Locarno Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Camerimage International Film Festival

Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

Inside Out LGBT Toronto Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Outfest Los Angeles

“We transgender are the revolution!” Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election cycle extrem...

"A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

Dublin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Palm Springs Films Festival

A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

"In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry

Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Heartland Film Festival
Mil Valley Film Festival

An Emmy winner in the Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary category, Belly of the Beast follows a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer as they discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s ...

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...

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
IDFA

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Over forty years have passed since th...

"...a heartening celebration of progress and a cautionary reminder of all the broken lives and lonely hearts trampled along the way." Screendaily

Sheffield Doc/Fest
IDFA
Seattle International Film Festival

This expertly edited compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both d...

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...

"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...

Hot Docs Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival

What Walaa Wants follows Walaa from age 15 through 21 raised by her environment in a refugee camp. Separated from her mother due to an eight year prison sentence, Walaa is a determined young woman recog...

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...

"In 65 minutes, numerous issues involved in Indigenous community and government relations are deftly explained to give space to this important fight for basic human rights for Indigenous children." - NOW Toronto

Toronto International Film Festival

The story of Jordan River Anderson, an Indigeno...

“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...

"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...

Vancouver International Film Festival

From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada's most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used in thi...

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...

"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 ...

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 follows a 19-year-old Zhao and his flag-waving,slogan-shouting 'patriotic exhibitionist' for 3 ...

The story of the killing of Colten Boushie and his family's pursuit of justice.

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film Festival

Silence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...