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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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The Jewish Girl

By Adam Bentley | 00:08:46 | Documentary, Narrative-Fiction | 5/05/17

A young woman makes one last impassioned attempt to help her elderly Dutch relatives remember their family's heroic efforts to fight the Nazis and save Jewish children before it's too late.

The Blessing

By Shira Newman | 00:14:52 | Narrative-Fiction | 09/04/2017

A young immigrant on an isolated Jewish agricultural settlement in the Canadian prairies falls into a deep depression after the birth of her first child. After overhearing others say she is likely possessed by the demon Lilith, she comes to believe she is a danger to the baby and must wrestle this dark force within…

Fish Soup

By Rami Katz | 00:09:45 | Documentary | 01/11/2015

This is a personal film between father and son that offers an intimate look at family history and cultural traditions through the making of fish soup.

My Jewish Death

By Saul Henteleff | 00:30:34 | Documentary | 15/03/2015

In 2004, Saul Henteleff began a journey into the practice and philosophy of Taharah, the Jewish ritual of preparing a Jewish body for burial. This journey led to the creation of a 30 minute documentary film in which Henteleff presents a personal, point-of-view account of the Taharah beginning in the Jewish mortuary and ending at…

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By Solomon Nagler | 00:04:43 | Experimental | 1/8/2003

A hand-processed / color-manipulated portrait of the last member of a Jewish Farming colony in Central Canada who guards over the precious relics of an idealistic past.

Montefiore Club, The

By Saul Henteleff | 00:25:00 | Documentary | 1/11/2003

In 1949 a group of men from Winnipeg's Jewish community got together to start a club - The Montefiore Club - a place of their own to play high stakes poker, eat salami and eggs and party till dawn. It was a fast joint! But that was the public image. What few people know is…

Sex of Self-Hatred, The

By Solomon Nagler | 00:09:21 | Experimental | 1/8/2004

Its 1903, and Otto Weininger, Viennas most infamous self-hating Jew, has decided to kill himself in a room containing Beethovens deathbed. He has just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun…

Salt Pillar, The

By Daniel Eskin | 00:20:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/2/2005

At the end of the Holocaust, in the weeks following his liberation, a German Jew wanders across the vast and dangerous Polish countryside as he makes his long and somber trek back home to the once peaceful village of his youth.

Fugue Nefesh

By Solomon Nagler | 00:29:20 | Experimental | 01/06/2007

A survivor of the Holocaust and an impoverished aboriginal boy have just died. United in their displacement, they become caught up in the flux of transmigration. A nomadic fugue, they wander timelessly among the naked souls of Winnipeg's desolate North End.

Welcome

By Daniel Gerson | 00:08:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2008

Scuttling through the decrepit and impoverished city streets that comprise his only playground, a young boy lives in social peril. The stark, vÃ©ritÃ©, imagery reveals the alienating effects of urban neglect; places where nature has started to reclaim what society has squandered. Welcome was filmed on location in Winnipeg's crumbling and disenfranchised Chinatown district.

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