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SINS OF OUR PAST - Social Justice Program
Featuring a mix of documentaries, animation, and experimental work, these films explore the effects of our unsustainable consumerism and how humanity's destructive impact has negatively changed our environment and society at large. -Henry Wong
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Waste Away - Animation
Directed by Elly Stern

A homeless woman's encounter with a fish takes an unexpected turn in a trash-filled city.
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Ticketed for What? - Documentary
Directed by Yvonne Sung

Toronto's homeless community is being unfairly ticketed under the Ontario Safe Streets Act.
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Biskawbiyung: The Return - Documentary
Directed by Sage Petahtegoose, Produced by Kate Ellis

A broken history that has torn Anishinaabe families from their sacred objects is healed through the repatriation of sacred objects and the determination of the indigenous people to return to their traditional knowledge to carry it into the future.
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Wihtikow - Experimental
Directed by Tera Bruinsma

A man isolated from the outside world struggles with an all-consuming ominous specter.
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Playing with Uranium - Documentary
Directed by Daniel Hackborn

An exploration of the legacy and fallout uranium mines have on the area in and around Elliot Lake.
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