Pogey Beach

Year 2019
Run Time 94min

Directors

The Kindness of Strangers

Year 2019
Run Time 112min

Directors

Clearcut

Director Ryszard Bugajski
Year 1991
Run Time 100min
Genre Drama, Thriller

When a lawyer loses an appeal to stop a logging company from clear-cutting a forest, Arthur, an Indigenous militant activist, drags him and the kidnapped logging mill manager into the forest. The lawyer's empty talk about how the company's greed should be punished is put into brutal action by Arthur, who tortures the manager in allegorical ways mimicking what loggers do to the forest.


The restoration of this film has been made available for National Canadian Film Day courtesy of Severin Films, who is donating the proceeds to Indigenous and environmental charities.

Director

Ryszard Bugajski

Genres

Drama, Thriller

Original Language

English

Call of the Orcas

Director Jessica Plumb
Year 2024
Run Time 11min
Genre Documentary
Call of the Orcas explores urgent efforts to recover endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales of the Pacific Northwest, through the eyes of one of their human champions, researcher Ken Balcomb, who passed away in 2022. Balcomb’s survey work over nearly fifty years helped people see these orcas as individuals, in family groups, and led to a subspecies listing under the US Endangered Species Act. 

Director

Jessica Plumb

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

English

Holy Days

Director Nat Boltt
Year 2026
Run Time 101min
Genre Comedy, Drama
A lost boy in search of heaven, three odd nuns on a mission, a car powered by God (and stolen money). This is a road trip like no other. A comedic near-tragedy that just keeps going South.

Director

Nat Boltt

Writer

Joy Cowley

Cast

Miriam Margolyes

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Interest

Family Relationships

Original Language

English

Jules au pays d’Asha (Adventures in the Land of Asha)

Director Sophie Farkas Bolla
Year 2023
Run Time 89min
Genre Action/Adventure, Drama

Director

Sophie Farkas Bolla

Writers

Sophie Farkas Bolla, Sarah Lalonde

Cast

Gaby Jourdain, Alex Dupras

Producers

Hany Ouichou, Kim O'Bomsawin (Abenaki)

Genres

Action/Adventure, Drama

Interest

BIPOC Stories

Original Language

French

Last Ice Age

Directors Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Adam Loften
Year 2024
Run Time 40min
Genre Documentary
Community members and experts in southern Alberta unite to prevent coal mining in the Rocky Mountains from threatening their health, livelihoods, and communities.

Directors

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Adam Loften

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Environment, History

Original Language

English

Kensington Market: Heart of the City

Director Stuart Clarfield
Year 2024
Run Time 104min
Genre Documentary

Director

Stuart Clarfield

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, History

Original Language

English

Salmon Secrets

Director Jérémy Mathieu
Year 2024
Run Time 40min
Genre Documentary
Fish farming threatens wild salmon with extinction. Though Canada pledged to remove farms from BC waters by 2025, industry resists. Salmon Secrets follows Clayoquot Action's underwater investigation near Tofino, with First Nations advocates and experts highlighting salmon recovery after farm closures.

Director

Jérémy Mathieu

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

English

Lydia and the Mist Rider

Director Philippe Arseneau Bussieres
Year 2026
Run Time 80min
Genre Animation
When her older brother Thaddeus is mysteriously kidnapped by the Spellbinder, 11-year-old Lydia sets off to find him in the Misty Sea. Determined to solve the mystery, Lydia must learn astromagic and ready herself to confront the Spellbinder.

Director

Philippe Arseneau Bussieres

Genre

Animation

Original Language

English