CSE 2025
Ernest Cole, lost and found
Ernest Cole, an exiled photographer, exposed Apartheid. Raoul Peck retraces his life, work, and rediscovered legacy.
ReXistence
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.
True North
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.
Recomposée
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.
Letters from Wolf Street
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.
CSE 2025
Dahomey
November 2021: Twenty-six royal treasures looted from Dahomey finally return to Benin, sparking emotion and debates about their past absence.
CSE 2025
Speech for a melting statue
A poet hopes for the fall of the statue of Leopold II in Brussels, a symbol of institutional racism inherited from Belgium's colonial past.
CSE 2024
The Myth of the Black Woman
Le Mythe de la Femme Noire is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society. Experts say the Black community is the minority most affected by images created centuries ago.
CSE 2024
Villa Madjo
Her white-skinned father was born in Africa, and her black-skinned mother was born in Europe. A complex story of her family, colonialism and the interracial couple.
CSE 2024
Twice Colonized
Aaju Peter embarks on a quest to recover her language and culture, from which she was cut off by colonial assimilation policies. Her personal journey, filmed over seven years, shows how courage, emotion and conviction can combine to have a lasting influence on the course of history.