America has become the testing ground for the enduring strength of Hmong culture. The split horn documents the journey of Hmong shaman Paja Thao and his family from the mountains of Laos to the heartland of America: Appleton, Wisconsin. This poignant film shows a shaman's struggle to maintain his ancient traditions as his children embrace American culture. The evocative narrative captures the daily struggle of Paja Thao's family between two worlds.
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As one of his outstanding "mature" comedies, Twelfth night reveals themes and elements that are keys to all of Shakespeare's plays. Discover how the comedy revolves around crises of identity, the need to distinguish external appearance from internal reality, and a reversal of power roles.
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Consider four points of entry for understanding what's happening in a Shakespeare play. Learn how to approach a single dramatic scene, focusing on Shakespeare's richly metaphorical use of language. Begin to grasp the playwright's use of stagecraft and how his plays require your own active participation and powers of imagination.
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In the 479 B.C. battle of Plataea, Greek "hoplite" forces fighting in phalanxes met the mighty army of the Persian superpower. Study the unfolding of this dramatic engagement, and learn how it ended the Persian threat to Greece and allowed for the flowering of Greece's cultural Golden Age.
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In this monumental episode of the Samurai era, learn about the underlying politics and the major figures in the conflict, including one whose wavering loyalty took an astonishing turn on the battlefield. Track the events that unified Japan under a dynasty of shoguns who would rule for 250 years.
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As the deadliest drug epidemic in American history rages, follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they explore how addiction affects the brain and how we should address our opioid crisis.
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ABDUCTED is a suspense-thriller feature film that tells the story of an inner-city young Indigenous man whose life is upended when his drug-running sister goes missing. Lakota’s sudden disappearance leaves Derrick to piece together the clues of her abduction. Derrick experiences visions which he struggles to understand but which help him on his quest to find her. As he gets close to finding his sister, Derrick ends up in the fight of his life. The plot revolves around a serial killer who commits murders during a full moon. The story is set in Alberta and was inspired by the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. It addresses topics including police brutality, racism, and adolescence through an Indigenous lens.
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The first documentary of its kind, Connecting the Dots takes on the subject of mental health through the voices of young people around the world. From Edmonton and New York to Nigeria and Australia, young people talk openly about their experiences in a way you have never seen or heard before. At a time when youth are facing increased anxiety and depression on top of unrest surrounding systemic racism, sexual orientation, and gender discrimination, it’s more important than ever to stop and listen. Intimate and heartfelt, the film brings this crisis to the surface, while shedding light on the inspiring ways we can break through barriers and take action.
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It may have been poetic irony or fate that had a hand in entrusting world-class architect Raymond Moriyama with the noble responsibility of searching for the soul of the new Canadian War Museum. From vivid memories of a treehouse he built in a Canadian internment camp when he was a twelve year old boy, Raymond Moriyama has created an indelible symbolic experience that can be felt in every corner of this concrete building of war and hope.
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With her hip-hop spoken-word music, JB The First Lady wants to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) of Canada and to two-spirit people. Biography: Jerilynn Webster, aka JB The First Lady, is a member of the Nuxalk & Onondaga Nations. She is a Vancouver-based female hip hop/spoken word artist, beat-boxer, cultural dancer and youth educator. JB has performed at over 500 hip hop shows and is spreading the words of empowerment and the perspective of urban Indigenous women in Canada.
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Lisa explores the heart-breaking issue of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. This episode features interviews with Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt, Pam Palmater, Dr. Evan Adams and Nahanni Fontaine talking about violence against aboriginal girls and women. Urban Native Girl is an inspirational documentary series about Aboriginal fashonista Lisa Charleyboy as she follows her dream to transform her popular beauty blog into a glossy print magazine. Along the way we meet Lisa's mentors and friends.
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COVID-19 was not just a viral pandemic, it was an infodemic of disinformation that turned citizen against citizen. Asian-Canadian Andy Sue, a Toronto florist, was a target of racialized scapegoating by a customer. The psychological trauma of this encounter with anti-Asian racism during the pandemic was eased when a sympathetic business neighbour took positive action. Experts discuss the implications of stigma and racism and examine the psychological reasons that some people become ensnared by it. The film examines the social and public health implications of our digital media reality, where social media algorithms detect bias to translate fear, blame and outrage into profit. Featuring: Dr. Kenneth Fung, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Dr. Carmen Logie, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
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This video centres on interviews with dozens of the 1100 Jewish refugee orphans who came to Canada under the postwar Canadian Jewish Congress War Orphans Project. Their stories describe survival of the Holocaust and the difficult transition to establish new lives in foster homes. Historian Irving Abella relates the sorry Canadian wartime record, including Ottawa’s rejection of 5000 Jewish refugee children, all of whom subsequently perished. These survivors reflect the endurance and determination that allowed them to succeed at last in a Canada that was slowly becoming an open and inclusive society. [Jewish Public Library, Montreal]
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In remote areas of the Peruvian Andes, such as the highland hamlet of Chugurpampa, traditional healers have all but disappeared. Still, due to the rigors of peasant life, there is high demand for the healing tradition of bonesetting, which involved massage, joint adjustment, and setting breaks. The last bonesetter traces the career of one of the last practicing bonsetters (hueseros) in the area, 80-year-old Don Felipe. Besides being a well-known bonesetter and herbalist, he serves as a midwife and a curer of illnesses unique to the Andes such as susto (soul loss from fright). As the village's medical post is seldom staffed and lacks appropriate medicines, Don Felipe is often the only trusted source of health care for miles around.
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Baron (Joe Keery) reminisces to his prison cell-mate Otis (Aldis Hodge) about his relationship with Marmalade (Camila Morrone) and their ill-fated bank robbery. Otis has a long history of prison breaks and the two hatch a plan to get out and reunite Baron with Marmalade.
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Mothers of the land accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean cosmovision, women and Earth are strongly interrelated--both a woman's body and the Earth's soil are capable of giving and nurturing life. In the context of an ever-growing industrialization of agriculture and the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds, it is women who, connected to Earth through bonds of sisterhood, take on the role of protectors.
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Big fight in little Chinatown is a story of community resistance and resilience. Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic and an unprecedented rise in anti-Asian racism, the documentary takes us into the lives of residents, businesses, and community organizers whose neighborhoods are facing active erasure. Coast to coast, the film follows Chinatown communities resisting the pressures around them. From the construction of the world's largest vertical jail in New York, Montreal's fight against developers swallowing up the most historic block of their Chinatown, big box chains and gentrification forces displacing Toronto's community, to a Vancouver Chinatown business holding steadfast, the film reveals how Chinatown is both a stand-in for other communities who've been wiped off the city map, and the blueprint for inclusive and resilient neighbourhoods of the future.
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In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a Pro-American Rally. Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a "racially pure" America. Nazi town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters nationwide, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the U.S. They held rallies with the KKK and ran camps for kids centered around Nazi ideology, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.
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Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why--until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their "vulture capitalist" owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America. Who will control the future of America's news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit or those who see journalism as an essential public service, the lifeblood of our democracy?
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