Genres: narrative

  • Soldier Boy, The

    “The Soldier Boy” explores the cross-cultural dynamic between Greece and Canada through themes of Greek mythology and codes of sexuality. It premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival and was critically acclaimed as an “evocative” and “amusing” satire.

  • Bed and Sofa

    A remake of Abram Room’s 1927 silent Russian feature, “Bed and Sofa”. Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room’s version was suppressed for its radical treatment of sexual freedom, women’s rights, and abortion. Armatage’s version shifts the emphasis to the woman’s point of view and stylizes the narrative. A comedy.

  • Bedtime Story

    A timeless tale with a twist. Mother puts her child to bed, a witch and an artist make a deal and the moral of the story is … up to you. An exploration of stop-motion animation and composition combining human, wooden and feline actors.

  • Surviving Memory

    “Surviving Memory” is a film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. It is a narrative intercut with documentary fragments of political actions, which connect the various characters to event through collective memory. Through autobiographical spoken texts, the narrator relays fragments of a relationship between two Jewish women. The fragmented texts speak of the relation between these women as well as recounting various past and contemporary historical events of fascist and neo-Nazi activity (and resistance), Lesbian/Gay rights, Pro-Choice and AIDS demonstrations. While these instances tell a personal/political story about loss, they are also meant to elucidate the…

  • Beshert

    “Beshert” is a love story based on the Kabalah. The movie tells of a young man’s search for his real soulmate. “Beshert” is a universal tale that applies to every person in this world.

  • Between Friends

    Jen Roberts, a young photographer in her mid-twenties, has many friends, a partner she cares about, and a flourishing career. Upon discovering she is HIV positive her world turns upside down. The film addresses the issue of women and AIDS and helps to dispell the myth that AIDS is an exclusively gay disease. The story is open-ended as the central character is brought to a point of decision, leaving viewers primed to question their choice(s) in similar circumstances.

  • Thick Lips Thin Lips

    A musical experimental film about racist and homophobic violence.

  • Things in Between

    “Things in Between” is a story about a wife, her husband, and his lover. The film invites viewers to share the self-discovery of two women: Betty, an East Indian, who has just left her husband Phil; and Betty’s girlfriend Cannes, a Chinese, who is secretly Phil’s lover. Caught between desire and friendship, they must now face painful choices…

  • Together and Apart

    A delightful musical drama about sexual and professional choices, “Together and Apart” is a tale of reunited lovers and has the cast singing part of the narrative in bed, across dinner tables, and on the road. Micah Barnes has composed an original score for this daring film.

  • Tough Bananas

    As many people know, a “banana” is slang for an acculturated Asian who is yellow on the outside but white on the inside. “Tough Bananas” is a film by Chinese Canadian director, Keith Lock, from a nihilistic script written by Andy Xu. The story is about the friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys that comes into existence and blossoms, but is ultimately destroyed by betrayal. Bob Lin and Ted Wang meet in their schoolyard on a fateful day when Bob is bullied by bigger boys. It is Ted who heroically comes to his rescue, and after that Bob and Ted become…