Ignite Year-Round Archive

In this moving, delicate and raw autobiographical coming-of-age movie, Tracey Deer harks back to her personal rebellion at the age of 12, in the midst of the standoff between Mohawks and settlers in Oka, Quebec that raged 30 years ago this summer.

An eye-opening plea to care for the thing that feeds us, balances the climate, and sustains life on earth: soil. Common Ground unveils the potential of regenerative farming, to show us how saving the soil can help save us, and the planet, along with it.

Counted Out investigates major current issues like political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change through an unexpected lens: math. To inspire students to look at the world critically, this is the film to see.

Amin says the diary where he documented what happened to him during the Soviet-Afghan war is written in Dari, a language he now only barely recollects. In Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen illustrates how the incomplete nature of this story shapes Amin’s life.

Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats.

The Klabona Keepers is a fierce account of the Tahltan Nation’s struggle to protect the Klabona Sacred Headwaters from commercial mining. Interspersing verité cinematography with interviews, the film documents the tactics used by the land defenders.

Vancouver’s Harry Jerome was Canada’s most record-setting track and field star. Compelling interviews and archival footage tell the story of what Jerome’s own coach called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.”

A struggling opera composer is forced to take in his eccentric orphaned niece. Despite their opposite personalities, they soon see that they may need each other more than they thought, and begin to believe in second chances.

Image © Immina Films and Danny Taillon

After Niska’s daughter is taken by military occupiers in war-ravaged North America circa 2043, she joins a group of Cree vigilantes to spring their children from a fortified compound. Sometimes, survival hinges on more than just a killer instinct.

Undaunted by paltry audiences at his DIY films on the Tl’etinqox Reserve, teenage Tyler remains convinced that he’s bound for bigger things. But when a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history, Tyler must unearth difficult truths.

Red Fever reveals the many ways Indigenous peoples have left their mark on culture we all share, including fashion, sports, politics, the environment and more. This film may just change the way students understand the world.

Intertwining narratives concerning residential school survivors, including Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Jack-Webstad, and Indigenous peoples’ relationship with imperiled wild Pacific salmon, Sean Stiller’s documentary is a testament to resilience.

Rosie is an orphaned Indigenous girl sent to live with her reluctant street-smart aunt. Rosie soon transforms the lives of the colourful characters she meets and together, they find acceptance and home with her in a chosen family of glittering outsiders.

An innovative and eye-opening collection of animated and experimental Canadian shorts. A collection that inspires new approaches to the moving image on screen and re-imagines compelling perspectives, histories, memories and formative life experiences.

Among Titanic’s 705 survivors were six Chinese men whose stories were lost due to America’s Chinese Exclusion Act. Executive produced by James Cameron, this documentary grants them their rightful place in history by uncovering their sacrifices.

Unarchived is a feature documentary that explores the diverse, underrepresented and erased histories in British Columbia. We’ll follow local Knowledge Keepers and organizations across the province as they subvert the dominant historical narrative in our museums and archives, and fight for a more inclusive history.

Vancouver destroyed its historic Black community in the 1960s. The legacies of this thriving community are still felt, and a new generation of Black Vancouverites work to rebuild, facilitate Black joy and redefine what it means to be African-Canadian.