"…Puts a human face on the housing crisis…" One Movie Our View Toronto "…Gut-wrenching portrayal of a city on the brink…" Vancouver Magazine "Totally F#%king Urgent Viewing." Georgia Straight
It’s tough being a kid. Especially when you’re a wookiee with two left feet and a changing voice. But not so long ago, in a city not too far away, kids from all walks of life struggled to audition, rehearse and perform their own live musical parody of Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire…
A single mother risks everything to pave a new road. Kelly Mason’s poetic memoir, self-shot over a decade, documents hers' and her children’s compassionate separation from their father to pave a new road, not only for the well-being of the broken family but for the planet itself.
The Healing Power of Mantras Mantras are sacred vibratory words or phrases that connect us with elemental and divine energies. Mantra, which is translated as a tool to transcend the mind, helps us to lift ourselves out of our conditioned mental responses to our environment and open more fully to spiritual…
A story about love and alternative ways of living in London Waterways. Lucie and Filip met while living on different boats along the London canals, they fell in love and now live together on their cosy home, a narrow boat called Isla. Following Lucie and Filip on their day to day life on a narrow…
Philosopher, Marxist, professor, murderer. More than a quarter century after his death, Louis Althusser, one of the most influential leftist thinkers of the 20th century, remains an enigmatic figure: a man whose work rejuvenated Marxist theory through books such as For Marx and Reading Capital, a Communist…
From the history of madness, to sexuality and pleasure in classical antiquity, to the law and penal institutions, the breadth of Michel Foucault's thought was astonishing. One of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, Foucault bridged the roles of intellectual and activist, attaining…
Qual'è il futuro del fiume più lungo d'Italia? Un giornalista e un filmaker intraprendono un viaggio in bicicletta lungo il fiume Po, mossi dal desiderio di capire quanto il cambiamento climatico e l'intervento dell'uomo stiano inficiando sulle sue acque. Ne emerge un…
CLOSER TO GOD – ein Film über Musik, Spiritualität und Kultur in Pakistan Der Film taucht ein in den spirituellen Alltag des Mystikers Gogha Sain und des Meistersängers Ustad Saami. Der Meistersänger widmet sein Wirken ganz der Musik, einem uralten Erbe des ungeteilten Subkontinents,…
Rocky meets The Queen's Gambit as brain and brawn are put to the test. Follow a self-defeating promoter from London and a self-promoting artist from Berlin as they fight for control of professional chessboxing, a sport which taxes mind and body through alternating rounds of chess and boxing.…
Savannah cherche sa place. Elle est une fille de la classe ouvrière qui veut réinventer la politique. De Nuit Debout à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Savannah doute, rêve, lutte et apprend. Elle se cherche un avenir.
Pioneering video documentary of a home birth. Shot in the Yucatan, Mexico, where a child is delivered Mayan style, in a hammock, by a Mayan midwife. Graphic detail of the childbirth. Produced in 1972 as part of a visit to Mexico as chronicled in the book, "On the Bus: Truckin' Through Mexico…
