True North (2025)

Original title

True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power

Directed by

Michèle Stephenson

Genre

documentary

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Canadian documentary profiles the 1969 Sir George Williams affair student protests in Montreal. It follows Haitian Canadian students as they occupied a university computer lab to protest systemic racism.

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What happens

True North is a 2025 Canadian documentary film, directed by Michèle Stephenson. The film profiles the 1969 Sir George Williams affair protests against systemic racism at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Quebec, when a group of Haitian Canadian students occupied a ninth-floor computer lab. The incident was previously profiled by Mina Shum in the 2015 documentary film Ninth Floor, with Pat Mullen of Point of View stating that the key distinction was that Stephenson's film "situates the occupation amid a wider appetite for change". The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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