Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Hokees

    “Hokees” is about Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means “soul” or “spirit.” Writer: Aaron Martin | Producer: Brent Barclay | Editor: Mark Baxter Cinematographer: Kim Derko | Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, John Mighton and Linda Gizirian Awards: Gold Prize for Experimental Drama, Houston Film Festival, 2000; Best Short Film, AFFMA Film Festival, 2001

  • Find Your Holy Self: Scenes from an Unfinished Film

  • Elect the Dead

    A music video for Elect the Dead by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian.

  • Canicule (Summer Day)

    A hot day in a working-class neighbourhood. There’s trouble in the air as young and old take to the streets. “Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door” – Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, 1883 Selected Screenings: Les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, 2011; L’Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, 2011

  • A Dream

    The story of meeting your soul mate in a dream and waking up to find your soul mate in reality.

  • Push On

    Gillian is on the road to spread her mother’s ashes. Sadie is hitchhiking on the road to anywhere. In “Push On” these two strangers find their loneliness interrupted when they meet on the open road.

  • Change

    Jamie is an African-American teenager grappling with his sexual identity on the night Barrack Obama is elected president and Proposition 8 – the voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage – is passed. When one of his gang initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate, Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it, but when things don’t go the way he predicted, he is forced to face his fears head on. Winner Audience Award, Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival (Toronto)

  • Away

    Fragmented memories are recaptured on Super 8 film when Diego visits New York City for the first time, intent upon coming to terms with the love he lost years earlier.

  • Drowning in Flames

    Torossian’s latest film marks a leap forward, and that’s saying a lot for a filmmaker who’s been releasing brilliant splashes of handmade abstraction into the world for the past two years. “Drowning in Flames” uses an astounding palette of image processing techniques to address the artistic process in both subject and form.

  • Seeking Single White Male

    Become absorbed in this study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.