Challenging the status quo, one film at a time.
Critical, independent documentary on social, economic and environmental justice.
Four musicians, not yet famous, followed for months backstage and on the road. A tender portrait of the band Mentana, caught just before take-off.
Six portraits of Cuban LGBTQ pioneers, from the first clandestine drag shows to the HIV crisis. An untold archive of courage, and of a country slowly changing.
An impoverished couple is pushed by undercover agents into a terrorist bombing. A film about police infiltration, broken rules and unchecked power in Canada.
A Kwakwaka’wakw girl in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside refuses a colonial school system. Her search for another way of learning honours her culture and her mother.
Can young lawyers afford to practise socially conscious law? A lawyer and director asks activists and students, in the middle of Ontario’s access-to-justice crisis.
Three communities, in Colombia, Germany and Gaza, answer economic and environmental emergencies with peace, renewable energy and collective action.
In the hospitals and streets of blockaded Gaza, doctors, water workers and waste pickers keep a city alive. A story of extraordinary people and basic public services.
Dams, incinerators and palm oil plants earn carbon credits while communities pay the price. Across four continents, the film asks whether carbon offsets truly cool the planet.
Canada, the world’s good guy? From NATO to Afghanistan, the film follows the interests and profits behind war, peacekeeping and development.
Inside Ukrainian detention centres, refugees and migrants who failed to cross into the EU describe the cost of Europe’s borders. A short film on exclusion.
