"a dreamy acid trip through Rio de Janeiro’s queer nightlife." Now Magazine

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

In her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...

Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Cleveland International Film Festival

Alisa Kovalenko’s documentary focusses on a crucial period in the life of Alina, a gifted 20-year-old footballer from Kyiv, whose passion for the sport has a chance of saving her from pover...

"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok Fest

The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

"Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail

Toronto International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

Igor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...

"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist

SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Dreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...

Dok Leipzig 2018 – Next Masters Competition

Cinema Morocco, located in São Paulo, Brazil was once the location of lavish red carpet film premieres and the most luxurious theatre in South America in the 50's. It was the host to Hollywood stars and South American premieres of classic films like Su...

"Gun Runners is a contextual, intimate look inside a world most of us know nothing about." The Globe and Mail

Hot Docs
Palm Strings Film Festval

Director Anjali Nayar's fascinating, inspirational film follows two former warriors from Northern Kenya. Julius Arile and Robert Matanda, as they look...

"A powerful work of activist cinema." Toronto Star

Hot Docs Film Festival
Montreal International Documentary Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival

On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural propert...

“But this is an important, ground breaking movie. See it with an audience that’s bound to be passionate and proud.” - NOW Toronto

Hot Docs International Documentary Festival

Our Dance Of Revolution is a documentary that tells the stories of Black queer folks in Toronto. Throughout history the c...

Hot Docs Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film Festival

Marie Clement's The Road Forward is a musical documentary that utilizes numerous filmmaking techniques to powerful effect. Using the story of Canada’s first Indigenous newspaper, The Native Voice, as its focal point, this particularly distincti...

"Balancing romance with skepticism and a touch of mischief, Nicolas Wadimoff's The Apollo of Gaza looks at the tale of an astonishing archaeological find..." The Hollywood Reporter

Locarno Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival

In summer 2013, a statue of Apollo more than 2500 years old is discov...

"This film functions as both cinema and journalism, the camera pushing us into a world we might not otherwise see and illuminating that world on a human scale." NOW Magazine

Toronto International Film Festival

Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community...

Raindance Film Festival

The legendary American guitarist, composer and provocateur John Fahey is often considered the godfather of 'American primitive guitar'. This documentary features Pete Townshend, Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Joey Burns of Calexico. These stellar musicians, along with...

The latest film from award-winning Canadian filmmaker, historian, and journalist James Cullingham (Searching For Blind For Death) focuses on the lives of three journalists - Abdulrahman Matar from Syria, Luis Nájera of México and Arzu Yildiz from Turkey - exploring the reasons that each person fl...

"It's pure emotion... ...A Drummer's Dream isn't really about drumming, but about joy and self-expression." The Globe and Mail

Hot Docs Film Festival
Tokyo International Film Festival

Explosive talent, passion, humour and irresistible personality come together in a magical setting when seven di...

"There's a quiet, discreet magic at work with Charles Officer's latest documentary, Unarmed Verses." The Globe and Mail

Winner Hot Docs Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Winner Vancouver Film Festival

A thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation. At ...

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival

Nowhere Land focuses on Bonnie Ammaaq and her family as they remember the vastness and irreplaceable richness of living on the land. When the family relocates to Igloolik, they face the confines modern society can impose and how col...

DOK Leipzig
Korean International Documentary Festival

Right before dawn, students in Huining have already started their studying session; hard working youngsters have filled up the space of school ground. This is one of the most poverty-stricken Counties in Western China; here people's only hope...

Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...

"Kwan's dream-like cinematography beautifully captures Chinatown in its contemporary state of flux..." Exclaim

Hot Docs Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival

As dawn breaks and most of the city still sleeps, the long-time merchants of Vancouver's Chinatown are hard at work. They haul out their ...

"...an informative and sobering story that offers plenty of food for thought." Shadow and Act

Toronto International Film Festival

In 1969, to protest the administration's mishandling of racist accusations towards a professor, students at Sir George Williams University occupied a ninth floor com...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...

"Director Chelsea McMullan captures Canadian transgender folk singer Rae Spoon's music and life story in sensitive detail." Variety

Sundance Film Festival
Cork International Film Festival
Winner Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

In this feature documentary-musical by Chelsea McM...

"Gorgeously photographed, compulsively watchable and deeply sympathetic." The Globe and Mail

Hot Docs Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival

Interweaving speculation, myth and reality, this compelling hybrid of drama and documentary covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an...