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Ivory Tower

Adrew Rossi | 2014

United States | 90 min | 15+ years | English

Screened as part of TOAFF15

As tuition spirals upward and student debt passes a trillion dollars, students and parents begin to wonder if college is worth the expense.

Topics: Economics & Fair Trade, Education & Young People

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Jesa

Kyungwon Song | 2019

South Korea, United States | 6 min | Korean with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF20

A sweet and salty take on family, food, and the patriarchy.

Topics: Food, Women's Empowerment

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Just Eat It

Grant Baldwin | 2014

Canada, United Kingdom, United States | 74 min | 12+ years | English with English subtitles

As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?

Topics: Food

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Knock Down the House

Rachel Lears | 2019

United States | 86 min | 8+ years | English with English subtitles |

Go behind the scenes as four determined women — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — challenge big-money politicians in the 2018 race for Congress.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Geo-politics & Democracy, Women's Empowerment

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The Last Ice

Scott Ressler | 2019

United States | 83 min | 8+ years | English, Greenlandic, Inuktitut with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF20

Visually stunning portrait of two Inuit youth grappling with their future as their communities face the challenges of (neo)colonialism and climate change.

Topics: Climate, Economics & Fair Trade, Environment & Energy, Land Rights

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Liberty Hill

Katie Graham | 2018

United States | 9 min | 8+ years | English

Karen Collins is a grandmother and award-winning quilter with deep Texas roots. She never cared much about politics until the 2016 election. Now her retirement has a new sense of purpose.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Geo-politics & Democracy, Women's Empowerment

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Made in Iowa

Malcolm Pullinger | 2017

United States | 12 min | 8+ years | English

Screened as part of TOAFF18

After a town’s manufacturing plant is shut down, the community rallies around its neighbourhood cinema and refuses to let the town die.

Topics: Activism / People Power

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Milk

Gus Van Sant | 2008

United States | 128 min | 15+ years | English

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official

Topics: Activism / People Power, Art & Media in Social Change, LGBTQI+ & Gender, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action

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More Dangerous than a Thousand Rioters

Kelly Gallagher | 2016

United States | 6 min | 8+ years | English

A shimmering, poetic tribute to activist Lucy Parsons’ fierce battles against injustice, from her birth on a Texas plantation to Chicago and beyond

Topics: Activism / People Power, Human Rights, Women's Empowerment

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Mr Smith Goes to Washington

Frank Capra | 1939

United States | 129 min | English with English subtitles

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Better conversations, Geo-politics & Democracy

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New York Farm City

Petrina Engelke & Raul Mandru | 2011

United States | 7 min | 8+ years | English

Beautiful short film featuring the urban farming pioneers in New York who are using inventive methods and ideas to cultivate their crops in between the urban landscape of the Big Apple

Topics: Environment & Energy, Food

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Off the Grid on a Homemade Island

Great Big Story | 2016

United States | 2 min | English |

Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island is a sustainable island fortress. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.

Topics: Environment & Energy

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Pier Kids

Elegance Bratton | 2019

United States | 85 min | 12+ years | English with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF20

An intimate and empathetic portrait of the queer youth of colour experiencing homelessness on Christopher St Pier in NYC.

Topics: LGBTQI+ & Gender

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Promised Land

Gus Van Sant | 2012

United Arab Emirates, United States | 106 min | 15+ years | English

Screened as part of TOAFF13

Gus Van Sant’s award-winning drama which brings to life the emotion and debates running high over fracking in small-town America.

Topics: Environment & Energy, Geo-politics & Democracy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action