Cultures of Resistance

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In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, acclaimed filmmaker Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, traveling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. From […]

East Hastings Pharmacy

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EAST HASTINGS PHARMACY is a chronicle of a typical pharmacy in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment for opioid dependence that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. The pharmacy is a site of rituals and repeated interactions, where quiet routine and confrontation follow each other in continuous […]

3000 Nuits

3000 Nights

L’étonnant premier long métrage de la cinéaste palestinienne Mai Masri est inspiré d’une histoire vraie et tourné dans une vraie prison. 3000 NIGHTS retrace le parcours d’une jeune mère, fait d’espoir, de résilience et de survie contre vents et marées. Accusée d’avoir aidé un adolescent en fuite, Layal, une institutrice palestinienne fraîchement mariée, se retrouve […]

The Good Neighbour

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THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR takes a closer look at the environmental and social effects of living near the Canadian oil sands in Alberta, an epic journey filmed from Montreal to Fort McMurray in a truck that runs on used vegetable oil. Statoil, a major oil company primarily owned by the Norwegian government (and thus the Norwegian […]

The Fifth Region

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The 5th Region is a short narrative film that discusses the lives of Nancy and Joshua who are Inuit but raised in southern Canada. All their lives they struggled with aspects of their identities and now begin to redefine what it means to be a young urban Inuk growing up under the shadow of the Sixties Scoop and […]

Happy Birthday, Marsha!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHA ! est un film sur l’artiste et activiste transgenre emblématique Marsha « Pay it No Mind » Johnson et sur sa vie dans les heures qui ont précédé le déclenchement des émeutes de Stonewall à New York en 1969.

The Lesson of the Snail

Following the uprising of January 1, 1994, the Indigenous peoples of Chiapas in Mexico assessed their disaffection with the Mexican education system, describing it as a vector of poverty and injustice. Since then, the Zapatista resistance has remained one of the most intriguing organizations among contemporary international revolutionary struggles, pushing back against the margins of […]

Between Midnight & The Rooster’s Crow

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In the aggressive search for the ‘black gold’ that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador’s rainforest. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER’S CROW investigates the operations of the EnCana Corporation, a firm that, despite proud public declarations of its social responsibility, is shown to […]

Wal-Town: The Film

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Six student activists. Thirty-six Canadian towns. One giant corporation. A daunting experiment in activism. A group of six university students, calling themselves Wal-Town, take to the Canadian highway over two summers. Armed with thousands of pamphlets and fliers—with one gonzo journalist along for the ride—they visit 36 of Canada’s more than 200 Wal-Mart stores with […]

Diversidad – A Road Trip to Deconstruct Dinner

Artist Talk with Jean-Marc Abela

“Diversidad – A Road Trip to Deconstruct Dinner” is a documentary about a group of young Canadians who got on their bikes to raise awareness on the impacts of Word Trade Organization and industrial agriculture. From the waterfronts of Vancouver to the mountaintops of Mexico, this journey lifts the veil of idealism. They discover the […]

The Case of Eco Oro

The Case of Eco Oro

This film is part of the CRUDE GOLD series. The Santurban paramo has become an example of community struggle to protect water sources successfully. Lawyers, community leaders and activists united to mobilized and demanded the protection of natural resources threatened by Vancouver-based Eco Oro projects. A palpable urgency surrounds this story because of the fragility […]

Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley

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The morning of June 28th, 2009. The people of Honduras are preparing to vote in their first-ever referendum. The proposition is to write a new constitution, and a ‘yes’ vote could dramatically transform the country. Three-quarters of Hondurans weren’t even alive the last time an elected government was overthrown in Central America, yet they awake […]

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

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American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about American academic Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of Holocaust survivors, ardent critic of Israel and U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry, Norman Finkelstein has been steadfast at the center of many intractable controversies, including his denial of […]

Winnie Wright, 11 ans

Winnie Wright Still

Winnie, fille d’un ouvrier sidérurgiste et d’une enseignante, vit à Gage Park, un quartier de Chicago qui passe de blanc à noir. Sa famille est confrontée au racisme, à l’inflation et à une menace de grève, tandis que Winnie apprend ce que signifie grandir en étant blanche, ouvrière et femme. Le film a été créé […]

A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

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This film offers a remarkable behind-the-frontlines look at the aftermath of the anti-Marcos “Yellow Revolution” that brought Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines in 1986. Shot over eight months, often in dangerous conditions, the film chronicles the three points of an often-violent political triangle: the legal left; the illegal, armed leftists of the New […]

What Would Jesus Buy?

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From director Rob VanAlkemade and producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired […]