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.
Phyllis Ellis · 2019 · 1h30m
The products we apply to our bodies every day had never come under the kind of critical, shocking scrutiny as in this deep investigation into the makeup industry.
Alyx Ayn Arumpac · 2019 · 1h25m
ASWANG is a poetically composed inquisition into Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's reign of terror that unleashed death squads in a so-called "war on drugs".
Carolina Moscoso · 2019 · 1h20m
Carolina Moscoso’s VISIÓN NOCTURNA (NIGHT SHOT) is an artistic, experimental film reckoning with the trauma of her rape.
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall · 2019 · 4m
Metaphoric consideration of running a marathon you can’t afford to lose.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
Ngardy Conteh George · 2019 · 45m
An 80-year-old activist runs for office, challenging the powers of Ward 7.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
On Demand
Nuno Escudeiro · 2019 · 1h12m
In the picturesque Roya and Durance Valleys, high in the French and Italian alps, local residents organize to assist migrants crossing the border.
Michel K. Zongo · 2019 · 1h20m
Creatively acrobatic and politically profound this gem underscores the blatant lies and greed that multinational gold companies extol in the small town of Kalsaka
Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke & Teresa MacInnes · 2019 · 1h18m
Attending to the challenges of women’s life during and after incarceration, this poignant & hopeful doc imagines alternatives to the carceral system through arts.
TJ Cuthand · 2019 · 15m
A personal film about Canada's extraction industry and its detrimental effects on the land and Indigenous peoples.
James Leong · 2019 · 2h
James Leong · 2019 · 2h
"Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella" charts the origins of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement through the eyes of the activists and people who made it happen.
Rogério Soares · 2019 · 1h30m
Director Rogério Soares whisks audiences to a bend in the Xingu River to witness a state of affairs that one subject in the film aptly describes as “post-nature.”
On Demand
Katerina Duda · 2019 · 19m
Apart from the gardener, a single fireman watches over the empty building, doing absurd rounds, and maintaining for no one.
Fredrik Gertten · 2019 · 1h32m
PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all.
Leah Borromeo · 2019 · 26m
MORTICIAN deftly captures some of the devastation caused by Duterte's so-called war on drugs in the Philippines.
Tasha Hubbard · 2019 · 1h38m
Tasha Hubbard · 2019 · 1h38m
A profound look at racism, colonialism and safety in the prairies.
Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera · 2019 · 1h35m
Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera · 2019 · 1h35m
Two fearless undocumented youth go undercover to expose the atrocities of immigration detention facilities and to work for the release of detainees.