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Overview: At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Overview: Mike is released from a mental institution and finds himself in a filthy room and board where dreams and reality are one. A moving depiction of mental illness and a scathing indictment of the impersonal health care system.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Overview: Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2000-09-07
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Overview: The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Overview: While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Overview: After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-25
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Overview: A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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