FIRST TO STAND

Documentary / Canada / English / 2022 / 75 minutes - Watch trailer here 

This film of high stakes and emotion follows Irwin Cotler and his team at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre as they take on the cause of political prisoners and human rights activists battling against the world’s most repressive regimes. Cotler began fighting for justice with the landmark case of Russian refusnik Natan Sharansky, leading to Gorbachev releasing him in 1986. As Cotler’s work testifies, “Anyone with care and courage can change history.”