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.
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.
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.
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.
A soldier enrolled in the revolutionary ranks has an affair with a woman who turns out to have been married to a man whom the soldier had killed.
In an Andalusian village in the early 70s, three daughters who lose their mother go up against the local community. Meanwhile, the unexpected arrival of their estranged brother brings to the surface secrets of the past.
Big city honky-tonk woman flies off to a fishing village to do some soul searching. There she meets a boy from the boondocks–a slow one. They fall in love. The girl's dubious past catches up with her. Trouble in paradise begins.
Spray paint artist Lemon Drop (Torez Mosley) must navigate her passions to succeed in the new landscape of fine art.
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Musical production of the space epic Aniara.
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Yasmine is a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghreb woman who moved away from home to be able to live her life. Her love for N'dé, a thirty-something black African woman is secret. For Eid, she visits her family for a few days. Yasmine finds her sister, her father and her mother at home. Each relationship is revealed and at the same time opens-up the entrenched warfare where everyone lives enclosed in their own world. Yasmine is overwhelmed by this violence.
The story depicts the pain of a Brahmin man whose family life is in shackles due to differences in the ideologies of his children, who eventually run away from their home. This leads to pain and agony, and the man commits suicide along with his wife. Will the children realise their mistake? Will they be able to carry forward the legacy of their father?
Rano (Rano Karno) was separated and lost his father at Jatinegara Station in Jakarta when he got off the train. Luckily, he met a kind-hearted fryer. Amin (Benyamin S), who then took him home.
Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.