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Film and Motherhood

Mid Length: Intimate Portraits

(Program run time approx. 88mins)

Lindsay McIntyre

her silent life

Canada, 2012, 31mins

Synopsis: A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother. 

Credits:

Director: Lindsay McIntyre
Language: English
Format: 16mm and S8 to digital

Jules Koostachin

Oshkikishikaw: A New Day

Canada, 2019, 25mins

Synopsis: 12-year-old twins cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony.

Credits:

Writer, Producer and Director: Jules A. Koostachin
Director of Photography: Marco Libretti
Editor: Jessica Dymond
Narrator: Mahiigan Koostachin
Production Assistant and Stills Photography: Asivak Koostachin
Post Production Sound Design and Sound Mix: Dave Chick
Business Affairs: Patricia Poskitt
Legal: Nathaniel Lyman
Music: James Bay
Written by Adrian Sutherland
Performed by Midnight Shine 

Special Thanks: Christina Pare, Anthony Passero Salon, Reclaim your Power @reclaimyourpower, Karolina Turek Photography, Kenneth Chakasim, Attawapiskat First Nation.

Produced in Association with CBC
General Manager, Programming: Sally Catto
Executive Director, Unscripted Content: Jennifer Dettman
Senior Director, Documentary: Sandra Kleinfeld
Senior Director of Production, Unscripted Content: Alexandra Lane
Executive in Charge of Production, CBC Docs: Lesley Birchard

Anne-Marie Bouchard

Confidences

Canada, 2016, 6mins

Synopsis: A mother’s revealing secrets to her eleven year old daughter.

Credits:

Director: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Cinematographer: Julie Pelletier
Editing: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Sound: Pierre Maroni
Music: Mustapha Draoui, Singer Aurélie Suvaciyan
Sound Editing: Mustapha Draoui
Cast and oice : Catherine Breton; Child: Mado Saubié, Louise Saubié, Anaël Bourg

Michele Kaiowá

De Michele para Sophia

Brazil, 2021, 7mins

Synopsis: The Nhemongueta Kunhã Mbaraete project is an exchange of video-letters between three Indigenous women and one non-Indigenous woman from an affective, ethnophilosophical and critical perspective. The filmmakers respond to the current process of social isolation during the pandemic and the universes that permeate them.

Credits:

Direction, photography and script: Michele Kaiowá, Graciela Guarani, Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy e Sophia Pinheiro
Editing: Alexandre Pankararu, Fábio Costa Menezes
Production and visual communication: Sophia Pinheiro
Work commissioned by the Moreira Salles Institute – Programa IMS Convida (Brasil)

Francisca Duran

Boy

Canada, 2005, 6mins

Synopsis: The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son.

Credits:

Years of production: 1999+2005
Colour
Original Format: 16mm
Language: English

Nathalie Lopez-Gutierrez
Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski

La vie en rose

Canada, 2010, 3:56mins

Synopsis: Padminee immigrated from Mauritius hoping for a better future for her family. Despite being highly educated she must work two jobs to make ends meet.

Credits:

Director: Nathalie Lopez-Gutierrez, Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski
Language: French with English subtitles

Torill Kove

Threads

Canada/Norway, 2017, 8:49mins

Synopsis: In her latest animated short, Academy Award®-winning director Torill Kove explores the beauty and complexity of parental love, the bonds that we form over time, and the ways in which they stretch and shape us.

Credits:

Director: Torill Kove
Animation: Torill Kove, Josefine Hannibal
Backgrounds: Torill Kove
Original Music: Kevin Dean (socan © 2017)
A co-production of Mikrofilm AS and The National Film Board of Canada