Absolutely Canadian - Season 23

Absolutely Canadian - Season 23

Season 23

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Episodes13
DatesFeb 20, 2023 - Nov 11, 2023
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Episodes

Wabanaki Modern
Season 23Episode 160 min

Wabanaki Modern

An exploration and celebration of an influential art movement within the Indigenous community in New Brunswick in the 1960's.

Feb 20, 2023
Rooted
Season 23Episode 260 min

Rooted

Dylan Jewers is on the hunt for unique traditional music, and he's taking us along for the ride. In this one-hour documentary Jewers is on a personal quest to track down extraordinary Nova Scotia musicians from a variety of backgrounds.

Mar 27, 2023
Effected
Season 23Episode 360 min

Effected

A former Canadian soldier builds special effects for movies to help manage his PTSD.

Mar 28, 2023
Giiwe - Returning Home
Season 23Episode 460 min

Giiwe - Returning Home

Following filmmaker Taye Alvis as he looks to reconnect to his community of Walpole Island First Nation. Taye will explore his relationship to Walpole Island, and how one can reconnect to their traditions and culture by way of conversation, arts, and recreation.

Mar 29, 2023
Bump and Feed
Season 23Episode 560 min

Bump and Feed

A Nova Scotian chef turned pro-wrestler overcomes addiction, trauma, and grief to fulfill their childhood dream. Then a split-second in the ring changes everything.

Apr 15, 2023
Creatorland: Four Women
Season 23Episode 660 min

Creatorland: Four Women

Creatorland: Four Women follows the lives of extraordinary women creating impact in their communities through art, food, and culture.

Apr 28, 2023
Cold Dip
Season 23Episode 760 min

Cold Dip

A Canadian veteran and artist practices cold dipping in Nova Scotia as a way to heal physical and emotional trauma from a life no one expected her to pursue.

Jun 30, 2023
The Lobster Whisperer
Season 23Episode 860 min

The Lobster Whisperer

When Michael Sullivan is not fishing lobster, he's thinking about how to fish lobster. A 5th-generation fisherman living on Quebec's Gaspé coast, he has tasked himself with building 200 wooden traps during the cold, dark winter months while waiting for the next season to begin. The program takes place in Michael's small basement workshop, out on his boat, and underwater, as there is another important voice to balance the narrative: that of the lobster from the ocean floor. Award-winning poet Sue Goyette, and award-winning animator Aparna Kapur bring the lobster to life, its voice resonating uncannily like that of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. The lobster offers up its thoughts and dreams – a chorus from the depths of the ocean. Michael works in his workshop, he waits, and the lobsters wait. Are the lobsters part nightmare, part fever dream, and part ghosts from centuries past? An evergreen capsule of the relationship between our species in fragile harmony with our surroundings, and a deep insight into this longstanding local tradition of this special maritime region in Quebec.

Jul 21, 2023
Trout River and the Blue Whale
Season 23Episode 960 min

Trout River and the Blue Whale

The remains of one of the biggest animals to ever live land on a small town beach, attracting global attention and changing a Newfoundland outport forever.

Jul 28, 2023
Foreign Legacies
Season 23Episode 1060 min

Foreign Legacies

First-generation Montrealers recount their experiences and parental pressures as they embark on their careers, and reconfigure their definitions of success.

Aug 25, 2023
Rooted: Songs of Unama'ki
Season 23Episode 1130 min

Rooted: Songs of Unama'ki

In a race against time to revive their dying language and culture, the Mi'kmaq of Unama'ki (Cape Breton) are turning to the musical traditions of their ancestors.

Sep 28, 2023
In the Quiet and the Dark
Season 23Episode 1260 min

In the Quiet and the Dark

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of an Eastern Hemlock forest in Nova Scotia, the film follows the passionate people fighting to save it from an invasive tree-killing insect.

Oct 6, 2023
Fennario: The Good Fight
Season 23Episode 1360 min

Fennario: The Good Fight

David Fennario, the great Quebec playwright (famous for Balconville, among others) and militant socialist, is now confined to a wheelchair, but that has not dampened his will to take action, and fight for progress. Martin Duckworth, a major figure in Canadian documentary cinema, captures all of his contradictory energy. Over the course of this encounter, the filmmaker attentively and enthusiastically records Fennario's charismatic presence, his political humour, his desire to be heard at all costs, for example through his last play, Mother House, a denunciation of the horrors of the First World War. By filming the process of staging the play, Duckworth reflects on the power of art while creating a poignant portrait of a man marked by history.

Nov 11, 2023

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