Fighting to fit in, Joey ends up defacing artwork that her own cousin had created in the city. How was she to know? She doesn’t know all of her Mom’s relatives. Sent off to Culture Camp to face the consequences on her mom's home settlement, the act of rebellion isn’t so cool as Joey struggles to fit in. What’s worse, the artist’s sister Jay is on the hunt for whoever dishonoured their family and community.
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Minus Plus Multiply
With containers as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist's self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop-motion, and sound. By applying pottery and clay, it reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity.
Bird Drone
A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
Silent Cries
Navalik Tologanak, journalist and emerging filmmaker shares her experience as a residential school survivor. Silent Cries (Kiayunik Tuhanak) documents the private meeting between Pope Francis and Inuit survivors on their land in July 2022. As a respected Elder, Navalik weaves her personal story into the narrative to bring an intimate perspective to a historic event and what followed.
Family
'Family' is an intimate and emotional film depicting the family dynamics of Regina's Canada geese population, revealing the human-like attributes of commitment, fear, courage, pride and happiness.
People of the Sea
On the Magdalen Islands, during the short lobster season, fishermen and plant workers ensure the economic prosperity of an entire people. In the reality of a global market driven by the United States, the fragility of the fishing industry is palpable, as is the future of seafaring and island culture.