"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...

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...

"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 ...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Toronto International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
CPH:DOX Film Festival

A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

Directed by: Avi Lewi...

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...

"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 ...

Vancouver International Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival

In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve's short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Ca...

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...

"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. ...

"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...

"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...

"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...

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

"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...