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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Sarah Barton · 2017 · 1h25m
A fiercely defiant history of disability activism in Australia, the US & the UK bursts alive with creative energy & political will in this exhilarating doc.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
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
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