Documentary movies

Hanna is a real estate photographer from Mississauga who commutes daily to Toronto to snap pictures of luxury apartments for a network of shady, elusive corporations. With his debut feature, director Christopher Beaulieu provides an illuminating insight into the notion of liminality and the economic dispossession of younger generations. Favouring a detached approach, where the warmth of his celluloid images clashes with the cold functionality of Hanna’s digital photographs, where the nostalgia of past prosperity seamlessly seeps into the film material, Otium shows a rare kind of lucidity. Probing the spacious depths of empty dwellings, it tells of the contemporary Tantaluses of Hanna’s generation, for whom the gig economy provides dreams of wealth that it will make sure to keep unfulfilled.

Featuring interviews with 20 prominent voices and filmed using two iPhone 16s over the spring and summer of 2025, this easily digestible educational tool for curious audiences explores Palestinian resistance and the movement’s ties to justice movements around the world.

Healers, Midwives, Witches is an experimental documentary that traces connections between village midwives and the figures of healers and witches found in historical archives. Moving between archival engravings from London and intimate conversations with the filmmaker’s grandmother and great-aunt, former midwives in rural southeast Turkey, the film brings different times and places into dialogue. Through archives and oral histories, recurring gestures, rituals, and ways of care reappear across centuries. The film approaches the witch not as a myth, but as a figure shaped by fear, control, and misogyny, carried forward through women’s memory, labour, and survival.

A Cinema Verite short film following 2 brothers who operate a shoe cleaning business in a mall for a day. It captures the frantic atmosphere of the mall, and how the shoe cleaners slice through that.

What is it about the Camino de Santiago that lures people from around the world to walk hundreds of kilometres across Spain with just a backpack and a pair of boots?

Travelogue wherein a journey from Atlanta to Iowa is captured

The breathtaking story of the undercover sting that changed Sarah Ferguson's life forever.

A group of students were making a documentary film about disability. During the filmmaking process, they began to feel concerned about the topic of disability itself. They felt that they did not fully understand the topic, yet they were responsible for presenting the documentary film to the general public. Finally, they reflected on the mistakes they had made and decided to change their journey into a documentary film.

Director Adam Bhala Lough sets out to better understand the technology and people at the center of the AI boom. His quest sends him on a path towards the father of AI, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman. When he isn’t able to sit down with Altman himself, Adam travels to India to create an AI version of him to interview instead.

Searching for documentation about Max Linder, we found in an abandoned house a trunk sealed for 100 years, with a film from 1926 by an unknown filmmaker. The film depicts Max Linder, the first international screen star who was once revered in France, throughout Europe and in Hollywood. This pioneer of early silent film comedy was a mentor to Charlie Chaplin. Max miraculously avoided death five times. And finally, at the height of his artistic powers, he and his adored wife committed a double suicide. How was this possible?