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Jireh Gospel: Hearts in Chorus
Wylem Decaille | 2025 | 45 mins. This intimate portrait of Montreal’s Jireh Gospel Choir captures how music, faith and community transform hearts, heal the soul and inspire joy.
King's Court
Serville Poblete | 2025 | 19 mins. An intimate look into the lives of two young men navigating life, love, friendship and family.
Night Watches Us
Stefan Verna | 2024 | 42 min. Night Watches Us examines the systemic forces that caused a young man’s tragic death in Montreal. (This film contains references to violence and discrimination.)
Rexistence
Will Prosper | 2025 | 9 min. Through striking archival footage, reXistence exposes systemic violence and celebrates Black strength in Canada. (This film contains references to violence and discrimination.)
A Mother Apart
Laurie Townshend | 2024 | 89 min. Powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines the essential art of mothering—decades after having been abandoned by her own mother.
Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land
Graeme Mathieson & Chris Flanagan | 2024 | 5 episodes of 15 min. At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in the unlikely city of Toronto.
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee | 2024 | 99 min. Trans soul singer Jackie Shane blazed an extraordinary trail. Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th century icon finally gets her second act.
Unarmed Verses
Charles Officer | 2016 | 85 min. A cinematic rendering of our universal need for self-expression and belonging, this feature doc presents a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation.
KOROMOUSSO: Big Sister
Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan | 2023 | 15 min. A group of women break cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality, support each other in overcoming the trauma of female genital mutilation, and take back ownership of their bodies.
Someone Like Me
Sean Horlor & Steve J. Adams | 2021 | 80min. When a group of queer strangers unite to support Drake, a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada, unexpected challenges lead them down an emotional road together.
Into the Light
Gentille M. Assih | 2020 | 79 min. | in French with English subtitles. The liberating life stories of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence.
Ninth Floor
Mina Shum | 2015 | 81 min. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot in Montreal – still a watershed moment in Canadian race relations.
Everybody's Children
Monica Delmos | 2008 | 51 min. Monika Delmos's documentary captures a year in the life of two teenage refugees, Joyce and Sallieu, who left their own countries to make a new life in Ontario.
