A film account of events preceding and during the summer of 1990 with particular reference to the so-called "Mohawk Crisis." The film focuses on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake but also reflects on Canada at a particular time in its history.

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This seventh and final film in the series is a documentary record of a three-day conference held in Steinberg Limited's lodge north of Montréal. Here, faced with the stepping down of Sam Steinberg as president, ambitious top-level executives thrash out their differences on matters of corporation policy and objectives, ever aware of the crucial issue: who will be president after Mr. Sam? Sprinkled with Sam Steinberg's reminiscences and reflections on business, full of insights into the workings of a large corporation and clashes of interest and character, the film presents an unusually close view of a struggle for position and power.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

The varied, moving and sometimes contradictory accounts of expatriate Quebeckers in New York highlight the difficultly of being accepted in the American megalapolis' various artistic and financial environments, which are often as impenetrable as a private club. The clash is just as violent when it comes to personal life. The expats portrayed, be they artists, psychiatrists or businesspeople, all share a passionate relationship with this city and all that is simulating, attractive, and excessive about it. Some of them have lived in the city for 20 years; others are just arriving. Some of them had wanted to leave, but without ever managing to do so. The filmmaker seeks to identify the nature of their attachment to New York, as well as the reasons behind this desire for exile. As a counterpoint, the camera explores the city's architecture and texture by incorporating a fictional video story. Images of the poor illustrate the other side of the fascination exerted by this city where anything can happen.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

This documentary, part travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, concerns filmmaker Frank Cole=s quest to resist the idea of death by confronting one of the harshest landscapes on earth: The Sahara Desert. After preparing himself physically and mentally, he sets out from Ottawa, Canada and begins his year-long, solo-journey across the desert by camel. After watching his grandfather die, Cole realized he had a fear of death. He sets out wishing to resist this fear by proving that he could fight death and win.

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On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec, into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Québec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into the Mohawks' unyielding determination to protect their land.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

The contemporary obsession with body size and shape among North American women.

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Do you perhaps believe in spirits? Voodoo? Witchcraft? Or even the Devil? Perhaps you have even seen the devil already, in all his terror and horror, lurking under the cover of darkness? That wouldn't be surprising. The Devil exists; he is modern and cold. He is the neon sign, the atom, and the electron signal in disguise. In America, he takes on many different faces. He haunts everywhere, spans the ages and has a place in all cultures. He is found in Quebec, in Louisiana, among the Amerindians. To this day, we tell tales of his deeds and misdeeds. We admire him; we fear him. We say that he is capable of the greatest evil. Such as the atomic bomb, and the advances of high technology, for example. Diabolical.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)