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BecomingIncludes Q&A
Coming of age in rural Mexico, an introspective 11-year-old boy spends his summer raising fighting bulls and dreaming of emulating the cowboys in his family, while dreading the start of school and pining for his distant father in America.
| | Runtime: | 63 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Rural Life | | Website: | http://caribou.mx/en/potfolio/becoming | | | Director(s): | Isabel Vaca | | Producer(s): | Arturo Mendicuti | | Executive Producer(s): | Isabel Vaca | | Editor(s): | Valentina Leduc | | Writer(s): | Isabel Vaca | | Cinematography: | Isabel Vaca | | Jessica Villamil | | Sound: | Juan Pacheco |
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Between UsIncludes Q&A
An affair, a secret, a relationship on the verge of melting down—a simple box of cards posing questions on love sends three Polish couples on a deeply personal journey that unravels both tender and difficult truths.
| | Runtime: | 53 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Polish | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Love & Relationships | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | Website: | http://betweenusfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Dorota Proba | | Producer(s): | Ewa Jastrzebska | | Jerzy Kapuscinski | | Executive Producer(s): | Wojciech Marczewski | | Karolina Mróz | | Editor(s): | Katarzyna Orzechowska | | Writer(s): | Dorota Proba | | Cinematography: | Weronika Bilska | | Sound: | Krzysztof Janus | | Dorota Proba | | Anna Rok |
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The Big Scary "S" WordIncludes Q&A
A former Marine works as a Lyft driver and a single mother teaches in a public school. Finding themselves broke, in debt and questioning the capitalist status quo, they turn to socialism, seeking solutions to problems larger than themselves.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Website: | http://socialismmovie.com | | | Director(s): | Yael Bridge | | Producer(s): | Yael Bridge | | Morgan Spector | | Eden Wurmfeld | | Co-Producer(s): | Sasha Leittman | | Editor(s): | Christie Herring | | Cinematography: | Eric Phillips-Horst | | Animation: | Molly Schwartz |
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Blue BoxIncludes Q&A
The Jewish National Fund's Blue Boxes were a global fundraiser to purchase land in Israel. Weaving a co-founder's diary entries with his descendants' memories, Blue Box investigates the myths that constructed a national icon.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Israel | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Hebrew | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Jewish Interest | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Michal Weits | | Producer(s): | Assaf Amir | | Ina Fichman | | Eric Goosens | | Uri Smoly | | Frederik Nicolai | | Executive Producer(s): | Guy Lavie | | Dana Stern | | Ira Levy | | Narration: | Dror Keren as Joseph Weitz | | Editor(s): | Doron Djerassi | | Erez Laufer | | Cinematography: | Avner Shahaf | | Daniel Kedem | | Sound Design: | Benoit Dame |
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ChildrenIncludes Q&A
This observational doc captures a neighbourhood in Palestine, where courageous young girls influenced by three generations of tumultuous occupation come of age learning how to protect their family's land, rights and values.
| | Runtime: | 132 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Arabic | | Hebrew | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | Website: | http://cinephil.com/2021/01/24/children | | | Director(s): | Ada Ushpiz | | Producer(s): | Ada Ushpiz | | Executive Producer(s): | Philippa Kowarsky | | Editor(s): | Neta Braun | | Cinematography: | Danor Glaser |
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The Colonel's Stray DogsIncludes Q&A
Recounting his father's dangerous life as an exile in London with a million-dollar bounty on his head, the director questions the cost of his decades-long opposition to Muammar Gaddafi and eventual return to an unrecognizable Libya on the brink of civil war.
| | Runtime: | 73 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | South Africa | | Libya | | Qatar | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Khalid Shamis | | Producer(s): | Steven Markovitz | | Khalid Shamis | | Co-Producer(s): | Tamsin Ranger | | Editor(s): | Khalid Shamis | | Audrey Maurion | | Cinematography: | Stella Scott | | Jay J. Odedra |
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Daughter of a Lost BirdIncludes Q&A
The impacts of transracial Indigenous adoption are revealed in the moving story of a young Indigenous mother seeking connection with her Lummi community, heritage and biological mother, who, as a child, was also an adoptee.
| | Runtime: | 66 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Stories | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.daughterofalostbird.com | | | Director(s): | Brooke Pepion Swaney | | Producer(s): | Kendra Mylnechuk Potter | | Brooke Pepion Swaney | | Jeri Rafter | | Executive Producer(s): | Gita Saedi Kiely | | Editor(s): | Kristen Swanbeck | | Writer(s): | Brooke Pepion Swaney | | Kristen Swanbeck | | Cinematography: | Kier Atherton | | Zelmira Gainza | | Sky Hopinka | | Composer: | Laura Ortman | | Sound: | Scott Hirsch |
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Dear ElnazIncludes Q&A
When Iranian forces shot down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger flight, Javad lost the love of his life. Now, picking up the pieces in Canada, where they moved only years prior, he shares memories of his late wife Elnaz and rages in the face of a grave injustice.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Farsi | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Mania Akbari | | Producer(s): | Javad Soleimani, Cryptofiction | | Executive Producer(s): | Javad Soleimani | | Mohammad Reza Akbari | | Amir Ghahari | | Editor(s): | Rouzbeh Akhbari | | Mania Akbari | | Cinematography: | Rouzbeh Akhbari | | Sound: | Asal Andarzipour | | Nazli Bahari | | Amir Ghahari | | Sound Design: | Rouzbeh Akhbari |
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Dear Future ChildrenIncludes Q&A
Fighting for social justice in Chile, democracy in Hong Kong and the environment in Uganda, three young women cope with the staggering personal impact of frontline activism, weighing their own fear of failure and the price of resistance in pursuit of change.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | UK | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Cantonese | | Luganda | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Ecology & the Environment | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://dearfuturechildren.com | | | Director(s): | Franz Böhm | | Producer(s): | Johannes Schubert | | Ansgar Wörner | | Franz Böhm | | Co-Producer(s): | Jamie Gamache | | Connor O'Hara | | Jennie Scott | | Editor(s): | Daniela Schramm Moura | | Cinematography: | Friedemann Leis | | Sound: | Marco Schnebel | | Marc Lehnert | | Volker Armbruster |
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DescentIncludes Q&A
Free diver Kiki Bosch takes us on breathtaking journeys into sub-zero waters, from the iceberg fjords of Greenland to the frozen lakes of Finland, pushing the limits of human endurance as she heals from the trauma of sexual assault.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Sports & Recreation | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.descentproject.com | | | Director(s): | Nays Baghai | | Producer(s): | Nays Baghai | | Eero Heinonen | | Executive Producer(s): | Mehrdad Baghai | | Writer(s): | Nays Baghai | | Editor(s): | Nays Baghai | | Cinematography: | Stefan Andrews | | Nays Baghai | | Eero Heinonen | | Teemu Liakka |
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Holy Bread
Shot over nine years, this harrowing doc exposes the plight of Kurdish kulbars, who smuggle back-breaking loads into Iran each day, braving extreme terrain and temperatures and the looming threat of violence from border guards, all to support their families.
| | Runtime: | 54 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Iran | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Kurdish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Rural Life | | | Director(s): | Rahim Zabihi | | Producer(s): | Tooraj Aslani | | Editor(s): | Amir Adib-parvar | | Cinematography: | Mehdi Azadi | | Mohammad Fakouri | | Salah Karimi | | Mohammad Noori | | Sound: | Zanyar Kakexani |
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Imad's ChildhoodIncludes Q&A
After nearly three years in ISIS captivity, a five-year-old Yazidi boy, abused and profoundly brainwashed, is reunited with his family—but displays only hatred for his mother and the world around him. Can he ever become the sweet child they remember?
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Latvia | | Iraq | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Kurdish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Zahavi Sanjavi | | Producer(s): | Zahavi Sanjavi | | Editor(s): | Eva Hillström | | Writer(s): | Zahavi Sanjavi | | Cinematography: | Heshmatolla Narenji | | Sound: | Alexander Vaicahovsky |
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Last Days at SeaIncludes Q&A
In an idyllic Philippine fishing village where catches are shared and breathtaking sunsets mark the days, the filmmaker befriends a young boy and captures memories of home during the last days of summer before he must leave for school in the city.
| | Runtime: | 73 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Philippines | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Tagalog | | Bisaya | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Ecology & the Environment | | Personal Histories | | Rural Life | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://svemirkofilm.com/lastdaysatsea | | | Director(s): | Venice Atienza | | Producer(s): | Fan Wu | | Moshe Ladanga | | Venice Atienza | | Editor(s): | Anna Magdalena Silva Schlenker | | Katrin Maria Escay | | Cinematography: | Moshe Ladanga | | Venice Atienza | | Sound: | Yannick Dauby | | Cheng Chou | | Fan Wu |
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The Last ForestIncludes Q&A
Shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa Yanomami leads this cinematically rich documentary, weaving beautifully realized sequences of traditional stories with the ongoing struggles the Yanomami people face as they fight to preserve the Amazon.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Yanomami | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.instagram.com/aultimafloresta | | | Director(s): | Luiz Bolognesi | | Producer(s): | Caio Gullane | | Fabiano Gullane | | Laís Bodanzky | | Luiz Bolognesi | | Executive Producer(s): | Ana Saito | | Pablo Torrecillas | | Daniela Antonelli Aun | | Editor(s): | Ricardo Farias | | Writer(s): | Davi Kopenawa Yanomami | | Luiz Bolognesi | | Cinematography: | Pedro J. Márquez | | Composer: | Talita del Collado | | Sound: | Rodrigo Macedo |
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The Last ShelterIncludes Q&A
Weary refugees from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin, in search of promising futures, stop over at the House of Migrants in Mali, where staff offer basic necessities, warm beds and legal advice for their long journeys ahead.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | France | | Mali | | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | English | | Bambara | | Moore | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | | Director(s): | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou | | Producer(s): | Estelle Robin You | | Andrey S Diarra | | Don Edkins | | Tiny Mungwe | | Writer(s): | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou | | Editor(s): | Céline Ducreux | | Cinematography: | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou | | Amath Niane | | Sound: | Adama Diarra | | Jean-Marc Schick |
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Life of IvannaIncludes Q&A
Seeking a fresh start from an abusive husband and increasingly difficult way of life, Ivanna, a young Nenets mother, quits the harsh Russian Arctic tundra and traditions of her nomadic people for the city, where she struggles to gain control of her life and future.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Russia | | Norway | | Finland | | Estonia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Russian | | Nenets | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Stories | | Rural Life | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Renato Borrayo Serrano | | Producer(s): | Vlad Ketkovich | | Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas | | Marianna Kaat | | Pertti Veijalainen | | Writer(s): | Renato Borrayo Serrano | | Daria Sidorova | | Editor(s): | Inge-Lise Langfeldt | | Renato Borrayo Serrano | | Cinematography: | Renato Borrayo Serrano | | Daria Sidorova | | Sound: | Israel Bañuelos |
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Love It Was Not
Fascinating witness accounts and meticulous research investigate the unfathomable relationship between a beautiful Jewish prisoner and an SS officer at Auschwitz. Thirty years later, the truth comes for them both at his 1972 war crimes trial.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Hebrew | | English | | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Jewish Interest | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Maya Sarfaty | | Producer(s): | Nir Sa'ar | | Kurt Langbein | | Writer(s): | Maya Sarfaty | | Editor(s): | Sharon Yaish | | Cinematography: | Ziv Berkovich | | Itay Gross | | Christian Roth |
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My Mohamed Is DifferentIncludes Q&A
Recently retired European women flock to Luxor, Egypt, in search of sun, sand and love from local men interested in money and security, in a modern love story that blurs the boundaries between romantic and business affairs.
| | Runtime: | 70 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Egypt | | Tunisia | | Italy | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://mymohamedisdifferent.com | | | Director(s): | Ines Marzouk | | Producer(s): | Kesmat El Sayed | | Editor(s): | Aya Yusuf | | Cinematography: | Mahmoud Loutfi |
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Neighbouring the Moon
In this lyrical coming-of-age story, two teenage girls take refuge with their mother in a cramped room inside an Aleppo hospital through the war, its aftermath and now a pandemic. But spirited Juli has awakened to its reality as a prison and dreams only of a life beyond.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Iran | | Syria | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Reza Farahmand | | Producer(s): | Morteza Shabani | | Marjan Alizadeh | | Executive Producer(s): | Marjan Alizadeh | | Reza Farahmand | | Saeed Sadeghi | | Writer(s): | Marjan Alizadeh | | Editor(s): | Fatemeh Bonyadi | | Reza Farahmand | | Mosayeb Hanaie | | Cinematography: | Reza Farahmand | | Composer: | Christoph Rezaie | | Sound: | Mehrdad Barati | | Kumars Chenari | | Naeem Meschian |
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Nothing but the SunIncludes Q&A
Attempting to reconstruct the lived memory of his people, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has traversed the desolate Paraguayan Chaco for decades to record others of the Ayoreo people, who lived free in the vast forest until colonization forced them from their land and dismantled their culture.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Switzerland | | Paraguay | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Ayoreo | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.apenaselsol.com | | | Director(s): | Arami Ullón | | Producer(s): | Pascal Traechslin | | Arami Ullón | | Writer(s): | Arami Ullón | | Editor(s): | Valeria Racioppi | | Rebecca Troesch | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Lobos | | Sound: | Reto Stamm | | Jacques Kieffer | | Sound Design: | Tobias Koch |
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