The GOOD DOCS Canadian Collection
GOOD DOCS are films that do good in the world. Our award-winning collection engages and inspires students by featuring rarely heard stories about individuals and communities working towards a more equitable world. We champion creative expression and complex films that provoke critical thinking. GOOD DOCS represents established documentarians and passionate new filmmakers driven by their experiences as educators, academics, journalists, artists, social workers, community members, and activists. GOOD DOCS films and the GOOD TALKS speaker series offer powerful educational experiences to students and communities everywhere.
The GOOD DOCS Canadian Collection includes the following titles:
And So I StayedThe stories of incarcerated abuse survivors fighting for their lives shows how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong
Being MichelleA deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past.
Below the BeltThe widespread problems in our healthcare systems that disproportionately affect women.
Blessed UnrestThe story of Michael Dodds as he reclaims his life's purpose and produces a symphony.
Coming AroundA queer Muslim woman from Brooklyn grapples with the complexities of faith, sexuality and her difficult decision to come out to the most important figure in her life - her strictly devout, psychiatrist mother.
Dongar Dei Paribi Nahin (I Cannot Give You My Forest) - Bitchitra CollectiveDeep inside the Niyamgirl forest in Odisha, India, Timoli, a mother from the aboriginal Kondh community, shares her songs and her world.
For a Better Life - Bitchitra CollectiveSold for $100 at the age of five, a young man seeks to forgive the birth family he believed abandoned him.
Finding FateThree mothers' stories evoke the cost of war in the Ukraine: One Ukranian mother fleeing, one Polish mother providing shelter, one Jewish mother connecting to her ancestors.
From the Shadows - Bitchitra CollectiveAn artist relentlessly sprays silhouettes on public walls tagged #missing, an activist accompanies rescued girls across international borders. Parallel narratives intersect to reveal a sliver of hope when women imaginatively challenge a powerful trafficking nexus operating in a country where every 8 minutes a child goes missing
A Good NeighborA Latina single mother fights against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation's most polluted zip codes.
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