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 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...
"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...
"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...
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Winner 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 ...
"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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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...
Tokyo International Film Festival
Writer director Mayu Akiyama’s debut film is a fresh and surprising romantic drama focussed on an unusual relationship. When aspiring journalist Nasa (Eri Tokunaga) meets 'friend-for-hire' Sota (Atsushi Hashimoto) she decides to engage his services with a view t...
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...
Toronto International Film Festival
"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
The story of Jordan River Anderson, an Indigeno...
"Second Star on the Right winningly captures our varying levels of maturation and individualism, with beauty and style." Film Inquiry
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival
Emilia is a 30-something bisexual woman who teaches acting classes to children, but is tr...
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...
SXSW
Wendy Schneider’s illuminating documentary pays tribute to the history of Madison, Wisconsin-based recording studio, Smart Studios and its connection to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990s. Featuring fantastic archive material and contributions from its founders and many of the...
A collection of short films that centre Indigenous women and the vital and grounding roles they play in Indigenous communities and in maintaining and passing along important traditions and teachings to the generations to come.
Wapikoni Indigenous Women Programme Two is composed of short films about women who challenge stereotypes, are revisiting old traditions, and who are the focal point and pillars of their communities.
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...
Berlinale Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Director, Lisa Zi Xiang’s Chinese family saga, A Dog Barking At The Moon, winner of the Teddy prize at Berlinale for LGBT-themed features, is told through different periods of time, often exploring pivotal moments in a family's histo...
Winner Montreal Independent Film Festival
Winner First Glance Film Festival
Band Ladies is a darkly comedic digital original series about an uptight homemaker, a disillusioned lawyer, a desperate artist, an infertile millionaire and a love-sick flake, who turn their monthly Book Club into a Punk...
"...road movie tropes are re-energized with a gender switch and infusion of politics in Farah Goes Bang." The Hollywood Reporter
Tribeca Film Festival Winner
Garden State Film Festival Winner
A road-trip comedy that centers on Farah, a twenty-something woman who tries to lose her virginity whil...
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Nara International Film Festival
Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh directs this Japanese drama focussing on Tatsuya Nikaido, a middle-aged divorcee who runs an agricultural company and lives in a suburb with his daughter and mother. After his only son's death...
"...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...
Ever wondered about your parents' sex life? Neither did Molly and Elle until coming out and divorce forced them to learn about their parents' new sexcapades.
After a lifetime of dating men, Molly (31, a grade eight teacher) surprises herself when she falls in love with a woman for the first time....
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...
Toronto International Film Festival
Locarno International Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
A case of mistaken identity becomes a living nightmare when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors, in this Kafkaesque fable for the information age.
Chi...
