Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Tango Para Dos

    A sexy Latino aerobics instructor meets his match when one of his students struts her fabulous stuff, resulting in a battle for the attention of a handsome Hunk who watches their dance-off while lifting weights.

  • Soda Pop

    Jamie, a young man living in a rural town, becomes fascinated by Norberto, a Spanish exchange student. A coming-of -age story set in a small town, imbued with the hazy summer look and nostalgic feel of bittersweet memory.

  • Beso Nocturno

    Dark and energetic, “BESO NOCTURNO” (Night Kiss) involves a young man who witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a dying old man, only to suffer a tragic fate.

  • Deutschland

    “Bowen returns with a multi-screen fairytale about a Haunted Girl and her Cousin. ‘Deutschland’, like her previous ‘sadomasochism,’ strains cinema through language, asking that we read along with a woman recalling her German roots while a four-play of home movies flicker by underneath her grave. The English text in the present is both summary and benediction (‘The war is over’), understanding that memory turns the people of our lives into characters, and all the characters are us.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2000

  • Promised Land

    “Promised Land” is an experimental documentary film that mixes the personal and the political. It follows the story of my family in Peru, from the middle of the last century through to the present day. It is told from a personal point of view and also in relation to the political developments taking place throughout the Latin American continent. This film waves together these various viewpoints, forming a unique perspective on memory, history and identity. (MA)

  • Portrait of a Street: The Soul and Spirit of College

    Eight Canadians vividly recall their childhood and youth growing up in Toronto’s Jewish, Italian and black communities during the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. They captivate us with engaging and poignant stories on the immigrant experience, growing up poor and ethnic in the city, enduring discrimination, and keeping the spirit alive with music, friends and family. Their reminiscences on the joy and hardships of growing up in Toronto’s Little Italy paint a portrait of a time, a place and a generation. Featuring Johnny Lombardi, the Sherman Brothers, Sam (The Record man) Sniderman, Rose Grieco, Fanny Brass and Stanley G. Grizzle.

  • Divas: Love Me Forever (Festival Version)

    “Divas: Love Me Forever” is a comic-serious documentary about female impersonation, desire, fantasy, self-acceptance and the search for love. Edimburgo Cabrera, the Cuban-Canadian director and videographer (Latin Queens), follows six black female impersonators through Toronto’s vibrant gay club scene as they search for home, family, and love. The life stories of these six divas become a prism illuminating gay life in the Caribbean and North America from the 1970s to the present. A diva is a female impersonator who stands out amongst her peers because of her superior performance talents, devoted public following, and public advocacy on behalf of her…

  • No You Cyant Touch It!

    Shot in black-and-white and sepia tones, “No You Cyant Touch It!” incorporates an understanding of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as it deals with Black women’s favourite obsession – hair – from an interesting perspective. The film’s creatrix and subject examines the link between her locks, her Black, queer identity, and other people’s understanding/assumptions of who she is and where she “belongs.” The stark tones and political subject matter are mediated by Rhizome Syndrigast Coelacanth Flourishing’s lyrical poetics.

  • Divas: Love Me Forever (Broadcast Version)

    “Divas: Love Me Forever” is a 48-minute comic-serious documentary about female impersonation, desire, fantasy, self-acceptance and the search for love. Edimburgo Cabrera, the Cuban-Canadian director and videographer (Latin Queens), follows six black female impersonators through Toronto’s vibrant gay club scene as they search for home, family, and love. The life stories of these six divas become a prism illuminating gay life in the Caribbean and North America from the 1970s to the present. A diva is a female impersonator who stands out amongst her peers because of her superior performance talents, devoted public following and public advocacy on behalf of…

  • In Search of Joy

    A Celebration of the Human Spirit. This half-hour documentary takes the viewer on a journey into the lives of individuals of diverse ages, cultures, and occupations who offer their perspectives and experiences of joy. In the midst of their search, both filmmakers suffer within one month the sudden death of both their fathers. They unintentionally become part of the film as they discover through their loss that one cannot experience true joy without responding honestly to pain. “In Search of Joy” is an interweaving of interviews, evocative images, and original music of several traditions, embracing a broad range of the…