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Petroleum (4)

  • Inkwo for When the Starving Return
    Inkwo for When the Starving Return
    Amanda Strong 2024 18 min
    Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Inkwo (medicine) to defend against an army of hungry, ferocious monsters. Dove’s courage, resilience and alliance with the Earth culminates in a battle against these flesh-consuming creatures, who become stronger with each body and soul they devour. Inkwo for When the Starving Return is a call to action to fight and protect against the forces of greed around us.
  • Pipelines, Power and Democracy
    Pipelines, Power and Democracy
    Olivier D. Asselin 2015 1 h 28 min
    Pipelines, Power and Democracy is a striking documentary that follows the mobilization of ordinary people to thwart the ambitions of oil companies and halt, even if only temporarily, the advance of pipelines across Quebec. In the process, the film offers a sharp reminder that power can be accessible to all.
  • Sweet Talk
    Sweet Talk
    Esteban Azuela 2014 1 min
    Oil-covered fish meet skateboards and the War on Terror in this razor-sharp satire of media, government, and the tycoons who take advantage of the system.

    Produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • The Whale and the Raven
    The Whale and the Raven
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    Mirjam Leuze 2019 1 h 41 min
    Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict. As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home.

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