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  • A Drop of Water

    Movie

    Sharing God's love in Cambodia, one person at a time.

  • A Difficult Case

    Movie

    In 1984, Mrs A heard voices in her head. They said “don’t be afraid”. They said she wasn’t crazy …and they informed her she had a brain tumour.

    The remarkable story of a woman who owes her life to unseen angels and an eminent psychologist who was prepared to believe.

  • A Different Kind of Farm

    Movie

    In 1998, aquaculturists Carol and Craig Schmarr decided to save the seahorse. Seahorses were disappearing from the world's oceans at an alarming rate and so they quit their jobs, packed their bags, and moved to Hawaii where they used their life savings to build the world's first seahorse farm. Th...

  • A Day Without Cancer

    Movie

    Produced in association with The Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. The film gives an overview of where we stand in the fight against cancer through interviews with researchers, patients, doctors and those in the forefront of fundraising. Princess Margaret is one of the top five cancer hospit...

  • 7th Street

    Movie

    Actor Josh Pais (Sex And The City, Law and Order) makes his directorial debut with the award winning "7th Street": A feature documentary shot over a ten year period in NYC's East Village. The movie follows the vibrant, eccentric, dangerous and heartwarming characters of Alphabet City from 1992-20...

  • 7 Islands and a Metro

    Movie

    A frayed rug round his shoulders, My father came down the Sahyadris And stood at your doorstep, With only his labour in his hands. -From “Mumbai” by Narayan Surve

    The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate o...

  • 500 Miles to Nowhere

    Movie

    Paragliding pilots Nate Scales, Nick Greece, Matt Beechinor and Gavin McClurg attempt a bivvy line from Hurricane Ridge, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Filmed by Michael Paul Jones and Jeremy Canon with RED Epic cameras, human flight has never been captured in such a dramatic way and inspiring wa...

  • 50 50

    Movie

    Fathers who are fighting for a fair chance to get the time to be a true father to their children in a system that they believe to be corrupt and unfair.

  • 3 Days of Freedom

    Movie

    Piotr has a pass to leave prison after fifteen years.

  • 24 Hours on Craigslist

    Movie

    3 Billion pages. 10 million users. One website. One movie. No limits.

  • 24 Hours at the South Street Diner

    Movie

    On a corner in downtown Boston, there's a historic diner that a lot of people call home.

  • 24 Days in Brooks

    Movie

    In a decade, tiny Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative, primarily Caucasian town to one of the most diverse places in Canada. Hijabs have become commonplace, downtown bars feature calypso and residents speak 90 different languages.

    Immigrants and refugees have flocke...

  • 24 Davids

    Movie

    Céline Baril’s latest film takes us across three continents on a quest driven by a simple yet original idea: to shine a spotlight on the inimitable Davids of this world. The 24 Davids in this film are of varying ages and professions, ranging from cosmologist to recycler; together, they construct ...

  • 1976: Hunt vs Lauda

    Movie

    This powerful story captures the heart of the 1970s - told through unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who were really there - the team managers, families, journalists and friends who were in the front row of the season that changed Formula 1 forever.

  • 19 Days

    Movie

    This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home.

    Located in the quiet Calgary neighborhood of Bridgeland, the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre is the starting point for g...

  • 175 Grams

    Movie

    “175 grams” takes a closer look at lives of members of Flywild; how they got into Ultimate (frisbee), the way its shaping their daily lives and what they look forward to in the future as individuals and as a team.

  • 10 MPH

    Movie

    A Segway journey across the United States.

  • 1 Mes Y 2 Dias

    Movie

    I felt in love again. I dive into those feelings. I capture moments of my daily life for 1 month and 2 days.

  • Project Frontline: The Crisis

    Movie

    Massachusetts was one of the states hit hardest by the first wave of the SARS-COV-2 virus in the early part of 2020. As the case count surged, supplies of testing equipment and critical personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline workers ran short, leading hospital executives to take extrao...

  • il Messaggero

    Movie

    The story of an Italian man from a small village in Calabria, Italy and his idea to bring messages of hope and joy to the United States as an immigrant in 1966.
    In doing so, he unknowingly immortalizes a generation of Italians through rare audio recordings. More than 50 years later we see its imp...

  • dik
    Movie

    dik

    Movie

    A six year old boy brings home a piece of schoolwork that provokes his parents to question his sexual orientation, and their own, with disastrous and hilarious results.

  • Zero Silence

    Movie

    A documentary about the free wor(l)d.

  • Zagros

    Movie

    Zagros follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses nomadic and sedentary cultures, revealing the worlds of weavers, dyers and shepherds through their labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives,...

  • Yukon Kings

    Movie

    Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, Yukon Kings follows Yup'ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run. With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pas...