Jennifer Podemski – MRQE

Fire Song

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between his family’s home and his own future.

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In late 1940s Kansas, a gifted analyst (Mathieu Amalric) takes the case of a Native American war veteran (Benicio Del Toro) whose blackouts and blinding headaches appear to have no physical cause.

Take This Waltz

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

Fish Tale Soup

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An odd refugee (Rémy Girard) brings unexpected salvation to the childless couple (Kathleen Laskey, John Jarvis) who take him in.

Dance Me Outside

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger — and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.