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1970 / 116 min / Dir. Robert Altman Kicking off the festival with a showing of the classic film as a tribute to recently departed groundbreaking director Robert Altman. A controversial mockery feature-film of the US war machine. 
(Portuguese w/ Spanish and English subtitles) 2005 / 15 min *Premier showing in Canada! Women play a major role in the life and struggle of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. This doc covers a women’s occupation of a corporate office on International Womens’ Day in 2005. 
(French w/ English subtitles) 1992 / 52 min / Dir. Parminder Vir The victory of the Algerian revolution of 1954-62 was a major set-back for French colonialism. This film is a portrait and examination of the experience of women in the Algerian revolution: as women, as Algerians, and as anti-colonial fighters. 
Five men are held in jails in Ontario on “Security Certificates” – a provision that allows Canada to jail non-citizens indefinitely without charges or evidence. This doc follows the case of one of these men. 
2006 / 90 min In the late spring of 2006, Mohawks of the 6 Nations Confederacy stood their ground against a colonial development project on their land. This doc covers the standoff that ensued, and continues today. 
(French w/ English subtitles) 1991 / 20 min / Dir. Balufa Bakupa-Kanyinda *Premier showing in Canada! Thomas Sankara was president of Burkina Faso in Central Africa from 1983 to 1987, when the CIA sponsored his murder. His revolutionary program set an example of what the African revolution can, must, and will look like. 
(Korean w/ English subtitles) 2006 / 39 min *Premier showing in Canada! There are more than 30,000 US troops stationed on specifically US military bases in South Korea. There is also a constant movement of South Korean workers against these bases. This new doc follows this movement today. 
(Spanish w/ English subtitles) 2006 / 25min *Premier showing in Canada! Since 2003 Venezuela has been undergoing a radical transformation. A large number of government ‘missions’ / projects have been set up to tackle historical inequalities between rich and poor. 
(Spanish w/ English subtitles) 2006 / 63 min *Premier showing in Canada! Today Oaxaca, one of the poorest states in Mexico, carries the political weight – and hope – of the whole nation. This film follows the dynamics of this movement, in the wake of this summer’s electoral fraud. 
(Spanish + English w/ English subtitles) 2005 / 48 min / Dir. Bernie Dwyer & Roberto Ruiz Rebo This award-winning doc tells the story of the "Cuban 5" - imprisoned in the U.S. for fighting against terrorism. Their crime? Protecting their country and people against US terrorism. 
2003 / 26 min / Dir. Jessica Anderson & Anya Willow *Featuring an introduction from the film’s director! A documentary made in the summer of 2003, at the beginning of the US/UK occupation of Iraq. A stirring series of interviews with Iraqis about their response to the invasion and occupation of their country. 
2005 / 84min / Dir. Andrew Berends *Premier showing in Canada! *Official selections of Tribeca, Silvedogs, and IDFA Film Festivals An intimate portrait of life and death in Iraq under US/UK occupation. Follows the life and struggle of a Shia family after the death of their breadwinner. 
(or – how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb) 1964 / 93 min / Dir. Stanley Kubrick The classic anti-war feature film that buried a ruthless criticism of the US war machine beneath a grand joke… and nuclear war, Armageddon, and our precious bodily fluids. 
2005 / 90min / Dir. Rachel Boynton The doc of the 2003 election in Bolivia won by a powerful US consulting firm. More powerful is the backdrop of the social movement that would overthrow the elected president only months later. 
1972 / 91min / Arnold Perl Malcolm X was arguably the most important revolutionary in US history. This powerful Oscar nominated doc uses archival footage of Malcolm X’s speeches, interviews, and life. 
2000 / 49min / Dir: Maher Abi-samra *Premier showing in Canada! A documentary portrait of two women activists and organizers in Hezbollah, in Southern Lebanon. A film that challenges all media perceptions about “terrorism” and the position of women in the Middle East.organizers 
2006 / 19 min / Dir. Doreen Manuel *Featuring an introduction from the film’s director! George Manuel was a pioneer of today’s Indigenous sovereignty movement – in Canada and connected internationally. He was, as this doc explains, a “Prophet, Leader, Visionary: a man ahead of his time.” 
(*Arabic w/ English subtitles) 2003 / 30min / Dir. Sobhi al-Zobaidi *Featuring an introduction from the film’s director! Under Israeli occupation Palestinian education has been a basic struggle, rather than a basic right. This film examines the more recent history of that struggle. 
(Spanish w/ English subtitles) 2006 / 57 min / Dir. Sean & Yannis Mendez *Premier showing in Canada! Takes the viewer on a journey through the lives of ordinary Cubans, examining the results of the Cuban revolution from the perspective of the Cuban people. 
2003 / 93 min / Dir. Oliver Stone In honour of the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro, this interview-film is an in-depth discussion with Fidel. It offers a glimpse of the man whose revolutionary ideas and actions are shaping all of Latin America today. 
(Farsi-Dari w/ English subtitles) 2006 / 40min / Dir. Malik Shafi’i *Premier showing in North America! * Features a special message from the director Festival finale, and the only Afghan film about the lives of Afghan refugees after 9-11. Afghan made, this film’s theme is vehemently anti-war, and vital to the discussion of Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan. Shows the lives of Afghan people as they are, scattered throughout Europe and marooned in refugee camps throughout Afghanistan itself, and into Iran and Pakistan. Strikingly honest and bare – this film is necessary today. 
2006 / 90 min / Dir. Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) * World Premier! Shocked at the lack of films available about Canada’s war drive in Afghanistan, members of the same coalition that brings you the annual anti-war film festival, bring you the second edition of this critical documentary. This updated edition features an expanded focus on Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan.
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