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 […]
Kivitoo: What They Thought of Us
In 1962 three men died in a tragic accident in the Inuit community of Kivitoo. Only three days after their burial – when the community was still in deep mourning – the RCMP arrived and forced everyone to move to a camp in Qikittajuaaq. The RCMP promised that the community would be allowed to return […]
Bikes vs Cars
The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it? Bikes vs Cars, a new film project from BANANAS!* and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* director Fredrik Gertten, looks into and investigates the daily global drama in traffic around […]
Above All Else
One man risks his family and future to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, Above All Else follows David Daniel, a retired high-wire artist and circus performer, from the moment that he discovers survey stakes […]
The Last Pullman Car
En 1864, George Pullman a commencé à vendre ses célèbres wagons-lits, ce qui lui a permis de bâtir un vaste empire industriel censé durer éternellement. En 1981, cependant, les travailleurs de Pullman se sont retrouvés au cœur d’une lutte non seulement pour leur emploi, mais aussi pour l’avenir de l’industrie américaine des wagons de chemin […]
Blockade
A 22,000 square mile tract of land in northern British Columbia is the site of an explosive set of competing ownership claims. In 1984, the Gitxsan people launched a land claim for the entire area, claiming it as unceded Indigenous territory. But since the 1880s, white settlers known to the Gitxsan as the « visitors who […]
Invoking Justice
Dans le sud de l’Inde, les différends familiaux sont réglés par les Jamaats, des organes exclusivement masculins qui appliquent la charia islamique sans permettre aux femmes d’être présentes, même pour se défendre. Conscient de cette inégalité fondamentale, un groupe de femmes a créé en 2004 un Jamaat de femmes, qui est rapidement devenu un réseau […]
Breath Anew
150 years in the future, an American refugee is forced to leave her life behind – seeking a different way of life from the technologically advanced society she has grown up in. As she journeys along this new underground railroad, she reflects on her original harrowing escape to Canada and the recent events that prompted […]
Aryana Resurrected
The name ARYANA means “holy one”. Many decades ago, the nation of ARYANA was forcefully transitioned into becoming AFGHANISTAN, the land of seven tribes. This period of rule, brought tremendous suffering, especially for the women and girls of the nation. Outsiders entered and exited, raping the land of its resources until it was useless to […]
Burkinabè Rising
Burkinabè Rising showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso. A small, landlocked country in West Africa, Burkina Faso is home to a vibrant community of artists and engaged citizens, who provide an example of the type of political change that can be achieved when people come together. It is an inspiration, not only to the […]
Ghosts
Three Arab-Canadian men are detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and Egypt. Upon their release they return to Canada struggling to find some answers as to why they were detained and tortured. An internal inquiry into their cases, the Iacobucci Inquiry, reveals that the Canadian government was complicit in their detention and […]
