Chronicle of a Crisis
Sarah and Simon, a couple of young millennials are facing the repossession of their apartment in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in the province of Quebec. They decide to turn the camera on themselves to document their daily life during their challenging search for a new affordable place to live in. Filmed in […]
CP CONCORDIA’S FALL PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL + INTERSECTIONAL DEFIANCE Our Fall 2024 program is marked by intersectional stories and actions where community care, intergenerational trauma, embattled peoples and political oppression highlight criss-crossing lines of power, history, identity and agency. Fierce filmmaking, committed storytellers and bottom-up resistance strike a diverse chord across tales from Hawai’i, Iran, France, Palestine, the USA and […]
Fairy Creek Wins Best Canadian Feature at Planet in Focus
FAIRY CREEK, the feature directorial debut by Jen Muranetz, will have its World Premiere at Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on October 17.
CP Groningen at the Colombian Migrant Film Festival!
Where Olive Trees Weep – Montreal Screening with guests
The Ride Ahead
THE RIDE AHEAD is the feature-length version of the Emmy Award-winning New York Times Op-Doc, MyDisability Roadmap.After graduating high school Samuel Habib, who has serious health, communication, and mobility challenges, feels ‘stuck’ and falling behind his peers. He wants to go to college, make new friends, date,move out of his parents’ home. “But no one […]
Holding Back the Tide
A woman swallows a pearl. A subway car falls to the oceanfloor. A deluge bursts through the cracks of New York City.In every borough, oyster shells are pried apart and carefullyreturned to sea. A chorus of farmers, diners, sous chefs,fishmongers, activists, and landscape architects colloquializesthe oyster’s many lifecycles. These educational snapshotsabout the bivalve’s ecological role, […]
DIRECT ACTION
Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means. DIRECT ACTION is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective that successfully resisted an international airport expansion project in 2018, created an […]
Diaries From Lebanon
Filmed during the maelstrom of Lebanon’s early 2020s, Myriam El Hajj’s DIARIES FROM LEBANON uses a diaristic structure to tell the story of a country plagued by legislative tyrants, state censorship, and a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut. El Hajj’s deeply personal film renders the tireless attempts of the Lebanese people to restructure their […]
Fairy Creek
The Fairy Creek (Ada’itsx) valley sprawls across Pacheedaht First Nation territory on southwestern Vancouver Island and its old growth forest ecosystem thrives with lush foliage, ancient tree trunks, and a variety of wildlife. However, the decimating chainsaws and tractor machinery of the Teal Jones lumber corporation disrupt this equilibrium as they ravage an environmental haven […]
Silvicola Begins its Vancouver Island Tour
SILVICOLA returns to Vancouver Island for seven special events from October 5 to October 11 with the director and local guests in attendance. The film tour is organized in collaboration with and co-sponsored by Sierra Club BC.
FROM GROUND ZERO
Through striking authorial engagements with allegory and creative actuality, these filmmakers’ testimonies of confinement under relentless bombardment and imposed famine expose audiences to fragments of their daily struggle to survive — and to do so with dignity. Khamis Masharawi’s Soft Skin enters an animation workshop providing art therapy to children, many of whom are newly orphaned, as […]
Standing Above the Clouds
STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS highlights the movement to protect Mauna Kea through the intergenerational stories of women in three Native Hawaiian families as they stand for the sacred mountain. The film follows teacher and community organizer Pua Case and her two daughters — artist-activists Hāwane Rios and Kapulei Flores — who have been called to […]
My Stolen Planet
Oppressed by governmental restrictions that prevent her human rights, movement and autonomy, an Iranian filmmaker is forced to emigrate “inwards” and finds freedom in recording herself dancing and singing at home as an act of resistance. Using a personal diary-style narrative, Farah Sharifi traces her birth in post-revolution Iran to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement […]
Rat Film
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. RAT FILM is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them—to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s […]
Wal-Town: The Film
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 […]
