Rina Fraticelli Movies
- 1989
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages01989HD
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...
- 1992
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives6.41992HD
Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...
- 1990
The Company of Strangers
The Company of Strangers7.21990HD
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a...
- 2005
Being Caribou
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April 8, 2003: Karsten Heuer + Leanne Allison left the remote community of Old Crow,Yukon, to join the Porcupine Caribou Herd on their epic life...
- 1991
Sisters in the Struggle
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This documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist organizing. They share their insights and personal...
- 2009
How People Got Fire
How People Got Fire02009HD
This introspective short animation takes place In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation. Neighbourhood pillar Grandma Kay tell the...
- 2006
Finding Dawn
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Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and...
- 1990
The Burning Times
The Burning Times6.61990HD
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to...
- 2007
Writing the Land
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In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...
- 1989
Goddess Remembered
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Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping...
- 1989
Older, Stronger, Wiser
Older, Stronger, Wiser01989HD
In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique...
- 1987
To a Safer Place
To a Safer Place01987HD
Sexually abused by her father from infancy to early adolescence, Shirley Turcotte is now in her thirties and has succeeded in building a rich and...
- 2010
Cry Rock
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The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...
- 2008
Dirt
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This feature documentary is an exploration of the concept of dirt and impurity. From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to a...
- 2003
From Harling Point
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This documentary tells the story of a Chinese cemetery in BC that became a National Heritage site. For Chinese pioneers who died in Canada,...
- 2006
Sayonara Super 8
Sayonara Super 802006HD
Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the...
- 2003
Gathering Storm
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A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights. He paints directly...
- 2008
Indigenous Plant Diva
Indigenous Plant Diva02008HD
Kamala Todd's short film is a lyrical portrait of Cease Wyss, of the Squamish Nation. Wyss is a woman who understands the remarkable healing powers...
- 2008
Foreign Directors on Directing
Foreign Directors on Directing02008HD
Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few...
- 1992
Toward Intimacy
Toward Intimacy01992HD
This feature documentary follows a number of women with disabilities as they affirm their right to seek, develop and sustain intimate relationships...