À l’ouest de Pluton (West of Pluto)

Directors Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault
Year 2008
Run Time 95min
Genre Documentary, Drama

Directors

Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Original Languages

English, French

The Wanted 18

Directors Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali
Year 2014
Run Time 75min
Genre Animation, Documentary

Directors

Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali

Writer

Paul Cowan

Producers

Dominique Barneaud, Saed Andoni, Nathalie Cloutier

Genres

Animation, Documentary

Interests

Discrimination, Global Experiences, Social Justice & Politics

Original Languages

English, Other Language

Rematriation

Director Alexi Liotti
Year 2022
Run Time 67min
Genre Documentary
British Columbia's Old Growth forests are virgin forests, untouched since the last ice age. They represent one of the last lines of defense against climate change, and contain scientific properties we barely understand - yet mismanagement and greed have left less than 2.6% of them standing. Only one of hundreds of valleys (outside of parks) remains entirely uncut on Vancouver Island - Fairy Creek (Ada'itsx). An indigenous led movement to prevent the cutting of this last Old Growth watershed has now become Canada's largest act of civil disobedience, and the government response has been alarming. The publicly funded Royal Canadian Mounted Police are aggressively disbanding and arresting the peaceful protesters blocking industry access to these ancient forests, despite numerous recent political conservation commitments to protecting at risk Old Growth forests in B.C. Rematriation follows concerned B.C. citizens exploring the confluence of scientific, cultural, economic and sociopolitical perspectives, as they take a stand to protect the last big trees from being cut down. Like peeling layers back from an onion, the lessons we take away reach far beyond the forests, permeating the very social fabric of Canadian identity.

Director

Alexi Liotti

Writers

Alexi Liotti, Colm Keating

Producers

Therese Goulet, David Keiss

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Environment, Social Justice & Politics

Original Language

English

The Life and Times of Norman Jewison

Year 1997
Run Time 60min
Genre Documentary

Directors

Cast

Norman Jewison, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Biography

Original Language

English

The Geographies of DAR

Director Monique LeBlanc
Year 2023
Run Time 73min
Genre Documentary
A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canada’s most overlooked yet breathtaking regions.

Director

Monique LeBlanc

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

English

Black Life: Untold Stories – Northern Beats

Director Will Prosper
Year 2023
Run Time 44min
Genre Documentary

A musical look at the rise of hip hop in Canada, as told by some of its earliest pioneers, culminating in the worldwide success of artists like Drake and The Weeknd.

Director

Will Prosper

Writers

Leslie Norville, Margot Daley

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Black Filmmaker, History

Original Language

English

The Chocolate Farmer

Director Rohan Fernando
Year 2011
Run Time 70min
Genre Documentary
In an unspoiled corner of southern Belize, cacao farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. A tender and moving family tale, director Rohan Fernando's lush cinematic journey intimately captures a year in the life of the Pop family as they struggle to preserve their values in a world that is suddenly and dramatically changing. A lament for cultures lost, this timely and vital film challenges our deeply held assumptions of progress.

Director

Rohan Fernando

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

Fractured Land

Directors Sylvia Jonescu Lisitza, Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher
Year 2015
Run Time 75min
Genre Documentary
With some of the world's largest fracking operations on his territory, a young indigenous leader and lawyer confronts the fractures within his community and himself as he struggles to reconcile traditional teachings with the law to protect the land.

Directors

Sylvia Jonescu Lisitza, Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher

Writers

Daniel Conrad, Fiona Rayher

Producers

Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher

Genre

Documentary

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Environment

Original Language

English

Geographies of Solitude

Director Jacquelyn Mills
Year 2022
Run Time 103min
Genre Documentary
An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.

Director

Jacquelyn Mills

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Biography, Environment

Original Language

English

The Fruit Machine

Director Sarah Fodey
Year 2018
Run Time 81min
Genre Documentary

The homosexual witch-hunt of public servants and military personnel in Canada from the 1950s through the early 1990s and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by it.

Director

Sarah Fodey

Producers

Han Nguyen, Sarah Fodey, Derek Diorio

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Discrimination, LGBTQ2S+

Original Language

English