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Canada Standard
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Canada Standard
Indigenous NFB documentary and animation featured at imagineNATIVE.Four new works from the National Film Board of Canada as the festival marks 25 years.
May 8, 2025 - Toronto - National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Four films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will showcase powerful Indigenous documentary and animated storytelling as the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto celebrates its milestone 25th anniversary. Filmmakers Kim O'Bomsawin and Sinakson Trevor Solway delve into themes of Indigenous youth and masculinity in a pair of compelling feature documentaries. There's excellence and innovation in short filmmaking, too, from Amanda Strong and legendary Abenaki creator Alanis Obomsawin. imagineNATIVE's in-person screenings will take place June 3 to 8 in Toronto, with its online festival streaming June 9 to 15. Unless indicated, all NFB films are available in-person and online. NFB selection at imagineNATIVE Ninan Auassat: We, the Children by Kim O'Bomsawin (93 min) | TORONTO PREMIERE Thursday, June 5, at 11:00 a.m. | TIFF Lightbox 3 Shot over more than six years, Abenaki director Kim O'Bomsawin's Ninan Auassat celebrates the power and vitality of Indigenous youth from three different nations-Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu. Filmed from "a child's eye-view" and without adult voices, the film reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight. Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man by Sinakson Trevor Solway (77 min) Saturday, June 7, at 2:30 p.m. | TIFF Lightbox 1 (screening in-person only) | Filmmaker in attendance Siksika filmmaker Sinakson Trevor Solway intimately portrays the lives of Blackfoot men as they navigate identity, kinship and the complex expectations of manhood. Through unfiltered moments set against the breathtaking landscape of the Prairies, Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Manreimagines what it means to be a Native man. My Friend the Green Horse by Alanis Obomsawin (11 min 20 s) | ONTARIO PREMIERE, filmmaker in attendance Sensory Friendly Screening: Wednesday, June 4, at 11 a.m., TIFF Lightbox 2 Short Film Program: FAMILY MATTERS | Sunday, June 8, at 1 p.m. | TIFF Lightbox 3 Often feeling alone in her waking life, a young Alanis Obomsawin found friendship with the Green Horse, a benevolent being she visited regularly in her dreams. In this short film combining stop-motion animation and live action, the Green Horse and other animal spirits guide Alanis to realize the immensity of the gift of life and the power of kindness. Alanis will also take part in ReMatriate the Lens, a women's roundtable discussion on Friday, June 6, at 4:15 p.m. at The Well, presented as part of imagineNATIVE Industry Days. Inkwo for When the Starving Return by Amanda Strong (Spotted Fawn Productions/NFB, 18 min 27 s) Short Film Program: WITCHING HOUR | Friday, June 6, at 10 p.m. | TIFF Lightbox 3 | Filmmaker in attendance Michif/Metis creator Amanda Strong's Inkwo is a stop-motion animated adaptation of a short story by Richard Van Camp in which a gender-shifting warrior uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from a swarm of terrifying creatures. Featuring such voice talents as Paulina Alexis and Tantoo Cardinal. - 30 - Stay Connected Online Screening Room: NFB Facebook | NFB Twitter | NFB Instagram | NFB Blog | NFB YouTube | NFB Vimeo Curator's perspective | Director's notes About the NFB
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gabriela Hearst Fall 2025: The Luxury of Doing the Right Thing
Funding cuts for humanitarian projects; the threat to gender identity rights; on-again, off again tariffs; forced deportations; Elon Musk's slash-and-burn of the federal government…it's easy to tune it all out during fashion month, which has seemed like an alternate universe. Indeed, most designers have gone merrily along without addressing any of it, or if they do, saying obliquely that their punk or comforting clothing inspiration is a reaction against 'what's happening in the world.' More from WWD PinkPantheress Doubles Down on the Statement Belt in Plaid Mini Dress at Coperni's Fall 2025 Show During Paris Fashion Week Celebrities Front Row at Valentino Fall 2025: Jared Leto, Parker Posey Hang in Alessandro Michele's Public Bathroom Gigi Hadid Embraces Edgy Model Off-Duty Style in Charlotte Simone Bomber Jacket During Paris Fashion Week Not so Gabriela Hearst, who stepped out for her runway bow at Paris Fashion Week wearing an ACLU hat, and had ACLU representatives canvassing outside the Palais du Tokyo with information about how to interact with ICE agents. With sustainability and political activism seemingly falling out of fashion, Hearst is one of the few who continues to carry the torch, selling the luxury of doing the right thing with as many sustainable materials and practices as possible. Hearst is convinced that if women ruled the world, as they did for thousands of years, it would be a more just and peaceful place, where USAID programs like Save the Children, which she works with, would not be defunded. So for fall, she summoned goddess energy, ancient symbols of renewal and nature, including swirls, snakes and sprouting shoots, and wove them through her chicly ferocious collection, which had a new refinement this season. 'I wanted the collection to be as raw and as sophisticated as possible,' she said, explaining how long it took to explain to her Italian factories that she wanted to create plonge leather jackets and skirts with raw, jagged hems. (They did look cool.) 'We have snake four ways,' she joked. And she did, as a sleek Inversa python skin pencil skirt, sexy leather scale bustier dress, jacquard scale woven popover, and a screen print goddess on a stunner of a statement shearling coat. In a season full of shearling, hers were distinctive, including a white deerskin moto coat with a clever detachable shearling skirt, a lush fisherman sweater woven with shearling strips, and even shearling covered cowboy boots. The exotic was tempered with everyday recycled denim in deep sienna, cobalt and orange hues, cashmere multicolor pinstripe suiting, ribbed knitwear with swirl details at the bust, and perforated leather separates, all of which had a welcome lightness and ease. In line with her company growth mode, she amped up accessories, introducing handsome new versions of her Ohio slip-on sneaker in nubuck with rainbow speckle colored recycled soles, and a new tote bag called the Marija, after trailblazing female anthropologist Marija Gimbutas, whose research inspired Hearst. She also dipped her toe into upcycling, creating gorgeous herringbone mink coats pieced together from vintage ones, and reworking vintage exotic skin bags from Italy that were peppered into the runway collection, and will be sold to VICs. Hearst certainly has found her groove, making desirable clothing with an earthy but polished elegance, that doesn't take away from the women (and men) with something to say. Launch Gallery: Gabriela Hearst Fall 2025 Ready-To-Wear Collection Best of WWD Windowsen RTW Spring 2022 Louis Shengtao Chen RTW Spring 2022 Vegan Fashion Week Returns to L.A. With Nous Etudions, Vegan Tiger on the Runway
