1997 Movies

Witnessed is inspired from the dance piece Courtyard choreographed by Allen Kaeja. Allen delves into the times his family lived through during the Hol...

Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1944 in the heart of the Canadian prairies, The Blood Records: written and annotated explores the world of a young...

Images of the austere Icelandic landscape form the backdrop for readings from a series of letters written at the turn of the 20th century. Majestic wa...

Extinct for millions of years, dinosaurs continue to fascinate as scientists struggle to understand the creatures that went from domination to extinct...

Based on a poem by R.M. Vaughan about the torture and murder of a Somalian teenager by members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, this haunting work e...

Sophia's Homecoming reminds us that the devastating personal effects of the massive social dislocations caused by apartheid can never be erased. Sophi...

Director al-Beik's first film, shot in Damascus in 1995 at a flour mill next to his mother’s house.

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.

Twenty-something West Cordova is trapped in a waking nightmare. His overbearing mother is bent on molding him into a MD. His crazy, "wannabe-a-supermo...

A documentary on the life and windfalls of professional gambler Harry Findlay and his wife Kay.

Their son had disappeared on the front two years ago. When he finally calls them at home, they want to forget the suffering of the past. It is an alle...

The filmmaker goes in search of his father, a former guerilla soldier who had walked out of the family a decade ago, and in the process discovers new...

The film was based on an interview with the late dramatist Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer. Wannous narrates his somber and re...

A man is bombarding his environment by throwing everything he owns out of his balcony. The peace is lasting only for a short time, until a fly starts...

The fascinating story of the Chinese monks of the Shaolin temple who developed a series of 18 unique movements to defend themselves against the threat...

A compilation film presenting the most entertaining, inspirational and humorous commercials (some by very well-known directors) made around the world...

A teenage lesbian's attempts to form friendships with older lesbians leads her on a disturbing ride through the ageist terrain of the lesbian communit...

"River of Blue Ice" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on Mount Olympus (Washington) and Blue Glacier. It was directed by Bob Nesson in...