On Demand
This film travels land and sea with Syrian refugees who give a firsthand account of harrowing journeys to new countries and their feats of struggle and hope.
A film on the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices on US campuses and the resistance of students and professors.
Sky Hopinka · 2018 · 11m
A beautiful act of mythmaking and a trance-like meditation on arrivals, departures, and ascendance.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
Mosha Folger · 2018 · 45m
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
Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby · 2018 · 10m
A trans Anishinaabe man meets a young Anishinaabe woman who pushes both of them to reconnect with their Indigenous culture.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Yusuf Zine · 2018 · 1h30m
Fourteen refugee youth re-enact the horrors of the ongoing Burmese genocide of Rohingya Muslims in this politically arresting film about resilience & community.
On Demand
Dáša Raimanova & Zofia Brom · 2018 · 1h11m
Three women from minority groups in Poland critically explore what it’s like to be Black, Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the increasingly hostile environment of Europe.
Robert Greene · 2018 · 1h52m
A vital film full of creativity and contradictions, BISBEE captures an US town's reconciliation with its dark history of ethnic cleansing and union busting.
Arwen Curry · 2018 · 1h8m
A spirited biographical portrait of feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin, whose groundbreaking fiction is placed in political-historical context and celebrated.
Ghiath Ayoub & Saeed Al Batal · 2018 · 1h56m
Two young Syrians film their life in Douma for over 4 years, from the initial euphoria of the Syrian revolution to the distress and disenchantment that follow.
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
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Helen Haig-Brown & Gwaii Edenshaw · 2018 · 1h39m
Helen Haig-Brown & Gwaii Edenshaw · 2018 · 1h39m
A stunning cinematic achievement and a spellbinding tale of pride, tragedy, and remorse set in Haida Gwaii in Canada’s Pacific Northwest in the 1800s.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
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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.
Tom Burke · 2018 · 1h23m
An urgent story reveals the drastic consequences of climate change. Due to rising temperatures, the village of Newtok, Alaska is slowly vanishing into the sea.
Razan Alsalah · 2018 · 7m
Razan Alsalah · 2018 · 7m
An experimental short film on displacement and returning to Palestine via Google Streetview.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection
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Brishkay Ahmed · 2018 · 10m
Sometime in the future, the women of Afghanistan rule.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
Evangelia Kranioti · 2018 · 1h
A stunning documentary-fiction about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis in Rio de Janeiro.
On Demand
Reina Gossett & Sasha Wortzel · 2018 · 14m
When young street queen Marsha Johnson fights back against a routine police raid of a gay bar in 1969, she gives birth to a movement.