To Wake Up the Nakota Language

To Wake Up the Nakota Language

Director: Louise BigEagle
Genres / Categories: Documentary

Documentary

My American Surrogate

China’s elite and infertile are flocking to Southern California to hire American surrogates to have their babies for them, and Qiqi is there to help.

Stay Close

An underdog fencer from Brooklyn overcomes a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics.

Lupus

This film is based on real events. In December 2011, a watchman was attacked by a pack of more than 20 stray dogs wandering in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bogotá.

Payback

This feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s bestselling book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth offers a fascinating look at debt as a mental construct and traces how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the fate of the planet itself. Exploring the link between debtor and creditor in a variety of contexts and places, from the mountains of northern Albania to the tomato fields of southern Florida, the film blends compelling stories of “owing” and “being owed” with the views of renowned figures like Karen Armstrong, Louise Arbour, William Rees and Raj Patel.

Stories We Tell

This feature documentary is an inspired, genre-twisting film directed by Oscar®-nominee Sarah Polley. Polley's playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a touching and intriguing portrait of a complex network of relatives, friends, and strangers.

Ninth Floor

Director Mina Shum makes her foray into feature documentary by reopening the file on a watershed moment in Canadian race relations – the infamous Sir George Williams Riot. Over four decades after a group of Caribbean students accused their professor of racism, triggering an explosive student uprising, Shum locates the protagonists and listens as they set the record straight, trying to make peace with the past.

Personal Truth

Personal Truth shines a light on the events of December 4, 2016, when an armed man named Maddison Welch acted on his believes of rumors invented by the alt-right about John Podesta and Hillary Clinton operating a child sex ring in the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza parlour.