A gripping immersion into the frontlines of the historic Fairy Creek blockade, where thousands of activists participate in a do-or-die protest to save the pristine Ada’itsx Valley.
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
An inside look at Amazon workers’ efforts to unionize JFK8 Warehouse in Staten Island, despite the company’s ongoing attempts to stop the growing labor movement.
A charming and rallying legacy of revolutionary Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and his exile into the Netherlands after being designated.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
On Demand
tobias c. van Veen · 2018 · 25m
LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Assia Boundaoui · 2018 · 1h27m
On Demand
Assia Boundaoui · 2018 · 1h27m
A journalist's investigation into surveillance in her own Arab-American neighbourhood leads her to uncover one of the FBI's largest pre 9/11 terrorism probes.
On Demand
Bretten Hannam · 2018 · 8m
A pair of Mi’kmaw helpers travel the land, removing toxic remnants of the past.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
Heperi Mita · 2018 · 1m
Heperi Mita · 2018 · 1m
Who better to give justice to the rich legacy of one of the founders of Indigenous cinema than the son of the Māori artist-activist Merata Mita.
On Demand
Mariam Zaidi · 2018 · 7m
JK reflects on her past as she gets ready to embark on a mission to Mars.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
TJ Cuthand · 2018 · 13m
After white people have left Earth for Mars, Indigenous people talk about their work reclaiming the land & restoring the health of the planet & their communities.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
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Roxann Whitebean · 2018 · 5m
Enhior'hén:ne explores Mohawks children's predictions about the state of mother earth 200 years into the future.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Mylène Augustin & Feven Ghebremariam · 2018 · 12m
Invited to Tiohtià: ke as a member of her country’s tribal council, Sam traces the steps of her great-grandmother who lived there over a 100 years ago.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada & Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collections
Anand Patwardhan · 2018 · 4h
An epic of critique and courage made at great risk, REASON portrays democratic India's slide towards caste/religious hegemony and unchecked state violence.
On Demand
Hassan Fazili · 2018 · 1h27m
Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili directed a film about the Taliban—and in March 2015, the Taliban put a bounty on his head.
Byron Dueck · 2018 · 20m
Byron Dueck · 2018 · 20m
A visual love letter to the Peace River Valley and the creatures and people who call it home.
Amanda Strong · 2018 · 19m
In this short stop-motion animation Biidaaban sets out to harvest sap from Sugar Maples, working in continuum with Sabe, and other spirit beings.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
Adam Mazo & Ben Pender-Cudlip · 2018 · 1h26m
This film follows Maine's Truth and Rec. Commission as a flawed and hopeful process troubled with white privilege and framed by a need to heal colonial wounds.
Evangelia Kranioti · 2018 · 1h
A stunning documentary-fiction about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis in Rio de Janeiro.
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Mosha Folger · 2018 · 45m
An exploration of the meaning of the concept of housing, and it’s constant companion homelessness, in the Inuit communities in Canada's North..
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Iara Lee · 2018 · 1h12m
Burkinabè Rising showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso.
Part of the Black History Month Collection collection
