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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Urban Eclipse: Rising Tides of Kekekoziibii (Shoal Lake 40 First Nation)

By Jesse Green, Vanda Fleury-Green | 01:17:10 | Documentary | 2010-12-18

Filmmaker Jesse Green travels to his home community of Shoal Lake 40 interviewing people about the impacts of the City of Winnipeg aqueduct in the 100+ years since it was built. Weaving in interviews with historians and archival material Green builds a strong case about the exploitation of his community.

Crime Wave

By John Paizs | 01:20:40 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/09/1985

Sitcom noir, or maybe Tex Avery splatter. Steven desperately wants to be a "colour crime movie writer", but he has trouble with plots until an adoring fan befriends him. Through a series of adventures, and the evil Dr. Jolly, he finds the strength to go on.

Careful

By Guy Maddin | 01:40:00 | Drama, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/1992

Careful, described as Twin Peaks directed by Erich von Stroheim, is a tale of star crossed lovers, duels, and incestuous obsession in a repressed mountain town, filmed with a bizarre and beautiful color scheme.

Archangel

By Guy Maddin | 01:23:00 | Drama, Experimental | 01/01/1990

Archangel is: a tragedy of the Great war; a dreamlike world of long ago lost love; a Goya painting etched in frost. Nestled beneath a white, fluffy blanket of forgetfulness is Archangel, a crystalline city of spires and onion domes. There is a Canadian soldier, a Belgian aviator and a Russian nurse, their minds clouded…

Bicicles

By Kim Kelln | 01:07:39 | Documentary | 27/01/2017

Bicicles is a film celebrating those people who refuse to stop biking in the face of snow and sleet. Filmed during the winters of 2014 - 2016, the documentary follows four "brave" souls on their typical winter commute. Along with interviews with city councillors, business organizations and everyday cyclists, Bicicles explores how winter cycling is…

Exilic Trilogy

By Arsalan Baraheni | 01:14:00 | Documentary, Experimental | 1/06/15

Exilic Trilogy consists of three separate half-hour dramatic documentary films by Arsalan Baraheni, the Iranian-born Canadian filmmaker. The films feature three of the most prominent Iranian artists living in exile in Canada. "Light and Sound" stars Soleyman Vaseghi, a well-known musician. "Frame and Wall", starring Gholamhossein Nami, features a painter."Alchemy and Dust", profiles Reza Baraheni,…

Back to Pikangikum

By Coleen Rajotte | 01:03:00 | Documentary | 01/01/2004

An Aboriginal and former television reporter, filmmaker Coleen Rajotte was deeply affected by a trip to the Pikangikum First Nation in 1994. Pikangikum, located in northwestern Ontario, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. What has changed since Rajotteâs visit? Has the suicide epidemic worsened or improved? What is being done in…

The Romance of the Far Fur Country

By Harold M. Wyckoff | 01:20:00 | Documentary | 01/01/1920

In July of 1919, two cameramen from New York City set out to film Canadaâs northern wilderness. They first boarded Canadaâs most famous icebreaker, the HMS Nascopie, and headed from Montreal toward the Arctic Circle. Commissioned by the Hudsonâs Bay Company, the filmmakers were tasked with capturing life as a fur trader, a snapshot of…

One River Many Relations

By Michael Tyas, Stphane McLachlan | 01:02:06 | Documentary | 06/01/2015

"One River Many Relations" explores the Athabasca Oil Sands from a marginalized and often silenced perspective: Communities that live downstream. The film is a collaborative community effort featuring interviews with local Cree, Dene and MÃ©tis members from Fort Chipewyan. It gets to the heart of their concerns for their families, traditional ways and territories as…

Nestor

By Daniel Robinson | 01:01:45 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 30/09/2014

"The film Nestor was designed specifically to be made alone -- not out of vanity, but necessity. After years of struggling to find the means to mount a traditional film production, I decided to go it alone. I wanted to test the very limits of independent filmmaking. The one rule I set for myself was…

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