Welcome to Mississauga where lawns are clipped and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Except at Wolf Ruck’s place. His lawn grows wild, and so does the trouble.
Filmed in cinéma vérité between 2011 and 2022, Afrikki recounts a decade of struggles within the African civic and artistic movements of the 2010s.
Back in her native village in Casamance, the Olympic wrestling icon Isabelle Sambou introduces her sisters to her struggles on the international sports scene.
This film follows the filmmaker Carlos Ferrand on a treasure hunt at the end of the world, to a land that has fascinated him for decades.
In the stark winter landscape of Canada’s Pacific coast, a dedicated wildlife rehabilitation team treats bald eagles suffering from lead poisoning after ingesting hunters’ ammunition in animal remains.
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Baisanos follows the supporters of Club Deportivo Palestino, weaving a dialogue between Chile and Palestine. Through football, reflections on identity and return intertwine, making every victory the promise of a possible future.
Bubbles gives the floor to autistic teenagers who invite us into their imaginary worlds.
Can't make a flower Grow by Pulling on it
Over the course of a summer in Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch opens up about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
A patchwork of millions of lives and urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold.
A poetic, personal portrait of Lebanon’s turmoil and resistance, through three voices and the filmmaker’s intimate reflections.
Made from various archives from the last seven decades, this playful tribute conveys a personal, non-linear, and fragmented journey into Lebanon's intimate and collective memory.
Ernest Cole, an exiled photographer, exposed Apartheid. Raoul Peck retraces his life, work, and rediscovered legacy.
A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the State has other plans. A cinematic and revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.
In a mesmerizing visual journey, From and to Nature, We Return explores the deep connection between humanity and Mother Earth, calling us to reconnect with nature and live in harmony with its cosmic rhythms.
De l’ombre à la lumière takes viewers into the often unfamiliar world of Indigenous and non-Indigenous homelessness in Val‑d’Or.
From where a name becomes memory
Graffiti, stencils, people, and insects appear and disappear on a bridge in Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, revealing the gender violence persisting through the years.
This amazing investigation offers an intimate journey through Latin America, elaborating a genealogy of an ecological disaster, presenting an unprecedented historical and political contextualization.
Growing Together: A Journey in Agriculture
Preston and Adam grow food under a geodesic dome despite the harsh northern climate, sharing their harvest with their community and passing on essential knowledge toward food self-sufficiency.
Through animation, three women share intimate accounts of their experiences with anxiety since childhood. Between fear, loneliness, and the search for well-being, the film explores the reality of living with everyday anxiety.
HOMLES follows Steeve, a former Jehovah's Witness cast out by his parents, who now lives and works as a barber from his van on the streets of Montreal.
An old tire competes in Mayotte’s historic tire race, where the fates of two women intersect under the blazing sun.
I Don't Think I'm Alone in This
A young Palestinian boy who grew up in Syria is forced to flee as war engulfs his neighbourhood in Damascus. But the regime the Palestinian boy fled has fallen, he can go home.
In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country.
If Something Happens to One of Us
The story of the victorious struggle for the reintegration of Christian Porta, communist and trade-union militant, following his illegal dismissal.
In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest.
James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations
Mathieu Fournier, Mélanie Lameboy, Myriam Berthelet
This film takes us back to the origins of two major revolutions: the rapid expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande complex, and the awakening of the Indigenous nations of Northern Quebec.
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa after the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum replay their life stories.
Take a road trip across Newfoundland with photographer Ting Ting Chen and her muse, Robert Tilley, as they explore memory, identity and the power of creative connections.
In the vast expanses of Northern Canada, immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa reflect on the challenges and splendors of winter.
Le Pérou est un lieu pour mourir
Through archival images and a letter to his son, a filmmaker questions the country he will inherit, between disillusionment, memory, and fragile hope.
Lethal Ethel is a fictional documentary blending horror and humor, tracing the story of a Naskapi vampire who kills to protect her land and culture.
A central Warsaw street becomes a kaleidoscope of Polish society. Behind the camera is an Indian migrant who is seeking to overcome the distance between himself and a country full of contradictions and anxieties.
Ten-year-old Jeanne, a neuroatypical skate and snowboard enthusiast, must learn to maintain her self-confidence and focus on her unique strengths to overcome these new academic challenges.
For the last twelve years, Marisela and Ely and the group of volunteers Águilas del Desierto, have been roaming the US-Mexico desert in an all-consumming search and rescue mission.
This film traces the memory of Touggourt a city once grown from its palm trees and shaped by them now slowly stripped of its soul.
series of photos serving as family correspondence between Canada and Cambodia was entrusted to a swallow.
Mikuba transports us into the cobalt veins of Kolwezi, where artisanal miners fiercely guard their ancestral heritage.
Assembled from archives filmed in Egypt and Palestine in 2000, Momentum reflects on memory and place. It reveals the power of images to bear witness, then and now, even as the world moves on.
She stands like a goddess of technological waste, surrounded by mountains of trash, plastic, and rare earth metals — a furious call to confront capitalism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in Africa.
In 2020, a bulk carrier ran aground off the coast of Mauritius, causing the region's worst ecological disaster. This short, hand-animated documentary bears witness to the impact of the event on local communities.
Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
Humanity’s relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health.
Raised in a white adoptive family, a young Métis filmmaker explores the internalized and normalized racism that surrounds her, in an emotional and introspective quest through which she seeks to recompose the identity and family puzzle that is hers.
Catherine Bainbridge, Neil Diamond
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound — yet hidden — Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity.
Decades of archival footage reveal the persistence of systemic violence in Canada. By bringing this hidden history to light, ReXistence raises awareness and fuels today’s struggles.
See — Judge — Act : The history of the JOC in Québec
The film sheds light on the untold story of Quebec’s Young Catholic Workers (JOC), a grassroots labor movement born in the 1930s. The film explores its essential role in the feminist and union struggles and social transformations that shaped Quebec in the 20th century.
Blending memory and fiction, Silk Spun follows three generations of Vietnamese women in Quebec since 1975, exploring how shifting cultural contexts transform their sense of identity.
This film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) over 30 years, as she confronts the forces trying to silence the voices excluded from the mainstream.
The anonymity of a keyboard, a hacked identity, a pixelated hatred. TE PU denounces online violence, through the testimonies of two victims.
In Lac-Saint-Jean, a diverse community comes together each summer to harvest blueberries, discovering the power of resilience as they celebrate the season's bounty.
The Butcheress of Trois-Pistoles
With her butcher shop in Trois-Pistoles, Renée LeBlanc-Paulin has surrounded herself with a network of women committed to maintaining a supply chain as fragile as it is necessary.
Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman
When a group of students at Columbia University in New York City launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Les épiphanies questions the heteronormative system and explores the awakening of a lesbian desire through a theatre of objects and personal documents.
Through cinematic landscapes and testimony from survivors, journalists, and witnesses, The Sandbox explores modern border control, where surveillance, AI, and militarization decide who lives and who dies.
Surrounded by a forest of spruce trees and scrap metal carcasses, Martin, an indomitable loner patches up a new existence in the company of his pack of cats.
Michèle Stephenson’s moving documentary centres on the 1969 student protests against racism at Montreal’s Concordia University and their contribution to the story of Black liberation.
An experimental documentary exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use.
A portrait in 16 voices from the Earth Uprisings movement reveals the unprecedented composition of multiple forces deployed to resist the ongoing ecological catastrophe.
Although green spaces have long been neglected in cities, for several years now, the beneficial effects of urban forests have been rediscovered thanks to the mobilization of citizens.
The film ventures into the unknown territory that is AI through science, poetry, and art, traveling the world in search of an answer capable of revealing what makes us human, what can save us from a destructive trajectory.