Seventeen-year-old Xiaokui has spent her entire life in a small seaside town. A top student with a quiet passion for girl idol groups, she is well known throughout the neighborhood — as is her closest friend, Qiangwei, a brilliant math prodigy who recently transferred back from the city.
At seventeen, Xiaokui’s world is one without romance, without a cellphone — just geography magazines and a giant television screen. In the stillness of her routine life, an unexpected “aurora” quietly descends u
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Raised by the Canoe
The Terry Lee Canoe Club from Sts'ailes First Nation began as a family-based crew, its history rich with culture and story. Today, a powerful resurgence is underway as the next generation carries the tradition forward. Cathrine and Devin Paul now guide the club, supported by knowledge keepers. Devin builds canoes, recently adding strip canoe building taught by Cathrine's father, a seventh-generation Sḵwx̱wú7mesh carver. From one generation to the next, the paddle never left our hands.
Legacy of a Butterfly
A portrait of Dr. Diana Monea, one of Alberta’s longest-practicing female optometrist, whose journey from a Saskatchewan farm to fashion-forward doctor, mentor, and philanthropist reveals a life of resilience, reinvention, and unapologetic self-expression.
After Closing
On a cold winter night, 18-year-old Chloé, the cashier at her family's convenience store, plans a fake robbery with her girlfriend Rosalie to steal the money from the store's safe. The late-night arrival of her uncle Marc, 47, whom she hasn't seen in two years, throws their plans into disarray. Marc is broke. He's penniless and ready to do anything to get his brother, David, the store's owner, to come and demand money.
The Pichenotte
When Stéphane, a death agent overwhelmed by grief, meets Huguette, a senior woman challenging fate, their connection upends his mission. Friendship arises in the very place where life was supposed to end.
The Blueberry Blues
In Lac-Saint-Jean, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. The Blueberry Blues celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from the ashes of a forest fire, they learn the power of resilience.