CANADA | USA
79 min

Co-presented by MT Space

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Short, sweet, and strong, this series of short docs delves into the diverse experiences and influential stories of indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States. 

Shift (Kelly Milner | CANADA)

Three Thousand (Asinnajaq | CANADA)

Turning Tables (Chrisann Hessing | CANADA)

Holy Angels (Jay Cardinal Villeneuve | CANADA)

dukʷibəɫ swatixʷtəd (Changer’s Land) (Tracy Rector | USA)

Laura Nix | USA
87 min

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Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats – found right in their own backyards – while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. Take a journey with these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

+ The Short Films

A collection of short films from Guelph’s DaVinci Program: An Environmental and Community Leadership Program.

Memory by Brennan Robinson and Alex Walmsley

Magnificent Ugly by Sequoia Kim and Emily Silk

Love by Carly Cantlon and Charlotte Colquhoun

Jenny Hellmann & Regina Mennig | GERMANY
93 min

***Canadian Premier***

Co-presented by JAYU: Human Rights Film Festival

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Hilario and Catalina are among the most defenseless victims of the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-83). Both were taken from their families as babies in order to prevent them from growing up with their parents’ ideals. With their parents gone, their grandmothers fight to find their lost grandchildren and reunite them with their true identities.  However, discovering their past is not without pain and complications, which these two survivors experience very differently in this compelling film.

CAN
65 min, Presented in partnership with Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice

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This courageous collection of nine micro-documentaries explores body image and weight stigma in the realms of fertility, pregnancy, reproduction and parenting. These films grapple with stories about our bodies and minds, our appetites, and our relationships to reproduction.  

Yana Winkler & Tina Brown | USA
86 min, Presented in partnership with Taste Real, the Guelph Black Heritage Society and Royal City Roller Derby

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When America’s last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture and demand their right to roll.

CANADA
88 min

Co-presented by Art Not Shame

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Short, sweet, and inspiring, this series of short docs explores how art impacts our lives and informs our relationships. 

Why I’m Here (João França | CANADA)

Prince’s Tale (Jamie Miller | CANADA)

Coe Hill (Matt Greyson & Adam Crosby | CANADA)

The Song and the Sorrow (Millefiore Clarkes | CANADA)

Astra Taylor | CANADA
107 min, Co-presented with OPIRG

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Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated philosophers, trauma surgeons, factory workers, refugees, and politicians—What Is Democracy? connects past and present, emotion and the intellect, the personal and the political, to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.

CAN | UK
86 min

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Short, sweet, and thought provoking, this series of short docs explores questions of who we are, how we engage with our worlds, and where/when/how we feel like we belong. 

Black Sheep (Ed Perkins | UK)

Suzanne Gauthier: One Thing Leads to Another (Ariella Pahlke | CANADA)

Salaam B’y (Amar Wala | CANADA)

Beauty (Christina Willings | CANADA)

Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle | USA
64 min

Presented in partnership with The Wooly Pub

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Following the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk and her decades fighting for Native rights both in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s and against the Dakota Access Pipeline with her daughter Marcy at her side. This film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.

+ The Short Film

Nuuca

An evocative meditation on Indigenous women’s integral connection to land and the ways in which the extractive industry’s rape of the earth is directly linked to the violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls. 

Michelle Latimer ⋅ CANADA/USA ⋅
12 min