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.
Alanis Obomsawin · 2016 · 2h43m
Alanis Obomsawin · 2016 · 2h43m
This doc focuses on a landmark discrimination case exposing injustices lived by First Nations community in Yukon when receiving child and welfare services.
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs · 2016 · 8m
A small glimpse into a typical Native girl’s life before becoming one of 1200+ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.
On Demand
Joanna Sokolowski & Kate Trumbull-LaValle · 2016 · 1h12m
On Demand
Joanna Sokolowski & Kate Trumbull-LaValle · 2016 · 1h12m
A radical bicycle brigade of womxn of colour ride the streets of their neighbourhoods to fight patriarchy and organize alternative social structures.
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril · 2016 · 1h25m
Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins fellow Inuit activists to challenge anti-sealing NGOs while correcting misrepresentations of sealing and Inuit culture.
On Demand
Petra Sališkar · 2016 · h
Through satirical poems and songs from the 1950s and 60s which sound more urgent than ever, Ježek shows how you can love the humankind and be critical of society and the system.
Sean Stiller · 2016 · 10m
Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips shares the stories that have impacted his journey and his relationship to the healing medicine that is sage.
· 2016 · 56m
A fresh & exuberant doc that reminds us of the many colours of human living as we travel the streets to meet activists involved in the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
On Demand
Ivan Ramljak · 2016 · 35m
A poetic documentary about the lost film culture in small villages on Croatian islands, during the second half of the last century.
Craig Atkinson · 2016 · 1h13m
DO NOT RESIST surfs the dystopian material and mental scapes of America at the intersection of race, policing and surveillance.
Kami Chisholm · 2016 · 1h10m
Kami Chisholm · 2016 · 1h10m
Activists and artists resist assimilation, challenge the corporatization of LGBT politics, and fight the ongoing oppression of queer and trans people.
Nico Muzi & Nicolás Richat · 2016 · 28m
An urgent film about indigenous communities in Colombia that organize to protect their land and people from dangerous biofuel policies.
On Demand
Angélique Kourounis · 2016 · 1h30m
Fearless and ferocious filmmaking at its finest, GOLDEN DAWN bravely reveals the inner-workings of the modern day fascist movement in Greece.
Zaynê Akyol · 2016 · 1h26m
A personal and powerful exploration of how the women of the PKK train to fight against ISIS in Kurdistan.
Jonathan Grégoire · 2016 · 4m
A poetic reflection on the past and present of Innu-Assit.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Vedran Senjanović Senjanović & Dejan Oblak · 2016 · 44m
"United Front of Opportunists" follows the candidacy of the eponymous political party in Croatian parliamentary election
On Demand
Monica Gutierrez · 2015 · 9m
The Santurban paramo has become an example of community struggle to protect water sources successfully.
