On Christmas Eve, 1967, two young Indigenous girls are forced to battle the elements, confront their darkest secrets and work together in order to return home to their families after a daring escape from the Mohawk Institute Residential School. This harrowing coming-of-age story was developed with survivors of the Mohawk Institute and is based on their real experiences.
2024
Your Cinema Needs You
Your Cinema Needs You traces the origins of the Monarch Theatre and its unexpected, but eventful evolution in becoming the oldest, surviving, purpose-built cinema remaining in Canada today. Through closures, advances in technology, and a cast of characters who have kept it alive through decades of challenges, Your Cinema Needs You tells the story of "the coolest little single-screen movie house you've never heard of" since it first opened its doors on December 21, 1911.
The 7th Night: MaoMao Revisits (猫猫的头七)
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?
Favourite Only Child (Statu Quo Chouchou)
Fanny keeps quiet : she does not want to be a bother.
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.”
SUGAR
In “SUGAR,” we delve into the ‘Hook-Up Culture’ of the generation-z and the rise of the ‘Sugar Daddy’ concept. Our film is based on real experiences of young women in Berlin. We tell our story in one night as FIADH (19) spends it in the Berlin nightlife, torn between her Sugar Daddy MARCEL (54) and her boyfriend MICHA (20).