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.
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
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 charming and rallying legacy of revolutionary Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and his exile into the Netherlands after being designated.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
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
Evangelia Kranioti · 2018 · 1h
Evangelia Kranioti · 2018 · 1h
A stunning documentary-fiction about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis in Rio de Janeiro.
On Demand
Mylène Augustin & Feven Ghebremariam · 2018 · 12m
Invited to Tiohtià: ke as a member of her country’s tribal council, Sam traces the steps of her great-grandmother who lived there over a 100 years ago.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada & Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collections
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.
Damian Nenadić · 2018 · 1h14m
Days of Madness is a documentary that unveils the hidden, stigmatized world of those labeled "mentally different," challenging societal rejection and mental health stigma.
On Demand
Kourtney Jackson · 2018 · 5m
A young woman explores and confronts her reflections on being a woman, migration and faith.
Part of the Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada 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.
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.
Raluca Bejan & Ioan Cocan · 2018 · 1h14m
An empathetic film about the Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean, and the dangers faced in the process.
On Demand
Megan Rossman · 2018 · 1h1m
A rousing, crucial look at New York’s Lesbian Herstory Archives and a deeply personal film bursting with lives lived with politics at the forefront.
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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
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
Andrés Salas · 2018 · 20m
In a techno-dystopian world with no resources left to mine, communication has become the main resource for humanity to exist, from Abitibi to Accra.
Part of the Documentary Futurism: The Next 150 collection
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
Laura Marie Wayne · 2018 · 1h15m
Following the journey of a gay musician who is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down, LOVE, SCOTT is an intimate and evocative window into queer experience.
Robert Greene · 2018 · 1h52m
A vital film full of creativity and contradictions, BISBEE captures an US town's reconciliation with its dark history of ethnic cleansing and union busting.
