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- Ruby and her daughter Amber find themselves with problems leaving them to find a Plan B when things go wrong.
- Velma Demerson was arrested in 1939 for living with her Chinese boyfriend Harry Yip. Sentenced to 1 year in a Toronto prison, 60 years later she sued the Canadian government for wrongful incarceration, and received an apology in 2002.
- Ts'ekooyaz Buke Ncha (The Girl with Big Feet), tells the story of a seven-year-old Chinese Canadian girl Foo-Ling who is about to get her feet bound by her parents in order to maintain her family's upper class status. With the help of her First Nation caregiver Ts'ek Sum, and her grandson Chilh, Foo-Ling escapes a crushing blow that would have her feet broken and bound to three inches in length, a fate that would have crippled her from any independence. This story takes place in Barkerville, Canada in the late 1800's. Foo-Ling's mother - Ho Shee, had her feet bound in China when she was 6 or 7 years old, and is adamant on keeping the tradition alive through her daughter. Ho-Shee and her husband Tsang Quon bring a foot binder from Victoria to Barkerville to begin the process on Foo-Ling. Since Foo-Ling arrived in Barkerville, she has grown to be precocious, self-centered and irreverent. Due to Ho-Shee's bound feet, she has experienced extreme isolation, being one of the few Chinese women in Barkerville, and has fallen deeper into depression since moving to Canada. Ho-Shee has tried, without success, to have Foo-Ling adhere to the traditional strictures of Chinese female behavior, and knows all too well how bound feet makes a girl into a "woman of refinement". However, Foo-Ling has her own plans of becoming a great warrior - and dreams of being one of the female bandits in the Chinese equivalent of Robin Hood - "Outlaws of the Marsh". She refuses to get her feet bound, as her helpless mother Ho-Shee looks on, conflicted between planning for Foo-Ling's future, and her own trauma of having bound feet.
- Passage of Dreams tells the story of a community, of personal journey of discovery through the stories of Dr. Wallace Chung and his childhood love of collecting Canadian Pacific artifacts. It weaves the interlocking stories of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the development of the Chinese community in Canada. It reveals how events from the past shape our distinctive Canadian identity today.
- Writer/director Karin Lee reflects on her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore that he ran on Vancouver's Skid Row from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. This experimental biography explores both the person and the effect that his ideological beliefs had on his family, set within the political landscapes of Canada and China at the time of the Cultural Revolution. It is also a little-known story about how a segment of Vancouver's Chinese community embraced Chinese socialism and how their idealism was affected by a changing political climate in China. Comrade Dad twists memories of a socialist-raised child into the reflection of an adult who is conflicted over the schism between idealism and pragmatism, socialism and capitalism, and personal desires and political activism.