Movies: British columbia

  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons (2011)

    These were the reasons

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    This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, ...

    These were the reasons
  • 2023
    Silvicola

    Silvicola (2023)

    Silvicola

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    The human impact on forests is explored through breathtaking vistas and poignant vignettes set in Canada's Pacific Northwest. Those who rely on this precious resource highlight the tensions and dilemmas between commodification and conservation....

    Silvicola
  • 2023
    Wild Goat Surf

    Wild Goat Surf (2023)

    Wild Goat Surf

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    In a run-down Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, surfing-obsessed 12-year-old skater girl Rell “Goat” Anderson navigates the unbridled, unstructured summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer....

    Wild Goat Surf
  • 1994
    Tokyo Cowboy

    Tokyo Cowboy (1994)

    Tokyo Cowboy

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    When a young Japanese man with an affinity towards American western films is fired from his job, he sets out to become a real live cowboy....

    Tokyo Cowboy
  • 1985
    My American Cousin

    My American Cousin (1985)

    My American Cousin

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    Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older American cousin, Butch Walker, comes for a visit....

    My American Cousin
  • 2013
    Let's Go Get Small

    Let's Go Get Small (2013)

    Let's Go Get Small

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    The Canadian Coast Range is a humbling place. The range dwarfs both exceptionally large human beings and egos with its foreboding size. Norseman Productions follows Dave Treadway and Henrik Windstedt as they push into the range on snowmobiles in purs...

    Let's Go Get Small
  • 2008
    Warrior Boyz

    Warrior Boyz (2008)

    Warrior Boyz

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    To date, more than a hundred young men from the South Asian community have died in gang-related violence in Metro Vancouver. Gangs are a reality of urban life, yet behind the body count and the headlines, a far different battle is being waged. Educat...

    Warrior Boyz
  • 2020
    Invasion

    Invasion (2020)

    Invasion

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    In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation are standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence ag...

    Invasion
  • 2015
    Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World

    Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World (2015)

    Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World

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    Denizens of the British Columbia archipelago unite to protect their land....

    Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World
  • 2015
    The Interior

    The Interior (2015)

    The Interior

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    After receiving a distressing medical diagnosis, a listless young man flees the crushing tedium of Toronto city life, trading it all for the wilderness of the British Columbian Interior. When his whims go awry, he is reduced to petty thievery just to...

    The Interior
  • 1986
    9B

    9B (1986)

    9B

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    The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school....

    9B
  • 2018
    This Mountain Life

    This Mountain Life (2018)

    This Mountain Life

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    A daughter and her 60-year-old mother embark on a 6 month, 2,300-kilometre ski trek through British Columbia’s rugged terrain....

    This Mountain Life
  • 1977
    Gurdeep Singh Bains

    Gurdeep Singh Bains (1977)

    Gurdeep Singh Bains

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    Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British Columbia. They have retained their language and religion. Attendance at the Sikh temple, playing soccer with his schoolmates, and working on the farm...

    Gurdeep Singh Bains
  • 2019
    Haida Modern

    Haida Modern (2019)

    Haida Modern

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    In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. Charles Wilkinson (Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World) brings his trademark inquisitiveness and craftsmans...

    Haida Modern
  • 1964
    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver (1964)

    Haida Carver

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    On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the man...

    Haida Carver
  • 2024
    Forest Echoes

    Forest Echoes (2024)

    Forest Echoes

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    A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the one-year anniversary of their arrest on the front lines, a death in their community opens old wounds bu...

    Forest Echoes
  • 2025
    Saints And Warriors

    Saints And Warriors (2025)

    Saints And Warriors

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    Throughout the course of the Haida basketball season, leaders of iconic rez ball team the Skidegate Saints compete for two titles - defending their All Native Basketball Championship, while also battling for title to their land and waters with the go...

    Saints And Warriors
  • 1970
    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time (1970)

    This Was the Time

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    When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of the people had returned. This is a colourful recreation of Indigenous life that faded more than two gen...

    This Was the Time
  • 2006
    Finding Dawn

    Finding Dawn (2006)

    Finding Dawn

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    Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years. Explores the deep historical, social, and economic factors that contribute ...

    Finding Dawn
  • 1986
    Wild in the City

    Wild in the City (1986)

    Wild in the City

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    This short documentary films some of the wild animal species that have adapted to the city of Vancouver, from the familiar pigeons and starlings to the less familiar herons nesting in Stanley Park and a coyote in a farmer's field....

    Wild in the City