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- This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
- The story of how Little Sister's, a small bookstore in the heart of Vancouver's gay and lesbian community, has flourished in the face of book seizures and bombings.
- Undying Love tells the love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships.
- Using the reflections and analysis of many renowned intellectuals, this documentary draws a portrait of neoliberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.
- Follows the growing movement across Africa to stop the traditional custom of female circumcision.
- Biography of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, who committed suicide in 1986.
- How to start your own country, you can have one too.
- Vanished in the Mist is a three part series about Newfoundland history that leads viewers on a journey to discover the relics of the island's magnificent past - shipwrecks, abandoned outports, ghost towns, lighthouses and ruins.
- Twelve hundred years ago, the people of Tibet developed a comprehensive medical system. The practitioners understood how the mind can powerfully affect the body. They made medicines from plants and minerals blessed in lengthy rituals. This knowledge was encoded in a series of elaborate paintings known as The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine. The Atlas was hidden away in museum archives, in Siberia, for ages. This documentary surveys the evolving practice of Tibetan medicine in today's Chinese-controlled Tibet. It also as takes a look at the practice in the exile community of Dharamsala, India, the Russian republic of Buryatia and in North America. With its message of natural healing, human connection and right living, Tibetan medicine is all the more precious for having nearly been lost.
- In My Parents' Basement is an intense and revealing one-hour documentary that explores with depth and compassion the stories of three adult children who have returned to their parents' home to live. As we watch each of the subjects and their families grapple with living together, future dreams, past failures and the present struggles of daily life are captured in close-up over a nine-month period of time. BOB: Intense, articulate, angry and depressed, 34 year old Bob first lost his job and then three months later was evicted from his apartment. With nowhere else to go, he moved back with his parents. When the documentary begins, Bob has been living at home for two years. The atmosphere around the house is tense. Bob spends most of his time in his room in the basement away from the rest of his family. NANCY: An attractive, emotionally vulnerable 42 year old, Nancy desperately wants to get her life back on track. We first meet her after she has been kicked out of her boyfriend's apartment and has been living at her parents' home for three months. Nancy has a small pet grooming business, but with very little money coming in, she can't afford a place of her own. In return for free room and board, Nancy makes herself useful by helping to look after her 94 year old grandmother, with whom she shares the basement apartment. DENISE and DAVID: Denise, a beautiful and pampered 26 year old, and her husband, David, also 26, are living with Denise's parents, luxuriating in a basement suite with a Jacuzzi and many other amenities. Even though they both have jobs, they moved back to save for a house. While the young couple has been enjoying the comforts of the family home for the past year, their recent marriage appears to be suffering. David spends his "quality" time with his guy friends while Denise looks to her mother for guidance and friendship. Through conversations, anecdotes, arguments and unpredictable emotional highs and lows, In My Parents' Basement sheds light on the parent/adult child bond and offers insight into the myriad of issues triggered by an adult family living together, once again.
- The stories of five Chilean women from three generations who suffered under Pinochet's military dictatorship and have emerged as heroes under democracy.