MO TE IWI: Carving for the People is an intimate journey into the life of master carver Rangi Hetet. Taken out of school at age 17 by tribal elders to serve his apprenticeship, Rangi is one of the last traditional Māori carvers alive today who learned their craft in an era that straddled the ways of the old tohunga whakairo/master carvers and the modern world. The film reveals the interconnectedness of Māori arts, family and community and celebrates Rangi’s life of carving for the people.
Female Director
On Edge
Luka and his grandmother are reluctantly forced to spend an afternoon together. Coming from different generations and being strangers to each other, they get into numerous fights. However, despite the quarrels and differences, an amazing act of nature brings them together as a family.
JuBin
A junior high school girl who stays at the academy until the latest every night to study. When everyone goes home, they take off their clothes and start dancing.
About desires, anxieties, love and hatred that I couldn’t explain in words when I was a kid.
Holy Rights
Safia, a devout Muslim woman from Bhopal joins a program for training women as Qazis (judges of Sharia court) . We follow the lived experience of Safia Apa and several other women who fight against the instant triple talaq practice – a divorce in classical Islamic law.
Ketchup & Soya Sauce
A documentary revealing the nuances of mixed relationships between first-generation Chinese and Canadian while exploring historical taboos and criminalization of interracial relations in Canada. We follow 5 couples in different age groups as they contend with communication challenges, relationships with extended family, differing food habits, financial conflict, interpretation of intimacy, and how their relationships were shaped by the history of mixed relationships in Canada since the 1930’s.
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
directed by iara lee (Cultures Of Resistance Films) – a film that will examine the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where–three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster— illegal hiking adventurers aka "stalkers", extreme sports afficionados, artists, tour companies have begun to explore the mysterious, ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.