A Letter F

An abstract film exploring gender and race through the power of erotics and love.

A young man who had just got recovered from an accident encountered someone who made him feel at peace, but he had no idea that this would cause him to become confused about his entire existence, including his sexuality.

Letter to My Daughter is an autobiographical video about my journey to become a parent and my experiences throughout the first five years of my daughter’s life. The audio soundtrack is my voice reading a letter to my daughter Elinor, and the images are from my personal archive and include snapshots, ultrasound images, and photographs from Family Pictures. The letter is highly personal and addresses a variety of topics, including my expectations around parenthood, the long and circuitous journey of trying to have a child with both known and anonymous sperm donors, the experiences of miscarriage and loss, and my adjustment to parenthood as a queer and nonbinary person. Perhaps most importantly, it tries to put into words the intensity of love between a parent and child as well as the significant personal growth parenthood both inspires and requires.

Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who represents a more messianic perspective, and I have had numerous arguments, some recorded, some not. These form the backbone of this video essay in which Israelis and Jews, journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground, in the West Bank, are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland.

A Bhutanese community living in Darjeeling since 1865, only fifteen kilometres from the Bhutan border

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while helping to run a family carpentry business. Through inventive and playful techniques, Giguère brings the stories alive, applying creative approaches to family photographs, archival footage and staged reenactments. He mixes his mother's stories with his own memories and those of his siblings, some of whom hear for the first time what their mother had to say about them. Through these intertwining stories, the film presents not only a testament of a mother's complicated love for her many children, but also offers an intimate look at 1950s working class Quebec. - Aisha Jamal (Hot Docs Film Festival)

Knyaz Boris I reached the most important spiritual insight - the country needed a single language and script. It accepts students of Cyril and Methodius, creating Ohrid and Preslav Literary School. What other nations took centuries, for bulgarians takes place only about 20 years after their baptizing - introduced a Slavonic Alphabet.

A brother writes to his sister. A brother loves his sister. is it true that one can keep a young woman through writing? The ambition is great. A long correspondence of 149 letters, this film is based on the letters that my brother Didier wrote to me. Two actors carry his poetic writing to a new perception. Axel Bogousslavsky and Nathalie Richard are the brother and sister. They sing, they dance on the roads, on a journey, in the land of « Didierlangue ».A crazy bet, yes, funny, delirious, that of a fable, where the French language is shaken up.This film explores how writing and the experience of a hybrid language create a film about love.

Poet Emily Dickinson, pigeonholed as the strange recluse since her death, takes you on a journey through the seasons of her life amid 1800s New England.

One day before her 18th birthday, Laura Hellmer finds out by chance that her mother Katharina, a renowned political journalist, has lied to her for years: Laura's father was not a Spanish war photographer who died before she was born, but probably lives and is in Chile. Without further ado, Laura sets off for South America to find her true father. While she is in Santiago following in the footsteps of her mother, who once reported on the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship, Katharina travels to her daughter.

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill Morrison, TCM Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart, and film collector/expert Shane Fleming. They discuss the beauty, cultural importance, and long-standing impact that silent film holds in its celluloid.

Mini-DV. Details and duration unknown.

A love letter to hair on the Cape Flats

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy a firestorm erupts when 1,100 Somali refugees relocate to predominately white Lewiston, Maine.

One party in a relationship has finally plucked up the courage to express his unhappiness. But that conversation will take an unusual shape. As our couple begin an emotionally charged and brutally honest game of Scrabble, both will get more than they bargained for.

Rewriting the Script features frank discussions with parents, siblings and extended family members of South Asian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. Poignant testimonies are shared not only about the coming out experience but how these families transformed themselves to include their queer children, changing the larger South Asian community in the process. The documentary speaks not only to experiences of South Asians (which includes people originating from the Indian subcontinent), but to other diasporic communities as well.

Cinematographers Ben Kasulke and Sean Price Williams discuss their relationship to and the cinematography of Letter from an Unknown Woman. An extra on Olive Signature's Blu-Ray release of Letter from an Unknown Woman.