After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment
The joy and heartfelt struggle of a Manitoba family to sustain their organic farm in a changing climate.
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
A haunting plunge into the Canadian archive, recapturing a 1969 student protest at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University against the administration’s anti-Black racism.
Nancy Nicol · 2014 · 1h30m
NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM documents the growth of queer organizing in India in an attempt to overturn a colonial-era law criminalizing homosexuality.
Patricio Henriquez · 2014 · 1h39m
Patricio Henriquez · 2014 · 1h39m
This feature documentary recounts the incredible odyssey of 22 men from China’s persecuted Uyghur minority who were detained in Guantánamo as terrorists.
Janelle Wookey & Jeremie Wookey · 2014 · 48m
Janelle Wookey & Jeremie Wookey · 2014 · 48m
A journey to the Lake St. Martin First Nation that explores the political spider web that has entangled this community and prevents them from going home.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 1 collection
Erica Tremblay · 2014 · 1h31m
More than a film about queer sports and roller derby, IN THE TURN is a moving portrait of a trans child finding a community of acceptance and empowerment.
Part of the FemDoc: Women & Documentary collection
On Demand
John Fiege · 2014 · 1h35m
An inspired story of how direct action activists take to the tree-tops and work with land owners to fight against the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Sarah Sandring · 2014
In 1948, a group of Mushua Innus (Labrador) were resettled far from their ancestral land. The community has kept the memory of this exodus.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 1 collection
On Demand
Hernán Vilchez · 2014 · 2h5m
The urgent story of the mystical Wixarika People and their struggle against the Mexican government and Canadian mining companies.
Part of the Divine Interventions: Documentary, Spirituality and Social Justice collection
On Demand
Cullen Hoback · 2014 · 1h19m
Disquieting exposé investigating what governments and corporations are doing with presumably private information.
Nicolas Paquet · 2014 · 1h13m
Nicolas Paquet · 2014 · 1h13m
LIVING LIKE THE LAND gives an authentic look at the life of the Dene people, the last indigenous of Canada to deal with the white settlers.
On Demand
Rémy Huberdeau · 2014 · 45m
On Demand
Rémy Huberdeau · 2014 · 45m
A story of love and life, sharing the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting.
Part of the FemDoc: Women & Documentary collection
On Demand
Diana Whitten · 2014 · 1h28m
Brave activists sail across the world to provide abortions to women with no access to them, and to exchange expertise with local reproductive rights groups.
Part of the 20 Years, 20 Films: Commemorating Two Decades of Screening Truth to Power at Cinema Politica collection
Sipi Flamand · 2014 · 5m
A call for action within Indigenous communities.
Part of the First Peoples, First Screens 1 collection
Alexandre Gingras · 2014 · 23m
Alexandre Gingras · 2014 · 23m
A political video remix on the references to offshore accounts in the arts and a call to public mobilization against the complacency of current legislation.
On Demand
Liz Miller, Nupur Basu, Mary Kiio, Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier & Karen Winther · 2014 · 48m
On Demand
Liz Miller, Nupur Basu, Mary Kiio, Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier & Karen Winther · 2014 · 48m
A film featuring women tackling the issue of climate justice with a focus on the Canadian Tar Sands.
Part of the FemDoc: Women & Documentary collection
Jean-Sebastien Francoeur & Andrew Marchand-Boddy · 2014 · 1h17m
Jean-Sebastien Francoeur & Andrew Marchand-Boddy · 2014 · 1h17m
Canadian-raised graffiti artist FONKi returns to his ancestral Cambodia to reunite with his family and meet other leaders in Cambodia's growing hip-hop community.
