Directed by Sylvia Hamilton ∙ 2007 ∙ Canada ∙ 60'

Shot on location in villages and cities in Ontario and Nova Scotia, THE LITTLE BLACK SCHOOL HOUSE unearths the untold story of the children, women, men who were students and teachers in Canada’s racially segregated schools.

Sylvia Hamilton's do...

Directed by Jessica Habie ∙ 2013 ∙ Palestinian Territory - Canada - United States ∙ 75'

With evocative cinematography, MARS AT SUNRISE tells the story of a war waged on the imagination. Jessica Habie's debut film surrealistically portrays the conflict between artists on either side of the milit...

Directed by Karol Orzechowski ∙ 2012 ∙ Canada ∙ 90'

MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE examines an animal-human experiment intended to find the highest dose of a chemical that, when administered to a group of test subjects in a clinical trial, does not result in a fatality due to short-term toxicity.

This...

Directed by Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean ∙ 2012 ∙ United States ∙ 76'

This is a documentary about director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighbourhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson m...

Directed by Zahra Moloo ∙ 2014 ∙ Kenya ∙ 15'

Tanzania is one of the largest gold producers in Africa, with multinational mining companies from London, Dubai and Toronto operating all across the country. But as these companies turn greater profits and Tanzania becomes a major investment destinat...

Directed by Amy Miller ∙ 2009 ∙ Canada ∙ 58'

MYTHS FOR PROFIT is a dramatic exposé exploring Canada’s role in industries of 'War and Peace’. Through diverse interviews and case studies, this documentary unveils the interests and profits of the most powerful corporations, individuals and agencie...

Directed by Velcrow Ripper ∙ 2012 ∙ Canada ∙ 95'

From the Arab Spring to the European Summer, from the Occupy Movement to the global climate justice movement, a profound shift is taking place: humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with heal...

Directed by Lia Tarachansky ∙ 2013 ∙ Israel - Palestinian Territory ∙ 82'

Acclaimed former Soviet, Israeli-Canadian journalist Lia Tarachansky looks at Israelis’ collective amnesia of the fateful events of 1948 when the state of Israel was born and most Palestinians made refugees in their own ho...

Directed by S. Leo Chyang and Johnny Simons ∙ 2015 ∙ United States ∙ 75'

As leader of the world’s only LGBTQ+ political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBTQ+ representation in the ...

Directed by Sergei Kachkin ∙ 2016 ∙ Russia ∙ 100'

Three former political prisoners tell the story of their imprisonment in the “Perm-36” prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite reflecting, mirror-like, Russian society hau...

Directed by Dean Spade ∙ 2015 ∙ United States ∙ 56'

"Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initia...

Directed by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel ∙ 2014 ∙ Canada - France - United States ∙ 41'

The creative commons documentary PREEMPTING DISSENT builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and ed...

Directed by Nettie Wild ∙ 1998 ∙ Canada ∙ 92'

On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), made up of impoverished Indigenous peoples from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The Mexican government deployed its troops, and at least...

Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers ∙ 2012 ∙ Canada ∙ 10'

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 ...

Directed by Dáša Raimanova and Zofia Brom ∙ 2018 ∙ Poland ∙ 71'

How does it feel to be Black, LGBTQ+ or Muslim in Poland? POLYLAND gives a voice to three strong female characters from different minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be Black, Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the mos...

Directed by Jesse Freeston ∙ 2015 ∙ Canada - Honduras ∙ 92'

RESISTENCIA: THE FIGHT FOR THE AGUAN VALLEY follows farmers of the fertile Aguan Valley who responded to 2009 Honduran military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. These farmers took over 10,000 acres of palm oil plantations that...

Directed by Jason O'Hara ∙ 2015 ∙ Canada - Brazil ∙ 28'

In 2008, Rio de Janeiro introduces a controversial program known as Pacifying Police Units (UPP) in the favelas. The police murder two young boys in cold blood. Another officer protests, disappears, and is found murdered hours later. Meanwh...

Directed by Fahim Alam ∙ 2013 ∙ United Kingdom ∙ 60'

RIOTS REFRAMED takes the viewer through a journey that begins in Tottenham, London—where 29-year old Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in 2011—and spirals out to a broader and deeper look into the role of police, power, racism, government, p...

Directed by Alan Kohl ∙ 2008 ∙ Canada ∙ 72'

Over a period of three years, stencil artist Peter Gibson (aka Roadsworth) made his mark on Montreal in the early hours of the morning by launching a self-described "attack on the streets." Armed with spray paint and handmade stencils, he began to play...

Directed by Nettie Wild ∙ 1988 ∙ Canada ∙ 112'

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 chronic...

Directed by Michael W. Wilson and Natalie Zimmerman ∙ 2009 ∙ United States ∙ 88'

As Trump’s election in 2016 had shown, right-wing fascist groups cannot be considered as fringe and peripheral in the U.S., easily discounted for their extremism and small numbers. SILHOUETTE CITY couldn’t be more r...

Directed by Kawennahere Devery Jacobs ∙ 2016 ∙ Canada ∙ 7'

STOLEN is a dramatic short film that follows troubled, 14-year old, Shayna Hill as she is admitted and runs away from her group-home. Roughly inspired by the recent murders and attacks on Native girls, it is a small glimpse into a typica...

Directed by Fernand Melgar ∙ 2016 ∙ Switzerland ∙ 101'

In 1994, the Swiss government approved a law authorizing the detention of all foreigners in an irregular situation until they are expelled. Every year, a purely administrative decision has thousands of men and women imprisoned up to 24 month...

Directed by Franklin Lopez ∙ 2013 ∙ Canada ∙ 34'

In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the Montréal for over six months. Protests and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. ...

Directed by Avi Lewis ∙ 2004 ∙ Canada ∙ 87'

THE TAKE is a powerful manifesto to the power of ordinary people to come together and achieve extraordinary things. This documentary opens in suburban Buenos Aires, where thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleep...

Directed by Kathy Wazana ∙ 2013 ∙ Canada - United States - Morocco - Israel ∙ 74'

A lyrical, musical, polemical road movie, THEY WERE PROMISED THE SEA is an intimate journey shot in Morocco, Israel and Palestine, and New York. Writer and filmmaker Kathy Wazana's research into her family origins ...

Directed by Rémy Huberdeau ∙ 2014 ∙ Canada ∙ 45'

TRANSGENDER PARENTS is a film about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, to raising infants, toddlers a...

Directed by Sergeo Kirby ∙ 2006 ∙ Canada ∙ 66'

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 pamph...

Directed by Rob Van Alkemade ∙ 2017 ∙ United States ∙ 91'

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 ...

Directed by Robert Alstead ∙ 2007 ∙ Canada ∙ 80'

Cyclists are changing the face of Vancouver, a city that has become renowned for the party spirit of its Critical Mass bike rides that attract all types of cyclists.

YOU NEVER BIKE ALONE charts the development of Critical Mass rides in Vancouver—...