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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Caribou in the Archive

By Jennifer Dysart | 00:08:11 | Documentary, Experimental | 2007-01-19

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern Manitoba from the 1950s. In this experimental film, the difference between homemade video and official historical record is considered. Northern Indigenous women hunting is at the heart of…

genizah; passages from the lublin book graveyard

By Solomon Nagler | 00:10:00 | Experimental | 26/05/2018

Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from its corporal form.

HeimÞrá, In Thrall to Home

By Erika Macpherson | 00:33:11 | Documentary | 1/01/18

Doubting details of her mothers deathbed story, a skeptical daughter drags her brother on a genealogical goose chase through the Canadian prairies to the remote Icelandic highland. Becoming spellbound by an increasing sense of belonging to an unfolding story, she discovers a vital piece of its telling is missing: herself.

The Blessing

By Shira Newman | 00:14:52 | Narrative-Fiction | 09/04/2017

A young immigrant on an isolated Jewish agricultural settlement in the Canadian prairies falls into a deep depression after the birth of her first child. After overhearing others say she is likely possessed by the demon Lilith, she comes to believe she is a danger to the baby and must wrestle this dark force within…

First Engine, The

By Ian Campbell | 00:06:33 | Animation, Documentary | 01/03/2015

At the dawn of the 20th century the horse was supplanted by a new means of power. This new invention is making itself known across the prairies of North America. Soon it will make its presence felt in a most radical way.

On the Trail of the Far Fur Country

By Kevin Nikkel | 01:20:00 | Documentary | 19/03/2014

In 1919, a film crew set out on an epic journey across Canada's North. Over the course of six months, their expedition traveled by icebreaker, canoe, and dog sled, capturing the Canadian fur trade in a silent feature documentary. The Romance of the Far Fur Country was released in 1920, two years before the legendary…

George Bassler’s Perpetual Motion Machine

By Berny Hi | 00:03:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 13/01/2014

Following his familyâs untimely demise, prairie homesteader George Bassler bizarrely spends 1945 crafting a Perpetual Motion machine uncannily echoing similarly named inventor Johann Besslerâs 1712 invention, the Perpetuum Mobile. Based on actual events, this film explores obsession with employing mechanical devices to trick time and make everything last forever.

This Halfway Place

By Gertrude Hambira | 00:04:38 | Documentary | 19/01/2014

One womanâs very personal story about her journey from hardship in Zimbabwe through the rigors of the immigration process to Canada.

House of the Wind

By Sheldon Oberman | 00:18:48 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1988

A short drama based on a poem by internationally acclaimed poet George Amable. Shot in an abandoned community in Manitoba, the film is about a writer who abandons civilization for the gentle, natural beauty of a ghost town. The effect this has is revealed when a woman close to him comes to find him.

Strongest Man in the World, The

By Halya Kuckmij | 00:29:00 | Documentary | 1/1/1980

This film tells the bittersweet story of strongman and magician Mike Swistun who, for thirty days in 1923, was the strongman with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Born in Olha, Manitoba, Swistun was a Ukrainian farm boy, who, for a short moment in time, achieved fame and fortune only to lose it. Narrated…

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