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 Ages

    Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

    01989HD

    This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

    Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
  • 1992
    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    6.41992HD

    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...

    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
  • 1990
    The Company of Strangers

    The Company of Strangers

    The Company of Strangers

    7.21990HD

    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...

    The Company of Strangers
  • 2005
    Being Caribou

    Being Caribou

    Being Caribou

    02005HD

    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...

    Being Caribou
  • 1991
    Sisters in the Struggle

    Sisters in the Struggle

    Sisters in the Struggle

    01991HD

    This documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist organizing. They share their insights and personal...

    Sisters in the Struggle
  • 2009
    How People Got Fire

    How People Got Fire

    How People Got Fire

    02009HD

    This introspective short animation takes place In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation. Neighbourhood pillar Grandma Kay tell the...

    How People Got Fire
  • 2006
    Finding Dawn

    Finding Dawn

    Finding Dawn

    02006HD

    Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and...

    Finding Dawn
  • 1990
    The Burning Times

    The Burning Times

    The Burning Times

    6.61990HD

    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...

    The Burning Times
  • 2007
    Writing the Land

    Writing the Land

    Writing the Land

    02007HD

    In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

    Writing the Land
  • 1989
    Goddess Remembered

    Goddess Remembered

    Goddess Remembered

    51989HD

    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...

    Goddess Remembered
  • 1989
    Older, Stronger, Wiser

    Older, Stronger, Wiser

    Older, Stronger, Wiser

    01989HD

    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...

    Older, Stronger, Wiser
  • 1987
    To a Safer Place

    To a Safer Place

    To a Safer Place

    01987HD

    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...

    To a Safer Place
  • 2010
    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    02010HD

    The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

    Cry Rock
  • 2008
    Dirt

    Dirt

    Dirt

    02008HD

    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...

    Dirt
  • 2003
    From Harling Point

    From Harling Point

    From Harling Point

    02003HD

    This documentary tells the story of a Chinese cemetery in BC that became a National Heritage site. For Chinese pioneers who died in Canada,...

    From Harling Point
  • 2006
    Sayonara Super 8

    Sayonara Super 8

    Sayonara Super 8

    02006HD

    Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the...

    Sayonara Super 8
  • 2003
    Gathering Storm

    Gathering Storm

    Gathering Storm

    02003HD

    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...

    Gathering Storm
  • 2008
    Indigenous Plant Diva

    Indigenous Plant Diva

    Indigenous Plant Diva

    02008HD

    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...

    Indigenous Plant Diva
  • 2008
    Foreign Directors on Directing

    Foreign Directors on Directing

    Foreign Directors on Directing

    02008HD

    Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few...

    Foreign Directors on Directing
  • 1992
    Toward Intimacy

    Toward Intimacy

    Toward Intimacy

    01992HD

    This feature documentary follows a number of women with disabilities as they affirm their right to seek, develop and sustain intimate relationships...

    Toward Intimacy