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.
Maryanne Junta & Helena Lewis · 2017 · 5m
Maryanne Junta & Helena Lewis · 2017 · 5m
A short, educational docu-drama about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) of Canada and the Red Dress Project.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
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.
Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys · 2017 · 10m
Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys · 2017 · 10m
An urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and post-mortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man”.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
Theresa Warbus · 2017 · 10m
An Aboriginal teen struggling to fit in is forced to confront her own issues of identity.
Michael Premo · 2017 · 22m
The story of a community’s successful fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry.
Theo Anthony · 2017 · 1h22m
A provocative portrait of rats in the American city of Baltimore and the humans who love them, live with them, and kill them.
Imre Azem · 2017 · 52m
This urgent film follows Erdogan's ascendance to power and Turkish activists' formidable groundwork to regain freedom for the academic press and minorities.
Jean-Laurence Seaborn & Jonathan Seaborn · 2017 · 1h17m
What can civil society do to defend environmental health against corporate interests and government complicity? This powerful doc follows a community's fight.
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.
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.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh · 2017 · 7m
This short film considers the complicated implications of fighting to belong to a land after displacement.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora 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
Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy · 2017 · 4m
Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy · 2017 · 4m
An experimental short that combines text and film to explore the simple desire to travel, through the cultural and political realities of being Palestinian.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection
Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy · 2017 · 3m
Language is political in this subtle short film, which depicts how phonetics are coded socially and economically.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection
Aube Giroux · 2017 · 1h27m
This documentary-memoir questions why GMOs are not labeled on food products in Canada and the US, despite being labeled in 64 other countries around the world.
Jessica Hallenback, Dave Shortt & Mitchell McCook · 2017 · 19m
In the 1960’s, the Kwadacha First Nation were flooded out of their territory by one of the largest dams in the world. It’s time for them to tell their story.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection