Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall · 2012 · 1h27m
Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall · 2012 · 1h27m
A powerful look at the courageous LGBTQ activists in Uganda, including murdered activist David Kato.
Part of the Black History Month Collection & Divine Interventions: Documentary, Spirituality and Social Justice collections
Angad Bhalla · 2012 · 1h21m
A compelling doc about an artist who won't give up on the dreams of America's longest serving solitary confinement prisoner, Black Panther Herman Wallace.
On Demand
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.
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.
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
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
Nishtha Jain · 2012 · 1h36m
The true story of Sampat Pal and the legendary Gulabi Gang who fight gender violence in India with great ferocity.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
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
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?
Marie Boti & Malcolm Guy · 2012 · 52m
Montreal filmmakers look at the regressive immigration policies of the Canadian state and the people most affected.
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
