Canada

Farah, Miriam and Layla, three middle aged witchy sisters with years of baggage and inches of stubborn body hair, gather for their monthly hair removal and chai session.

Embodying the dreams and poetics of a post-Soviet generation, two young Armenian women share their politics of justice and feminism with the world through their music.

The Poem We Sang is a deeply personal and fiercely nostalgic journey that delves into love, longing, the trauma of forced migration, and the loss of a family home in Palestine.

A first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father's shadow.

Witness a mother and her daughter engaging in their Saturday afternoon ritual of drinking hashar qahwa.

A tattoo ritual and hookah session memorializes a pre-war flower shop in Beirut.

It is spring yet all is coloured by a season of grief. A child dances, the grapevine ripens. We press our ears to the glass and hear singing from afar.

Faizal Karim’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged on the Canadian No Fly List.

a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine.

A coming of age film about the challenges of true friendship.

Sara discovers her Libyan grandfather’s memoirs and embarks on a journey to trace her paternal origins. Did the man she nicknamed Jeddi, leave any clues to guide her?

In 1979, during the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak visits his fiancé’s parents and confronts the realities of being an Iranian immigrant in patriotic post-Vietnam America.

This short film interweaves the voices of two women: one Mohawk from Kahnawá:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah. They reflect on their relationships with sumac.

In this poetic documentary, we meet characters in the pursuit of meaning, smoothly dissolving between different phases in life—a constructed tapestries of human behaviour in the depth of crisis.

After feeling like a stranger in his own country, Firas, a nine-year-old Jordanian-Lebanese boy, goes to extreme lengths to finally fit in.

Ramy, a young Middle Eastern student studying medicine in Montréal, meets his wild cousin Tamer. Tamer introduces him to the city’s vibrant underground subcultures and thrilling nightlife.

A young man struggles to navigate the troubled relationship with his estranged father, and his father's other family.

A poetic exploration of identity through the eyes of a Harari woman, displaced via war, now living in Canada.

Mohamed’s fear of his true desires will be tested as he is caught off guard by the power of being seen by a beautiful stranger who lives in self-acceptance.

An auto-portrait presenting linear and nonlinear spaces as a transient body. Shifting between movement and stillness, time speeds up, slows down, and gets lost in the landscapes of memory.

Weaving memories of the past through the ancient craft of Persian textiles.

Young people of colour who grew up in predominantly white social circles reveal what it is like to embody the mythical figure of the «black friend».

And exploration of my mother’s fragmented memories of her homeland through her photographs, colours and words.

he healing journey of two women, Ahu and Jaycee, who form a bond while confronting their own personal struggles in their low-income rental apartment.

An animated short film highlighting the power of artistic collaboration as a meaning-making tool in response to intergenerational trauma and the refusal of a people to be erased from history.

In the rural western Canadian cowboy town of Red River, Mac Bagley, a recently widowed rancher in his 60s, opens his home to a fractured Syrian refugee family.

A group of seven female Syrian refugees build new lives in Vancouver through their love of Syrian cuisine.

Nawal forms an unlikely friendship with Tanya, becoming an accomplice to her guerilla gardening on the lawn of their building. Together they battle with middle management to make it to harvest.