The Woman Conquers

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.

This short film realistically portrays the conflict Henry Hudson experienced when he went in search of an open water route to the Orient, and no one would follow him. What he discovered instead was an inland sea, a discovery that ended in tragedy.

In a town on the edge of the Canadian Arctic, polar bears are waiting longer for the sea ice on the bay to form. It's a dangerous change for a place known as the polar bear capital of the world.

Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers in spite of the reluctance to speak about Native roots on the part of her relatives. The film articulates Métis women's experience with racism in both current and historical context, and examines the forces that pushed them into the shadows.

Every year in northern Canada, polar bears migrate to Hudson Bay to hunt seals. From October to November, while waiting for the ice pack to form, they take up residence on the outskirts of the town of Churchill. Hunted for a long time and now the stars of safaris, the bears have become a tourist attraction and therefore a considerable source of income for Churchill.

A documentary film exploring an untold part of Canada’s past through the eyes of Inuk artist and filmmaker Elisapie Isaac. After facing a moral dilemma, Elisapie sets out to meet others who, like her, are “Hudson Baybies,” the children born of the mixed unions between Indigenous women and Hudson’s Bay Company employees working in trading posts and general stores across the North.

The uncommon sight of polar bears wandering a colorful landscape during an iceless summer in Hudson Bay, Canada.

Erica Wilson uncovers what it means to be an expeditionist, guiding a fleet of wooden canoes more than 700 kilometres to the shores of Hudson Bay.

A short and surreal experimental film staged as a vintage TV commercial, mourning the death of Zellers, Canada’s beloved retail relic. Through eerie nostalgia and warped consumer ritual, we experience it once again.

A foreign woman marries a rich man.

Otomo, a teacher, and Imabayashi, a high school student, regret having left a student and Imabayashi's best friend, Tadokoro, standing in the rain in the schoolyard, where he died of exhaustion. Both Tadokoro and Imabayashi held love for their teacher; but he know demands his execution.

Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.

Ryuji Yamamoto, the president of a gay film production company, was troubled. Without a suitable model, he was at a dead end with his project. While searching for material, Yamamoto went to a paid cruising spot for gay men and discovered that a nearby park was now a hotspot. At midnight, Yamamoto went there to do an interview and saw a group of men flocking around a particular man. Yamamoto immediately started filming. However, he is found out.

A global flood is approaching, but Lesha will be able to escape, because he has a boat. However, on his grief, a hunter enters the game, who considers the boat to be his property, and who is trying with all his might to take it away. On the way to the finale, in addition to the hunter, Lesha meets other equally wonderful characters who react with curiosity to the young man's strange decision to sit in a boat and wait for a flood.

One day, Hiroshi was helping in an acquaintance's shop and accidentally breaks a jar that cost 1 million yen. Hiroshi can't pay for that and he calls his parents' house as a last resort. He receives news that his father is ill with only 1 year left. Hiroshi wants to make his father happy and decides on a fake marriage. They find a lesbian teacher called Ayako interested in fake marriage on the internet. However, when they go to meet her the angry girlfriend of Ayako called Ami shows up and a man tries to catch Hiroshi for not paying his 1 million yen debt. They steal a van and Ami, Hiroshi and Toshiya drive off in hopes of finding Ayako.

One day, Polina's phone acquires a new function: all the people she takes pictures of disappear. And, if at first it causes her curiosity and interest, then later she understands that in this way she can easily get rid of people who are unpleasant to her, and no one will know about it.

One hot summer day, Nikolai went to the store to buy a watermelon. Tapping one after another, it seemed to him that one of them knocked in response. After bringing it home and swinging a knife, Kolya heard a knock again — the watermelon was communicating with him using Morse code. He introduced himself to 7293, and so their friendship with Nikolai began.

A field commissioner tries to solve the problems of his village.

Melissa (18) and Pietro(22) are brothers. After their father left the family they lived years of depression with a mother who wasn't always capable to follow them. This event caused in both of them a lot of problems, that somehow the are trying to resolve and grow up...In two different ways.

High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.