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Just You, Me & God
DVD - 2010
Vancouver's downtown east side is the location for a thriving open air drug market and INSITE, North America's first government sanctioned safe injection site. It's also the poorest postal code in Canada. Two women, both recovering addicts, are...
10 City Blocks
DVD - 2011
For women working the sex trade in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, a bad date has nothing to do with awkward conversation or a lack of chemistry. Six survival sex trade workers share their struggles with addiction, mental and physical...
A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos;...
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the...
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen...