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Acadiana
Amusement park rides swing and swoop to the backdrop of giddy chatter. People wearing crawfish-printed outfits solemnly sway to country music. It's just another surreal day in America at the famed annual Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Yannick Nolin | | Guillaume Fournier | | Producer(s): | Jean-Pierre Vézina | | Editor(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Writer(s): | Guillaume Fournier | | Cinematography: | Yannick Nolin | | Composer: | Mathieu Robineau |
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Advocate
As one of the few Israeli human-rights lawyers willing to defend Palestinians, Lea Tsemel has been defying hostility and vitriol from the public and press for nearly 50 years to fight for clients in a stacked system.
| | Runtime: | 105 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Canada | | Switzerland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Hebrew | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Justice | | Jewish Interest | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Middle East | | | Director(s): | Rachel Leah Jones | | Philippe Bellaïche | | Producer(s): | Joëlle Bertossa | | Paul Cadieux | | Editor(s): | Yael Bitton |
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ahkameyimo nitanis / Keep Going My Daughter
A young couple narrate a poetic and hopeful love letter to their young daughter, reflecting the dreams of a new generation of Indigenous parents still healing from the traumas of colonialism.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Candy Fox | | Producer(s): | Chris Ross | | Editor(s): | Jackie Dzuba | | Candy Fox | | Writer(s): | Candy Fox | | Cinematography: | Aaron Bernakevitch | | Composer: | David Roman | | Sound: | Muskwa Lerat | | Cory Rizos | | David Roman |
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And That Is How the Rivers Came To Be
The enchanting Peruvian legend of a Kukama god comes alive in this animated film about the creation of the vast, winding rivers of the Amazon, reminding us of our sacred, unbreakable connection to water.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Peru | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Kukama | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Miguel Araoz Cartagena | | Producer(s): | Stephanie Boyd | | Editor(s): | Fabricio Deza | | Sound: | Cesar Centeno |
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Anthropocene: Carrara
Follow blocks of prized Carrara marble as they are hewn from pristine peaks in Tuscany and travel down the mountainside to artisans' studios and out into the global export economy.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Franco Barattini | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Silvio Repetto | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Dandora
The hills and canyons of a massive Kenyan landfill represent an emerging microeconomy where the discarded plastic is both a commodity and a future geological marker of humanity's time on Earth.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Rose Wanjiru | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Ivory Burn
Witness the largest ivory burn in history, when over a hundred tons of confiscated elephant tusks and rhino horns were torched in Nairobi National Park to send a deeply symbolic and visceral message to poachers and illegal trade syndicates.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Winnie Kiiru | | President Uhuru Kenyatta | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | Cinematography: | 360º Cinematography: Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: Nicholas de Pencier CSC | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Assholes: A Theory
Inspired by the NYT bestselling book, this lively philosophical investigation into the rise of asshole behaviour across the world asks: What does it mean to be an asshole, and more importantly, how do we stop their proliferation?
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | John Walker | | Producer(s): | Ann Bernier | | John Walker | | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Jeff Warren | | Writer(s): | John Walker | | Robert Sandler | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Composer: | Sandy Moore | | Sound: | Alex Salter |
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Because We Are Girls
Haunted by a childhood secret, courageous Indo-Canadian sisters from small-town British Columbia finally face their abuser in court, exposing how their rigidly sexist upbringing—reinforced even by the Bollywood films they loved as girls—conditioned them as victims.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Punjabi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Survivor Stories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Baljit Sangra | | Producer(s): | Selwyn Jacob | | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Writer(s): | Baljit Sangra | | Cinematography: | Grant Baldwin | | Composer: | Genevieve Vincent | | Sound: | Eva Madden |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
One of Canada's most beloved musical icons joins Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind directors Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe to share stories about his unparalleled career, his inspired songwriting and his connection to Toronto, the city that loves him back.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Canada | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Producer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Executive Producer(s): | John Brunton | | John Murray | | Gary Slaight | | Editor(s): | Alex Shuper | | Writer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Cinematography: | Kristoff Rochon | | Composer: | John Welsman |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Toxic Beauty
Whistleblower Deane Berg, along with Dr. Daniel Cramer of the Harvard Cancer Center and Dr. Ami Zota of George Washington University, join Toxic director Phyllis Ellis to discuss the public heath risks of the beauty products we use daily and the explosive lawsuit that's bringing them to light.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Phyllis Ellis | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Barri Cohen | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Ord | | Cheryl Staurulakis | | Peter Raymont | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Willie
In 1958, Willie O'Ree broke the colour barrier in hockey and went on to become an inspiration for generations of players. He joins Willie director Laurence Mathieu-Leger and some very special guests to discuss his remarkable life and career and his dedication to eradicating racism in the sport he loves.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://www.williedoc.com | | | Director(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Producer(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Bryant McBride | | Ebyan Bihi (associate producer) | | Executive Producer(s): | Bryant McBride | | Editor(s): | Rosella Tursi | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Cinematography: | Ninon Pednault | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Composer: | Justin Melland |
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Camera Test
What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re-enactments, Joyce Wong crafts a tartly subversive look at patriarchy and racism in the film industry.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Joyce Wong | | Producer(s): | Justine Pimlott | | Executive Producer(s): | Anita Lee | | Editor(s): | Avril Jacobson | | Writer(s): | Joyce Wong | | Cinematography: | Maya Bankovic |
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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
The late Pepita Ferrari seats 33 leading documentarians—from the iconic Alanis Obomsawin to iconoclast Werner Herzog—in front of the camera to delve into the unique challenges and ethical entanglements of documentary filmmaking.
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2008 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2009 | | Language: | English | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | | Director(s): | Pepita Ferrari | | Producer(s): | Michelle van Beusekom |
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Cavebirds
Intrigued by her aging father's return to rural Malaysia to launch an edible bird nest farm, a Montreal filmmaker follows him seeking answers and instead discovers truths about home and heritage that help bridge the gap between them.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Mandarin | | English | | Hokkien | | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Personal Histories | | Southeast Asia | | | Director(s): | Emily Gan | | Producer(s): | Emily Gan | | Cinematography: | Emily Gan | | Thomas Kimmerlin | | Composer: | Emily Gan | | Sound: | Christian Olsen |
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Conviction
Dreaming of a society that empowers rather than jails the marginalized, a group of incarcerated women in Canada joins forces with an advocacy organization, determined to author their own stories and rebuild their communities from the inside out.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Women & Women's Stories | | Poverty | | Website: | http://www.convictiondocumentary.com | | | Director(s): | Ariella Pahlke | | Nance Ackerman | | Teresa MacInnes | | Producer(s): | Teresa MacInnes | | Annette Clarke | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Writer(s): | Nance Ackerman | | Ariella Pahlke | | Teresa MacInnes | | Cinematography: | Nance Ackerman | | Sound: | Judith Gruber-Stitzer |
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The Corporate Coup D'État
Piercing insights from journalist Chris Hedges and philosopher John Ralston Saul dissect America at a troubling crossroads, exposing Trump's MAGA doctrine as a symptom of a broken democracy where power now lies with corporations, not citizens.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | http://www.whitepinepictures.com/project/the-corporate-coup-detat | | | Director(s): | Fred Peabody | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Cohen | | Hans Robert Eisenhauer | | Fred Peabody | | Peter Raymont | | Steve Ord | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | John Westheuser | | Composer: | Michelle Osis | | Sound: | Ben Chesneau | | Johnathan Fuhrer |
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The Daughter Tree
In this evocative study of gender in India, where a cultural preference for baby boys has forced a seismic population imbalance, villages cope with their male surpluses and a midwife fearlessly advocates for unborn girls.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women & Women's Stories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Rama Rau | | Editor(s): | Rob Ruzic | | Cinematography: | Nagaraj Diwakar | | Composer: | Ken Myhr | | Sound: | Lalit Malik |
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The Day Don Died
When a condo community learns of a neighbour's death, the dramatic retelling of his disappearance and demise takes on a life of its own. Each version of the story sounds stranger than the last, until an Easter Monday revelation takes everyone by complete surprise.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.nootkastreet.co/the-day-don-died | | | Director(s): | Steve J. Adams | | Sean Horlor | | Producer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Ana Carrizales | | Editor(s): | Gregory J. Brown | | Writer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Cinematography: | Gregory J. Brown | | Composer: | Mark Dolmont | | Sound: | Mark Dolmont |
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Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Veteran Tlingit filmmaker Carol Geddes tells the story of five Indigenous women across Canada who have risen to the top of their chosen trades—from a deck hand on a fishing boat, to a band council chief, to a minister of the Yukon legislature—and become inspirational leaders in their communities.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 1986 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Carol Geddes | | Producer(s): | Barbara Janes |
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Drag Kids
Four precocious preteens perfect their lip synching and runway walks in anticipation of the biggest drag performance of their lives at Montreal Pride, in this fierce and joyous celebration of acceptance and self-discovery.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Performers & Performance | | | Director(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Producer(s): | Edward Peill | | Erin Oakes | | Editor(s): | Warren Jefferies | | Writer(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Sound: | Zan Rosborough | | Julia Innes | | Petros Kolyvas | | Barton Hewitt |
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El Toro
Romance and tragedy bind eight siblings who worked together in the '60s at their now-demolished family-run truck stop diner on the outskirts of Winnipeg. Rebuilt as a backdrop for this quirky hybrid doc, the diner infuses their charming story with a surreal nostalgia.
| | Runtime: | 43 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | Food | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://eltorofilm.com | | | Director(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Producer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Editor(s): | Dany Joyal | | Writer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Levesque | | Composer: | Lucille Starr | | Andrina Turenne | | Sound: | Danielle Sturk | | Dany Joyal | | Dioramas: | Peter C. Graham | | Janelle Tougas | | Illustration: | Diana Thorneycroft | | 3D Animation: | Stephanein Boulet | | Phi Images |
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Family Portrait in Black and White
In a country of blue-eyed blonds and an increasingly violent white supremacist movement, a Ukrainian foster mother struggles to raise 16 biracial orphans in a small town, exposing the contradictions between love and control, ideology and belonging.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2011 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Race & Racism | | Russia & Eastern Europe | | Website: | http://www.familyportraitthefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Boris Ivanov | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Editor(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Cinematography: | Julia Ivanova | | Stanislav Shakhov | | Composer: | Boris Sichon |
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Flamenco at 5:15
The third short to win an Oscar for Studio D is set to a very different beat. Flamenco at 5:15 lets the camera sit back and simply observe National Ballet School of Canada students as they are taught the moves and proud spirit of the folkloric Andalusian dance of flamenco.
| | Runtime: | 29 | | Copyright: | 1983 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Cynthia Scott | | Producer(s): | Cynthia Scott | | Adam Symansky |
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Flight of the Butterflies 3D
Scientific advenutre meets detective story meets natural history epic in the compelling journey of the monarch butterfly—a perilous year-long migration from Mexico, across the US to Canada, exquisitely captured in beautiful IMAX cinematography.
| | Runtime: | 44 | | Copyright: | 2012 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Website: | http://www.flightofthebutterflies.com/ | | | Director(s): | Mike Slee | | Producer(s): | Jonathan Barker | | Rafael Cuervo | | Mike Slee | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonathan Barker | | Wendy MacKeigan | | Maria Elena Gutierrez Santoscoy | | Joanna Baldwin-Mallory | | Editor(s): | Susan Shipton | | Writer(s): | Mike Slee | | Wendy MacKeigan | | Cinematography: | Simon De Glanville | | Paul Williams | | Composer: | Leo Heiblum | | Jacobo Lieberman | | Sound: | Peter Thillaye |
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From the Dirt
In rural Manitoba, an elderly couple devote their time to the upkeep of their garden, which becomes a symbol of their loving, committed relationship during trying times of deteriorating health and lost loved ones.
| | Runtime: | 22 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Low German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Producer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Editor(s): | Tyler Funk | | Writer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Cinematography: | Tyler Funk | | Composer: | Natanielle Felicitas | | Sound: | Dmitri Belichenko |
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Gaza
Fully blockaded and home to almost two million people, the Gaza Strip is portrayed in the news as the world's largest open-air prison—but this rare immersion into everyday Palestinian life reveals the pressures of occupation and the humanity straining to flourish.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | Canada | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Poverty | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Middle East | | Website: | http://www.gazadocumentary.com | | | Director(s): | Garry Keane | | Andrew McConnell | | Producer(s): | Paul Cadieux | | Brendan J. Byrne | | Executive Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Maryse Rouillard | | Co-Producer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Editor(s): | Mick Mahon | | Cinematography: | Andrew McConnell | | Composer: | Ray Fabi | | Sound: | Benoi^t Dame | | Catherine Van Der Donckt |
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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
From a rural Ontario childhood to Greenwich Village of the '60s, stadium tours of the '70s and beyond, vivid archival footage helps chart the career of the legendary songwriter as he reveals the inspiration behind his lyrics and longevity.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Canada | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Producer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Executive Producer(s): | John Brunton | | John Murray | | Gary Slaight | | Editor(s): | Alex Shuper | | Writer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Cinematography: | Kristoff Rochon | | Composer: | John Welsman |
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Havana, from on High
Gorgeous cinematography and inspired soundscapes infuse this study of a decaying district in Havana, where chronic housing shortages force residents ever higher into rooftop homes—and into a bird's-eye view of a society in transformation.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Pedro Ruiz | | Producer(s): | Arantza Maldonado | | Editor(s): | Pedro Ruiz | | Cinematography: | Pedro Ruiz | | Composer: | Jérémi Roy | | Sound: | René Portillo |
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The Hottest August
Amid news of devastating wildfires and hurricanes, rising rents and white nationalist marches, anxious residents of New York City and its outer boroughs ponder an unpredictable and potentially catastrophic future during one steamy summer month.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | America | | Ecology & the Environment | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.thehottestaugust.com | | | Director(s): | Brett Story | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Brett Story | | Executive Producer(s): | Maida Lynn | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Nels Bangerter | | Cinematography: | Derek Howard | | Composer: | Troy Herion | | Sound: | Ernst Karel |
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Hubble 3D
May 2009: NASA astronauts embark on a mission to perform maintenance and repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. As they go about their tasks in this celestial workplace, the danger and beauty surrounding them are breathtakingly captured.
| | Runtime: | 45 | | Copyright: | 2010 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | | Director(s): | Toni Myers | | Producer(s): | Toni Myers | | Judy Carroll | | Executive Producer(s): | Graeme Ferguson | | Editor(s): | Toni Myers | | Writer(s): | Toni Myers | | Graeme Ferguson | | Frank Summers | | Cinematography: | James Neihouse | | Composer: | Maribeth Solomon | | Micky Erbe | | Sound: | Peter Thillaye |
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If You Love This Planet
Long before An Inconvenient Truth, Terre Nash filmed an American activist's powerful lecture on the horrors of nuclear war and proliferation, cut with newsreel footage of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Reagan administration labelled this short as propaganda and attempted to have it banned, but instead it won an Oscar.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 1982 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Terre Nash | | Producer(s): | Edward Le Lorrain |
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I'll Find A Way
Nadia is nine years old and lives in Toronto. She goes to swimming class and basketball practice; plays dress-up with her brother; and gets annoyed by the boys at school. She also has spina bifida. This short, narrated with frankness and gentle humour by Nadia, earned Studio D its first Oscar.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 1977 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Beverly Shaffer | | Producer(s): | Yuki Yoshida |
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Illusions of Control
From nuclear fallout to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, five women across the globe find the means to survive in an apocalyptic world decimated by human activity.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Chinese | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://illusionsofcontrol.com | | | Director(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Producer(s): | Andréa Schmidt | | Shannon Walsh | | Executive Producer(s): | Patrick Reed | | Editor(s): | Hart Snider | | Writer(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | | Composer: | Owen Pallett | | Sound: | Eugenio Battaglia |
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IMAX Screenings at Ontario Place Cinesphere
Hot Docs pays tribute to two renowned Canadian IMAX creators, Toni Myers and Jonathan Barker, by screening two of their crowning achivements. Free and family friendly.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series |
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Inside Lehman Brothers
A cautionary tale for the ages and a grim portent of what may come again, this detailed autopsy of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis highlights the mainly female mortgage brokers and accountants whose whistleblowing fell on deaf ears.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | France | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Deschamps | | Producer(s): | Ina Fichman | | Frederick Lacroix | | Editor(s): | Myriam Milent | | Lessandro Socrates | | Writer(s): | John Turner | | Jennifer Deschamps | | Cinematography: | Pierre Taillez | | Composer: | Medhat Hanbali |
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A Kandahar Away
When a family originally from Kandahar, Afghanistan, buys land in the tiny hamlet of Kandahar, Saskatchewan, their journey to consider the potential of the Prairies reveals a generational divide and clashing ideas on what it means to be Canadian.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Middle East | | Personal Histories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Producer(s): | Deborah Parks | | Executive Producer(s): | Shelley Saywell | | Editor(s): | Geoff Matheson | | Writer(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Cinematography: | John Westheuser | | Max Armstrong | | Composer: | Bruce Fowler | | Sound: | Sanjay Mehta | | Jason Milligan |
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Killing Patient Zero
Skilfully revealing the homophobia behind the headlines, this doc traces the devastating impact of the 1980s AIDS epidemic and clears the name of the Québécois flight attendant who was infamously known as Patient Zero.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Health & Healthcare | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://killingpatientzero.com | | | Director(s): | Laurie Lynd | | Producer(s): | Corey Russell | | Executive Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Editor(s): | Trevor Ambrose | | Writer(s): | Laurie Lynd | | Cinematography: | Paul Steinberg |
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Kora: A Circle Life
A Tibetan couple in Lhasa clings to their traditional way of life while watching the emergence of an unfamiliar social order through the eyes of their daughter. For her parents, she's a bridge between the past and present in this reflection on the loneliness of generational gaps.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | China | | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Tibetan | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Tenzin Sedon | | Producer(s): | Ming Liu | | Tenzin Sedon | | Editor(s): | Bryan Chang | | Tenzin Sedon | | Cinematography: | Phurbu Tsering | | Tenzin Sedon |
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Lake
Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic cinema verité to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in northern Alberta.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Alexandra Lazarowich | | Producer(s): | Coty Savard | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Editor(s): | Asia Youngman | | Writer(s): | Alexandra Lazarowich | | Cinematography: | Lindsay McIntyre | | Sound: | Charlene Moore | | Johnny Blerot |
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Rooted in Indigenous storytelling, a series of vignettes chronicle the traumas and triumphs that have shaped the remarkable life and work of climate justice activist Clayton Thomas-Müller.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com | | | Director(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Spencer Mann | | Producer(s): | Spencer Mann | | Executive Producer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Editor(s): | Spencer Mann | | Writer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Anna Lee-Popham | | Cinematography: | Spencer Mann | | Composer: | Flying Down Thunder | | Rise Ashen | | Fawn Wood | | Leonard Sumner | | Sound: | Spencer Mann |
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Limit is the Sky
Raging wildfires, tanking oil prices and anti-pipeline sentiments are just a few of the obstacles facing millennials working service jobs in boomtown Fort MacMurray, dreaming of making big bucks in the macho culture of Alberta's oil sands.
| | Runtime: | 108 | | Copyright: | 2016 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Labour & Working People | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Bonnie Thompson | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova |
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Long Time Comin'
Acclaimed writer Dionne Brand charts the work of two trailblazing Black lesbian Canadian artists—singer-songwriter Faith Nolan and multimedia visual artist Grace Channer—who discuss art, race and sexuality in this intimate tête-a-tête.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 1993 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Canada | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Race & Racism | | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Dionne Brand | | Producer(s): | Nicole Hubert |
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Love Translated
In a poignant but fast-paced comedy of errors and exploitation, dreams clash with reality when 10 Western men seeking Ukrainian brides untainted by feminism take a tour in Odessa organized by an online dating site.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2010 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Love & Relationships | | Women & Women's Stories | | Russia & Eastern Europe | | Website: | http://www.lovetranslatedonfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Boris Ivanov | | Editor(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Cinematography: | Rene Smith | | Composer: | Boris Sichon | | Dave King |
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Men Overboard
A fisherman reflects on the vastness and beauty of the sea that once used to move him but now only represents betrayal, reminding him of a horrible tragedy that changed his relationship to the waters forever.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Producer(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Editor(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Léo Konnerth | | Writer(s): | Alexandre Rufin | | Laurance Ouellet-Tremblay | | Cinematography: | Alexandre Rufin | | Composer: | Pascal Beaulieu | | Sound: | Christian Rivest |
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Midnight Traveler
When the Taliban puts a bounty on an Afghan director's head, he captures on camera his family's uncertain and dangerous quest for asylum in this account of the love shared between a family on the run.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Qatar | | UK | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Afghan Persian | | English | | Bulgarian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Personal Histories | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Website: | http://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/films/midnighttraveler | | | Director(s): | Hassan Fazili | | Producer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Su Kim | | Writer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Cinematography: | Hassan Fazili | | Fatima Fazili | | Nargis Fazili | | Zahar Fazili |
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Mothers Of
This is the unconscionable story of Teodora del Carmen Vasquez, who suffers a stillbirth at full term and is cruelly sentenced to an 11-year jail sentence in El Salvador under some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the world.
| | Runtime: | 19 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ross Lai | | Producer(s): | Nicolas Houghton | | Christian Tyler | | Tamara Sulliman | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrew Simon | | Editor(s): | Ashton Lewis | | Cinematography: | Diego Guijarro | | Composer: | Umber Hamid | | Christopher Stiliadis | | Sound: | Boombox Sound |
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My Dads, My Moms and Me
Twelve years ago, Julia Ivanova captured the plight of four gay men confronting homophobic social censure to raise babies. Now, weaving in joyful scenes from her original film, she returns to see how these brave new families are faring.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Editor(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Cinematography: | Julia Ivanova | | Composer: | John Korsrud | | Sound: | Doug Paterson |
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nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up
A grieving family's pursuit of justice becomes a flashpoint of the inequity and racism in the Canadian legal system after the killer of Colten Boushie, a young Cree man in Saskatchewan, is acquitted of murder charges.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Cree | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Families & Family Relationships | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Producer(s): | Bonnie Thompson | | Tasha Hubbard | | George Hupka | | Jon Montes | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Kathy Avrich-Johnson | | Janice Dawe | | Editor(s): | Hans Olson | | Writer(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Cinematography: | George Hupka | | Composer: | Jason Burnstick | | Sound: | Evan Rust |
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Nyctophobia
Depersonalization is categorized as a mental illness where someone feels completely detached from their body. Chronicling a journey from diagnosis to treatment, we're thrust into a world of absorbing, hypnotic, spiralling visuals that pull you into the struggles of this rare affliction.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.ladistributrice.ca/catalogue-films/nyctophobie | | | Director(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Producer(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Editor(s): | Alexandre Leblanc | | Writer(s): | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Cinematography: | Alexandre Leblanc | | Composer: | Jean-François Boisvenue | | Sound: | Geoffrey Mitchell | | Jean-François Boisvenue |
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Older, Stronger, Wiser
A farmer; a union activist; a bookshop owner; a reverend; a domestic worker. In this short oral history, five Black women reflect on the lives they've led and describe the challenges of growing up in the rural townships and urban centres of mid-century Canada.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 1989 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Claire Prieto | | Producer(s): | Ginny Stikeman |
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Our Dance of Revolution
Protest and passion ground this long-overdue look at Toronto's Black LGBTQ community, featuring a rousing oral history of struggle and triumph from four decades of local legends and freedom fighters.
| | Runtime: | 102 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Canada | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.ourdanceofrevolution.com | | | Director(s): | Phillip Pike | | Producer(s): | Phillip Pike | | Editor(s): | Eugene Weis | | Cinematography: | Jack Weisman | | Composer: | Gavin Bradley |
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The Pickup Game
This provocative insider investigation exposes the secrets of the scandal-filled yet thriving pickup industry, where would-be Casanovas pay to be coached in the art of seduction.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | Technology & Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Producer(s): | James De Val | | Mike Willoughby | | Cassandra Roberts | | Giselle Fryatt | | Will Watson | | Executive Producer(s): | Will Watson | | Editor(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Writer(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Mike Willoughby | | Will Watson | | Cassandra Roberts | | James De Val | | Giselle Fryatt | | Cinematography: | Vince Knight | | Claire Buxton | | Tom Webster | | Sound: | Ed Railton |
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Pipe Dreams
Converging on Montreal for the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, five talented young musicians from around the globe face off to master "the king of instruments," with their determination proving to be as moving as their artistry and skill.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Music & Musicians | | Canada | | Website: | http://www.pipedreamsdoc.ca | | | Director(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Producer(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Editor(s): | Howard Goldberg | | Writer(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Cinematography: | Pierre-Etienne Bordeleau | | Composer: | Tim Rideout | | Sound: | Michel Gauvin |
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A Place of Tide and Time
The old guard of a remote fishing village in eastern Quebec fight for their traditional life and livelihood after the cod industry's collapse, while their teenage children embrace exile as their only chance at happiness.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://www.aplaceoftideandtime.com | | | Director(s): | Sébastien Rist | | Aude Leroux-Lévesque | | Producer(s): | Jean-simon Chartier | | Editor(s): | Andréa Henriquez |
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Prey
This riveting story of deceit, corruption and vindication follows a survivor of sexual abuse as he and his lawyer take on the Catholic Church in an Ontario court.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Matt Gallagher | | Producer(s): | Cornelia Principe | | Matt Gallagher | | Nick Hector (co-producer) | | Editor(s): | Nick Hector | | Cinematography: | Matt Gallagher | | Composer: | Justin Small | | Ohad Benchetrit |
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Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
Artists Kent Monkman, Shepard Fairey and Ai Weiwei highlight this cautionary tale about the power of persuasion. As the roots of indoctrination are traced from cave drawings through to presidential tweets, potent lies have never been better disguised.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Italian | | Chinese | | Rohingya | | Korean | | Arabic | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Journalism & The Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | Larry Weinstein | | Producer(s): | Aeschylus Poulos | | Bernd Wilting | | Sonya Di Rienzo | | Mathias von der Heide | | Executive Producer(s): | Jane Jankovic | | Wolfgang Bergmann | | Natasha Negrea | | Martin Pieper | | Michael Robson | | Neil Tabatznik | | Editor(s): | David New | | Writer(s): | David Mortin | | Andrew Edmonds | | Cinematography: | John Minh Tran | | Composer: | Raffael Seyfried | | Andreas Schäfer | | Sound: | Adam Burke | | Sanjay Mehta | | David McCallum | | Ian Rankin | | Jane Tattersall | | David Caporale | | David Rose |
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Question Period
A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions. Directed by Ann Marie Fleming, one of the original Five Feminist Minutes filmmakers.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Ann Marie Fleming | | Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Editor(s): | Jessica Dymond | | Writer(s): | Ann Marie Fleming | | Cinematography: | Lindsay George | | Sound: | Eva Madden |
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Radical
Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and time well spent as the fearless agent of her own destiny. A joyous call to action.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Deanne Foley | | Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Justin Simms | | Writer(s): | Mary Walsh | | Cinematography: | Sylvaine Dufaux | | Composer: | Lori Clarke | | Sound: | Scott Yates |
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Redux Shorts: Five Feminist Minutes
In 1990, the National Film Board made waves with Five Feminist Minutes, a series of short films produced by the trailblazing Studio D, the world's first all-woman production unit. As the NFB celebrates its 80th anniversary, four contemporary directors pick up the thread, accompanied by four to-be-announced titles from the original series.
| | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Program Category: | Redux |
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Redux Shorts: Oscar-Winning Shorts
In 1974, Studio D became the first publicly funded feminist film production unit in the world. This program offers a bold collection of its Oscar-winning shorts, produced by studio founder Kathleen Shannon.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Program Category: | Redux |
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River Silence
As construction of one of the world's largest dams destroys the Amazon's ancient ecosystems and displaces tens of thousands, the filmmaker offers a potent and lyrical plea for those brutalized for the sake of rampant development.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Brazilian Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Rogério Soares | | Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Ryan Mullins | | Cinematography: | Glauco Bermudez | | Aldo Oviedo Tejo | | Composer: | Nicole Lizée | | Sound Design: | Benoît Dame | | Jérémie Jones | | Catherine van der Donckt | | Location Sound: | Catherine Van Der Donckt | | Victor Arturo Jaramillo Quevedo |
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Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery
When a reggae fanatic unearths a record by a mysterious diva in a Toronto junk shop, his resulting musical obsession drives him on an increasingly desperate quest to Kingston, Jamaica, to track down the song's elusive singer.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Jamaican Patois | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Popular Culture | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Producer(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Executive Producer(s): | Matthew Bate | | Herbie Miller | | Editor(s): | Sonia Godding Togobo | | Cinematography: | Graeme Mathieson | | Sound: | Lucas Prokaziuk |
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Some American Feminists
Weaving archival footage with interviews of key second-wave feminists, including Betty Friedan, Margo Jefferson, Kate Millett and Rita Mae Brown, this is a fascinating history of one of the 20th century's most consequential social movements.
| | Runtime: | 55 | | Copyright: | 1977 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | America | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | | Director(s): | Luce Guilbeault | | Nicole Brossard | | Margaret Wescott | | Producer(s): | Kathleen Shannon |
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St. Louis Superman
Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a critical bill for his community.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Qatar | | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Producer(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Poh Si Teng | | Cheyenne Tan | | Executive Producer(s): | Fiona Lawson-Baker | | Editor(s): | Faisal Azam | | Cinematography: | Sami Khan | | Chris Renteria | | Jerry Henry | | Sound: | Michael Gassert |
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Supreme Law
This live event hosted by comedian Jus Reign takes a uniquely interactive and satirical approach to the story of how the Canadian Constitution came to be, with the help of some of the country's biggest YouTube personalities and content creators.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Katerina Cizek | | Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Bonnie Thompson | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Cinematography: | Katerina Cizek |
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SwampScapes
Take an incredible tour through the mangrove forests, sawgrass marshes and pine flatwoods of the Everglades, one of the world's most biologically diverse swamps, and meet those who maintain and protect this rich ecosystem.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | http://www.swampscapes.org | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Kim Grinfeder | | Juan Carlos Zaldivar | | Producer(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Editor(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Juan Carlos Zaldivar | | Writer(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Cinematography: | Kim Grinfeder | | Sound: | Adrian Morales-Demori |
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Take Me To Prom
Dressed in their dream outfits, a group of people take us back to the night of their prom. Vivid memories of the music, dancing, outrageous stories and poignant moments make the event an unforgettable turning point in a journey of unapologetic queer identity and expression.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andrew Moir | | Producer(s): | Andrew Moir | | Editor(s): | Graeme Ring | | Cinematography: | Andrew Jeffrey | | Composer: | Ben Fox | | Sound: | Andrew Chung |
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That's My Jazz
The son of famed Kansas City jazz musician Milton Abel, Sr. contrasts his father's musical genius to his own dexterity as a pastry chef. While relishing the art of the two professions to the beat of a mesmerizing soundtrack, we discover deeper truths about relationships between fathers and sons.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ben Proudfoot | | Producer(s): | Jeremy Lambert | | Rich Graham | | Executive Producer(s): | Abby Davis | | Josh Rosenberg | | Editor(s): | Federico Conforti | | Cinematography: | David Bolen | | Composer: | Nicholas Jacobson-Larsen | | Sound: | Sean Higgins |
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There Are No Fakes
When a celebrity buyer begins to doubt the authenticity of a painting by iconic Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, he's drawn into the tragic web of an exploitative art forgery ring that quickly widens far beyond the canvas.
| | Runtime: | 114 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Website: | http://therearenofakes.com | | | Director(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Producer(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Laura Baron Kastner | | Executive Producer(s): | Mark Anthony Jacobson | | Editor(s): | Michael Hannan | | Writer(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Cinematography: | Derek Rogers | | Composer: | Kevin Hearn | | Sound: | Peter Sawade | | Stephen Dranitsaris | | David Best |
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They Should Be Flowers
Through audio interviews and artistic renderings, this pared-down and powerful piece tells the story of a six-year-old Black girl who was handcuffed, casting light on the precarious place of Black children in Canada.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Karen Chapman | | Producer(s): | Karen Chapman | | Digital Producer(s): | Henry Faber | | Writer(s): | Karen Chapman | | VR Audio: | Matt Miller (Level Curve) | | Technical Artist: | Sally Luc (Thousand Stars Studio) | | VR Developer: | Parth Soni (Thousand Stars Studio) |
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Through the Masks of Luzia
Embark on a fantastical voyage that celebrates Mexican culture through surreal feats of contortion and beautiful artistic evocations of wildlife and the afterlife, based on the hit Cirque du Soleil production.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Francois Blouin | | Félix Lajeunesse | | Paul Raphaël |
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Touching from a Distance II: Transmediations in the Digital Age
This exhibition presents recent digital works immersed into the bookshelves and media hardware at the Goethe Media Space, exploring the theme of transmediation: the process of translating a work into a different medium—analog or digital, written or visual.
| | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Canada | | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | German | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Tina Sauerlaender (Curator) |
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Toxic Beauty
Cancer, diabetes, developmental delays and more—the cosmetics industry's ugly secrets are exposed through exclusive interviews with scientists, whistleblowers and consumer survivors who raise pressing questions about the true cost of beauty.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Phyllis Ellis | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Barri Cohen | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Ord | | Cheryl Staurulakis | | Peter Raymont | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng |
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Traveling While Black
Confronting the way we understand and talk about race in America, this VR documentary immerses the viewer in the long history of restriction of movement for Black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in their communities.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Roger Ross Williams | | Félix Lajeunesse | | Paul Raphaël | | Ayesha Nadarajah | | Producer(s): | Ayesha Nadarajah | | Jihan Robinson | | Executive Producer(s): | Bonnie Nelson Schwartz | | Ryan Horrigan | | Stéphane Rituit | | Composer: | Jean-Pascal Beaudoin | | Michael Ritchie |
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Uncaged: A Stand-In Story
Uncaged tells the quirky tale of Marco Kyris, an aspiring actor whose only claim to Hollywood fame is working as a stand-in for Nicolas Cage—and living in the shadow of the electric, enigmatic star.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Producer(s): | Walter Woodman | | Executive Producer(s): | Marco Kyris | | Editor(s): | Daniel Haack | | Luca Tarantini | | Spencer Shiffman | | Writer(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Cinematography: | Greg Francis | | Sound: | Adrian Pop |
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What Goes Up // Must Come Down
Tourists flock to Taiwan each Lunar New Year, delighting in the Instagram-worthy spectacle of thousands of paper lanterns lighting up the sky—but it's the locals that stay for the stark aftermath, when the lanterns touch down to earth.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Taiwan | | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Taiwanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Kel O'Neill | | Eline Jongsma | | Producer(s): | Angel Cheng | | Kel O'Neill | | Eline Jongsma | | Executive Producer(s): | A-pu Cheng | | Editor(s): | Kel O'Neill | | Cinematography: | William Chou | | Ming-yuan Chuan | | Composer: | Matthew Dougherty | | Sound: | Andres Velasquez |
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When We Walk
Recently divorced, the filmmaker attempts to relocate closer to his young son, but confronts the harsh inequity of the US Medicaid system, which would prevent him from accessing the care he needs to live while battling advanced multiple sclerosis.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Health & Healthcare | | Mortality & Loss | | Personal Histories | | Website: | http://whenwewalk.com | | | Director(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Producer(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Leigh DaSilva | | Richard O'Connell | | Executive Producer(s): | Chase Muratore | | Editor(s): | Simeon Hutner | | Writer(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Cinematography: | Jason DaSilva | | Composer: | Todd Griffin | | Jeff Beale | | Frank Henville | | Sound: | David Wilson | | Publicist(s): | Adam Segal | | The 2050 Group |
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Who Let the Dogs Out
The catchy hook of Baha Men's 2000 hit single asks an age-old question, and this hilariously earnest doc asks many more, taking a wild ride through eight years of a man's runaway obsession with the song and its much-disputed origins.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Brent Hodge | | Producer(s): | Aly Kelly | | Ben Sisto | | Executive Producer(s): | Blair Miller | | Kim Guise | | Conrad Whelan | | Jonas Woost | | Christina Willings | | Lizzy Karp | | Editor(s): | Jasleen Kaur | | Brent Hodge | | Frank Cassano | | Writer(s): | Ben Sisto | | Cinematography: | Charlie Ricottone | | Composer: | David Menzel | | Jordaniel Bennett | | Sound: | John Diemer |
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Willie
In the midst of the American civil rights movement, Willie O'Ree became the first Black player to skate in the NHL. An inspiration to many, the remarkable story of this recent Hall of Fame inductee's courage and resilience transcends the sport.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://www.williedoc.com | | | Director(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Producer(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Bryant McBride | | Ebyan Bihi (associate producer) | | Executive Producer(s): | Bryant McBride | | Editor(s): | Rosella Tursi | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Cinematography: | Ninon Pednault | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Composer: | Justin Melland |
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The World or Nothing
Armed with a cellphone, a laptop and elaborate dance moves, determined twin brothers migrate from Cuba to Spain in pursuit of internet stardom in this tender look at millennial celebrity, brotherly love and the cost of realizing dreams.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Performers & Performance | | Popular Culture | | Technology & Culture | | Carribean | | Southern Europe | | | Director(s): | Ingrid Veninger | | Producer(s): | Ingrid Veninger | | Editor(s): | Claudia Munuera | | Cinematography: | Leon Guallart Diaz | | Composer: | Sensacion Gemela | | Sound: | Eric Apps | | John Switzer | | Jakob Thiesen |
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Your Last Walk in the Mosque
After a lone gunman opens fire in a Quebec City mosque, killing six, the survivors and families of a community in shock come together to heal, sharing stories and honouring the lives of those who were taken from them.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Race & Racism | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Producer(s): | Tariq Syed | | Editor(s): | Myriam Terristi | | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Cinematography: | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Sound: | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje |
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