Movies: Winnipeg

  • 2024
    Universal Language

    Universal Language (2024)

    Universal Language

    02024HD

    Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winn...

    Universal Language
  • 2008
    My Winnipeg

    My Winnipeg (2008)

    My Winnipeg

    6.82008HD

    The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful ...

    My Winnipeg
  • 1996
    Hard Core Logo

    Hard Core Logo (1996)

    Hard Core Logo

    6.71996HD

    Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on ...

    Hard Core Logo
  • 2003
    Cowards Bend the Knee

    Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

    Cowards Bend the Knee

    6.22003HD

    When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged....

    Cowards Bend the Knee
  • 2019
    Stand!

    Stand! (2019)

    Stand!

    102019HD

    In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike....

    Stand!
  • 2020
    Thursday

    Thursday (2020)

    Thursday

    02020HD

    Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverb...

    Thursday
  • 2020
    The Manitoba Connection

    The Manitoba Connection (2020)

    The Manitoba Connection

    02020HD

    This previously unreleased, 35-minute documentary film that takes you deep into the bowels of Winnipeg's punk and hardcore underground circa the mid-2000s. "The Manitoba Connection" provides a rare, lightning-in-a-bottle snapshot of DIY subculture as...

    The Manitoba Connection
  • 1953
    Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman

    Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman (1953)

    Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman

    5.71953HD

    In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to the life he knew in Poland, marvelling at the freedom Canadians enjoy. In winter the rail-switches on ...

    Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman
  • 2019
    Green Run

    Green Run (2019)

    Green Run

    02019HD

    Two men driving home from work miraculously hit every green light....

    Green Run
  • 1972
    It Ain't Easy

    It Ain't Easy (1972)

    It Ain't Easy

    7.51972HD

    Randy has PTSD from the Army. After extreme treatment he is released into the world to make it on his own. He goes to Winnipeg to race his snowmobile cross country to St. Paul....

    It Ain't Easy
  • 1977
    The McIntyre Block

    The McIntyre Block (1977)

    The McIntyre Block

    01977HD

    A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for the marginalized and history's leftovers. A snapshot of a fading era, now gone for good....

    The McIntyre Block
  • 2021
    Ma Nishma Manitoba

    Ma Nishma Manitoba (2021)

    Ma Nishma Manitoba

    02021HD

    From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity and history. Filmmakers Johanna and Sara put their own experiences in local context by chatting with s...

    Ma Nishma Manitoba
  • 2012
    Kubasa in a Glass: The Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992 (2012)

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992

    82012HD

    Originally released in 2006, Kubasa in a Glass presents a digitally warped reflection of Winnipeg’s brief and disposable self-image, as seen through local no-budget and public access television of the 1980s....

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992
  • 1974
    Freshwater World

    Freshwater World (1974)

    Freshwater World

    01974HD

    This documentary explores a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments....

    Freshwater World
  • 2024
    Aberdeen

    Aberdeen (2024)

    Aberdeen

    72024HD

    An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-...

    Aberdeen
  • 1969
    Correspondances

    Correspondances (1969)

    Correspondances

    01969HD

    ...

    Correspondances
  • 1983
    After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies

    After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies (1983)

    After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies

    01983HD

    This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairies. The Prairies are singled out because of their proximity to huge stockpiles of intercontinental ballistic missiles located in North Dakota. Scenes i...

    After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies
  • 2016
    this river

    this river (2016)

    this river

    02016HD

    Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clues to find out what happened to their missing family and friends. The documentary demonstrates the devastating experience of searching for a loved one...

    this river
  • 2017
    Headdress

    Headdress (2017)

    Headdress

    02017HD

    For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of hard-earned leadership and responsibility. As filmmaker JJ Neepin prepares to wear her grandfather's headdress for a photo shoot she reflects on lessons...

    Headdress
  • 2017
    Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

    Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy (2017)

    Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

    02017HD

    Sandy Doyle is an outspoken no nonsense business woman. She became a worldwide celebrity with the creation of her diner Blondies Burgers....

    Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy