Film Year: 2025

For centuries, Indigenous people have lived sustainably while resisting invaders on South Africa’s Wild Coast. The amaMpondo people embark in a David-and-Goliath court case against Shell, ultimately succeeding in halting oil and gas exploration to win ongoing protection for their ocean and culture.

Nathan Law. A leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution at age 21. The youngest lawmaker ever elected in Hong Kong at age 23. “Most Wanted” under the government’s National Security Law at age 26. The film is an intimate portrait of Hong Kong’s most famous dissident telling the story of what happens to freedom when […]

Sicily is home to a post-industrial wasteland where one of Europe’s largest petrochemical complexes has poisoned the land, air and people for decades. Once a promise of economic salvation, the refineries have left behind a toxic legacy. Nonetheless, residents and activists endure, resist and fight for justice in a land caught between survival and devastation.

Tam Nguyen is a refugee from Vietnam who came to Canada in the ‘80s as part of the Vietnamese “boat people.” He uses his masterful tailoring skills to craft a new life for himself and many others.

The story of how the power statue of Chief Ne Kuko was stolen should not be forgotten. This nkisi stands, trapped behind glass, in a European museum. The history behind this mysterious statue connects restitution activist Mwazulu Diyabanza to the small village of Kikuku in the mountains of Boma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Two years after Malaysia authorities raided a Halloween party, four fierce drag queens revisit the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty, joy, and pain.

Reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eyewitness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.

Amidst the educational and material poverty consequent to the government’s negligence, a district of Naples works to promote cultural growth and give the youth of the area the means and freedom to be authors of their future.

Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family’s plight of familial separation with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, the film paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as hundreds of families remain separated today.

Salah Elmur’s dreamlike paintings, inspired by his photographic archive, reflect his struggles with censorship, violence and the inability to return to his beloved home in Sudan.