Ingrid Veninger

Acting

Ingrid Veninger

Born

1968-08-21 (58)

Place of birth

Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid formed pUNK Films in 2003 with a ‘nothing is impossible’ manifesto. Since 2008, Ingrid has written/directed 5 features (Only, Modra, i am a good person/i am a bad person, The Animal Project, He Hated Pigeons) all of which have premiered at international festivals including: TIFF, Rotterdam, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, OUTFest, FEMCine and MoMA, garnering awards and distribution worldwide. In 2014, Ingrid initiated the pUNK Films FEMMES LAB to foster feature films written and directed by Canadian women, sponsored by Academy Award winning actor Melissa Leo. Currently, Ingrid is a part-time member of the Film Studies Faculty at York University, Scr…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 15 titles

Godsend poster
4.9

A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.

Godsend

2004

Out of the Ashes poster
6.1

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

Out of the Ashes

2003

Steal This Movie poster
5.7

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.

Steal This Movie

2000

Harlan County War poster
7.1

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

Harlan County War

2000

Phil the Alien poster
4.1

Phil the Alien crashes to Earth and find himself alone in the wilds of northern Canada. In the process of going home he goes from drunk to christian rock singer to mass murder.

Phil the Alien

2004

Walter and Henry poster
8.6

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a nervous breakdown, it's up to Henry to find his father's long-lost family, including the grandfather and aunt he's never met.

Walter and Henry

2001

Wild Iris poster
7.4

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Wild Iris

2001

The Limb Salesman poster
5.8

Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.

The Limb Salesman

2004

Hotel Vladivostok poster
NR

In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.

Hotel Vladivostok

2006

Only poster
4.5

Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.

Only

2008

Neil poster
6.5

Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.

Neil

2005

No artwork available
NR

A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.

Everything is Love and Fear

2006

No artwork available
3.7

Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not change that, but it will give them the opportunity to laugh and learn.

On Their Knees

2001

No artwork available
NR

A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.

Mama

2005

Urda/Bone poster
NR

Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.

Urda/Bone

2003

1990s · 6 titles

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three poster
5.4

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1998

Forget Me Never poster
6.1

Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.

Forget Me Never

1999

H poster
5.3

A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.

H

1990

We the Jury poster
7.0

Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. - Written by Holger Hellmuth hellmuth@ira.uka.de

We the Jury

1996

The Life Before This poster
5.0

Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.

The Life Before This

1999

Destiny To Order poster
3.9

A writer starts running into the characters he's created in real life. Alberta is his fantasy woman, who starts out as a sexy rock singer. However, when the bad guy in his novel (played by Michael Ironside) gets his hands on the manuscript and starts making changes of his own, they are all in for a wild ride.

Destiny To Order

1990

1980s · 6 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nine filmmakers isolating in different parts of the world join to make a film. A 9-chapter anthology, this collection created by women filmmakers from South Africa, Germany, Spain, China, United States, and across Canada. ONE(NINE) is a timeless multiversal experience of what it means to find connection in a time of isolation, orchestrated by one of Canada's most fierce and prolific indie filmmakers, Ingrid Veniger.

ONE NINE

2021

Porcupine Lake poster
5.2

During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.

Porcupine Lake

2017

Porcupine Lake poster
5.2

During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.

Porcupine Lake

2017

Porcupine Lake poster
5.2

During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.

Porcupine Lake

2017

He Hated Pigeons poster
4.6

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.

He Hated Pigeons

2015

He Hated Pigeons poster
4.6

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.

He Hated Pigeons

2015

He Hated Pigeons poster
4.6

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.

He Hated Pigeons

2015

The World or Nothing poster
NR

Two Cuban brothers hope to make it big with their music videos - and make their family at home proud of them.

The World or Nothing

2019

Gambling, Gods and LSD poster
5.8

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Gambling, Gods and LSD

2002

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake poster
NR

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. From writing and casting through production and post, this documentary utilizes an observational style to reveal the intimate process of making an original female-driven feature film

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake

2017

The Limb Salesman poster
5.8

Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.

The Limb Salesman

2004

The Limb Salesman poster
5.8

Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.

The Limb Salesman

2004

The End of Time poster
7.1

Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner-city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha's enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. THE END OF TIME, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.

The End of Time

2012

I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person poster
NR

When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.

I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person

2012

I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person poster
NR

When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.

I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person

2012

Hotel Vladivostok poster
NR

In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.

Hotel Vladivostok

2006

Hotel Vladivostok poster
NR

In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.

Hotel Vladivostok

2006

The Animal Project poster
3.2

As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.

The Animal Project

2013

The Animal Project poster
3.2

As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.

The Animal Project

2013

Only poster
4.5

Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.

Only

2008

Head Space poster
NR

Head Space is a hilarious and heartwarming film about Floyd (Struan Sutherland), an agoraphobic with no intention of ever leaving his basement. His past as a taller-than-average comedian and TV pitch-man has left him broken and unable to face his demons. That is until he finds himself both summoned for jury duty and under the constant harassment of the pizza delivery guy (Stoo Metz). With no other option, Floyd must confront his past, make friends with his enemies, and battle the great big scary unknown that is the outside world.

Head Space

2016

Neil poster
6.5

Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.

Neil

2005

No artwork available
NR

A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.

Everything is Love and Fear

2006

No artwork available
NR

A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.

Everything is Love and Fear

2006

No artwork available
NR

A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.

Mama

2005

No artwork available
NR

A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.

Mama

2005

Nurse.Fighter.Boy poster
4.7

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

2009

Nurse.Fighter.Boy poster
4.7

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

2009

Modra poster
4.0

The film follows two teenagers from Toronto, Canada (Lena and Leco) who travel to Slovakia. The film shows the interactions between the two and the locals including Lena's relatives.

Modra

2010

Modra poster
4.0

The film follows two teenagers from Toronto, Canada (Lena and Leco) who travel to Slovakia. The film shows the interactions between the two and the locals including Lena's relatives.

Modra

2010

The Bunny Project poster
NR

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.

The Bunny Project

2004

The Bunny Project poster
NR

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.

The Bunny Project

2004

The Bunny Project poster
NR

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.

The Bunny Project

2004

Urda/Bone poster
NR

Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.

Urda/Bone

2003

Urda/Bone poster
NR

Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.

Urda/Bone

2003

Urda/Bone poster
NR

Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.

Urda/Bone

2003

Wish poster
NR

In this intimate and achingly beautiful portrait of a mother and daughter, we share the milestone of Laska's 1st birthday with crocheted crowns and blueberry muffins. A story about family, motherhood, courage and the resilience people find during the most challenging times.

Wish

2021

Crocodile Eyes poster
NR

In "Crocodile Eyes," Canada’s "DIY queen of indie filmmaking" presents a collection of raw, unfiltered vignettes that delve into the heart of human intimacy.

Crocodile Eyes

2025

Crocodile Eyes poster
NR

In "Crocodile Eyes," Canada’s "DIY queen of indie filmmaking" presents a collection of raw, unfiltered vignettes that delve into the heart of human intimacy.

Crocodile Eyes

2025

No artwork available
NR

Headshots is a film-within-a-film directed in-character by Ingrid Veninger as Ruby White. Taken from Veninger's third feature, i am a good person / i am a bad person.

Headshots

2011