The story of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous man of the First Nation who was fatally shot on a rural Saskatchewan farm by its owner.
In Val-d’Or, a miner tries to redeem his past mistakes by participating in the rescue of five colleagues, trapped in a drilling shaft following an explosion.
Portraits of burlesque dancers who have shone on the stages of Las Vegas for more than fifty years.
A look into a Canadian prison to try to understand why so many women from vulnerable communities are incarcerated there.
An Afghan refugee leads his family and a few members of his community in his crazy plan to move to a small hamlet in the Canadian Prairies called Kandahar.
A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to recalibrate his moral compass.
During the copper rush of 1845, an indigenous woman and her new white husband are abandoned on an island in Lake Superior in the middle of winter.
Shoeshine boys working in five major cities around the world tell their stories.
In 1974 in the United States, a Japanese-born activist joins radical leftists on the run who are holding hostage a young heiress who has apparently taken up their cause.
In the summer of 2015, Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski, a former elite soldier and champion weightlifter, goes public with his decision to change his gender.
A Serbian immigrant and her daughter trying to rebuild their lives in Toronto face many socio-economic obstacles.
A former walrus trainer faces legal intimidation from his ex-boss to prevent him from revealing the abuse he witnessed.
In order to curb the unsustainable practice of animal agriculture, pioneers are dedicated to the development of a meat industry produced by the cultivation of animal cells.
Investigation into the life of the filmmaker’s aunt, an Ethiopian aristocrat who became a communist rebel before disappearing after the 1975 coup.
In Afghanistan, an Indigenous soldier in the Canadian army is captured by the Taliban, but manages to escape by following a risky plan.
A Mohawk girl goes with her mother to look for her teenage sister, who went missing after being seen with a white man on her school campus.
An irritable but talented chef risks the survival of his Toronto restaurant during a hectic day.
One afternoon, an Indigenous professional comes to the aid of a pregnant and homeless Indigenous girl.
When her mother dies, a young woman returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, where she conducts her own investigation into the abduction of a one-eyed boy, which she witnessed as a child.
Young people from several villages in the Basse Côte-Nord are gradually leaving the region to find work or pursue their studies in Quebec City or Montreal.
An aspiring writer lands a job at a New York City literary agency, where her job is to answer the mail of the house’s star author, J.D. Salinger.
Having lived in Quebec for 16 years, Haitian poet Alain Philoctète returns to his native country, where he hopes to contribute to the development of an ecovillage.
Athletes discuss the pressure of whether or not to reveal their homosexuality, which adds to the pressure of performing in amateur and professional sports.
Canadian author and poet Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work.
In 1961 Nunavut, a Canadian government emissary meets with members of a nomadic Inuit tribe to convince them to move to a permanent village.
In 1986, a music critic tries to uncover what happened to his best friend, who mysteriously disappeared 35 years earlier.
In the fall of 2018, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal visits several Indigenous communities in Quebec to present an opera inspired by an Innu legend.
Two bitterly opposed sisters go to the Magdalen Islands to scatter their father’s ashes and are stalked by a killer who believes that he is still alive.
A look into the proliferation of narcissistic and arrogant individuals indifferent to the misfortunes of others.