// upcoming screenings
Friday
Oct 20
07:00 pm
Oct 20
07:00 pm
Giselle Portenier / CA / 2006 / 83 '
Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala, with the numbers escalating every year.
Monday
Oct 23
09:00 pm
Oct 23
09:00 pm
Alexandra Guité / CA / 2007 / 61 '
A documentary about political art and cultural resistance in post-2001 Argentina
Monday
Oct 23
07:00 pm
Oct 23
07:00 pm
Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis / US / 2017 / 103 '
A visceral, gritty and gutsy film that captures the tension and timbre of contemporary America’s racism, police brutality and anti-racist resistance movements.
Thursday
Oct 26
06:30 pm
Oct 26
06:30 pm
Christophe Coello / FR / 2011 / 94 '
A film about the response to the brutality of speculation in Barcelona.
Thursday
Oct 26
07:00 pm
Oct 26
07:00 pm
Santiago Bertolino / CA / 2017 / 98 '
De l’Égypte à la Turquie et à l’Irak, en passant par Israël et la Palestine, le documentaire montre les hauts et les bas d’un nouveau journalisme en action.
Friday
Oct 27
07:00 pm
Oct 27
07:00 pm
Patrick Rouxel / FR / 2012 / 48 '
A visual essay about deforestation in Indonesia as experienced by an orangutan whose habitat has been destroyed.
Monday
Oct 30
07:00 pm
Oct 30
07:00 pm
José Arteaga & Rafael Camacho / MX / 2017 / 72 '
In this arresting story of collective resistance, Indigenous communities in rural Mexico take up arms in order to defend their land against drug traffickers.
Monday
Oct 30
07:00 pm
Oct 30
07:00 pm
Brett Story / US / 2016 / 87 '
An artful study of place, people and the political imagination, this creative doc neither shows, nor tells, and instead conveys the need for prison justice.
Monday
Nov 06
07:00 pm
Nov 06
07:00 pm
Yatri N. Niehaus / GL / 2017 / 90 '
STELLA interrogates the bleak effects of climate change sensorially and counterbalances the information overload audiences are now so used to.
Friday
Nov 10
11:30 am
Nov 10
11:30 am
Avi Lewis / US / 2015 / 89 '
Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein are back with another powerhouse documentary - this time based on Klein’s bestselling book on capitalism vs. the climate.
Friday
Nov 10
07:00 pm
Nov 10
07:00 pm
Tasha Hubbard / CA / 2016 / 79 '
At once a devastating tale of an Indigenous family ripped apart by the Canadian government’s “Sixties Scoop,” and a deeply moving moment of hope and resilience.
Monday
Nov 13
07:00 pm
Nov 13
07:00 pm
Zaradasht Ahmed / SE / 2016 / 86 '
A visceral account of war-torn Iraq, told by Iraqi nurse Nori Sharif, who excels in his efforts to capture the tragedy and perseverance around him.
Friday
Nov 17
(All day)
Nov 17
(All day)
Murray Siple / CA / 2008 / 55 '
Homeless men in North Vancouver race shopping carts while collecting bottles.
Friday
Nov 17
07:00 pm
Nov 17
07:00 pm
Aris Chatzistefanou / UK / 2014 / 74 '
Fascism Inc. presents unknown short stories of the past, the present and the future of fascism and its relation to the economic interests of each era.
