Movies: Multiculturalism

  • 2005
    Between: Living in the Hyphen

    Between: Living in the Hyphen (2005)

    Between: Living in the Hyphen

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    Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on 7 Canadians who have one parent from a European background and one of a visible minority, she attempts...

    Between: Living in the Hyphen
  • 2017
    Monday

    Monday (2017)

    Monday

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    The 50+ time award-winning short film, MONDAY, follows a day in the life of a young hustler who ‘code-switches’ through disparate cliques while being everyone's one-stop-shop for all things illicit. His reasons for the hustle aren’t apparent, but as ...

    Monday
  • 2014
    Everything Will Be

    Everything Will Be (2014)

    Everything Will Be

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    Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse neighbourhood—Vancouver’s once thriving Chinatown—in the midst of transformation. The community’s oldest and newest member...

    Everything Will Be
  • 2020
    Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”

    Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From” (2020)

    Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”

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    Max learns about immigration and the meaning of home from his friend Srijoni, who shares her story of moving to Canada from Bangladesh when she was young....

    Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”
  • 1967
    Waiting for Caroline

    Waiting for Caroline (1967)

    Waiting for Caroline

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    An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with....

    Waiting for Caroline
  • 2016
    Heads Together

    Heads Together (2016)

    Heads Together

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    Three friends with different cultural origins find an abandoned washing machine while playing. To their shock, they find out that the washing machine has strange powers: their heads are swapped by sticking them in the washing machine. When it turns o...

    Heads Together
  • 2012
    Brooklyn Breach

    Brooklyn Breach (2012)

    Brooklyn Breach

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    Brooklyn Breach follows the arc of three Brooklyn families whose lives are under constant hidden surveillance. As we voyeuristically examine their secret lives, we follow each family's descent toward its own life-changing event....

    Brooklyn Breach
  • 2013
    Hafu

    Hafu (2013)

    Hafu

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    A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern day Japan. For some hafus, Japan is the only home they know, for some living in Japan is an entirely new experience, and the others are caught somewhe...

    Hafu
  • 2019
    Transfinite

    Transfinite (2019)

    Transfinite

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    Transfinite is a dark comedy omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive....

    Transfinite
  • 2021
    Someone Like Me

    Someone Like Me (2021)

    Someone Like Me

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    After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his best interests test the limits of their commitment and jeopardize his fresh start in Canada....

    Someone Like Me
  • 2000
    Spinning Gasing

    Spinning Gasing (2000)

    Spinning Gasing

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    Members of a Malaysian band must overcome their racial, religious and cultural differences to overcome the difficulties of love, relationships and day to day issues in modern day Malaysia....

    Spinning Gasing
  • 2014
    Our City

    Our City (2014)

    Our City

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    This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of...

    Our City
  • 2016
    On the Track of Robert Van Gulik

    On the Track of Robert Van Gulik (2016)

    On the Track of Robert Van Gulik

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    Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This diplomat, Sinologist and scholar is mainly known for his detective novels, starring 'Judge Dee'. Filmmaker Rob Rombout follows in his footsteps to discove...

    On the Track of Robert Van Gulik
  • 2009
    Smile Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story

    Smile Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (2009)

    Smile Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story

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    Archival footage, photos, news clips, and interviews combine to offer a comprehensive overview of the clean-cut, buttoned-down singing youth group that attempted to change the world in the riotous 1960s. A true cultural phenomenon, Up with People per...

    Smile Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
  • 2000
    Les Sagards

    Les Sagards (2000)

    Les Sagards

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    Mehdi, 17, is sentenced to perform hours of community service for a minor offense. He arrives in Auvergne where he must serve his sentence - six weeks with a taciturn lumberjack, Abel Vagnier, owner of a sawmill which he operates alone with Tonton, a...

    Les Sagards
  • 2016
    Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats

    Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats (2016)

    Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats

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    A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go a...

    Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats
  • 2013
    Bué Sabi

    Bué Sabi (2013)

    Bué Sabi

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    'Bué Sabi' (pronounced "bweh sabi") portrays the unlikely friendship of three female characters: a troubled girl of Gypsy descent who lives in one of Lisbon's toughest neighbourhoods, her best friend from Cape Verde and a young middle-class girl. Apa...

    Bué Sabi
  • 1969
    Városlakók

    Városlakók (1969)

    Városlakók

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    Városlakók
  • 1991
    America Becoming

    America Becoming (1991)

    America Becoming

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    Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and Nationality Act beginning in 1965, this program introduces a dramatic vision of a multi-cultural America where ...

    America Becoming
  • 2016
    Carpet and Chaos

    Carpet and Chaos (2016)

    Carpet and Chaos

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    While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circu...

    Carpet and Chaos