Gloria Demers Movies

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a...

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

A series of interviews, combined with newsreel footage, that placed the American feminist movement in historical perspective. Six of the movement's...

This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping...

Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a child of the fur trade, son of a Native mother and a Scottish-Canadian fur trader. John Mackenzie's...

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and...

First Winter is a 1982 Canadian short film directed by John N. Smith. With the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first...

Sexually abused by her father from infancy to early adolescence, Shirley Turcotte is now in her thirties and has succeeded in building a rich and...

A trio of children steal a fir tree for a Christmas tree from a grouchy neighbor and later resolve to make amends.

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

A tribute to Indigenous women everywhere, this short documentary focuses on 5 women from across Canada. Of varied ages and backgrounds, they have...

Seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, a child of concentration camp survivors, this program explores the impact of the Holocaust on a generation of...

The history of nuns mirrors the history of all women -- in what we are taught about the past, women are almost invisible. Although today's one...