Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2016

Former child bride Selvi escapes her child marriage to become South India's first female taxi driver.

In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers donations to families who live in uninsulated sheds, overgrown with toxic mold. She is determined to raise awareness, believing that if only Canadians knew, her hometown's dire situation would improve. Over five years, filmmaker Victoria Lean follows Attawapiskat's journey from obscurity and into the international spotlight twice - first when the Red Cross intervenes and again during the protest movement, Idle No More. Weaving together great distances, intimate scenes and archive images, the documentary chronicles the First Nation's fight for justice in the face of hardened indifference.

The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.

After accruing a substantial debt, a gambler takes his visually impaired daughter on a road trip to see the northern lights before she becomes blind.

A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.

17 year-old Jérémie (Antoine L'Écuyer) dreams of a better life, away from the family sawmill and his native village in Gaspésie, Québec. Instead of the forestry work, Jérémie prefers hip hop music, pimping his car and slacking off with his friends. The situation despairs his father Régis (Roy Dupuis), who blames this disinterest on a local drug dealer. When the elder brother leaves town, the lives of Jérémie and Régis drastically change. Filmed in around thirty scenes, The Sound of Trees is a film that chronicles moments in the summer of a teenager caught between the river and the forest.

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Sabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.

A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.

Le dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman, who routinely works at her father's convenience store in a small First-Nations community in Québec. One night, as she prepares to close up, she is held-up at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more perplex as she recognizes her assailant. Inadvertently, Lydia will be forced to make a decision that will forever change her life.

After the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.

In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.

In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.

Omar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Khadr is suddenly released. Finally, his story, in his own words.

George Patterson scored the first goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs - launching a hockey empire.

Hurt (2015) is a documentary portrait of Steve Fonyo, a one-legged cancer survivor who successfully completed a cross-Canada run in the '80s, only to spend three decades mired in crime and addiction.

After a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.

The Messenger is an artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the people working to turn the tide. This visually thrilling film reveals how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet.

Yangchan, a young Tibetan girl from a sheep herding family, is trying to make sense of her changing world.

While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.

Terminal Device is an autobiographical essay about a lie; the stereotyped image of the one-armed, hook-wearing man starts with Captain Hook, but is that all there is to it?