Genres: documentary

  • Songs of Youth

    A photograph from the past triggers filmmaker Konstatnin Selezen’s journey into the maze of half-forgotten memories, and prompts him to leave for his ex-homeland in search of things past. The voyage takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally meets Kostia, a victim of the post-perestroika chaos in the present-day Ukraine, who supports his blind wife and two children ( who he hopes will become famous movie stars) on small change that he earns by playing on city squares. “Songs of Youth” takes us onto Kostia’s routes to earning his daily bread, from his humble home in the village somewhat ironically…

  • Bus Station Film

    An affectionate and eclectic view of the relationship between the camera-eye and the Toronto bus station. Who are these people who move like shadows on a wall; move in, move out, pass through or wait around; sometimes all day, sometimes all winter? How does the camera see; how do we look at things or listen to things when silver and glass and electricity guide our vision and filter our hearing? This film is a poem dedicated to the camera and more importantly to the different Bus Station People you can see any day or any minute.

  • Blissfully Ignorant

    An incredibly angry and political film about the state of the world.

  • Thirst

    “Tammy Ballaban wants to leave her mark, to be remembered, to stay safe. So she stops eating. ‘Thirst’ is an unconventional and beautifully structured meditation about eating disorders, hunger and desire, our need for identity, and control. A sumptuous collage of image and sound reflects the amorphous dialectic between conscious and unconscious drives.” – Lynne Fernie Selected screenings: Documentary Channel (Ontario), broadcast, 2006; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2002; Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, 2002; Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2002.

  • Cab 16

    A direct cinema account of public service award-winner Elmer Larter, a taxi driver who devotes himself to the transportation of crippled and deaf children in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

  • Silent Song

    “Silent Song” brings new life to a remarkable piece of 1945 footage found by chance in an archive. “Silent Song” completes a deeply personal trilogy on family history and Holocaust memory. The first two films of the trilogy, “Zyklon Portrait” (13min. 1999) and “The Walnut Tree” (11min. 2000) have been seen in 20 countries around the globe, garnering numerous awards. In the pandemonium of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Dachau, a U.S. army cameraman filmed a young boy playing the accordian. This strangely poetic moment offers an unusual contrast to the all-too-familiar WWII liberation images of emaciated prisoners in…

  • Sweet Boy

    “Sweet Boy” reveals an imaginative lesbian world where erotic fantasies bring sexual healing. Filmmaker Karen Everett’s thoughtful, stylized and highly personal memoir focuses on the psychological and spiritual dynamics of Mommy/Boy role-play in dyke relationships. Sexy ageplay with a maternal femme catalyzes a wild, energetic boy in Everett’s psyche. Beautifully shot, this compelling Jungian autobiography dramatizes the filmmaker’s inner struggle, sexual adventures and lesson in mothering herself.

  • Toronto Gay Pride

    A tongue-in-cheek look at Toronto’s annual Gay Pride March and the city of Toronto’s gay tourism promotion.

  • Floting of Mike, The

    The year is 1986, the camcorder has just been invented, and the documentary will never be the same! Filmmaker Brian Stockton follows eccentric Regina broadcaster Mike Benny as he spends his last days in Regina before moving to BC. The camera is traded back and forth between the filmmaker and the subject, bringing a new, fresh, casual approach to the documentary form.

  • Divas

    The 17-minute short about the lives of black female impersonators in Toronto that became the 81-minute feature “Divas: Love Me Forever.”