Sunday Film Series
Our Spring Film Series brings together 3 documentaries that consider racial histories, land back, and settler colonialism woven across geographies and time. These films reveal the connections and shared concerns across the world as we witness increasing challenges to black, brown and global Indigenous rights to land, culture, history and survival. Each film will be followed by a post-screening discussion. For each film we will also share additional films and resources online, for those who are interested in learning more. The series aspires to remind us that everywhere is connected to somewhere, and the importance of holding hope in times of complexity.
Entrance to the films is by donation, with limited seating on a first-come basis. Doors open at 3:30 with the film beginning at 4pm. Each film will be followed by a discussion led by Wayne Dunkley and guests.
Mighty Jerome
(2010, 1:24)
February 1, 2026
Director: Charles Officer
Post Screening Discussion: Wayne Dunkley
From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada’s most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used to tell the triumphant and compelling story of what Harry Jerome’s own coach called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.”
The rise, fall, and redemption of African-Canadian track legend Harry Jerome (1940−1982), a kid from North Vancouver who became the fastest man on the planet, is recounted in this artful documentary directed by noted Jamaican-Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Unarmed Verses). The film, shot in gorgeous black and white, employs archival footage, personal interviews, stylized re-enactments, and period music to tell Jerome’s remarkable story; it also examines how issues of race and the era’s civil rights movement played out in Jerome’s sometimes turbulent life. Vancouver-based Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker Selwyn Jacob (The Road Taken), whose projects often explores the experiences of Black Canadians, was producer.
No Other Land
(2024,1.32)
March 1, 2026
Post Screening Discussion: Wayne Dunkley and guest
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
The Stand
(2024,1:34)
April 12, 2026
In the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people stood on a muddy logging road on Lyell Island—and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, sovereignty and environmental justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, courage and quiet humanity of that moment. Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the Elders, activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the Haida Nation—and for all of Canada.