Due to health and safety concerns around COVID-19, Hot Docs Cinema is currently closed. Details >>

Does it sometimes feel as though the system is rigged against you? That, no matter how hard you claw for it, financial security is always just out of reach? Expanding on the groundbreaking ideas in rockstar economist Thomas Piketty’s New York Times bestseller, this accessible and enlightening adaptation shines a light on why that might indeed be the case. Through urgent insights from experts, historians, and even The Simpsons, explore the ways that concentrated wealth and power have both shaped our past, and is creating a deeply unequal future.