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.
Lu Asfaha · 2018 · 12m
At Black Lives Matter Toronto's Freedom School, 13-year-old Moon learns to be a leader while Rihanna discovers that being Black is indeed beautiful.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby · 2018 · 10m
A trans Anishinaabe man meets a young Anishinaabe woman who pushes both of them to reconnect with their Indigenous culture.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
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Mosha Folger · 2018 · 45m
An exploration of the meaning of the concept of housing, and it’s constant companion homelessness, in the Inuit communities in Canada's North..
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
On Demand
Rolla Tahir · 2018 · 6m
Displacement, exodus, family and belonging are explored in this experimental archival “biography” (“sira” in Arabic).
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada collection
Roberto Santaguida · 2018 · 10m
A reflection on assigning meaning and shedding preconceptions while in free fall.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
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Roxann Whitebean · 2018 · 5m
Enhior'hén:ne explores Mohawks children's predictions about the state of mother earth 200 years into the future.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Taina Da Silva & Becca Redden · 2018 · 16m
150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community, who survived climate change, and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
On Demand
Hassan Fazili · 2018 · 1h27m
Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili directed a film about the Taliban—and in March 2015, the Taliban put a bounty on his head.
Ryan McMahon · 2018 · 1h30m
Ryan McMahon · 2018 · 1h30m
A vital listening for all Canadians, THUNDER BAY is a serialized, investigative, podcast series about the effects of colonialism in Thunder Bay.
Raluca Bejan & Ioan Cocan · 2018 · 1h14m
An empathetic film about the Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean, and the dangers faced in the process.
Tom Burke · 2018 · 1h23m
An urgent story reveals the drastic consequences of climate change. Due to rising temperatures, the village of Newtok, Alaska is slowly vanishing into the sea.
Razan Alsalah · 2018 · 7m
Razan Alsalah · 2018 · 7m
An experimental short film on displacement and returning to Palestine via Google Streetview.
Part of the Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection
On Demand
Bren López Zepeda · 2018 · 7m
A powerful animated short about the strength and courage of immigrants crossing into the United States to find a better life.
Amanda Strong · 2018 · 19m
In this short stop-motion animation Biidaaban sets out to harvest sap from Sugar Maples, working in continuum with Sabe, and other spirit beings.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 2 collection
Arwen Curry · 2018 · 1h8m
A spirited biographical portrait of feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin, whose groundbreaking fiction is placed in political-historical context and celebrated.
On Demand
Reina Gossett & Sasha Wortzel · 2018 · 14m
When young street queen Marsha Johnson fights back against a routine police raid of a gay bar in 1969, she gives birth to a movement.
