This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.

“Te Pito o Te Henua” (The Navel of the World) tells the story of the community behind Rapa Nui’s lar...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what...

Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their...

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Ru...

An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Austral...
Georgiana Halmac is turning 15 this winter, but she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother, ...

October 2004. Uruguay. After three years away Mariana returns to her country to be reunited with her...

In this feature-length documentary, six teenage girls, aged 14 to 16, agree to open up and have thei...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sel...

A documentary that explores AIDS activism in Frankfurt, focusing on activists, affected individuals,...

In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a ...

Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship b...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its ...

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one...
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few ...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...