When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. Starring popular Bollywood star Kamini Khanna (Monsoon Wedding), and the follow-up to director Soman Chainani’s acclaimed 2006 short “Davy & Stu”, “Kali Ma” plunges us into a battle of mythic proportions, where we discover the secrets that divide mothers and sons and the love that binds them together.
Filter Films
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A man’s elliptical story of the places he’s seen, the people he’s been and the water he’s drank.
Full Stop Hilltop
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“Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue” is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing filmed documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. “Out & About with Brewer & Berg” is where Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell meet Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It’s where “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” meets Carlos Castaneda and David Attenborough. It’s where “My Dinner with André” meets the “On the Road” films with Crosby and Hope. Replete with riveting graphics, insightful quotations and a powerful music track, the film is as humorous and entertaining as it is inspirational and uplifting. This leading edge film is an authentic “hero’s journey” documenting the amazing serendipitous adventures of gay shamans, Michael Brewer and Thomas Alan Berg, whom we meet frolicking through a spectacular, flower-filled meadow high in the Swiss Alps.
Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue
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“The Gendercator” is a satirical take on surgical body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip van Winkle” model to extrapolate from the feminist 1970s to a frightening 2048, where politics and technology have conspired to mandate two gender “choices”: macho male or Barbie babe. In this dystopian future, those whose gender presentation does not comply will be GENDERCATED.
Gendercator, The
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Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. “Appropriate to a context of Canadian de-confederation, MOOSE JAW is at once a statement of the filmmaker’s own maturation; a regionalist dirge on the fatality of economic dependency; an excavation of our ever-vanishing collective past; and the ironic deconstruction of all the above.” – Michael Dorland, Art Gallery of Ontario Moose Jaw was a frontier boom-town flourishing on the Canadian Pacific rail line forging Canada as a “Dominion” in the late 1800s. But as rail gave way to the jet age, Moose Jaw began to decline. Now, museums dot the landscape (along with a giant moose), and schemes to restore yester-year boast the motto “ There’s a future in our past” – ironically adopted by Hancox himself in this one-hour, experimental documentary filmed over the course of a decade. A poetic, multi-levelled excavation of personal memory, social and political history, and the pre-historic, “Moose Jaw” is also a reflective portrait of the filmmaker’s hometown as a faded symbol of Empire, and “storm centre” on the frontier of a museumized future. “Rick Hancox’s ‘Moose Jaw’ is a poetic prophetic analysis into a personal and deeply existential journey…a meeting point of autobiography and history… Here the museum has finally come inside.” – Arthur Kroker, “The Possessed Individual,” New World Perspectives
Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past (DVD Release)
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“Leading British avant-garde filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn is known for evoking the beauty in the everyday. His ‘Quartet’ comprises four variations on the same twenty shots of a flat, all beautiful ‘still lives.’ In the first two sections of the film, each shot contains an element of the subsequent shot, forming a necklace of images. These are strung together through a studied and sensual accumulation of time and space, both on the screen and in the imaginary. Thereafter, a release from structure compels us from contemplation toward memory and re-creation.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival
Quartet
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Based on a notorious ‘art scandal’ from 2007, writer/artist RM Vaughan recounts how rich and powerful members of the art world turned on him when he wrote his true thoughts about the mundane work proffered by the so-called Vancouver School. Art doesn’t have to be pretty, but does the art world have to be so ugly?
Shit Storm
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“Dark Sun; Bright Shade” is a one-hour dramatic film which explores the cultural, social and political fabrics between two gay Chinese men living under parallel traditions within the Chinese social structure. Through the unfolding of events following the 1989 T’ien An Men Square Massacre in Beijing, the film focuses on Paul, a young Chinese-Canadian artist, and Kai, a foreign student in exile from mainland China, as they confront the differences in their politics, sexuality, cultural upbringing and family relationships. As they are drawn closer together it becomes obvious that, for the many displaced Chinese around the world, there lies ahead a long arduous journey towards a questionable future.
Dark Sun; Bright Shade
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The suite of four short films explores ideas about framing, centred round the attempt to find a necessary correspondence between the facts of the camera apparatus; fixed, rectangular frame and aspect ratio, and the work’s subject matter. A related idea concerns the figuration within the films of the manner in which the camera creates its own pro-filmic. To this end, there is a more or less recurring theme of frames within frames. Three of the four sections were filmed in, or within a stone’s throw of, the house in Toronto where I stayed while completing the work as an artist in residence at LIFT workshops (sidewalk, window, back lane). The fourth section was made at Koshlong Lake, near Haliburton, about 100 miles northeast of Toronto.
Four Toronto Films
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Poetry. Film. Light. Life. An excerpt from Rilke’s “Ninth Elegy” introduces this silent film which evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We catch glimpses only. Silent with sound preface.
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