The Knitting Circle
Sometimes, in the Yukon, the shape of community is a knitting circle. Winters in the sparsely populated Yukon are long, cold and dark-a natural recipe for isolation. For newcomers like Alexandra Knowles, it can be hard to find friends. But anywhere there is a yarn store, there are knitters. And where there are knitters, there is a knitting circle, weaving together a circle of care, one stitch at a time-and reminding us of the simple ways that community is built on presence, storytelling and shared purpose.
Christine Sinclair: Kind of a Big Deal
An intimate animated documentary about the most prolific goal scorer in international soccer history, and the power of quiet leadership.
Now is the Time
In 1969, fifty years before this film is released, an indigenous community in Canada succeeds in constructing and erecting a totem pole, a practice which had been suppressed for decades by the local authorities.
Way of the Hunter
In the Great Bear Rainforest, on the rugged coast of British Columbia, two men in a zodiac drift quietly by a sleeping grizzly bear, hunkered down on the nearby river bank. A former hunter who ultimately traded his gun for a camera, filmmaker Robert Moberg retraces his evolving relationship with the natural world in Way of the Hunter.