According to Chinese custom, every soul will pay a last visit to their beloved family on the 7th night after they passed away. This is a story about a little boy waiting for the return of his lost beloved cat MaoMao.
Will MaoMao come back for her farewell? or has she forgoten about her owner?
Regina Premiere
I Plowed the Sacred Soil
I Plowed the Sacred Soil is a feature-length documentary about the File Hills Farm Colony Experiment on the Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Descendants of this Saskatchewan Treaty Four reserve talk about their families’ struggle to maintain a farming community under the original treaty agreement of 1874. The story focuses on William Morris Graham, a government-appointed Indian Agent and his 1898 “failed” attempt to solve the “Indian problem.”
istén:’a
A recounting of a visit from my mother in spirit, this film looks to dreamspace as a meeting place, where we can connect with our loved ones, who we are always tethered to.
Two One Two
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, shimmering clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation in this intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and and two headed monsters everywhere.
Olga’s Eyes (Les yeux d’Olga)
Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing humans. Could it be the vampire blues? For her daughter Simone, she’s just being picky! Olga is placed in a care home where she can deal with those “who have one foot in the grave”…
Culture Shock
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.