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The Kuchus of Uganda

Particularly inspiring in light of changes in the law that happened after this film was made, this is a documentary about SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda), a group of radical LGBT activists who risk their lives in order to push for queer rights. Piehl follows this brave group as they try to reason with medical academics […]

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is a vibrant archival documentary that honours the spirit of queer protest through the lens of community celebration, cultural resistance, and radical joy. Drawing from decades of footage, the film brings to life the dynamic energy of LGBTQ+ parades as spaces of defiance, love, and identity-building. At its […]

Dear Future Children

With global protests on the rise, DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is a film about the new generation at the heart of this seismic political shift. We will watch as Rayen protests for social justice in Chile, Pepper fights for democracy in Hong Kong and Hilda battles the devastating consequences of climate change in Uganda. Facing almost […]

Kettle

“Kettling” is a police tactic used to control large crowds during protests. Officers surround the crowd from all sides, pushing them together into a smaller area. In many cases an individual’s only means of exiting the kettle is through arrest. Set against the backdrop of the Toronto G20 in 2010—where the largest mass arrest in […]

We Are Wisconsin

WE ARE WISCONSIN! is a feature length documentary film now being produced that follows the day-to-day unfolding of public outcry against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial budget-repair bill, focusing on the human story behind a remarkable popular uprising forged on the floor of the Madison Capitol. The film asks the question “Why should we care […]

FINDING SALLY and ANOTHER WORD FOR LEARNING at DOXA

FINDING SALLY and ANOTHER WORD FOR LEARNING will be screening online at DOXA from Thursday, June 18 until Friday June 26.

Three Promises

THREE PROMISES is the story of a mother and her camera, of a son and his suppressed memories, and of an entire country. At the start of the 2000s, while the Israeli army is retaliating against the second intifada in the West Bank, Suha films her daily family life, punctuated by frequent trips underground and […]

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 […]

Defensora

Defensora is a documentary about a Mayan Q’eqchi’ resistance against mining in Guatemala. The story is set along the shores of Lake Izabal in the community of El Estor where a nickel mining company has operated for over 50 years. Tensions run high against a backdrop of pro and anti-mining camps, violence and forced evictions. […]

Announcing Five Incredible Documentaries by Auteur Nettie Wild for Streaming Today

For the first time ever, documentary powerhouse Nettie Wild’s film collection is offered online courtesy of Cinema Politica On Demand.

Ada for Mayor (Alcaldessa)

Ada Colau, a well known activist against evictions in Spain, decides to run for Mayor of Barcelona. Surrounded by a team with little experience in institutional politics, Ada speaks about her doubts and discoveries during this vertiginous journey. The film combines the enthusiastic construction of a new political movement with the inner struggle of someone […]

ArtDox

While documentary is in itself an art form, often called “informational art,” documentaries that focus on other art forms or artists working in various art milieus are uniquely positioned as works that examine art via art. In recent years many such “art docs” have been produced in Canada, yet these films and videos remain mostly […]

Mama Colonel

Colonel Honorine, more commonly known as “Mama Colonel”, works for the Congolese police force and heads the unit for the protection of minors and the fight against sexual violence. Having worked for 15 years in Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she learns she is transferred to Kisangani. There, she […]

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 […]

The Cancer Journals Revisited

THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and […]

Sgaawaay K’uuna [Edge of the Knife]

The first feature film made entirely in the Haida language — a critically endangered language spoken fluently by fewer than 20 people — EDGE OF THE KNIFE is set in 19th century Haida Gwaii. At a seasonal fishing camp two families endure conflict between the nobleman Adiits’ii and his best friend Kwa. After Adiits’ii causes […]