Western Canada’s largest documentary Film Festival returns for its 19th season with 82 features and shorts from Canada and the world. The festival starts off with Baljit Sangra's new film Because We Are Girls, the story of a conservative family of Punjabi ancestry in Williams Lake, B. C. coming to terms with sexual abuse.

Over 11 days see films on such topics as Indigenous justice, how social media has infiltrated every aspect of our lives,  the craft of beekeeping, and that lingering question, who let the dogs out?

The DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs at various venues from Thursday (May 2) to May 12. See the full program schedule for all 2019's DOXA Documentary Film Festival showtimes.

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DOXA film Shooting Indians: A Journey With Jeffrey Thomas explores the (mis)representation of Indigenous people in photography

The film touches upon “issues of race, racism, issues of belonging, feeling misplaced in this territory we call Canada, issues of identity, and how the state wants to define people a certain way”.

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DOXA 2019: Postings From Home finds the meaning in social media

With the exception of your racist uncle, it seems that we all have some kind of allergy to Facebook.

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DOXA 2019: Colten Boushie doc takes the stand

Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard adds rich historical and current contextual layers to story in nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up

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DOXA 2019: Candice offers a candid portrait of porn trailblazer Royalle

Her story is now the stuff of legend.

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DOXA 2019: Trauma turns to sisterhood in Because We Are Girls

A Punjabi-Canadian family finally confronts the abuse inside its own home.

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DOXA 2019: The Godfather of Godfathers gets the epic he deserves with blood-drenched Corleone

It’s more chilling than The Godfather, grislier than Goodfellas, and all true.

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DOXA 2019: A Canadian icon speaks out in Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

The famously enigmatic (and cranky) legend tells you everything you wanted to know, and some things you didn’t.

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DOXA 2019 review: Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen

There's much to recommend in this year's gala closer.

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DOXA 2019 review: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

If you're not familiar with the subject, musically speaking, it's a pretty great primer.

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DOXA 2019 review: Standing on the Line

The documentary about LGBTQ athletes is a compelling reminder of the road that’s still ahead

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DOXA 2019 review: Pomelo

A thought-provoking vérité study on a demolition project in old Hanoi finds poetry amid chaos.

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DOXA 2019 review: Dark Suns

This Canadian production might be the definitive take on Mexico's "disappeared."

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DOXA 2019 review: One Child Nation

Director Nanfu Wang, now an American citizen and new mother, travels back to her home country to dig into the uncomfortable—no, harrowing—details of what that edict actually meant, starting with her own family and village in Jiangxi province.

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DOXA 2019 review: Gods of Molenbeek

Six-year-old best friends Amine and Aatos wander through Belgium’s poverty-afflicted Molenbeek district in this crisp and absorbing doc from Reetta Huhtanen.

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DOXA 2019 review: Call Me Intern

It’s no secret that the unpaid internship has emerged as a new mutant standard of labour exploitation in the 21st century.

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DOXA 2019 review: Toxic Beauty

With its mountain of evidence, this documentary will send you digging through your medicine cabinets, makeup bags, and shower caddies to pore over labels.

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DOXA 2019 review: DIVE: Rituals in Water

Every minute is a joy.

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DOXA 2019 review: Who Let the Dogs Out?

The film asks some pretty profound questions about creativity, ownership, and where ideas come from in the first place.

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DOXA 2019 review: A Bright Light: Karen and the Process

If you didn’t know anything about ’60s Greenwich Village almost-was Karen Dalton before watching A Bright Light, you won’t know much afterwards, either.