Struggles

Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer

A unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As filmmaker Carol Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."

Doctors with Heart

This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.

I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow

Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.

Fragments of Resilience

_Fragments of Resilience_ reveals the creation process and people’s stories behind _Every Minute Motherland_ — a dance performance made as a response to the war in Ukraine by a team of Polish and Ukrainian refugees.

Everything You Have Is Yours

NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. A web of artistic portraits emerges—Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers...

Listed

_Listed_ shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No-Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No-Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities. By examining the potential ...

Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields

In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...

Gun Killers

In an undisclosed location in rural Nova Scotia, retired blacksmiths John and Nancy Little live a peaceful life, tending to their beautiful vegetable garden and crafting ethereal musical sculptures out of scrap metal. Occasionally, their special skills are put to use by the local police in an effort to protect the daily lives of all Canadians. Steeped in the atmospherics of a taut spy thriller,...

Never Silent Again

_Never Silent Again_ is a minimalist documentary art work centered on the liberation of speech and listening. The project is inspired by the role played by social media in the #MeToo movement.  Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these media reveal voices that have remained muted or stifled for a long time, expressing an impressive amount of anger and desires. In this vein, this fi...

Les lycéens ont la parole

Two months before May 68, the program _Dim Dam Dom_ focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?

Monangambéee

With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.

And the Dogs Were Quiet

_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...