The Valley
High in the French Alps, on the border between Italy and France, African migrants fleeing war, poverty and political persecution risk their lives crossing dangerous mountain routes. Witnessing the increasing influx of refugees, local communities in the Roya and Durance Valleys start providing them with shelter, food and legal counselling. But providing assistance to undocumented […]
Mauri
Avec son premier long-métrage de fiction, la co-fondatrice du cinéma Autochtone (avec la réalisatrice Abénaquise Alanis Obomsawin, qui était une amie proche de Mita) et défenseuse de l’art, la culture et la politique Māori, Merata Mita s’annonçait comme une force du cinéma. Le décor riche et resplendissant de verts et d’oranges, capturés par la cinématographie […]
O Tamaiti
Seen through the eyes of 11 year old Tino, the eldest of five children in a Samoan family, the film opens with the birth of yet another baby, and Tino must cope with the added pressures and responsibilities expected of him as the eldest. With mother and father figures who are heard but not seen, […]
Ngāti
Un garçon meurt d’une leucémie ; un jeune médecin australien découvre son propre héritage Māori ; les usines de congélation industrielle qui fournissent des emplois à la communauté locale sont menacées de fermeture. Situé dans et autour de la ville côtière fictive de Kapua en 1948, NGĀTI est l’histoire d’une communauté Māori, créant des liens […]
Te Rua
Cent ans après le vol de trois gravures tribales irremplaçables en Nouvelle-Zélande, deux membres de la tribu Māori décident qu’il est temps de résoudre les anciens griefs. Rewi Marangai, un avocat à succès, et Peter Huaka, un poète, optent pour différentes manières de récupérer les objets volés en Allemagne, ou ils sont gardés dans un […]
KONELĪNE: Our Land Beautiful
More than 1,000 miles by road from Vancouver, British Columbia, or 130 miles east of Juneau, Alaska by air, the traditional lands of the Tahltan First Nation encompass the majestic Stikine River, ancient glaciers, tiny communities and magnificent vistas. Not a Western, but a Northern, Nettie Wild’s astonishing non-fiction film KONELĪNE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL transports […]
A Red Girl’s Reasoning
After the Canadian legal system fails to serve justice for the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, an Indigenous woman becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who’ve suffered the same fate. A RED GIRL’S REASONING is a no-holds-barred, neo-noir thriller featuring a formidable female vigilante who seeks […]
Manic
MANIC chronicles Montreal-based filmmaker Kalina Bertin’s struggle to make sense of the legacy of mental illness that is shaping her siblings’ lives. Convinced that her father holds a key piece of the puzzle, she sets out to find the truth about him, and discovers a man known alternately as a cult leader, a scam artist, […]
NOVA
A teenager’s first taste of independence is thwarted when an in-app purchase is refused. The reason? Her first basic income payment has been withheld. Alone in the woods, she is forced to launch Nova, her personalized AI tutor. Nova seizes the opportunity; whatever it takes, she is determined to get her human to finally complete […]
Rustic Oracle
RUSTIC ORACLE is the story of a missing teenage girl told through the eyes of her 7-year-old sister. The story unfolds as young Ivy accompanies her mother on a road trip with hopes of finding her eldest sibling Heather who has suddenly disappeared from their First Nation community. Although their journey to find answers is […]
Birth of a Family
Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous […]
ABEO
ABEO is a hard-hitting mixed media animated short that depicts the journey of Nadia and Lupe, two immigrants who risked their lives to cross the Arizona desert in search for a better life. The combination of stop-motion, traditional 2D digital animation, and direct animation techniques brings the reality of the characters to life.
Sweet Crude
Beginning with the filmmaker’s initial trip to document the building of a library in a remote village, SWEET CRUDE is a journey of multilayered revelation and ever-deepening questions. It’s about one place in one moment, with themes that echo many places throughout history. SWEET CRUDE shows the humanity behind the statistics, events and highly sensationalized […]
Netizens
NETIZENS delves into the lives of three women whose lives have been transformed by online harassment. Carrie Goldberg is an attorney in New York City, who launches an internet privacy and sexual assault law firm in the wake of her own cyber harassment. Tina Reine, in West Palm Beach, is a successful businesswoman whose career […]
Another News Story
Debuting director Orban Wallace’s feature-length work engages the European refugee crisis, but the young British director turns the camera lens in a direction rather different from the rest of the documentary scene investigating recent events. He trains his penetrating gaze on the journalists sent by their employers to the Mediterranean to cover the unfolding humanitarian […]
En la Casa, la Cama y la Calle
From a small country with a revolutionary history, comes a compelling TV drama with a big vision. The documentary EN LA CASA, LA CAMA, Y LA CALLE follows an inspiring Nicaraguan women’s rights group, Puntos de Encuentro, as it works to end sexual violence at home, in bed and in the streets through a powerful […]
