A young man regains consciousness after passing out on the street and wonders if he was struck by lightning after a recent breakup or if he was abducted by aliens.
In Quebec, the difficult school integration of children from refugee families, who have fled their country at war.
In Sherbrooke, and on the international scene, Ensaf Haidar’s fight for the release of her husband, the blogger Raif Badawi, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2012 for opinion crimes.
A reflection on the ethical and moral issues surrounding the relationship between a reporter and a young Somali refugee.
Portrait of Tanya Tagaq, an Inuit throat singer, who uses one of her most passionate performances to tell her story and that of her people.
Activist filmmaker Martin Duckworth put down his camera to fight for the most important cause he’s ever faced-caring for his wife, Audrey Schirmer, through the final stages of Alzheimer’s.
The climate crisis, with its ecological devastation and humanitarian tragedies, is experienced as grief by many of the planet’s inhabitants.
Nearly twenty years after unwittingly becoming the first viral phenomenon of the digital age, Ghyslain Raza explores the impact of this painful experience on his life.
The traumatic experiences of two Aboriginal children who were removed from their homes and placed in residential schools run by the Catholic clergy.
In Napierville, a customs officer who was laid off for sexual misconduct is suspected of being behind the pornographic drawings posted on the church doors.
In the Dominican Republic, a lawyer defends the rights of 200,000 inhabitants of Haitian descent, stripped of their citizenship by the government.
A Toronto drag queen in the early stages of his career visits his grandmother who, despite her illness, refuses to go to a nursing home.
Several years after her father’s death, the director sets out to complete the film he wanted to make about a mythical place that captivated him.
In Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, ex-offenders participate in a social reintegration program at a wood processing plant.
In Afghanistan, the struggle of dedicated filmmakers to preserve the national film archive.
Cherokee author Thomas King tells the story of the assimilation of North American Indigenous peoples and deconstructs the archetypal “Indian” in popular culture.
An investigation into sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests in New Brunswick between the 1950s and 1980s.
After being sidelined from competition due to injury, a champion windsurfer develops a complicated romance with a colleague at the marina where he was hired.
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.
A look into a Canadian prison to try to understand why so many women from vulnerable communities are incarcerated there.
The director paints a portrait of his late father, Paul Rose, a major figure in the October 1970 crisis in Quebec.
A look at the dropout phenomenon, from the perspective of the Montreal school ranked last in the success rankings.
Portrait of Robert Fisk, a journalist who risks his life to get firsthand accounts of countries devastated by war.
From Auschwitz to Canada, by way of Louisiana, Nicaragua, and Ukraine, different stories juxtapose the horrors of the world with the beauty of childhood.
Living in Montreal with their children, a couple opposed to Bashar al-Assad’s regime follows the evolution of the conflict tearing Syria apart.
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.
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.
The construction of a hydroelectric dam in Brazil causes the displacement of Indigenous populations in overpopulated and unsafe areas.