Bank Job
This mischievous feature documentary led by artist/filmmaker team Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell, instigates and follows a community coming together to make their own currency, opening a bank in order to examine how money and debt is created in our economy and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be […]
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
When Deeyah Khan was six, her father took her to her first anti-racism rally. A Pakistani immigrant to Norway, he promised her that things would get better and that the skinhead gangs that terrorised their family and families like them would soon find themselves relics of past prejudices, that bigotry belonged in history, that tomorrow would […]
Sol
Solomon Tapatsiaq Uyarasuk was a charismatic young Inuk – an amateur acrobat, musician and poet. A beautiful soul, tormented by his people’s lot, who died far too young. This film is a stirring tribute to the young man. Starting with a celebration of Sol’s life, which ended suddenly in an RCMP holding cell under suspicious circumstances, […]
The Garden Collective
THE GARDEN COLLECTIVE follows the Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective as they work to build a memorial garden on the grounds of the former Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. Operating between 1934 to 2000, this was Canada’s only prison for women, notorious for its abuse and unethical scientific experiments. The film examines the […]
FIRST PEOPLES, FIRST SCREENS 2: E’pit – Faam – Ikwe – Femme – Woman
SILVICOLA – In Theatres at The Westdale
Water on the Table
Water On The Table is a character-driven, social-issue documentary by Liz Marshall that explores Canada’s relationship to its freshwater, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film asks the question: is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air? Water On The Table features Maude Barlow, […]
Surviving Progress
“Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.” Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and […]
The Infiltrators
THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And […]
Born in Gaza
BORN IN GAZA provides an intimate, deep look – leaving aside political debates – of how violence transforms the lives of ten children. A deeply human vision of the war and its consequences. The film ends three months after the end of the Israeli offensive, allowing us to see what has become of these children […]
Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down)
Attempts to “get rid of the Indian problem” have failed. The future is coming. A howl of pain rips across the land in Etlinisigu’niet as traditional life gives way to Indigenous peoples being starved to ensure compliance with government orders. Children forced from their families and penned into the horrors of residential school. Men, women […]
The Price of Peace
Through the story of the trial of the ‘Urewera Four’ and its aftermath, THE PRICE OF PEACE presents an enlightening and moving portrait of Tūhoe activist, artist and kaumātua Tame Iti. Director Kim Webby outlines the perils of surveillance in her account of the trial, in which Iti and three others were accused of plotting terrorist activities […]
Family Motel
Headstrong Ayan, a refugee from Somalia, has big dreams. New to Canada, she’ll show anyone she can provide for her family. Still, it’s difficult to keep it all together. On top of the soaring rent, her daughters, 16-year-old Nasrah and 13-year-old Leila, need braces. And even working two jobs as a cleaner, it’s tough to […]
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL is an intimate, observational look beyond the stigma of injection drug users, revealing the courage of those facing terrible tragedy in a neighbourhood often referred to as ground zero of the overdose crisis. As the number of overdose deaths in Vancouver reaches an all […]
State of Exception
As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympics, a community of self-described “urban Indians” are threatened with forced eviction to make way for a stadium named after the original indigenous inhabitants of the territory. As the mega-events begin threatening a number of other communities with displacement, residents unite […]
Grass
Award- winning director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist) hooks up with actor/ activist Woody Harrelson to deal you GRASS, a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America’s most deeply rooted cultural myths: “the evils of marijuana.” Utilizing hilarious footage from U.S. Government propaganda films, and eye- popping animation from underground artist Paul […]
