Films
Club Native
Audition
XXY
Two Soft Things
Two Hard Things
Club Native
Club Native is a 2008 documentary directed by Tracy Deer who grew up on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake with two very firm but unspoken rules drummed into her by the collective force of the community. These rules were very simple and they carried severe repercussions: 1) Do not marry a white person, 2) Do not have a child with a white person.
Club Native is available to Stream now through the National Film Board here
Audition
Audition (オーディション, Ōdishon) is a 1999 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike, based on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami. It is about a widower, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), whose son suggests that he should find a new wife. Aoyama agrees, and with a friend, stages a phony audition to meet a potential new partner in life. After interviewing several women, Aoyama becomes interested in Asami (Eihi Shiina), who responds well to him, although as they begin to date, her dark past begins to affect their relationship.
Audition is available to Stream now through March 30th, 2021, RSVP for the access link
XXY
XXY (2007) directed by Lucia Puenzo is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo. Starring Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron, and Martín Piroyansky, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old intersex person, the way her family copes with her condition and the ultimate decision that she must eventually make as she struggles to define her own gender identity amongst a society that expects certain behaviors. (available on Kanopy)
XXY is available to Stream March 21st through March 27th, RSVP for the access link
Two Soft Things Two Hard Things
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things (2016) directed by Mark Kenneth Woods and Michael Yerxa- The film explores the small but burgeoning community of LGBT Inuit people living in Nunavut, amidst the backdrop of the establishment of an LGBT Pride festival in the territorial capital of Iqaluit; the event took place just months after Iqaluit participated in the national campaign of raising and displaying the pride flag on public buildings for the duration of the 2014 Winter Olympics to protest anti-LGBT laws in Russia, which set off an extended territory-wide debate about the role of homosexuality in Inuit culture.
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things is available to Stream March 21st through March 27th, RSVP for the access link