A gripping immersion into the frontlines of the historic Fairy Creek blockade, where thousands of activists participate in a do-or-die protest to save the pristine Ada’itsx Valley.
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
An inside look at Amazon workers’ efforts to unionize JFK8 Warehouse in Staten Island, despite the company’s ongoing attempts to stop the growing labor movement.
A charming and rallying legacy of revolutionary Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and his exile into the Netherlands after being designated.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
Amie Williams · 2012 · 1m
Inspiring and rabble-rousing, this doc about the precursor to Occupy beautifully captures a moment and movement of democracy from the ground up.
Julien Fréchette · 2012 · 1h17m
Does free speech still exist in the age of the almighty mega-corporation?
Part of the The Commons collection
Cameron Dennison · 2012 · 22m
Cameron Dennison · 2012 · 22m
50 artists go on a journey to discover the land and the people of the Great Bear Rainforest, turning their emotional responses into works of art.
On Demand
Myriam Fougère · 2012 · 1h3m
Chronicles the lesbian activists in Canada and the United States who created women-only communities starting in the 1970s. Includes archival footage, interviews, and photographs.
Réal Junior Leblanc · 2012 · 7m
This documentary shows the events of March 9th, 2012, during the road block of the 138, and describes, with exactitude, the action and emotion of the moment.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 1 collection
On Demand
Nishtha Jain · 2012 · 1h36m
The true story of Sampat Pal and the legendary Gulabi Gang who fight gender violence in India with great ferocity.
On Demand
Karol Orzechowski · 2012 · 1h30m
A poetic intervention in the debate on animal rights, this unique and exquisite film explores the psychic and ethical fallout from animal lab testing.
Part of the ArtDox collection
On Demand
Velcrow Ripper · 2012 · 1h35m
A journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet.
Part of the Divine Interventions: Documentary, Spirituality and Social Justice collection
Magnus Isacsson · 2012 · 1h30m
Drugs, delinquency, dysfunctional families, abandonment, poverty: “real life” is tough for young people in Montréal-Nord.
Part of the The Commons collection
On Demand
Hale Güzin Kızılaslan · 2012 · 21m
A scenic film about displacement and the generational memory of the Armenian Genocide in present-day Eastern Anatolia.
Karen Cho · 2012 · 1h27m
Karen Cho · 2012 · 1h27m
A sweeping, invigorating and disconcerting doc on the state of feminism, the herstory of the women's movement, & the status of women in Canada.
Part of the FemDoc: Women & Documentary collection
Jean-Philippe Tremblay · 2012 · 1h33m
A scathing critique of a mainstream media industry that is beholden to corporate sponsorship and ultimately threatens the very foundations of democracy.
On Demand
Nebojša Slijepčević · 2012 · 12m
Watching children playing with toy guns makes you wander: what are we leaving to the next generation?
On Demand
Kelly Anderson & Allison Lirish Dean · 2012 · 1h16m
A look at the economic and political forces that push residents out of working class neighbourhoods in Brooklyn to make room for luxury condos.
On Demand
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers · 2012 · 10m
On Demand
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers · 2012 · 10m
An ass-kicking vigilante seeks revenge in this social commentary on violence against Indigenous women.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 1 & FemDoc: Women & Documentary collections
