Film Library

Winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 ‘The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls’ tells the story of the world’s only comedic, singing, yodeling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape. In the process, they have become well-loved cultural icons.

In this beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family’s powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School.

Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks. THE TRIAL provides a window to reflect on the impact of a rarely seen part of the war on terror: a lack of accountability for the legacy of torture and the build-up to the largest criminal trial in American history.

The vast, beautiful landscape that is South Africa unfolds with two boys, one black, one white, racing with the wind. The story could take place anywhere, but it is particularly evocative with what we know lies outside their world. They make blood pack…

The Wave is a short romantic comedy about a woman with a pet hate who meets the perfect man under unfortunate circumstances. Alex and Marcus were destined to meet…just not in the way they had intended. But they are proof that when love matters most, honesty sometimes doesn’t. Alex learns that finding the perfect man (and traffic) can drive you to do crazy things.

Whether the wedding lasts four hours on a Saturday afternoon or fills a three-day weekend, it doesn’t matter if the bride walks down the aisle or skis down a mountain, chooses cowboy boots or swimming fins, the gown remains white, dramatic and dream li…

THE WEIGHT OF HONOR follows the stories of six brave and inspiring women who must care for their veterans returning from war with catastrophic physical and emotional wounds.

In a town where the wind blows every single moment of every single day, the wind fisherman ?

Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), F…

In popular Western imagination, a Muslim woman in a veil is a symbol of Islamic oppression. But what does it mean when a democratic country forbids the wearing of the veil? This film is the struggle of two women ?

This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous portrays the intimate journey of Gigi Lazzarato, a fearless young woman who began life as Gregory Lazzarato, posting beauty and fashion videos to YouTube from his bedroom, only to later come out as a transgender female to an audience of millions. With never-before-seen personal footage, the film provides a raw and revealing look into a life that never compromises happiness, and spotlights a family’s unwavering and unconditional love for a child.

As she gives birth to her daughter, Evie reveals her family’s future and the six-year-old bitch who ruined it all.