Michèle Stephenson’s moving documentary centres on the 1969 student protests against racism at Montreal’s Concordia University (then known as Sir George Williams University) and their contribution to the story of Black liberation.

The film is an electrifying history of Black Canada, a story of displacement and discrimination, prejudice and Black pride, from Freedom Road to Africville and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, fused from a mind-bogglingly rich cache of archival material, first person accounts and a remarkable score by celebrated jazz pianist Andy Milne.

True North illuminates a tempestuous moment in Canada’s reckoning with its own racism—and reminds us of the lasting power of collective action.