Directed by b.h. Yael ∙ 2010 ∙ Canada

KEN, TOV, BESEDER is a constructed short narrative piece, both allegorical and literal. A Palestinian man working in his garden in West Jerusalem is interrupted. The phone rings as he walks out of his home, through Jerusalem streets, past the Damascus gate, ...

Directed by b.h. Yael ∙ 2002 ∙ Canada

The loss of individual lives in Israel/Palestine as a result of the Israeli occupation is too much for any of us to comprehend at this point. The number of injuries and the psychic toll is even greater. We do not see the full picture. Most often the perspe...

Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib • 2021 • France, Lebanon, Qatar • 89'

In his directorial debut, LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE, filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib offers a glimpse into the daily life of the residents of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world.

Home to thousands...

Directed by Petra Seliškar • 2016 • Slovenia - Macedonia - Croatia • 74'

A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian artist Frane Milčinski Ježek. His satirical poems and songs from the 1950s and 60s today sound more urgent and topical than ever, and are covered by musicians ranging from ...

Directed by Magnus Isacsson • 1999 • Canada • 75'

For more than 125 years, meals have been served for a large number of homeless people in the reception centre L‘accueil Bonneau in Montreal, Canada.

A few years ago, a choir of around twenty men was formed from the regular clientele of the centr...

Directed by Magnus Isacsson • 1995 • Canada • 78'

When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility. With unprecedented access to key figures like Cree leader ...

Directed by Hale Güzin Kızılaslan • 2015 • Turkey • 20'

Memories and identities had long been eradicated or buried in Eastern Anatolia after the disappearance of its Armenian inhabitants; some managed to survive, but only secretly. THE RETURN tells one such story of confrontation, remembrance an...

Directed by Myriam Fougère • 2012 • Canada • 63'

A parallel, lesbian-feminist revolution was born out of the women’s and civil rights movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Filmmaker Myriam Fougère’s takes us on a road trip through the United States and Canada as she revisits the activists of the time ...

Produced by Olivia Di Poi and Hannah B. Moore • 2019 • Canada • 31'

DRAGGED explores the wonderfully weird world of Montreal drag. Meet the kings, queens, and royalty who make up this vibrant community and support your local drag!

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Directed by Magnus Isacsson • 2002 • Canada • 52'

This is the story of two young men, Maxime and Pascal, who sow the wind and reap a storm. Things quickly get out of control when these two employees attempt to form a union at a Montreal McDonald’s. Their initiative to form a union at a Montreal ...

Realisè par Magnus Isacsson • 1999 • Canada • 63' • Français

Les employés d'un restaurant McDonald de la Rive-Sud de Montréal ont décidé de se syndiquer. En cas de réussite, cet établissement sera le seul McDonald syndiqué en Amérique du Nord. Les enjeux sont énormes, tant pour la multinationale...

Directed by Lari Jalbert • 2018 • Canada • 20'

Imagine how bodies will relate to each other in the future, how intimacy will be radically different. Imagine trans and queer bodies having access to ways of mutating organically; reshaping their mortal flesh with their own hands or those of others ...

Directed by Catherine Scott • 2011 • Australia • 70'

Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabilities. Working in New South Wales—where prostitution is legal— Rachel’s philosophy is that human...

Directed by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle • 2016 • United States • 72'

Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives. At the helm of the crew is founder Xela de la X, a single ...

Maria Luisa Gambale & Gloria Bremer • United States - Senagal • 2011 • 60'

Rapper, singer and activist, Sister Fa is a hero to young women in Senegal and an unstoppable force for social change. A childhood victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she decided to tackle the issue by starting a gras...

Directed by Lana Lin • 2018 • United States • 98'

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...

Directed by Megan Rossman • United States • 2018 • 61'

Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, the all-volunteer organization has striven to combat lesbian i...

Directed by Sarah Barton • 2017 • Australia • 85'

DEFIANT LIVES is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the worldwide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can part...

Zacharias Kunuk • 2010 • Canada • Inuktut • 54'

Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new doc...

Director Zacharias Kunuk • 2018 • Canada • Inuktut • 43'

In 1963 families living on the land at Kivitoo were relocated by RCMP to Qikiqtarjuaq, a town 50 km to the south, with the promise they could return, only to return to find their homes bulldozed and belongings destroyed. Combining archival...

Directed by Elaine Brière • 1997 • Canada • 56'

As Canadians we pride ourselves on our international reputation as peacekeeper and power broker. But there is a dark side to our foreign policy – a policy that encourages and subsidizes business and cultural ties with Indonesia, a country responsib...

Directed by • Elaine Brière • Canada • 2004 • 56'

Although Canada is surrounded by three oceans, there is not a single deep-sea ship flying the Canadian flag. But sixty years ago, Canada had the fourth-largest merchant fleet in the world.

"BETRAYED: THE STORY OF THE CANADIAN MERCHANT SEAMAN'S U...

Directed by Nicolas Wadimoff • 2009 • Switzerland - France - Qatar • 85'

Shot a few weeks after the end of Israel’s January 2009 offensive, this sensitively crafted doc captures the human suffering and devastation wrought on Gaza’s Palestinian residents as they struggle daily to survive. “Where ...

Directed by Twyla Roscovich • 2013 • Canada • 69'

In light of the recent extension of Salmon farm licenses in British Columbia, Cinema Politica On Demand highlights this important documentary by Twyla Roscovich. SALMON CONFIDENTIAL is about the Canadian government's cover up of what is really ki...

Directed by Barry Barclay • 1991 • English • 105'

A hundred years after the theft of three irreplaceable tribal carvings from New Zealand, two persevering Māori activists decide it’s time for ancient grievances to be put right. Rewi Marangai, a successful lawyer and Peter Huaka, a performance po...

Directed by Bojana Burnać • 2017 • Croatia • 75'

How much can you fit between two breaths? MY LIFE WITHOUT AIR is a thrilling view of the wondrous world of a man whose most important moments in life take place underwater during one highly controlled breath. Unrelentingly shifting the boundaries ...

Directed by Petra Sališkar • 2013 • Slovenia - Macedonia - Croatia • 90'

MOTHER EUROPE takes a look at Europe through the eyes of a six year old child, Terra. Born in the Balkans, but raised as a citizen of the world by her Cuban-Macedonian father and Slovenian mother, little Terra quickly learn...

Directed by b.h. Yael ∙ 2006 ∙ Canada

DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED considers the repercussions of a largely forgotten massacre of almost 100 Palestinians in 1948. The massacre at Deir Yassin was pivotal to Palestinian dispossession. Though Deir Yassin has been partially acknowledged by Israelis, many ...

Directed by Himona Grace • 2014 • 93'

Grace’s exploration of masculinity and Māori identity in The Pa Boys is full of passion, creativity and anguish. The film follows a fictional Reggae band as it tours Aotearoa and struggles to keep cohesion and community among its members. At the heart of th...

Directed by b.h. Yael • Canada • 2006 • 32'

EVEN IN THE DESERT is a personal reportage focusing on concrete actions by Israelis, Palestinians and international activists working together in the face of and against current agendas to displace Palestinians and to limit their movements. The video t...

Directed by b.h. Yael ∙ 2006 ∙ Canada • 16'

A HOT SANDFILLED WIND is a 13-minute lyrical piece, based on a poem by Nadia Habib. An appeal for recognition against despair, it emphasizes that beyond the politics of occupation, Israelis and Palestinians live in proximity, side by side.

PALESTINE T...

Directed by Askold Kurov & Pavel Loparev • 2014 • Russia • 70'

CHILDREN 404 spotlights the lives of Russian LGBTQ+ youth struggling with decisions to remain in their home country or build a new life abroad, while offering a glimpse at the country's deeply rooted conservatism. In 2013, Russian Pr...

Directed by Merata Mita • 1988 • New Zealand • 90'

Mauri is the story of Rewi, a man haunted by a past which threatens to engulf his future. The story is set among the colourful characters of a once thriving settlement, Te Mata, upon whom the encroachment by Europeans spells disaster.

Now isol...

Directed by Sonya Mwambu • 2017 • Canada • 3’

Gesturing to the racial bias behind Kodak’s mid-century “Shirley Cards,” Mwambu brings deeply textured layers of Black artistry, history and the racial politics of popular culture.

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Directed by Barry Barclay • 1987 • English • 93'

A boy is dying from leukemia; a young Australian doctor visits only to discover his hidden Māori heritage; the local freezing works are threatened to close down. Centered around the community of a small fictional Māori village in the late 1940s, t...

Directed by Myléne Augustin & Feven Ghebremariam ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 12'

Summer 2117 will be revealing for Sam, an 18-year-old Cameroonian girl. Freshly elected to the tribal council that governs her country, she joins the national delegation that is invited to Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). This trip is ...

Directed by Marwen Tlili & Quentin Ducados Tayeb Hadji • 2018 • Canada • 18'

Lamine, a Senegalese student in Quebec, decides to film a carsharing ride between Rimouski and Montreal. In the course of his discussions with Rémi, a young filmmaker focusing on ‘minorities’ and Nataly, an Indigenous w...

Directed by Jeremy Sandor • 2018 • Canada • 15'

Couleur du Moment follows five employees during their last day on the job at a colour forecasting agency. The workers still go about business despite having been replaced by algorithms that design new digital colours to be experienced in the widely...

Directed by Vincent Ward ∙ 1980 ∙ New Zealand ∙ 45'

Outside the boundaries of state protection in Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand), an elderly mother carries the daily work of survival and looks after her mentally-ill son. Their world unfolds between the surrounding mountains and the pastora...

Directed by Mariam Zaidi • 2018 • Canada • 5'

JK is a 26 year-old astronaut from India selected to go on a mission to Mars in the year 2035. As she gets ready for her momentous day, she reflects on her past and the people who helped her get to where is she is now.

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Directed by Taika Waititi • 2004 • New Zealand • 11'

Set in the carpark of a rural pub in Te Kaha, New Zealand, this award- winning short comedy from Taika Waititi tells the story of two brothers, Romeo and Ed, who wait in the car while their parents are inside drinking. Romeo spots Polly, an el...

Directed by Taika Waititi • 2005 • New Zealand • 18'

Every culture has its stories and its heroes. For the Māori, the men of the 28th Battalion are legendary. Numerous books and films have been made commemorating the Māori Battalion, who fought the Axis forces in Greece, North Africa and Italy. ...

Directed by tobias c. van Veen • 2018 • Canada • 25'

Blending documentary techniques with surrealist and silent filmmaking, LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet. Having lost her way from the continuum ...

Directed by Brishkay Ahmed • 2018 • Canada • 10'

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 ...

Directed by Gaelene Preston • 1982 • New Zealand • 48'

MAKING UTU is a making of documentary filmed on the set of New Zealand's first epic, Utu, 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…” s...

Directed by Emily James ∙ 2011 ∙ United Kingdom ∙ 90'

JUST DO IT lifts the lid on climate activism and the daring troublemakers who have crossed the line to become modern-day outlaws. Documented over the course of a year, Emily James’ film follows these activists as they blockade factories, atta...

Directed by David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier ∙ 2010 ∙ United States ∙ 89'

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 cente...

Directed by Andrés Salas-Parra ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 20'

In the year 2020 all untapped minerals in the bowels of the earth were diluted and transformed into poisonous gasses by the Aqua Regia Storm. Expelled through every open pit mine on the planet, the gas leak killed around 80 percent of the tota...

Directed by Bretten Hannam ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 8'

150 years into the future the province of Nova Scotia has mostly been abandoned by settler descendants, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned buildings and homes. As the Mi’kmaw People reclaim their territory and work to remove the toxic technology...

Directed by Taina Da Silva & Becca Redden ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 16'

Two young warrior siblings, Vim and Hax, are living in a post-apocalyptic world caused by climate change. For 150 years, the air has not been breathable for humans. As such, their whole community lives in high tech homes to keep th...

Directed by Andrew Chiu ∙ 2018 ∙ Canada ∙ 11'

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 ...

Directed by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel ∙ 2018 ∙ United States ∙ 14'

Combining archival footage with dramatic re-enactment, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHA! is a film about iconic Black transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969...

Directed by b.h. Yael ∙ 1996 ∙ Canada

FRESH BLOOD, A CONSIDERATION OF BELONGING is a hybrid documentary or video essay which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, bellydancing and memory. This video essay, formed by personal narrative and including a return to...

Directed by Mai Masri ∙ Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon ∙ 2015 ∙ 103'

Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison by acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri, 3000 NIGHTS traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage bo...

Directed by Nuno Escudiero ∙ 2019 ∙ Italy - France ∙ 76'

High in the French Alps, on the border between Italy and France, African migrants fleeing war, poverty and political persecution risk their lives crossing dangerous mountain routes. Witnessing the increasing influx of refugees, local commu...

Directed by Janelle Wookey and Jérémie Wookey ∙ 2015 ∙ Canada ∙ 49'

With a jug of milk ringing in at over $14 in some of Northern Manitoba's lowest income communities, it’s not difficult to imagine how grocery bills can account for up to 80% of the household budget or why diabetes rates have hit...

Directed by Nettie Wild ∙ 2016 ∙ Canada ∙ 96'

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 vis...

Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston ∙ 2013 ∙ USA - Canada - Honduras ∙ 40'

Could a remote hospital that runs on solar panels, in a community without paved roads or electricity, provide a global model for health care? Since arriving in Honduras in 1797, the Garifuna people have struggled against exclu...

Directed by Nettie Wild ∙ 1994 ∙ Canada ∙ 90'

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 si...

Directed by Sandy Cioffi ∙ 2009 ∙ USA ∙ 93'

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 plac...