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
Sky Hopinka · 2017 · 19m
An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
Yony Leyser · 2017 · 1h23m
A raucous look at the Queercore movement, which began as a queering of the punk scene and morphed into a rad response to homonormativity and the straight world.
On Demand
David Goldberg · 2017 · 39m
An inside look at Indigenous land and water defenders and white allyship, confronting the complicity of the police with the fossil fuel industry.
Michelle Latimer · 2017 · 1h6m
Michelle Latimer · 2017 · 1h6m
Over 5,000 Red Power warriors descend on Standing Rock camp to stand in solidarity and protect tribal burial sites from the construction of a pipeline.
Cam Christiansen · 2017 · 1h19m
An innovative animated feature that explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine as no film has before.
Michelle Latimer · 2017 · 12m
A meditation on Indigenous women’s connection to the land & the link between the violence perpetrated against them & the extractive industry’s rape of the earth.
José Arteaga & Rafael Camacho · 2017 · 1h12m
José Arteaga & Rafael Camacho · 2017 · 1h12m
In this arresting story of collective resistance, Indigenous communities in rural Mexico take up arms in order to defend their land against drug traffickers.
On Demand
Conor McNally · 2017 · 40m
Drawing on the tradition of oral storytelling, ôtênaw is a philosophical and creative treatment of land rights, territory, history and culture.
On Demand
Katsitsionni Fox · 2017 · 27m
On Demand
Katsitsionni Fox · 2017 · 27m
A heartfelt treatment of how two First Nations women in New York State connect to their culture through a multi-year "coming of age" ceremony.
Sabaah Folayan · 2017 · 1h43m
A visceral, gritty and gutsy film on the Ferguson Uprising that captures the tension contemporary America’s racism, police brutality and anti-racist resistance movements.
Part of the Black History Month Collection collection
Charles Officer · 2017 · 1h24m
In memory of our late friend Charles Officer, who passed in late 2023, we're hosting a special encore screening of his heartfelt documentary.
On Demand
Sam Vinal · 2017 · 30m
On Demand
Sam Vinal · 2017 · 30m
A celebration of the life and legacy of Honduran indigenous, feminist, and environmental activist Berta Cáceras.
Reuben Atlas & Sam Pollard · 2017 · 1h24m
Reuben Atlas & Sam Pollard · 2017 · 1h24m
ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM tells the story of a scandalous Conservative sting operation on the community organizing group ACORN.
Natasha Florentino · 2017 · 1h
ABUNDANT LAND is about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds.
On Demand
Sabrina Naz Comănescu · 2017 · 12m
The politics of perseverance, revealed through the imagination of dance and performance.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
Beth Wishart MacKenzie · 2017 · 37m
Cree artist Lana Whiskeyjack explores the inter-generational effects of Canada’s Indian Residential School system through her sculpture, Lost My Talk.
