This quirky, playful film combines climate change, sustainability, oysters, New York, and trans rights into one zany, joyful work.
An inside look at Amazon workers’ efforts to unionize JFK8 Warehouse in Staten Island, despite the company’s ongoing attempts to stop the growing labor movement.
A powerful film that sneaks up on you, combining personal reflection and experience with a wider critique of power and corruption in Lebanon.
On Demand
A short manifesto of collective resistance to police oppression in the wake of the historic 1977 raid on the Montreal gay bar Truxx.
TJ Cuthand · 2018 · 13m
After white people have left Earth for Mars, Indigenous people talk about their work reclaiming the land & restoring the health of the planet & their communities.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Jeremy Sandor · 2018 · 15m
A colour forecasting agency documents its human employees on their last day at the office.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
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Helen Haig-Brown & Gwaii Edenshaw · 2018 · 1h39m
Helen Haig-Brown & Gwaii Edenshaw · 2018 · 1h39m
A stunning cinematic achievement and a spellbinding tale of pride, tragedy, and remorse set in Haida Gwaii in Canada’s Pacific Northwest in the 1800s.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Iara Lee · 2018 · 1h12m
Burkinabè Rising showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso.
Part of the Black History Month Collection collection
Sky Hopinka · 2018 · 11m
A beautiful act of mythmaking and a trance-like meditation on arrivals, departures, and ascendance.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Marwen Tlili & Quentin Ducados Tayeb Hadji · 2018 · 18m
On Demand
Marwen Tlili & Quentin Ducados Tayeb Hadji · 2018 · 18m
Solitudes, or how the artistic endeavours of some create a nightmare for others who are in the minority.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Lana Lin · 2018 · 1h38m
On Demand
Lana Lin · 2018 · 1h38m
Along with filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, women recite Audre Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera.
Heperi Mita · 2018 · 1m
Heperi Mita · 2018 · 1m
Who better to give justice to the rich legacy of one of the founders of Indigenous cinema than the son of the Māori artist-activist Merata Mita.
Astra Taylor · 2018 · 1h47m
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
On Demand
Andréanne Germain · 2018 · 6m
A teenager unwillingly deletes her best friend in this bittersweet coming of age story set in a world where augmented reality has gamified existence.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
tobias c. van Veen · 2018 · 25m
LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
Fred Peabody · 2018 · 1h30m
The Corporate Coup D'état examines how the media landscape and politics have shifted with Donald Trump in the White House.
Emily Wright, Tom Laffay & Daniel Bustos · 2018 · 21m
Emily Wright, Tom Laffay & Daniel Bustos · 2018 · 21m
This doc follows Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and campesinos communities organizing to protect the land & their people, and fighting to keep the state accountable
Evangelia Kranioti · 2018 · 1h
A stunning documentary-fiction about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis in Rio de Janeiro.
Adam Mazo & Ben Pender-Cudlip · 2018 · 1h26m
This film follows Maine's Truth and Rec. Commission as a flawed and hopeful process troubled with white privilege and framed by a need to heal colonial wounds.
On Demand
Nebojša Slijepčević · 2018 · 1h12m
In early 90’s, a 12-year old Serbian girl was brutally murdered in Zagreb. A quarter-century later, well known director Oliver Frljic is working on a theatre play about the case.
