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 […]
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 […]
Midnight Traveler
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing the family’s uncertain journey firsthand, Fazili documents their harrowing trek across numerous borders revealing the danger and uncertainty facing refugees seeking asylum juxtaposed with the unbreakable love shared […]
Out Run
As leader of the world’s only LGBTQ+ political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBTQ+ representation in the halls of Congress is not an easy feat. Bemz and her eclectic team of queer political warriors must rethink traditional campaign […]
Special Flight
In 1994, the Swiss government approved a law authorizing the detention of all foreigners in an irregular situation until they are expelled. Every year, a purely administrative decision has thousands of men and women imprisoned without trial or sentence. Their only crime is to be paperless. Those who refuse to leave voluntarily are bound hand […]
Ovarian Psycos
Bicycles? Check. Bandanas? Check. The ovarian psycos gear up and ride out into the night, fanning out in pairs of two, four, and six. In constant motion, cruising up and down the storied streets of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, and Lincoln Heights, they call out to new riders to join them in a journey through […]
Lost Alien
Blending documentary techniques with surrealist and silent filmmaking, LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet. Having lost her way from the continuum of cosmic blackness, we watch as she wanders through the planet’s forest, struggling against the debilitating effects of the sun […]
The Ceremony
Two young warrior siblings, Vim and Hax, are living in a post-apocalyptic world caused by climate change. For 150 years, the air has not been breathable for humans. As such, their whole community lives in high tech homes to keep them alive, and must wear helmets to venture outdoors. But it hasn’t stopped them from […]
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 […]
Viva la Causa
Ce film n’est pas seulement un compte rendu coloré de la réalisation d’une peinture murale dans le quartier de Pilsen à Chicago, sous la direction de Ray Patlán. Il retrace le mouvement des peintures murales du milieu des années 1970, en remontant jusqu’aux peintures murales mexicaines. Différentes personnes observent la fresque et réfléchissent à sa […]
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 […]
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 […]
Black Men Loving
BLACK MEN LOVING upends the stereotypical images of Black men as violent, aggressive and hyper-sexualized, to the extent that it seems, as one father in Ella Cooper’s film says: “Black men loving is political” and “almost radical”. We are taken into the world of responsible parenting where we explore what being a father means to […]
