¨ Like a spark ¨ follows Mathis, a fourteen-year-old boy who moves in with his estranged grandmother after his mother’s death. When he tries on his mother’s chemotherapy wig, grief becomes a tender passage toward self-expression, transformation, and connection.
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Erroll Kinistino: Inspiration and Activism in the Arts
A short documentary covering the long and storied career of Erroll Kinistino. Erroll recounts his journey from the lonesome prairie on of the Ochapowace Nation in Saskatchewan to the world of theatre, music and the arts. A journey across turtle island and mother earth with roots in activism and an artistic upbringing that led him into the world of entertainment and inspiration.
I Believe in Flying
Condemned to silence on an isolated farm under her husband’s control, a woman sees the cage that imprisons her own soul reflected in the pens of the animals. An unexpected act of cruelty from her husband awakens a suppressed darkness within her, and she is no longer alone. The dinner table, set in the darkness of night, becomes the stage for a man’s crumbling power and the silent alliance of two women.
EMERGENCY
On a cold, quiet night in a nearly deserted emergency room, two children form an unexpected connection. As their innocent conversation unfolds, shadows of a troubling secret emerge beneath the boy’s guarded silence.
In the fragile space between childhood curiosity and hidden suffering, a tender act of compassion emerges…one that could change everything.
Materia
Materia explores stones and minerals in my surroundings with a close-up and tactile approach.
Tales of Minho
An emigrant musician can’t recall the stories of his birthplace. A mother keeps the restaurant open, hoping her son returns. A cowboy wonders what’ll become of his cows. A widow cares for a chapel no one visits. And the oldest woman remembers everything—especially that—Estantegas. Under the burning sun, a strange figure roams the empty landscape of Portugal’s Minho with a boom pole, meeting the remaining inhabitants and capturing their memories on a sound recorder. An ethnographic ghost document