1 Vers(us) 1
1 VERS(US) 1 depicts a young woman’s inner monologue as she confronts the intersections of faith, womanhood, and the immigrant experience. In this five-minute short, director Kourtney Jackson confronts a growing disillusionment with her Christian upbringing. Through the lens of her experience going to a religious school and attending service with her family, Jackson portrays […]
Rhythms of Resistance
In 2008, Rio de Janeiro introduces a controversial program known as Pacifying Police Units (UPP) in the favelas. The police murder two young boys in cold blood. Another officer protests, disappears, and is found murdered hours later. Meanwhile, artists in the communities resist against police brutality and social exclusion through their music and performance art, […]
Honour Your Word
Marylynn Poucachiche and Norman Matchewan faced tear gas and police batons when they joined their parents on the barricades to defend the Barriere Lake Algonquins’ traditional territory in the 1980s. Little did Marylynn and Norman realize they would still be on the barricades over 20 years later, this time with their own young children at their […]
I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts
I AM ROHINGYA: A GENOCIDE IN FOUR ACTS chronicles the journey of fourteen refugee youth who take to the stage to re-enact their families’ harrowing experiences in Burma and beyond. This story chronicles their journey before, during, and immediately after the escalation of military violence in their native homeland, Rakhine state; their unforgiving escape by […]
Tesfaye
TESFAYE (Hope)is a 30-minute experimental documentary film based on the extraordinary life of an Ethiopian refugee, rescued from the sea in Madagascar and now living in Canada. Shot in Ethiopia and Canada, the film recounts the life of Tesfaye – caught between a nostalgia for his home country and the possibility of a better life […]
The Kalasha and the Crescent
Rumoured to be the descendants of Alexander the Great, the Kalash people have in fact inhabited northern Pakistan’s Chitral Valley long before the legendary conqueror came to the region. They uphold a rich cultural heritage with polytheistic beliefs, seasonal festivals, and a variety of other traditions that are at odds with Pakistan’s dominant Islam. Today, […]
How to Change the World
In 1971, it took a group of rebellious, longhaired friends on a rickety boat to get the topic of the environment on the global agenda. They fell short of their primary goal – to block nuclear weapon testing on the volcanic island of Amchitka – but the young Canadian organization Greenpeace discovered plenty of other […]
Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair
“My partner in life is a Jew, one of my sons is gay, another is an anarchist, and I am a leftwing feminist as well as a daughter of immigrants. If Golden Dawn comes to power our only problem will be which wagon they will put us on.” A journalist is delving for years into […]
The Feeling of Being Watched
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations […]
Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians
The film presents the emblematic case of the defense of Wirikuta, sacred territory to the Huichol people, against the threat of mining exploitation. This native people to this land, launches a spiritual crusade to protect life, evidencing the internal contradictions in our materialistic world. The Ramirez family takes us into their ritual pilgrimage that takes […]
Anarchronicles: Chronicles of a Libertarian Movement
This feature documentary relates the experience of various militant anarchists from Quebec, who represent different sides of this political movement. Drawing from more than 40 hours of interviews, countless manifestations, and numerous libertarian initiatives, this film strives to be a tool for popular education, which will de-mystify the chaotic and violent labels which are too […]
Polyland
How does it feel to be black, LGBTQ+ or Muslim in Poland? POLYLAND gives a voice to three strong female characters from different minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be black, Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the most homogeneous country in an ever more right-leaning Europe. All three were born […]
Truxx
Un court manifeste de résistance collective à l’oppression policière dans le sillage de la descente historique de 1977 dans le bar gay montréalais Truxx. En 1976, la ville de Montréal a lancé un nettoyage préolympique des gays et des prostituées, une nouvelle vague de persécution qui a fait sortir la communauté gay de sa complaisance, […]
Myths for Profit: Canada’s role in industries of war and peace
‘MYTHS FOR PROFIT’ is a dramatic, exposé documentary which explores ‘Canada’s role in Industries of War and Peace’. Through diverse interviews and case studies this documentary unveils the specific interests and profits that are made by certain corporation, individuals and agency within Canada. By examining these myths we seek to find out what are the […]
Occupy Love
From the Arab Spring to the European Summer, from the Occupy Movement to the global climate justice movement, a profound shift is taking place: humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the […]
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, […]
