Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Dead Body

    Hassan, a funeral poet, is going through writer’s block. Sitting at his desk in a small cramped room with his girlfriend lying on a mattress he leaves for some “air” – instead he drifts and deviates into much more, including an endless procession of chewing gum, a rotund Hungarian “delivery man” and a sexy Russian woman. Hassan’s journey has a metaphysical aspect to it and life in this surreal world is focused on the strange work, anxiety and humour that hovers over death.

  • Rozsa Utca and Rozsa Utca 2

    A bird’s-eye view of this Budapest street, complete with a small grocer, a pastry shop, and colourful characters on a car arguing over a green screwdriver.

  • Fountain

    A woman journeys through Istanbul streets and a dense sea of markets, people and sounds.

  • Past Perfect

    “Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours of “Jewish” Poland, a grandmother’s recollection of life in America during War II, and memoir-like “last moments” of a great aunt believed to have died in Treblinka. Shot almost entirely in contemporary Poland, “Past Perfect” lyrically portrays the relentless yet ultimately futile attempt to resuscitate a history literally gone up in smoke. “It is not entirely out of line to call ‘Past Perfect’- filmmaker Cynthia Madansky’s meditation on Jewish history, notably the Shoah – spirited and darkly amusing. After all, Madansky’s…

  • Urda/Bone

    Intoxication, stillness and desire unfold from a train in Frankfurt to a room in Vienna. A woman (Urda) and a man (Bone) on separate travels meet. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens. Something that belongs to neither one nor the other, but is a third creation. Somewhere between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is Urda/Bone. Music by Sparklehorse. Produced with the support of the National Film Board of Canada (FAP) and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC).

  • Soul Circus

    Dylan Griffin ventures into a world of chaos and beauty when he takes a job on the production crew of the world’s only African-American circus. Armed with a Super 8 camera, he documents the last day of a cross-USA tour as ringmaster Casual Cal talks about life with the Soul Circus.

  • Pepe

    “Pepe” shows us the transformation of animal to food. But the animal resists! It does not submit to the power of the knife, the spice and the heat. Who walks out victorious, the cook or the cooked?

  • Through Your Eyes

    “Through Your Eyes” tells the story of Maria, a young Latin-American woman whose parents disappeared under the Argentinian military dictatorship when she was a child. Risking it all to uncover the mystery of their disappearance, Maria delves into her memories and history – a history which struggles to stay alive in a society which attempts to silence it. In Spanish with English sub-titles.

  • She was so young back then

    A rephotographed excerpt from “Fast Times at Ridgemount High” is reconstituted as seedy pornography.

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.