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The Empress of Vancouver is a cinematic and intimate collision of drag, queer history, and performance art, a musical and genre bending irreverent documentary that follows trans icon Oliv Howe as she prepares for the 40th anniversary of her coronation.

Indigenous communities fight to restore Canada's Nechako River 70 years after damming. Through interviews, archives, and landscapes, their struggle to reclaim waters and preserve culture unfolds in this meditative documentary.

A collection of shorts that tells ten individual stories, each centered around a different building, featuring a diverse cast of characters and a broad range of structures, from the grandiose to the starkly simple.

A day in the life of 91.1, Nuxalk Radio, a radio station built to help keep the Nuxalkmc language alive, broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters.

Today there are over 100 Aboriginal Friendship Centers across Canada. They provide essential services and a home away from home for many. A Place to Belong celebrates Christmas at the very first Friendship Center, located in East Vancouver, and reveals the story behind the Friendship Center movement.

In The Train Station, a beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family's powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School. Illustrated by Chloe Mustooch, music by Dan Brittain, original song by Barbara Patrick.

A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and cosmos, breathing an ancestral connection into new form.

Joseph R Selsey's belongings were discovered in a shoebox that was left by a dumpster in 2015. His belongings provide us with a rare glimpse into life as a gay man in Vancouver in the 1950s, and help tell the story of one of Canada''s longest enduring dance halls.

In this emotionally compelling short, acclaimed director Baljit Sangra shines light on North American's oldest running Sikh Temple and the struggle it represents.