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.
Lulu Wei · 2020 · 1h15m
Lulu Wei · 2020 · 1h15m
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE, ANYPLACE looks at community pushback to gentrification on the block of a much-loved Toronto landmark, Honest Ed's.
Jennifer Abbott · 2020 · 1h26m
A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change.
Sara Wylie & Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective · 2020 · 22m
Since the early 2000s, the Prison for Women Memorial Collective has been fighting for a space of commemoration of, and community healing from, Canadian carceral violence.
Michael Toledano, Sam Vinal & Franklin López · 2020
INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government.
Ibrahim Mursal · 2020 · 59m
A Sudanese refugee and artist is joined on his journey home by a Muslim filmmaker, confronting prejudice and the criminalization of homosexuality in Sudan.
On Demand
Mia Donovan · 2020 · 1h21m
The story of how Tupac Shakur’s stepfather Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, created the first acupuncture detoxification program in the U.S.
On Demand
Tamara Dawit · 2020 · 1h18m
A riveting portrait of a family history cast against the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, telling the story of an upper-class woman who became a communist rebel.
On Demand
Sonia Bonspille-Boileau · 2020 · 1h40m
The story of young Ivy, who accompanies her mother on a road trip with hopes of finding her sibling Heather who has disappeared from their First Nation community.
Marc Serpa Francoeur & Robinder Uppal · 2020 · 1h38m
No Visible Trauma / Above the Law examines a deeply troubled police department and reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked police brutality.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
Ammar Aziz & Christopher Patz · 2020 · 1h10m
An exposé of the fashion industry's exploitative supply chain and labour conditions.
Ashley O'Shay · 2020 · 1h26m
UNAPOLOGETIC is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Shalini Kantayya · 2020 · 1h30m
A critical exploration into the way racial and gender discrimination is coded into algorithmic technology.
On Demand
Daniel Negatu · 2019 · 30m
There is no singular immigrant experience, a fact beautifully rendered in this story of trauma, migration and the strain to navigate “home.”
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
