Toronto International Film Festival

In this feature-length documentary, Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Shannen's Dream, a national campaign to provide equitable access to education in safe and suitable schools for First Nations children. Strong participation in this initiative eventually br...

HotDocs Documentary Film Festival
Santa Barbara Film Festival
Toronto Jewish Film Festival

An insider’s exploration into the lives of three prominent settler leaders and their battles to hold on to what they perceive as their biblical heart land. The reality of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict w...

"Paints a complex and compelling picture of its subject" Variety

Hot Docs Film Festival
Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival
Montreal International Documentary Festival

Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his farm. The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged 10 ...

"masterful... the film avoids all the clichés of the kid-centered, goal-focused documentary..." Indiewire

Berlin Film Festival
London Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival

This feature documentary explores the world of adolescence in rural teenagers' interactions with various authority figures. ...

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Hue, by renowned director and cinematographer Vic Sarin, is a personal, heartfelt investigation into the history and often tragic effects of colourism, the phenomenon whereby people within the same ethnic group discr...

Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

Caroline Monet's short film Mobilize flows seamlessly through the rushing waterways of the far north parallel to the fast-paced urban south, witnessing the hasty streets of a city and the charging force of a canoe on water. In tandem wi...

"A tasty little number about the pleasure to be found in a glass of wine." Hollywood Reporter

Berlin Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
San Sebastian Film Festival

Famous Sommelier Charlie Arturaola has lost his most vital asset: his palate. In the search of a solution for this career-en...

"A gripping chronicle of the breakdown of the so-called Chinese Dream" Hollywood Reporter

Toronto International Film Festival
CPH: DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest

'A Young Patriot' explores the patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. The film foll...

"Fascinating, beautifully crafted Venice prizewinner..." Variety

Winner - Venice Film Festival
Dubai International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

The Sichuan Earthquake took place at 14:28 on May 12th 2008. Nearly 100,000 lives were taken, countless buildings, bridges, road...

Vancouver International Film Festival

This short film is a portrait of Tofino, BC intertidal artist Pete Clarkson as he crafts his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. He, like so many of us around the world, was deeply affe...

Foyle Fim Festival Official Selection
Gloria Film Festival Official Selection

There is a place in the hills of Northwest Ireland, a land called Inishowen, where the Clan O'Dochartaigh once held unshakeable sway. They occupied castles and keeps along the winding Irish countryside. They fought wit...

Rotterdam International Film Festival

This feature documentary represents a quest that is both personal and universal. Director Claude Demers (Barbers: A Men’s Story, Ladies in Blue) revisits the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun where he grew up and asks questions about the mysteries of his...

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is well known as one of Canada's prominent early literary figures. He is less famous as a federal civil servant who rose to become a powerful head of the Indian Department, and who, from 1913 to 1932, implemented the most repressive and brutal assimilation progra...

Whistler Film Festival
Rhode Island Film Festival

This fascinating, behind-the-scenes documentary follows acclaimed independent Canadian director, Ingrid Veninger, as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake.

Canada - 2017 - 1h 15m
Directed By: Julian Papas
Cast: Ingrid Veninger, Lucind...

"...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Camerimage

Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...

Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film Festival

One defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...

Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc

A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...

Rhode Island International Film Festival
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

Thousands of men, women and children from Southern Sudan and the region of Darfur have been killed in what's described as the first genocide of the 21st Century. Shield of Solomon tells the story of...

CPH:DOX
IDFA

A huge, over-towering hangar is opened. The static camera is positioned at a distance, so that the full grandeur of the hangar and simultaneously that of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is shown. Danish director Sebastian Cordes’s A Place Called Lloyd is a record of loyal...

Cinéma du Réel
CPX:DOX

Returning home, experiencing time, exploring traces from the past. Miguel Hilari, from Bolivia, uses his camera to look into the past, and created with El corral y el viento a film that seems like a portrait of another time. Hilari returned to the Aymara village of his fat...

"A revelatory documentary, Birth of a Family is a family-reunion doc unlike any you’ve seen before." POV Magazine

Hot Docs International Film Festival
Edmonton International Film Festval

In this deeply moving feature-length documentary from filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, three sisters and a brother m...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...

Sheffield Doc/Fest
CPH:DOX
Mill Valley Film Festival

Jaha's Promise tells the remarkable story of activist Jaha Dukureh, as she returns home to Gambia from the U.S. to campaign against the female genital mutilation practices that almost destroyed her life. Having endured the devastating impact o...

Hof International Film Festival
American Documentary Film Festival

A feature length documentary that unpacks the origins of California desert rock music, providing a unique insight into the Coachella Valley music scene in the 80s and 90s which begat bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyus...