Table of Contents
The Nest (available for library screenings in 2026)
Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh | 2025 | 89 min. In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience.
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Noam Gonick |2025 | 96 min. Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance spotlights the activism that sparked the rise of Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ movement.
Ninan Auassat : We, the Children
Kim O'Bomsawin |2024 | 93 min. A powerful film shot from “a child’s eye-view” without the voices of adults, this documentary reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight.
Sons
Justin Simms | 2024 | 70 min. Filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?
The Stand
Christopher Auchter |2024 | 95 min. Drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, Christopher Auchter’s riveting new feature doc recreates the moment when the Haida Nation took a stand for the future.
Ghosts of the sea (Available as of Sept.26th)
Virginia Tangvald | 2024 | 97 min. Virginia Tangvald’s search for clues about the death of her brother, who was lost at sea, turns into a compelling quest to unravel the dark secrets surrounding her family and her father, famous sailor Peter...
7 beats per minute
Yuqi Kang |2024 | 1 h 40 min | In English and in Mandarin with English subtitles. Director Yuqi Kang’s documentary captures the descent of a lifetime, when freediving champion Jessea Lu returns to the site of her near-death experience to...
The Nest (soon in the programming choices)
Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh |2025 | 89 min. At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to her childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and...
In the Room (soon in the programming choices)
Brishkay Ahmed | 2025 | 75 min 28 s | In English, Dari, Farsi with English subtitles. Through a series of honest conversations, five extraordinary Afghan women reveal how their commitment to freedom and equality empowered them to take the...
The Geographies of DAR
Monique LeBlanc | 2023 | 75 min. A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canada’s most overlooked yet breathtaking regions.
There are no Words (soon in the programming choices)
Min Sook Lee | 2025 | 98 min | In English and Korean with English subtitles. Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee searches for memories of her mother, Song Ji Lee, who died by suicide when Lee was 12 years old.
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.
Feather Fall
Ossie Michelin | 2024 | 23 min . Feather Fall revisits Mi’kmaq territory, where an iconic moment was captured in 2013—igniting into a symbol of Indigenous resistance and halting fracking exploration on unceded lands.
Love, Harold (soon in the programming choices)
Alan Zweig | 2025 | 90 min Shocked by a friend’s suicide, renowned documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig seeks understanding from 23 individuals grieving a similar loss.
Stolen Time
Helene Klodawsky | 2023 | 1 h 25 min.Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power.
Living Together
Halima Elkhatabi | 2024 | 75 min | In French with English subtitles. Young people looking for the ideal roommate open up about themselves in this engaging portrait of a generation accustomed to playing all their identity cards.
Ninan Auassat, We, The Children
Kim O'Bomsawin | 2024 | 93 min. A powerful film shot from “a child’s eye-view” without the voices of adults, this documentary reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight.
Wilfred Buck
Lisa Jackson |2024 | 96 min. Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this rollicking hybrid documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, who overcame a harrowing history by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge.
Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man (soon in the programming choices)
Sinakson Trevor Solway | 2025 | 77 min | in English and Blackfoot with English subtitles. With tenderness and grace, filmmaker Sinakson, Trevor Solway, offers an intimate exploration of Indigenous masculinity rarely seen on screen.
posthumans
Dominique Leclerc | 2025 | 88 min. Through conversations with cyborgs and transhumanists, Posthumans explores the ethical and political issues raised by new technologies that seek to enhance human abilities.
A Loosing Game
Jenny Cartwright | 2025 | In French with English subtitles. The film carries the message of people who are trying to bring about change, offering alternatives to the neoliberal model and overconsumption, and ways to deal with rising...
Beyond Paper
Oana Suteu Khintirian | 2022 | 130 min | In English, French, Romanian, Italian, Arabic and Spanish with English subtitles. In the age of the virtual revolution, a filmmaker travels the world, navigating between the paper and digital realms to...
Night Watches Us (soon in the programming choices
Stefan Verna | 2024 | 42 min. Documentary styles, street art and spoken word blend in Night Watches Us as it examines the systemic forces that caused a young man’s tragic death.
John Ware Reclaimed
Cheryl Foggo | 2020 | 73 min. Filmmaker Cheryl Foggo re-examines the story of John Ware, the Black cowboy who settled in Alberta, Canada, prior to the turn of the 20th century.
Themes
- Animated films
- Art, Music, Literature
- Celebrate French, next March
- Teen Zone
- Black History Month suggestions
- International Women’s Day Suggestions
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21)
- Climate Change
- 2SLGBTQI+
- Science and Environment
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Voices in society
- Youth