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A film by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

In her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is...

A film by Laura Bari

Antoine is five years old and he is blind.

A sensitive portrait of the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to dis...

A film by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross

Significant inventions tend to make their creators famous. most people know who invented the telephone. The light bulb. The airplane. but what about the digital computer? Who invented one of the most significant devices in human history?

Atanasoff, Fat...

All across the globe, Chinatowns are under threat of disappearing – and along with them, the rich history of communities who fought from the margins for a place to belong. Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America.

A film by Najeeb Mirza

Buzkashi! follows Azam, a traditional herder and Buzkashi player as he trains for a season of the most visually stunning and violent sport in the world.

Since ancient times Central Asian shepherds herding their animals between pastures frequently faced attacks from wolves...

A film by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin

Chairman George follows George Sapounidis, ‘the only Greek-Canadian in the world who sings in Chinese’ (his words) through the most intense year of his life: globe-trotting through China, Greece, and Canada, chasing no less than the “unity of mankind”, ...

A film by Ryan Mullins

A look at the life and work of Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist who worked in Ghana.

Un film de Yung Chang

Chasseurs de fruits est une fascinante odyssée cinématographique dans l'univers exotique des fruits et dans celui du commerce, qui changera non seulement notre façon de voir ce que nous mangeons, mais aussi notre façon de voir notre rapport à la nature.

Chasseurs de fruits...

A film by Yung Chang

In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls come of age, trained in the art of boxing and the game of life. They are filled with Olympic dreams, hopi...

A film by Mia Donovan

DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-tur...

A film by Mia Donovan

The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 - a visionary project eventually d...

A film by Linda Västrik

“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild ...

Un film de Linda Västrik

La Forêt aux esprits est un voyage unique et fantastique parmi les Yaka, un des derniers peuples pygmées vivant en autarcie au cœur de la forêt tropicale du Congo, que la cinéaste Linda Västrik a côtoyé pendant plus de 7 ans. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota et leurs familles raco...

A film by Tony Asimakopoulos

FORTUNATE SON is an autobiographical documentary by the son of Greek immigrants living in Canada. Motivated by a search for happiness with his fiancee, filmmaker Tony Asimakopoulos turns his gaze on his complicated, painful relationship with his aging par- ents and t...

A film by Laura Turek

Who would think that teens playing a friendly game of poker, or joining an online game of Texas Hold’em, could find themselves facing serious gambling problems or, for some, addiction? But youth are vulnerable. With the barrage of marketing campaigns, television coverage of...

A film by Daniel Cross

From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I AM THE BLUES travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends.

I AM THE BLUES takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Miss...

Un film de Daniel Cross

Des légendaires “juke joints", ces épiceries des quartiers pauvres du sud des Etats-Unis qui se transforment en club de blues le samedi soir, aux églises rurales du Tennessee, jusqu’au cœur du Bayou, I AM THE BLUES : LES DERNIERS DÉMONS DU BLUES nous transporte tout droit...

A film by Richard Poplak and Diana Neille

INFLUENCE is a profile of the morally slippery British reputation manager, Lord Timothy Bell. Bell climbed his way to the heights of global power, first spinning Margaret Thatcher into the “Iron Lady”, then working for the successors of Chilean dictator ...

A film by Mia Donovan

21-year-old Lara Roxx leaves her hometown of Montreal and heads to L.A. to try and find success in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months she contracts the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. INSIDE LARA ROXX chronicles the ev...

Un film de Mia Donovan

Au printemps 2004, Lara Roxx, 21 ans, a quitté Montréal, sa ville natale, pour aller à Los Angeles en quête de gloire et de fortune dans l’industrie du divertissement pour adultes. Même pas deux mois après avoir commencé à travailler dans cette industrie, elle a contracté ...

A film by Mitchell Kezin

JINGLE BELL ROCKS! is a trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange and sublime universe of alternative and underground Christmas music. Why, when Christmas rolls around, are we still stuck roasting tired old chestnuts with Nat King Cole? Are there any songs that embra...

Un film de Mitchell Kezin

JINGLE BELL ROCKS! est un voyage musical et cinématographique dans le monde de la musique de Noël alternative et underground.

Pourquoi, lorsqu’arrive Noël, sommes-nous condamnés à réécouter continuellement les mêmes standards éculés des classiques de Noël ? N’existe-t-...

A film by Karina Garcia Casanova

This autobiographical debut film is a heartbreaking chronicle of a family struggling with rootlessness and mental illness. When she learns that her brother Juan has returned to Quebec after spending some time in their birthplace, Mexico, Karina Garcia Casanova de...

Un film de Matthieu Rytz

Que se passe-t-il lorsque votre nation est avalée par la mer ? Les Kiribati, un ensemble d’îles coralliennes du Pacifique, sont amenées à disparaître en quelques décennies à cause de la montée des océans, de leur densité démographique et du changement climatique. À trave...

Un film de Patrick Damien

LA DÉMOLITION FAMILIALE nous fait vivre les diverses épreuves de deux jeunes de la région de Bellechasse, initiés à ce "ballet mécanique" singulier qu'on appelle le Derby de démolition. Christopher, 16 ans, prépare ses bolides en compagnie de son oncle tout en suivant l...

A film by Lixin Fan

Every spring, Chinese New Year is the catalyst for the world’s largest single migration, as 130 million factory workers return to their rural homes and the children they left behind. Emotionally wrenching and hauntingly beautiful, LAST TRAIN HOME draws us into the fractured l...

A film by Mila Aung-Thwin & Van Royko

In the southern French countryside, a group of dedicated scientists from 37 countries around the world are collaboratively building the world's most complex experiment: An artificial star on Earth that will provide perpetual, cheap, clean energy for all mank...

Un film de Mila Aung-Thwin et Van Royko

Présenté en première mondiale au festival SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST, en première canadienne à HOT DOCS, et en première québécoise au festival FANTASIA en juillet dernier, LET THERE BE LIGHT arrive explore le futur de l'énergie atomique, à travers le travail achar...

A film by Kalina Bertin

Manic chronicles filmmaker Kalina Bertin’s journey to make sense of the mental illness wreaking havoc over her family’s household. Convinced that her father holds a piece to the puzzle, she sets out to find the truth about him. Through a maze of intricately woven intervie...

Un film de Kalina Bertin

Face aux problèmes psychologiques qu’endurent son frère et sa sœur, la cinéaste Kalina Bertin explore le passé de son père pour mieux comprendre le mal-être qui ronge sa famille. Peu à peu, elle découvre un autre homme que celui dont elle se souvient : gourou de secte, b...

Un film de Sofia Bohdanowicz

Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell, Anne at 13,000 ft) affronte son destin et son histoire familiale alors qu’elle plonge dans le passé de Kathleen Parlow, violoniste canadienne oubliée. Audrey est hantée par les rêves brisés de sa mère, une violoniste ratée qu’elle laiss...

A film by Sofia Bohdanowicz

Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell, Anne at 13,000 ft) confronts her history and destiny as she dives into the life of forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow. Leaving behind her dying mother, herself a failed violinist, Audrey is haunted by her mother’s unfulfilled d...

A film by Halima Ouardiri

Written by Halima Ouardiri, and based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy who lives with his family of goatherds in a remote, Moroccan village. One day, the boy finds a fallen owl and decides to keep it, despite the fact that the owl is considered ...

Un film de Halima Ouardiri

Mokhtar, un enfant chevrier, découvre un jeune hibou au pied dʼun arbre à chèvres. Dans la région, un hibou est le signe dʼun mauvais présage. Le soir, Mokhtar décide de rapporter sa trouvaille à son père, un homme taciturne et superstitieux. Lʼenfant se heurte à lʼign...

A film by Eric "Roach" Denis

Fed up with the corruption and stagnation of Canadian government, two hardcore punks from Montreal decide to tackle politics head on. Starbuck expresses his dissatisfaction with the Liberal party by stapling political statements to his forehead and shoving a Canadian...

A film by Richard Boyce

Inspired by Kwaxsistalla, a Kwakwaka’wakw clan chief, the filmmaker embarks upon a cinematic journey contrasting the tree-farms that dominate the landscape surrounding his home on Vancouver Island with an ancient rainforest on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Guided by passio...

A film by Eric "Roach" Denis

Roach and Smash. Two inseperable street buddies from Montreal, ping-pong across the country to the dismay of authority figures all over.
"Roachtrip is an astounding film brimming with life and rebellion directed with great humour and seen through the eyes of someone ...

A film by Daniel Cross

Roach has been living on the streets since the age of 14, rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of SPIT, Roach has been given a camera to document his world. His footage is urgent, positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, hunted b...

A film by Sam Soko

Boniface “Softie” Mwangi has long fought injustices in his country as a political activist. Now he’s taking the next step by running for office in a regional Kenyan election. From the moment Boniface decides to run, telling his wife, Njeri, in passing with a hesitant laugh, he...

A film by Omar Majeed

The word Taqwacore is a combination of hardcore, a genre of punk music, and taqwa, an Arabic word that translates as "piety" or "god-fearing." The first to use the term was writer, journalist, and Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight. His novel The Taqwacores, about a gro...

A film by Jeff Barnaby

Maytag, a reservation displaced Mi’gMaq, latches onto the only other Indian within light years of the city only to have her snatched away by his drug dealer and friend. Sadistically lovesick and drug addled, Maytag launches an insecticide on the cockroaches that have colon...

A film by Ryan Mullins and Omar Majeed

A theatre troupe is working tirelessly to put on a play. The challenges they face are a part of the usual drama behind any live show. There's the backstage politics, the forgotten lines, the missed cues, the romances and the rivalries. But for this troupe, ...

A film by Yung Chang

Embark on an incredible journey into the heart of Borneo as adventurers scour the rainforest for mangoes, seek forgotten figs in Renaissance paintings, and discover an unusual fruit with the power to alter human taste-buds. Hunting mangoes in Bali, elusive rare durian in Bor...

A film by Wiebke von Carolsfeld

Teenage Fern becomes orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter. Determined to avoid her mother's tragic fate, she sets out to build a new life for herself. When Youth Protection comes looking, she bolts. At one of her mother's cleaning jobs, she finds the ...

A film by Daniel Cross

The directorial debut of Daniel Cross and EyeSteelFilm, The Street is a gritty portrait of 3 homeless men living on the streets near Guy metro in Montreal. Made over a period of 6 years, the film follows the ups and downs of these deteriorating lives and is an intense, int...

A film by Xun Yu "Fish"

“The Vanishing Spring Light” follows Grandma Jiang in her final days. On a street set to vanish with redevelopment, the grandmother suffers a stroke and loses what little freedom she had. Conflict between her Children deepens at her bedside, prompting reflection on her pa...

A film by Eric Roach Denis

Tickets denounces a police tactic of issuing large numbers of fines for minor offences to the homeless. As a result, the homeless are “chased” out of public places, sometimes ending up in prison. Directed by Éric “Roach” Denis (Punk le vote: Roach en élection), himself...

A film by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin

This documentary examines the struggles of Black hockey players in Canada from the 1930s to the present day, telling the story of the players’ courage and determination to play in a white-dominated sport. It focuses on an effort by former Montreal citiz...

A film by Yung Chang

In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang return...