5 Ring Circus
Five Ring Circus exposes a different side to the Vancouver Olympics. How will this three week event change Vancouver? Find out what mayors, activists and residents really think of the 2010 Olympic…
49 Megawatts
49 Megawatts has been acclaimed for its amazing kayaking footage and for exposing the controversy over these energy projects. It looks at the future of BC’s rivers after the issuing of hundreds of…
Addicted to Plastic
Addicted To Plastic is a point-of-view style documentary that encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic…
Angels in the Dust
Angels in the Dust is a story of hope and healing in the face of a staggering crisis. This inspiring story of Marion Cloete, who, with her husband and three daughters fearlessly walked away from a…
Apologies of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins was a member of the top-secret team of 'economic hit men', who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the post…
Archeology of Memory
Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi is a beautifully crafted film about music and the power of art to heal, and about the Chilean exile community. The film follows exiled musician Quique Cruz from…
Arna's Children
Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab. She established a theater group in Jenin, located in the West Bank, for refugee Palestinian children to express their…
Chris and Don. A Love Story
Chris and Don is the true-life story of the passionate three decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the…
Daughters of Wisdom
In Nangchen, Tibet, it has traditionally been a high honor for a family to have a son become a monk, but to have a daughter become a nun is a burden. Daughters of Wisdom is an intimate portrait of…
Devil Plays Hardball
If you could help get one person off the street, would you?? Could you? Devil Plays Hardball is a radical interventionist documentary that seeks to answer this question. Four well-established…
DOUBT
It's 1964, St. Nicholas parish in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the…
Dream People of the Amazon
Dream People of the Amazon tells the story of the Achuar, indigenous people who live in a remote and pristine part of the Amazon rain forest in southeastern Ecuador. The Achuar had no contact with…
The Edge of Eden: Living with the Grizzlies
In Kamchatka, the most easterly region of Russia, a little miracle with huge implications is in the works. Considered by many to be the most dangerous animal in the world the grizzly bear, an…
Elijah
On June 3, 1990, the day the Meech Lake Accord was signed by the Premiers, Elijah Harper's personal and professional life was in tatters. The disarmingly shy politician and aboriginal leader was…
Everybody's Children
Joyce and Sallieu - they seem like typical teenagers, except that reserved Sallieu, 16, witnessed the murder of his mother as a young boy in war torn Sierra Leone, and vibrant Joyce, 17, left the…
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighbourhood in the US, the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the home of jazz. The rich and vibrant character of the place is recreated…
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action
Fueled by the belief that another world is possible, acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred) takes us on a journey from Oaxaca to Quebec City, to the urban garden of South Central LA.…
Freedom to Choose
Freedom to Choose shares the story of the ‘Freedom to Choose Workshop’ that was provided to over 160 inmates at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, Ca. Forty-six volunteer graduates…
From Under the Bushy Trees
We journey with Gerri Graber from Powell River, BC to Chad. Here, Gerri teams up with Bartholomew Mokuh and together they work with the villagers of Manda to begin construction of a school. The…
Griefwalker
Counselor and palliative care worker Stephen Jenkinson takes a radically different approach to the care of the terminally ill. He advises that they 'abandon false hope' and turn instead to grief. 'I…
Hannah's Story
When she was just 5, Hannah Taylor spotted her first homeless person in the back alleys of Winnipeg. This experience not only troubled her but it drove her to do nothing less than change the world,…
Island on the Edge
Food security affects everyone. This film looks at the history of food production on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands and asks the question 'what would happen if the islands were suddenly cut…
I Know That I Am
I Know that I Am is a powerful documentary about the little-told story of transgendered queers in Iran, a country where sexual ‘deviancy’ is punishable by law. When Peyman Khosravi, film director…
Iron Ladies of Liberia
After fourteen years of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated President, following a hotly contested election which she won with…
Kill the Messenger
This is a true spy story about the only American citizen who dared stand up to the FBI in an attempt to expose the truth on some specific yet hidden aspects of today's War on Terror. Out of love for…
MILK
The true story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.…
The World According to Monsanto
With operations in 46 countries, Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Since its founding in 1901, the multinational has faced many legal challenges due to the…
Monster Among Us
There is an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in Europe today. This documentary examines this wave of anti-Semitism against European Jews and their institutions, mainly from the point of view of those…
Passage
It was news that shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men had perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the…
Suncookers
Catherine Scott’s documentary Suncookers, about Solar Cookers International’s efforts to spread solar cooking and solar water pasteurization in Kenya, won the alternative energy category at the…
Sweet Misery
The artificial sweetener, aspartame, is the bedrock of the diet industry. Found in everything from fizzy drinks to vitamins and marketed under a variety of different names, it is difficult to detect…
TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The film documents…
Tar Sands: Canada for Sale
What looks like dense topsoil is actually black gold, once dismissed as bottom-of-the-barrel petroleum, expensive to extract, dirty to refine. But with the U.S. craving energy security and new…
The Fallen Feather
Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their unique culture was stripped away to be replaced with a…
The Greatest Silence: Rape of the Congo
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, this extraordinary film, shot in the war zones of the…
The Islands Project
During the summer of 2006, Stadtlander journeyed on his biodiesel, solar powered kitchen bus, The Liberator, with his family and apprentices from his farm in Ontario and headed west to Vancouver…
The Man of Two Havanas
The filmmaker's childhood was filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, a former comrade of Fidel Castro. Weisman explores her relationship with her father and the Cuba he left…
The Singing Revolution
Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. The Singing…
The Strangest Dream
The Strangest Dream tells the uplifting story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – which he co-founded – to…
Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action
Tillie Lerner Olsen was a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non-fiction writer, feminist, mother, humanist, labor organizer and social activist. Deeply joined to the world, Tillie…
The Times of Harvey Milk
Academy award for the best documentary in 1984. The original documentary provided a basis for the research for the film Milk, which is playing at The Fritz this Festival Weekend and throughout the…
To See if I'm Smiling
Israel is the only country in the world where 18 year old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. The frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank…
Triage: Dr James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
The act of triage is the ultimate humanitarian nightmare. Racing against time with limited resources, relief workers make split-second decisions: who gets treatment; who lives; who dies. This…
Two Rivers
Attempts at Native and European American reconciliation typically fail to produce lasting changes—usually because whites set the agenda. Several years ago, a handful of individuals in the Okanagan…
Women's Kingdom
Beautifully shot and featuring intimate interviews, this documentary offers a rare glimpse into one of the last matriarchal societies in the world. Mosuo women control their own finances and do not…
You, Me and the SPP - Trading Democracy
This film examines the Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the Trade Investment and the Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). These trade agreements are undermining, eroding and eliminating…
