Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Tackling the question of official racism in the Dominican Republic, the film follows a young lawyer who’s fighting against Black oppression and for the right to citizenship.
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, victims of the Six-Day War travel from Kisangani to Kinshasa to demand reparations from the country’s moribund institutions.
EN ROUTE POUR LE MILLIARD
- Dieudo Hamadi
- 2020
- Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium
- s.t. French
- 90 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
In an El Salvador prison, a Barrio 18 gang member is torn between the extreme machismo of gang life and his homosexuality.
IMPARDONNABLE
- Marlén Viñayo
- 2020
- El Salvador
- s.t. English
- 36 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
The Unist’ot’en oppose the routing of a pipeline through their unceded land: the film bears essential witness to their struggle and to the state violence they suffer.
INVASION
- Michael Toledano, Sam Vinal
- 2019
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 19 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
How can Puerto Rico reinvent itself after Hurricane Maria, while burdened with billions in debt? This trip across the island offers an incisive analysis of “disaster capitalism.”
LANDFALL
- Cecilia Aldarondo
- 2020
- United States, Puerto Rico
- s.t. English
- 93 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
At a video workshop in the Iranian desert, women pick up cameras as they start a craft workers’ co-op. The emancipatory adventure leads to a revolution in their way of seeing.
LES FEMMES DU SOLEIL : UNE CHRONOLOGIE DU REGARD
- Hamed Zolfaghari
- 2020
- Iran, France
- s.t. French
- 87 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
In a hospital in Argentina, where abortion is almost entirely prohibited, teenage girls confront the realities of unwanted pregnancy.
MOTHER-CHILD
- Andrea Testa
- 2019
- Argentina
- s.t. English
- 66 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
24 hours with a young Algerian activist. Karim Aïnouz captures the spirit of the Hirak Movement, driven by youth brimming with life and determined to build a better future.
NARDJES A.
- Karim Aïnouz
- 2020
- Algeria, France, Germany, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 82 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
In northern Kenya, brave women stand against colonial and capitalist exploitation, in defiance of their own culture’s norms.
OIL & WATER
- Anjali Nayar
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 14 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
An experimental short filled with deep rage about dangerous working conditions during the golden age of manufacturing.
PEUGEOT PULMONAIRE
- Samy Benammar
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec), France
- 23 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
With gentleness and restraint, this kid’s-eye-view short exposes the violence and discrimination bubbling beneath the surface of Chilean society.
QUELQUE CHOSE BRÛLE
- Victoria Maréchal, Nicolás Tabilo, Macarena Astete
- 2020
- Chile, Argentina
- s.t. French or English
- 23 min
Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Determined to fight corruption in Kenya, an activist runs for election and soon finds himself torn between his family and his political work.