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Today's Female Filmmakers

The NFB is on the road to gender parity! Celebrate International Women's Day 2017 with recent films by some of Canada’s greatest female filmmakers

Today's Female Filmmakers

The NFB is on the road to gender parity! Celebrate International Women's Day 2017 with recent films by some of Canada’s greatest female filmmakers

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  • Sexy Laundry
    Sexy Laundry
    Izabela Plucinska 2015 12 min
    How can the flames of desire be rekindled after 25 years of married life? Izabela Plucinska’s erotic comedy, made entirely through the use of modelling clay, delves into the private lives of Alice and Henry, a couple in their fifties numbed by routine.
  • Mabel
    Mabel
    Teresa MacInnes 2016 20 min
    Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides shampoo-n-sets over 70 years later. Weaving animation and archival imagery with intimate and laugh out loud moments in the salon, the film celebrates the power of friendship, doing what you love and staying active. With no desire to retire anytime soon, Mabel gives voice to a generation who are not front and center of cinema or the pop hairstyles of the day, and subtly shifts the lens on our perception of beauty and the elderly.
  • 19 Days
    19 Days
    Asha Siad  &  Roda Siad 2016 26 min
    This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home. Located in the quiet Calgary neighbourhood of Bridgeland, the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre is the starting point for government-assisted refugees who arrive in the city. During the 19-day timeline established by the federal government, an initial assessment is done and refugees are assisted with everything from airport reception and orientation to referrals, documents, and counselling.

    19 Days reveals the human side of the refugee resettlement process. A unique look at the global migration crisis and one particular stage of asylum, it lays plain the realities faced on the difficult road towards integration.
  • Mindfork
    Mindfork
    Catherine Dubeau 2016 1 min
    Incorporating found sound of an English language lesson, this very short animation depicts a visual descent into madness triggered by the effort to keep it all together—even when it seems damn near impossible.

    Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • Pumpers
    Pumpers
    Pascaline Lefebvre 2016 1 min
    Inspired by found sound of baby noises, this very short animation takes a good hard look at the bizarre behaviour of people working out in a gym.

    Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • U.F.O.
    U.F.O.
    Rhayne Vermette 2016 1 min
    In this very short animation, an apparition reveals itself through celluloid and transmits vestiges of a forgotten provenance. Have the onlookers interpreted its signs correctly or was the message misunderstood? Inspired by found sound of two people’s discovery of a mysterious event in the sky.

    Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • Him
    Him
    Lorna Kirk 2016 1 min
    Hand-drawn charcoal drawings movingly depict the loneliness and bewilderment of a child seeking safety in a war zone, in this timely very short animation that uses found sound to explore the powerlessness of the refugee experience.

    Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • Sober
    Sober
    Élise Simard 2017 33 s
    SOBER IS HARDCORE. A rejection of romanticizing alcohol.
  • Survival of the Fittest
    Survival of the Fittest
    Eva Cvijanovic 2017 39 s
    FEELS GOOD TO BE KIND. A reminder that there is power in small acts of kindness.
  • Detention
    Detention
    Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers  &  David Seitz 2017 37 s
    This ultra-short film proves that walls are real and borders are imaginary with an animated critique of long-term detention for minors in immigration centres.

  • Hipster Headdress
    Hipster Headdress
    Amanda Strong 2017 40 s
    This ultra-short film is an unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that's wrong with hipsters in headdresses. The takeaway? Just don't do it.

  • this river
    this river
    Erika MacPherson  &  Katherena Vermette 2016 19 min
    This short documentary offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Volunteer activist Kyle Kematch and award-winning writer Katherena Vermette have both survived this heartbreak and share their histories with each other and the audience. While their stories are different, they both exemplify the beauty, grace, resilience, and activism born out of the need to do something.
  • Gun Runners
    Gun Runners
    Anjali Nayar 2016 1 h 29 min
    For years, Julius Arile and Robert Matanda thrive among the bands of warriors that terrorize the North Kenyan countryside. Stealing cattle, raiding and running from the police is the only life they know. So when both warriors suddenly disappear from the bush, many assume they are dead or have been arrested. Instead, they trade in their rifles for sneakers—in the hopes of making it big as professional marathon runners.

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