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Sashinka
Movie + 1 extra
Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film FestivalWhen young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...
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Vanishing Days
Movie + 1 extra
"Vanishing Days marks the emergence of an artist with an audacious vision." The Hollywood Reporter
Berlin International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film FestivalFirst time director Zhu Xin's impressive debut feature is a surreal, poetic and dreamlike...
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Lapü
Movie + 1 extra
Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary FestivalA 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...
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Elena
Movie + 1 extra
"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 FestivalDreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...
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Origami
Movie + 1 extra
Fantasia International Film Festival
Quebec City Film Festival
Cinefest Sudbury International Film FestivalThis suspenseful sci-fi focusses on David (François Arnaud), a man on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to bette...
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P.S. Jerusalem
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
DOC NYCFilmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...
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The Case Of The Three Sided Dream
Movie + 1 extra
“By emphasizing live performance and audio recordings over interviews, Kahan lets Kirk's talent speak for itself.” - Chicago Reader
Raindance Film Festival
Leeds International Film FestivalJazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk spent his career and life defying conventional limitations. Born blind,...
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The Stone Speakers
Movie
"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 MontréalIgor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...
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Queerama
Movie + 1 extra
"...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 FestivalThis expertly edited compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both d...
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Born in Evin
Movie + 1 extra
Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
IDFABorn 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...
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Lo Sound Desert
Movie + 1 extra
Hof International Film Festival
American Documentary Film FestivalA 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...
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Jaha's Promise
Movie + 1 extra
Sheffield Doc/Fest
CPH:DOX
Mill Valley Film FestivalJaha'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...
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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Movie + 1 extra
"A powerful work of activist cinema." Toronto Star
Hot Docs Film Festival
Montreal International Documentary Festival
DOXA Documentary Film FestivalOn 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...
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Birth of a Family
Movie + 1 extra
"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 FestvalIn this deeply moving feature-length documentary from filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, three sisters and a brother m...
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Angels Wear White
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film FestivalWinner of the Best Director at Golden Horse Awards, director Vivian Qu pens a thoughtful story on security, solidarity, and abuse. As main character Mia struggles with the responsibility of knowing ...
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Dhalinyaro (Youth)
Movie + 1 extra
Lulu Ali Ismail's directorial debut pens the beautiful and poetic coming of age story of Hibo, Asma, and Deka, three girls navigating their final high school semester. The blossoming young women question what it means to be educated in Djibouti and where class separates them as they select school...
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Wander Life
Movie + 1 extra
Wander Life is a tender portrait of middle school for introverts. Hinano, a soft spoken and unassuming student, hides from her school mates in fear of being bullied. One day, seeking shelter at the school's infirmary, Hinano befriends her school nurse Shindo. The two confide in each other and Shi...
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Girls' Encounter
Movie + 1 extra
"The filmmaking debut of actress-turned-writer/director Yûka Eda, it might be the latest recent Japanese effort to take on female yearning and marginalisation, but this involving feature is a mature addition to the growing thematic subgenre." - Screen Daily
Hong Kong International Film Festival
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Gun Runners
Movie + 1 extra
"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 FestvalDirector Anjali Nayar's fascinating, inspirational film follows two former warriors from Northern Kenya. Julius Arile and Robert Matanda, as they look...
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Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn
Movie + 1 extra
Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan Cuts New YorkIn 1726, Sanchu Okayama, farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes before infighting leads to suppression by the Samurai class. Banding together, the farmers prepare for battle. A young farmer, Jihei is ex...
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Jordan River Anderson: The Messenger
"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...
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The Road Forward
Movie + 1 extra
Hot Docs Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film FestivalMarie 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...
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Diciembres
Movie + 1 extra
“Diciembres” blends together archive footage and fictional scenes – using a poetic style that viscerally recreates moments from the invasion." - Variety
Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later in December 1999 when a photographe...
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Our Dance Of Revolution
Movie + 1 extra
“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...