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9:00pm, Saturday, May 25Small Places, Small HomesLanguage: Cantonese The first feature documentary for Toronto based filmmaker Julia Fong of Mitzi Productions, Small Places, Small Homes explores the lives of visible minority immigrants who choose to live in Canadian rural communities. |
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11:00pm, Sunday, May 26Foreign Domestics: The Right to StayLanguage: Tagalog Migrations are measured in waves. For the Chinese, it was the railroads. For the Irish, it was the famine in their homeland. For the African-Americans, it was to escape slavery. For the Filipinos, it was the Foreign Domestics Movement. |
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3:00pm, Tuesday, May 28The M WordLanguage: Ukrainian Canada is the first country in the world to have an official multiculturalism policy, which is now over three decades old. One would think that multiculturalism is a well-entrenched valued principle in this country. Yet, at the first sign of disquiet in any part of the world, Canada’s Multiculturalism policy is called into question. This hot-button issue is confronted head-on in this riveting documentary. |
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9:00pm, Saturday, June 1The Story of Furious PeteLanguage: Cantonese This hilarious and sometimes bizarre documentary looks into the exciting sport of competitive eating but also explores the daily struggles and triumphs that people go through in their everyday lives as experienced by Pete. It provides a powerful and emotional exploration of male anorexia, something that is not often spoken about in society, as well as the importance of family and the strength of love |
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3:00pm, Tuesday, June 4Jajo's SecretLanguage: Ukrainian When I was a child I would sit and listen to my grandfather talk about when he first arrived in Canada from Ukraine. He would enthrall me with tales about working in the lumber camps or the gold mines in northern Ontario. I figured I knew everything there was to know about him. But a few years after he died, I made a shocking discovery. |
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11:30pm, Sunday, June 9ROM REDUX Korea James Gale: The First Canadian MissionaryLanguage: Korean The 19th century Mother-of-Pearl Chest in the ROM’s Gallery of Korea draws the curious because of its unique features, and the story of how the chest arrived at the museum is just as interesting. |