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- Who Killed Gandhi? is an investigation into assassin Nathuram Vinayak Godse, his mentor Vinakay Damodar Savarkar, and the murder of a man considered by many to be a saint and the father of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi. The story of the characters involved and muliple attempts on Gandhi's life reveal the complexities behind it, which have been cloaked in mystery and are only now coming to light. Gandhi's radical vision of a non violent, multicultural society was in direct opposition to that of his opponents, inevitably leading to his violent death. What emerges is an epic battle of clashing ideologies set in a formative era that would define the world we live in today.
- The Art of Dance: A Journey Into Movement is an immersive cinematic experience that takes you on a journey around the world to discover the answer to What Moves You? Unprecedented, this documentary experience traces the evolutionary story of dance and music as a cultural, social, and spiritual movement from traditional Indigenous, First Nations, Native and African cultures connecting through to present-day street and popular forms. Each chapter immerses us into the intimate life of a different lead character, who then becomes our first-person guide within their specific tradition. These artisans are masters of their form, each taking us into their own world, showing us the passion, devotion, and practice of their discipline. They reveal their particular challenges and struggles while peeling back the social and historical knowledge of their art form as only an insider can. With inspired and innovative movement, curated music, rare archival footage, intimate cinema verite', and lush cinematography, visually bold and compelling high stakes stories are told that are both personal and epic in scale.
- A sci-fi stop-motion animation made for an Indigenous peoples network in Canada. This animation follows five teenagers in the future. These teens, along with their parents, are supposed to be frozen as a part of a project for 50 million years, but they are awakened 9 million years too early. Their parents are still frozen, so these five teens must adapt to a new earth on their own.
- Terrified of his food, filmmaker Anand Ramayya (Cosmic Current) embarks on a journey that reveals shocking connections between the Mad Cow crisis, Farm crisis and Global Food crisis. Ramayya realizes that the cow is not only his favourite meal but also the God of his Hindu ancestors and the livelihood of his Canadian in-laws, who are small farmers. With a sense of humor and curiosity, Ramayya embarks on a journey to learn more about the modern Mad Cow and ancient Sacred Cow in hopes that their stories will reveal a solution to his fear of food. The journey takes him from his in-laws' family farm all the way back to India, land of the Sacred Cow. Ironically, modern India is also home to a burgeoning meat export industry that threatens to destroy an agricultural economy centered around the Sacred Cow and critical to the livelihood of 65% of India's population. Globalization emerges as a re-occurring character in this journey, revealing a world gone mad, an ecological crisis, religious fundamentalism, a farmer suicide epidemic and record breaking economic growth contrasted by staggering disparity. Is the way we eat connected to all this? Mad Cow Sacred Cow is a universal story that connects the food we eat to the environmental, cultural, economic and health crises we are currently facing on a global level.
- When a life-threatening illness strikes his family, Indo-Canadian filmmaker Anand Ramayya finds himself on a modern-day spiritual pilgrimage to India. He's joined by his traditional Hindu mother, Jaya, his psychologist/filmmaker father, Ray, and his Japanese rock star brother, Raj. From Saskatchewan and Japan to the south of India, what unfolds is an intimate and entertaining portrait of a family trying to reconnect. Their vivid and revelation-filled journey takes them to Tirupati, an ancient site of Hindu worship in India. They've come at the request of Jaya, to pray for her health. It is the first time the family has been together in India for 25 years, and the road is filled with surprises. This quirky documentary mixes first-person diary cam, lively interviews, and on-the-fly footage to put a fresh spin on universal questions of ethnicity, home and self. The pilgrimage ends by transforming a family that had grown apart.
