Canada

In black and white, a man stands at a podium wearing a knit cap and a shirt with a graphic of a raised fist and the words “Black Power.” He leans into the microphone, flanked by two men on either side, with books titled Black Poetry and Black Pride displayed prominently in front.

True North

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Focusing on the 1969 student protests at Montreal’s Concordia University, this powerful film confronts the buried legacy of racism in Canada.
A woman in a vibrant red jumpsuit lies back on the hood of a green car next to a mustachioed man wearing a turtleneck.

The Queen of My Dreams

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Azra has built a life for herself in Toronto, worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father unexpectedly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined, from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.
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