2024 Skoden Indigenous Film FestivalSkoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF) is a two-day film festival which features work from across Turtle Island by Indigenous filmmakers, actors, directors, and creatives. Held on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Wauthuth Peoples, SIFF is screened in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at Simon Fraser University, the alma mater of Co-Founders Carr

Sappier (Wolastoqey, they/them), and Grace Mathisen (she/her).

Saltwater Cures All is a compilation of video works featuring Racquel Rowe in her native island of Barbados. Rowe explores ideas of the formation of the Black Atlantic, personal and familial connections to the sea, relationships between Black people and water and the idea of rebirth. Many of the works feature the East coast of the island, the first point of contact that European colonialists would have made; through the juxtaposition of land and sea, Rowe asks viewers to consider the implications of these idealized scenes and their historical and present-day implications for the Black populations that call these islands home.

Women In Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV) has announced the date and lineup of the 17th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF). The festival, which will take place virtually from March 8-13, 2022, includes 33 films from 12 countries, made up of 17 Canadian films — with 9 from local BC filmmakers.

Centre A’s “The Living Room” is a unique exhibition-installation that transforms the gallery space into a furnished living room. By converting the gallery rooms into a (semi-)domestic area, the project aims to challenge and restructure the oftentimes unapproachable space of the contemporary art gallery.

NFB.ca is adding wonderful new titles in November. This free-to-watch selection of works from NFB studios around the country includes the world premiere of the interactive animated film Brainstream, by Caroline Robert of Studio AATOAA; Renée Blanchar’s profoundly human feature documentary The Silence; the short docs Being Prepared by Carol Kunnuk and Into Light by Sheona McDonald; a thematic channel for Remembrance Day; and films celebrating the winners of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ award-winning feature-length documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is screening at Vancity Theatre beginning November 5. Kímmapiiyipitssini is an intimate portrait of survival, love and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of substance use and a drug-poisoning epidemic, where community members active in addiction and recovery, first responders and medical professionals implement harm reduction to save lives.