Absolutely Canadian - Season 21

Season 21

Episodes

Sisters: Dreams and Variations
Follows two distinctive Montreal artists as they follow their late Icelandic grandmother's voice, through audio cassette recordings, to their ancestral Iceland to reconnect, create and perform with their artist mother.

Tiatsini: Journey of the Taku Kwan
Indigenous populations all across the world have a strong sense of place. For the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest, one of these places is the mighty Taku River. Master Carver Wayne Carlick leads a canoe team down the river to ceremony in Alaska as his people once did.

Me, Mom & COVID: One Year Later
A Newfoundland family lives through lockdown, coping with their sister's mental disability, the death of their mother, and the fallout from a local COVID-19 cluster.

The North Star: Finding Black Mecca
The story of Chatham-Kent's historical Black settlements. This film documents the past and the present of a people who have helped shape this country, but are often left out of its textbooks.

Rendezvous with Destiny: Arrow Air Flight 1285 Remembered
The crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285 claimed the lives of 256 souls. This is the story of those who were affected by this tragedy and how the memory of the fallen is kept alive, 35 years later.

Silicon Island
It may seem an unlikely hotbed for tech startups, but a new generation of business leaders are finding everything they need to grow their companies, and build their lives right here in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Freedom Swell
This powerful documentary highlights an unique surf program designed to empower African Nova Scotian youth to connect with the Atlantic ocean, and discover the healing power of water.

I Am: Limitless
The stories of women of colour carving out a path at Ottawa skateparks where they can be themselves without limits. How they connect through life's challenging journeys and find joy on wheels.

Set in Motion
It's a living, but is it a life? What are the long-term social and familial effects of travelling for work? And What happens when you throw a worldwide pandemic into the mix?

The Orchard
An hour-long documentary about the multigenerational relationship between a working family, new immigrants, and nature, all brought together in a beautiful Orchard, maybe the perfect cooperative effort of humans and nature.
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