From Halifax to Vancouver, Canadian feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from violence towards women to how to insert a diaphragm.
Nominee
Won’t Be Around
Won't Be Around is the official music video for the song written and performed by singer- songwriter Terry Blade. At its core, the song is about meaning the words we say, and acting on the words we use. It is not enough to just tell someone we won't be around for them if they treat us poorly. We have to be
completely and totally absent. The song and video draw from the rural early American roots music of first half 20th century–lifeblood America's musical cultural heritage.
EXILE
An immigrant's last attempt to restore childhood innocence on strange lands.
Decoupling脱钩
A "Chinese" father reflects on the changing relationship of China and US during his trip to Beijing to retrieve his 3-year-old "American" daughter who has been stranded because of the recent “decoupling” of the two countries. Born in China and living in the American Midwest, filmmaker Yinan Wang attempts to unpack his own experience of how a transnational migrant family deals with the distress caused by identity, nationalism, and geopolitics.
Look At Me
A fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely bisexual actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse.
Maifeld
In post-war Germany, Hannelore meets Marina, a young Italian. They develop a friendship for which the conservative townspeople, and above all their husbands, have little understanding. A friendship of symbolic character, based on the deep desire of two women for self-determination and mutual support and which has to fend off the constant influence of the other people's motives.