After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment
In this uplifting eco-doc, two opera singers-turned-agriculture workers try to sustain a Manitoban organic farm against the ravages of climate change.
In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.
A haunting plunge into the Canadian archive, recapturing a 1969 student protest at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University against the administration’s anti-Black racism.
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.
On Demand
Andrés Salas · 2018 · 20m
In a techno-dystopian world with no resources left to mine, communication has become the main resource for humanity to exist, from Abitibi to Accra.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Roberto Santaguida · 2018 · 10m
A reflection on assigning meaning and shedding preconceptions while in free fall.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Andréanne Germain · 2018 · 6m
A teenager unwillingly deletes her best friend in this bittersweet coming of age story set in a world where augmented reality has gamified existence.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
Laura Marie Wayne · 2018 · 1h15m
Following the journey of a gay musician who is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down, LOVE, SCOTT is an intimate and evocative window into queer experience.
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.
Velcrow Ripper & Nova Ami · 2018 · 1h25m
A poem for the planet, METAMORPHOSIS takes the pulse of our Earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world and the birth of another
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
Nebojša Slijepčević · 2018 · 1h12m
In early 90’s, a 12-year old Serbian girl was brutally murdered in Zagreb. A quarter-century later, well known director Oliver Frljic is working on a theatre play about the case.
On Demand
Kourtney Jackson · 2018 · 5m
A young woman explores and confronts her reflections on being a woman, migration and faith.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada 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
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
On Demand
Damian Nenadić · 2018 · 1h14m
Days of Madness is a documentary that unveils the hidden, stigmatized world of those labeled "mentally different," challenging societal rejection and mental health stigma.
On Demand
Sonya Mwambu · 2017 · 3m
This experimental film unraveling layers of Black history and artistry against the racial bias of Kodak's "Shirley" skin-tone cards.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
Rehab Nazzal · 2017 · 3m
An artistic study of the bodily movement of the Palestinian youth while protesting the Israeli military occupation forces during the 2015-2016 Uprising.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection
Boris Mitić · 2017 · 1h18m
Iggy Pop narrates the misadventures of Nothing as it runs away from home in this poetic, insightful journey of confounding mystery and deep connection.
