Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by women in far more precarious circumstances than herself, she tries to regard her unprecedented social downfall as an immersion in real life. By the time she leaves, Mariem’s view of the world will have changed forever, enriched by all the women she has met along the way.
A documentary about the Women's Shelters and the centers for support for women escaping domestic vio...
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of N...
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...
Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s,...
Every day, on the streets of Canada's cities, we pass them on our way to work or school. Bums, begga...
In 1999, Colorado mother Jessica Gonzales experienced every parent’s worst nightmare when her three ...
On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patie...
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded atte...
A woman with a deep love of the land, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by...
An experimental project made up of 10 minute silent portraits with 60+ participants.
Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the m...
A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities,...