On Demand
This film travels land and sea with Syrian refugees who give a firsthand account of harrowing journeys to new countries and their feats of struggle and hope.
A film on the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices on US campuses and the resistance of students and professors.
Simon Plouffe · 2022 · 16m
Eastern white pines submerged under the waters of a hydroelectric reservoir on unceded Innu territory transform into flames.
Part of the Ripples and Threads collection
Claire Sanford · 2022 · 23m
An immersion into the colourful world of textile artist Deborah Dumka that invites viewers to witness the unflinchingly intimate details of her artistic process and inner life.
Part of the Ondes et ficelles & Ripples and Threads collections
Anna Sigrithur & Joel Penner · 2022 · 22m
With time lapse videography of rotting in action, Wrought creates an intimate, immersive world where decay can be beautiful, tender and even surprisingly human.
Part of the Ondes et ficelles & Ripples and Threads collections
Colin Askey · 2022 · 1h20m
This crucial doc takes us in close to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, whose frontline workers and residents have taken safe injection and community care into their own hands.
Nishtha Jain · 2022 · 1h26m
Outside Kolkata a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution.
Rich Felgate · 2022 · 1h29m
Finite: The Climate of Change is a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the battle between communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations.
Nisha Pahuja · 2022 · 2h7m
a farmer in Jharkhand, India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the survivor of sexual assault
John Greyson · 2022 · 1h53m
Palestinian brothers conspire with Jean Genet to disrupt Eurovision, enlisting Toronto's singing penguins. PHOTO BOOTH blends humour and diverse visuals to explore boycott
Ajay Bhardwaj · 2022 · 1h57m
The film uncovers the persistent, yet hidden, patriarchy that overshadows the gentle power that fuels a labour struggle.
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Tamo Campos & Jasper Snow Rosen · 2022 · 1h9m
The Klabona Keepers is an intimate portrait of the dynamic Indigenous community that succeeded in protecting the remote Sacred Headwaters, known as the Klabona.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
On Demand
Khaled Jarrar · 2022 · 1h14m
The grueling journey of a Syrian family escaping war and traversing hostile and unforgiving lands is captured with tenderness and palpable struggle.
Karen Cho · 2022 · 1h28m
Coast to coast, the film follows Chinatown communities resisting the pressures around them.
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Jess Shane & Katie Mathews · 2022 · 13m
The year of the 20th anniversary of the prison, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place.
Henri Pardo · 2021 · 1h30m
Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Baseball and a civil rights activist.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
Tracey Deer · 2021 · 1h32m
A young girl is forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis.
Sandra Ach, Nicolas Burlaud & Thomas Hakenholz · 2021 · 1h14m
Marseille, February 2019 . The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of La Plaine fight to defend the dream of a square inspired by the community.