I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story

Savage

On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.

House

A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.

Indian Horse

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.

The Call

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

A Common Experience

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan.

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

ANG MERKADO

In a rural Philippine market, a street dog scavenges for scraps while a mother and son, fleeing Canada, search for a fresh start. All are torn apart by their own kind, one for stolen meat, the others for a debt that can never be paid.

Cold Journey

In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.

Sound of Falling

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.

In the Beginning was Water and Sky

A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends the horrors of fantasy and the real life historical events of colonization and Indian Boarding Schools in the United States. A Native American girl in the 1700s and a Native American boy in the 1960s struggle to find their way back to a home that may be lost forever.

Because We Are Too Many

A single mother is forced to confront her dark past, while raising her young Autistic son. Shot and Set in Glasgow during the pandemic. The director herself and her son play the lead roles.

Rainpour

Aiyra left her small hometown to work in the big city. Conceição, her mother, left many years ago, but she returned.

Crust

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

Jangan Sampai Lepas!

In the twilight of her years, an elderly mother plots to escape from her home, cleverly trying to outwit a hired housemaid her child placed there to keep her from leaving.

Christmas at Moose Factory

A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.

Mandarins

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

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I Watched Her Grow

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.

Splinter

A motorcycle-riding, pill-popping school psychologist must come to terms with her own trauma in order to help a seven-year-old girl exhibiting mysterious behaviors.