker Thomas Burstyn arrives to make a documentary about Yolanda and Joseph, his aunt and uncle. But as Thomas discovers, the camera does not always tell the truth. He finds himself confronted with his own difficult past. After a lifetime of misunderstanding, must he reconcile with his own estranged brother?
- Reservation Soldiers is a one-hour documentary that takes a closer look at the complex relationship between the Canadian Forces and aboriginal youth. The military have pushed their recruitment drive into high gear, and native youth represent the perfect untapped resource. Why are these teens so keen to join up? Is a career in the military the only way out? Is it really the best option for both?
- As we approach a technological singularity that threatens to replace flesh and blood beings with digital versions of themselves, the question must be asked: Can we lose embodied experience and still think of ourselves as human? Future Futures explores this idea through the nexus of (digital) cinema and the physically rigorous choreography of Company 605.
- "Eco-Pirate" tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson as he repeatedly flouts the law, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers: the illegal poachers of the world. Using verité sequences shot aboard his ship as a framing device, the documentary examines Watson's personal history as an activist through archival footage and interviews, while revealing the impact of this relentless pursuit on his personal life. From the genesis of Greenpeace to sinking a pirate whaling ship off Portugal, and from clashes with fisherman in the Galapagos to Watson's recent headline-grabbing battles with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the film chronicles the extraordinary life of the most controversial figure in the environmental movement; the heroics, the ego, the urgency of the world's original eco-pirate.
- 5:00 am practices. Tutors. Weight training. Injuries. Dedication to a single cause since the time they could walk. All for a career that can peak at age fifteen. For the three teenage girls whose lives are chronicled in the feature length documentary Ice Girls, this is the reality behind "the most glamorous sport in the world" - international women's figure skating. Ice Girls is the story of three elite young figure skaters - the UK's Jennifer Holmes and Vikki Hodges and Canada's Keyla Ohs - as they pursue their dreams of one day picking roses off the ice and ascending the Olympic podium. Shot over three years, Ice Girls provides a behind-the-scenes look at these girls' lives and their dedication to a sport that demands tremendous physical power and psychological strength. In a world where the cost of competing can eat up a family's savings, winning is a matter of national pride, and anything less than perfect performance doesn't make the grade, Ice Girls celebrates the dedication and courage of three young women as they pursue their dreams of figure skating stardom.
- Notorious bad-boy painter Attila Richards Lukacs got the lyrics to Leonard Cohen's famous song backwards when he moved from Berlin to take over Manhattan. But if conquering New York was on his agenda, what he finds instead is a harrowing journey through hell. His plans to rule the world's toughest art scene take a back seat to an artistic mid-life crisis and a drug addiction. His world upside down, will Attila's gift for painting be strong enough to pull him from the brink of disaster? Drawing Out The Demons unflinchingly brings the audience to one mans' hazardous crossroad of destiny, where Attila is sure to meet either greatness, or death.
- A beautiful aerial fabric and dance performance on relationships.
- Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometres of rugged Arctic tundra.
- When James hears that his dad is close to dying, he travels home to visit and hopefully reconcile with his affectionless father. His single-minded quest to heal his emotional wounds blinds James to his own son's needs.
- Mary, recovering from a devastating breakup, is persuaded by her close friend Nettie to have a long overdue night out on the town. As the evening odyssey begins, Mary discovers that she has the power to see into the future of her relationships with each man that she encounters. When events take a turn for the worse, Mary must confront her darkest fears before she can regain control of herself.
- Pastor George Feenstra of Grace United Memorial Church, which is located in a working class residential neighborhood of Vancouver, decides to open the church doors continually during daylight hours so that it can be available as a sanctuary for those who need it whenever they need it. When he makes this decision, he is unaware of who will take advantage of this new service. Those considered on the lower spectrum of society - drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes and pimps - are the primary users. Regardless, the pastor considers this an essential service to integrate those in what are considered the lower classes back into mainstream society. The pastor's policy does not sit well with many of the residents of the neighborhood, who sees the pastor more of an enabler.
- In this visually dynamic performance piece, the Borealis String Quartet perform the celebrated final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 59 No 3 at the world renowned Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver, Canada.
- Issues surrounding the incorporation of what is now known as the Province of British Columbia in 1871 is presented. It is posited that the Fraser Canyon War of 1858 is the most influential factor leading to the creation of the province, the war surrounding largely American miners who came north for the gold rush fighting against the indigenous population, and the subsequent attention that it brought to the British authorities for this outpost which up to that point in time had been largely ignored until what looked to be the American desire to annex it because of the gold. The origins of the name "British Columbia", the reason behind the merging of what were the separate British colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, both largely support for the fur trade, to form the province, and the reason for choosing what was then Fort Victoria as the capital are discussed. Further discussions surround the laying of the framework for various levels of government to assimilate into western and/or quash the indigenous culture, such later measures as the creation of the residential school system and the enactment of the Indian Act, which in its original form banned what most indigenous peoples see as the center of their culture, namely the potlatch.
- British Columbia has historically been a region of resource based industries, beginning with coal mining, the salmon fishery and associated canning, which has required a manual labor force, albeit one that benefited from knowing the local situation, which many of the managers and administrators, some proverbial robber barons, had no idea. This situation has led to a history of a strong labor movement and associated activism. These industries also led to immigration largely by visible non-Europeans to support these industries. While Chinese immigration is well known, albeit not associated to the coal mining in central Vancouver Island as is the case, as is the Japanese immigration associated to the salmon fishery, the black immigration from the United States is less well known, that situation slightly different in that it was largely to escape the racial oppression faced south of the border. Labor and the labor movement in association to WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, and the post-war suburbanization and the quest for a society-wide comfortable life is presented, with an emphasis on the half of the population not associated with much of this work, namely the female population.
- 202158m7.6 (5)TV EpisodeThe indigenous population has inhabited what is today called British Columbia for a few thousand years. It has only been the last two and half centuries that other ethnic groups began migrating to the area for whatever reason, most in search of a better life than from where they came. When the British starting migrating there in the mid-nineteenth century, there was already a significant Chinese population in addition to the existing indigenous population. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR), which was largely built on the backs and lives (in that many did not survive the dangerous work) of the Chinese, opened up British Columbia to migration from the rest of Canada, which meant primarily white people of British ancestry. The established geopolitical system being British allowed for the enactment of policies and legislation which not only discriminated against the existing indigenous and Chinese populations, but made it difficult for people of color in general to migrate to what was now British Columbia - not only the Chinese (although much legislation was directed specifically at limiting Chinese migration), but other east Asians, primarily Japanese, south Asians, and to a lesser extent blacks migrating from the United States. Stories of the Japanese internment during WWII, the persecution of the Doukhobors, an already globally marginalized ethnic group, in the 1940s, and American contentious objectors - also referred to as draft dodgers - of the 1960s and 1970s are also told as part of the migration aspect of British Columbia's history.
- British Columbia is largely renowned for its nature: in the natural beauty of such, the inherent desirability of that beauty, and the economic value of what can be extracted from it for global markets. Those natural resource sectors have largely been the trifecta of forestry - on which the province largely thrived economically - mining and fishing, centered largely on salmon, but which started with the fur trade, most specifically the harvesting of sea otter pelts, and whaling. The initial belief in any of this resource extraction has led to a near collapse of many of the resources themselves, leading to a strong environmental activism having emerged in the province, with Vancouver-based Greenpeace being one of the first globally known environmental activism organizations. Such groups and individuals have largely espoused the opposite end of the spectrum in protection at all cost. In the middle has been the indigenous population, who have historically worked on their traditional principles of having a symbiotic relationship with nature, with certain creatures, such as whales and salmon, having a special meaning culturally. While the indigenous population has largely been caught in the middle, they have also been proverbially manhandled by various levels of government, as the indigenous peoples have strove and still strive for self-determination and management of the resources on what is considered by many, indigenous or not, on land stolen from them. Beyond the aforementioned resources, another discussed in detail is the hydroelectric industry which in its development, in an effort to satisfy the new want for a affluent society in general in the 1950s and 1960s, ended up displacing many indigenous nations especially in northern British Columbia whose ancestral lands, on which they were tied, were flooded in the process in the name of development.
- Cree Aline Spears and her siblings are taken from their family.