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In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. Through a collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted memories, the past, present …

Hayley Gray & Elad Tzadok
2022 | 1 h 24 min
Unarmed Verses

Unarmed Verses

This feature documentary presents a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation. At the centre of the story is a remarkably astute and luminous 12-year-old black girl …

Charles Officer
2016 | 1 h 25 min
Unblending

Unblending

For people living with structural dissociation, falling asleep can be a challenge—a time when multiple contradictory thoughts conspire to keep you awake. Drawing on her experience with somatic healing, Michelle …

Michelle Ku
2024 | 1 min
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days is about the special relationship between Regina Pessoa and her uncle. The film is a testament to her love for this eccentric, who was …

Regina Pessoa
2019 | 13 min
Undertaker for Life!

Undertaker for Life!

Undertakers are anything but gloomy; they’re funny, generous and dedicated. We would gladly go on vacation with them, but sadly, they never have any dead time.

Georges Hannan
2022 | 52 min
United States of Africa

United States of Africa

African hip hop pioneer Didier Awadi is on a quest to craft an album that pays tribute to the great black revolutionary leaders and their struggle to realize a dream: …

Yanick Létourneau
2011 | 1 h 15 min
Unlaced

Unlaced

A myopic woman walks, then boogies, through a wintry urban landscape, her world view altered suddenly by a beat from within herself, transporting her to a rich and lush place …

A. Megan Turnbull
2010 | 1 min
Unmothered

Unmothered

On August 31, 1995, tragedy struck the Guerrette family when Mona, a mother of two, died from breast cancer at age 42, leaving behind a husband and their daughters, Mylène …

Marie-France Guerrette Dempsey
2018 | 1 h 12 min
Unspeakable

Unspeakable

Stuttering is as old as human speech. The biblical Moses stuttered. Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, King George VI and James Earl Jones were also afflicted with the disorder--yet it remains …

John Paskievich
2006 | 55 min
Unspoken Tears (Trauma Through Words)

Unspoken Tears (Trauma Through Words)

How can refugee children integrate into Quebec’s school system, given the unspeakable violence they’ve experienced? Following a psychologist specializing in conflict-related trauma, Unspoken Tears pays tribute to the admirable resilience …

Hélène Magny
2022 | 1 h 15 min
Upstairs With David Amram

Upstairs With David Amram

Before her storied career as one of Canada’s foremost documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin was an acclaimed singer and musician at the forefront of the Indigenous rights movement in North America. …

Alanis Obomsawin
2021 | 16 min
Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd

Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd

This feature documentary recounts the incredible odyssey of 22 men from China’s persecuted Uyghur minority who were detained in Guantánamo as terrorists. These Turkic-speaking Muslims, persecuted by the authorities in …

Patricio Henríquez
2014 | 1 h 38 min