Videoteca

location_onWinnipeg, ManitobapublicCA

Elevator Game 2023 star_border 4.8
Socially awkward teenager Ryan discovers that the night his sister disappeared, she had played 'The Elevator Game' — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.

Horse Brothers 2022
Two paranoid brothers are consumed with murderous fantasies after a horse convinces them that they are each others’ enemies. Starring Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Forbidden Room) and Milos Mitrovic (Tapeworm, Stump the Guesser).

The Rabbit Hunters 2020 star_border 4.2
A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth.)

Stand! 2019 star_border 10
In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.

Look Away 2018 star_border 6.5
A timid and socially alienated 17-year-old high school student's life is turned upside down when she switches places with her sinister mirror image.

Considering Love and Other Magic 2017 star_border 6.5
In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber, but when the timid 14-year-old insists he hasn't left Veronica's mansion in more than half a century, Jessie knows that something's amiss.

Ozzy 2016 star_border 5.9
Ozzy, a friendly, peaceful beagle has his idyllic life turned upside down when the Martins leave on a long and distant trip. There's only one problem: no dogs allowed! Unable to bring their beloved Ozzy along for the ride, they settle on the next best thing, a top-of-the-line canine spa called Blue Creek.

Reasonable Doubt 2014 star_border 5.8
When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

The Divide 2012 star_border 5.9
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Amreeka 2009 star_border 6.7
Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.

First Stories: Two Spirited 2007 star_border 7
This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person.

Vinegar Hill 2005 star_border 4.3
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.

While I Was Gone 2004 star_border 4.7
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. When he invites her to lunch at a fancy hotel in Boston, she goes with the intention of sleeping with him. Instead, Eli reveals a secret to Jo that returns her to the darkest moments of her past and threatens to destroy life as she knows it.

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party 2004 star_border 5.3
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.

The Nature of Nicholas 2002 star_border 6.3
The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.

The Arrow 1997
The story of the people building the stunning fighter-interceptor jet to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure to dominate the military industry, and the surprise election of the Diefenbaker government, with a new fiscal agenda, threaten to stop the plane from getting off the ground.