Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Arrival, The

    In this satirical short, a close-knit community is rattled by an invasion of the queerest kind. Eyewitness accounts reveal the terror that has befallen the members of an Asian-American church, leaving them fragile and shaken. “The Arrival” is a hilarious take on LGBT issues that cleverly mixes fact and fiction.

  • Genderbusters

    In their fight for the Gender Evolution Revolution, the Genderbusters drive around resolving the gender-binary dilemmas of folks all over San Francisco. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival 2011.

  • Bol 1 (the Cyclist)

    A cyclist meets a stranger in the market. “Bol 1 (the Cyclist)” is the first of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses still photographs to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • Even if my hands were full of truths

    “Even if my hands were full of truths” is the third part of a series by the artist about the legacy of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This component is a mirror that contemplates how memory might or might not become history, using excerpts from now-declassified CIA correspondence and a photo-montage taken at the Museum of Human Rights and Memory in Santiago. Rotterdam International Film Festival, DINAMO: True/False, 2019

  • Bol 2 (the Rape)

    A boy waits for his mother to return home. “Bol 2 (the Rape)” is the second of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses puppetry to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • Bol 3 (the Mask)

    A man wakes up to find that his face is being stolen by shadows. “Bol 3 (the Mask)” is the final of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses folk dance to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • Olympia Story

    From the near silence and invisibility of late motherhood, a resolute woman attempts to help a young stranger who also finds herself at the edge of existence.

  • where she stood in the first place.

    Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre’s haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.

  • ada

    An observational video portrait of an Inuk elder, patiently knitting. A study of the passage of time. FAVA Award for Outstanding Documentary, 2012

  • Christ Church – Saint James

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church – Saint James, a historic black church in Toronto’s Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky. Music by John Butcher.