Portraits from a Fire – A new classic
Portraits from a Fire reveals the impact of intergenerational trauma. | Photos courtesy of Trevor Mack
Portraits from a Fire is a film focused on a young boy, Tyler, who uses the power of …
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May 10 2021 Culture The invisible workers of the gig economy
Photo by Shannon Walsh
The economic mammoth that is the global gig economy is the subject of director and UBC film professor Shannon Walsh’s film The Gig is Up. From the experiences of …
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April 26 2021 Culture Someone Like Me- The challenges of queer solidarity in Vancouver
In the documentary Someone Like Me, when a queer group of strangers unite to support a gay Ugandan man seeking
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July 6 2020 Culture Vancouver Queer Film Festival - Breaking Fast portrays love and joy as an act of resistance
VQFF’s Closing Gala Film, Breaking Fast by Mike Mosallam, delivers an intelligent rom-com that portrays love and joy as an act of …
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June 22 2020 Culture Supermarket clerks and the human imagination
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June 8 2020 Culture Chinuk Wawa – reviving an endangered Indigenous language
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October 7 2019 Culture Pushing boundaries: VR storytelling
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July 8 2019 Culture Justice in a culture of silence
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May 6 2019 Culture Amplifying a voice displaced
Marking the eighth anniversary of the March 11th Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, UBC hosts (March 17) documentarian Hitomi Kamanaka and her newest film Little Voices from Fukushima, a film …
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October 8 2018 Culture Djon África: A journey of self-discovery
Scenes from Djon África, starring Miguel Moreira as the titular character, a man who goes in search of his father on African Island of…