Program Streams

I AM A (WO)MAN

Transatlantic perspectives on political struggles in the 1960s–1970s in Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, the USA and France, curated by Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou. "The Black Condition is immediately linked to the position of Africa in the order of international exchange just as the coloniality of power is linked to the unfinished struggles for the emancipation of colonized peoples. The here is the there."

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Justice Forum

For 13 years, the Justice Forum has been one of DOXA’s cornerstone programs, showcasing films that facilitate active and critical engagement, create space for dialogue, and sow the seeds for social change. Each Justice Forum film is paired with a live or pre-recorded conversation between speakers relevant to its issue, including filmmakers, experts in the field, academics and/or community activists. We’re excited to offer a selection of films that foster crucial conversations around a broad range of social issues, offering necessary perspectives for change and progress.

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Rated Y For Youth

Rated Y for Youth is back for its 14th edition! Curated with the intention of facilitating media literacy through thought-provoking documentaries, this programme offers films for high school students and youth, providing them with an opportunity to appreciate cinema while engaging in open dialogues on a broad range of social issues.

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"Dance, Dance Otherwise We Are Lost" -Pina Bausch

As German dancer Pina Bausch once advised: "Dance, dance otherwise we are lost." In an effort to make sense of their world, these films meld the disciplines of dance and filmmaking, strengthening relationships between ancestors, culture and community in the process.

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NORITA: The Mother of All Struggles

A program by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, which examines the life and revolutionary work of Nora Cortiñas, the most famous of the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo—Argentina's movement of women fighting for justice.

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Thin Places

"There are places," says Irish writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh, "both hollowed and hallowed, all in one." Thin places, as they are known in the Celtic tradition, are locales where a sense of Heaven and Earth meet. But in this dense collection of films, Hell is present too.

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A Radical Pluriverse

Reflections on Black womanhood on both sides of the lens, curated by Nya Lewis. "I consider it a privilege to access a spiritual legacy of mothers, sisters and daughters—a lineage or genealogy of Black women(hood) that is defined by collective self-awareness, shared political consciousness, love, magic, quests for liberation and futurism."

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