In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
A gripping immersion into the frontlines of the historic Fairy Creek blockade, where thousands of activists participate in a do-or-die protest to save the pristine Ada’itsx Valley.
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.
Deep in Peru’s Amazon region, the Marañón River is home to a vast network of spirit villages ruled by the Karuara, or “People of the River.”
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
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
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.
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.
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
