In the Turn
IN THE TURN follows Crystal, a 10-year-old transgender girl growing up in rural Canada, as she navigates the difficult and complicated world that surrounds her. Tormented at school by teachers and peers alike, she faces daily assaults in the form of insults and physical altercations. The pain she endures at school takes a toll on […]
History Will Judge
In 2016, a peace treaty between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ended 52 years of civil war. Over four years, Canadian-Colombian filmmaker Germán Gutiérrez follows a group of guerillas from their covert existence in camps to civilian life. In HISTORY WILL JUDGE, men and women share their vision for the country, […]
Dawnland
“My foster mother told me … she would save me from being Penobscot.” For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. As recently as the 1970’s, one in four Native children nationwide were living in non-Native foster care, adoptive homes, or […]
Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie
Face aux dangers pour l’environnement que représente l’expansion de l’industrie des sables bitumineux qui exploite l’une des énergies fossiles les plus polluantes de la planète, ce long métrage documentaire rappelle que le pouvoir n’est pas toujours là où l’on croit. Des couloirs de l’Assemblée nationale, où se trouve le pouvoir parlementaire, aux actions militantes des […]
The Crossing
THE CROSSING tells the difficult story of individuals forced into displacement and takes us along on one of the most dangerous journeys of our time with a group of Syrians fleeing war and persecution, crossing a sea, two continents and five countries, searching for a home to rekindle the greatest thing they have lost – Hope. […]
The Shadow of Gold
The Shadow of Gold is a global investigation of the ultimate talisman of wealth, beauty and power. Filmed in China, Peru, Canada, the U.S., London, Dubai, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Shadow of Gold reveals the impact of gold mining and the gold trade on our economy, environment and conflicts. Watch to discover […]
Recording: Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora
FLUID FRAMES FROM THE PALESTINIAN DIASPORA showcases work from Palestinian filmmakers based in the country known as Canada. This live-stream discussion featured filmmakers Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, Razan AlSalah, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Serene Husni …
Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025
No Pride in Genocide (June 2025) Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from queer and […]
River Silence
Director Rogério Soares whisks audiences to a bend in the Xingu River to witness a state of affairs that one subject in the film aptly describes as “post-nature.” RIVER SILENCE is a bleak portrait of the area surrounding the Belo Monte Dam, which has displaced 40,000 people and all but annihilated the natural environment. Poverty […]
FemDoc: Women & Documentary
September 01, 2015 – October 31, 2016 FemDoc is a provocative program of film screenings, public discussions and interpretative material that showcases works by and about women (both cis-women and trans* artists or subjects included), as well as the social, economic, cultural and political issues that affect their lives and work. Like other Cinema Politica […]
The Māori-Made Collection
“How can we take that maverick yet fond friend of ours—the camera—into the Māori community and be confident it will act with dignity?” Barry Barclay, “Our Own Image”, 1990. Aotearoa, also known as New Zealand, has enjoyed ample screen time in Hollywood and mainstream cinema, but this powerful collection showcases an image of the “land […]
Making Utu
MAKING UTU is a making of documentary filmed on the set of New Zealand’s first epic, UTU (REDUX), produced with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. “It’s like football innit? You set up the event and cover it…” says Murphy, as he prepares to shoot a battle scene. The film’s insistence […]
Crimes Without Honour
Every winter in a Stockholm cemetery activists gather to honour Fadime, a Turkish immigrant to Sweden murdered by her father in 2002. Internationalizing the debate over cultural traditions that accept the use of violence to control women’s behaviour in Western immigrant communities, four extraordinary activists tell their personal stories of physical and emotional violence, and […]
Betsiamites
What does it mean to be Indigenous in today’s world? The film heads out to the North Coast of Québec to meet residents of Pessamit, an Innu community formerly named Betsiamites. In a face to face with the camera, their voice, direct and unexpected, is heard. 13 members of the community discuss their daily lives, […]
Land and Memory: From Gitksan Nation to Eastern Anatolia
Our On Demand titles this month feature two stories of displacement, settlement and generational memory in Nettie Wild’s BLOCKADE and Hale Güzin Kızılaslan’s THE RETURN.
Bajo Sospecha : Zokunentu
ON SUSPICION: SOKUNENTU Narrated in the language of the Mapuche people, the film is a journey through the works of the celebrated Mapuche visual artist Bernardo Oyarzún from the perspective of his nephew, Daniel Díaz, who proposes a reflection on identity, spirituality, territory and racial justice in contemporary Chile. Daniel Diaz Oyarzun is a comic […]
