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7 Years of Lukas GrahamIncludes Q&A
Danish band Lukas Graham has an uncanny ability of setting audacious goals and achieving them, but after scoring a hit with "7 Years," Grammy nominations and a world tour, success and fame may have them changing their tune.
| | Runtime: | 77 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Danish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | René Sascha Johannsen | | Producer(s): | Sara Stockmann | | Editor(s): | Anders Albjerg Kristiansen | | Andreas Bøggild Monies | | Bobbie Esra Pertan | | Cinematography: | René Sascha Johannsen | | Music: | Lukas Graham | | Sound: | Jacques Pedersen | | Rune Thuelund |
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Opening Night // A.rtificial I.mmortalityLive Q&A on April 29, 7:30 PM
If computers could let you live forever, would you? When our minds and memories can be digitized, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and leading robotics engineers envision virtual clones that don't need a body to survive.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Hot Picks | | Special Events | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | Science & Technology | | Hot Picks | | Website: | http://artificialimmortality.ca | | | Director(s): | Ann Shin | | Producer(s): | Gerry Flahive | | Erica Leendertse | | Hannah Donegan | | Executive Producer(s): | Ann Shin | | Gerry Flahive | | Editor(s): | Steve Taylor | | Shannon Kennedy | | Geoff Matheson | | Writer(s): | Ann Shin | | Julia Nunes | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng | | Stephen Chung | | Composer: | Todor Kobakov | | Animation: | Dito Studio | | Angel Blanco | | Art Director(s): | Alexandra G. Brillembourg |
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Acts of LoveIncludes Q&A
When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about romantic attraction, compatibility and attachment that his mother hates.
| | Runtime: | 71 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | France | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | By Program - Sort: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Films & Filmmakers | | LGBT Culture & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | | Director(s): | Isidore Bethel | | Francis Leplay | | Producer(s): | Lucie Rego | | Pauline Tran Van Lieu | | Jamie Gonçalves | | Francis Leplay | | Isidore Bethel | | Editor(s): | Francis Leplay | | Cinematography: | Ryan Saunders | | Sound: | Margot Testemale | | Fanny Weinzaepflen |
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All Light, EverywhereIncludes Q&A
Exploring the connections between technology, vision and power, this Sundance prize winner offers an illuminating investigation of ever-increasing surveillance technologies, exposing the complexities of objectivity and the biases inherent in both human perception and the camera lens.
| | Runtime: | 109 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://memory.is/all-light-everywhere | | | Director(s): | Theo Anthony | | Producer(s): | Jonna McKone | | Sebastian Pardo | | Riel Roch-Decter | | Executive Producer(s): | Greg Boustead | | David Dolby | | Natasha Dolby | | Jessica Harrop | | Tim Nash | | Editor(s): | Theo Anthony | | Cinematography: | Corey Hughes | | Composer: | Dan Deacon | | Sound: | Udit Duseja |
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All-InIncludes Q&A
Fresh from the village, two new hires at an all-inclusive resort on the Turkish Riviera are confronted with the absurd excesses of tourism. Their eagerness to engage quickly turns to indifference—and eventually self-interest—after one too many guest complaints and foam parties.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Netherlands | | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Turkish | | Kurdish | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Volkan Üce | | Producer(s): | Magalie Dierick | | Emmy Oost | | Writer(s): | Volkan Üce | | Editor(s): | Els Voorspoels | | Cinematography: | Joachim Philippe | | Composer: | David Boulter | | Darius Timmer | | Sound: | Mark Glynne |
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Any Given DayIncludes Q&A
A filmmaker with mental illness follows three defendants through a specialized mental health probation program. While sharing their rarely seen struggles, she faces her own challenges, making clear just how precarious the ties between people with mental illness, their families and society can be.
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Bulgarian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | | Director(s): | Margaret Byrne | | Producer(s): | Margaret Byrne | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Leslie Norville | | Jane Wells | | Associate Producer(s): | Latesha Dickerson | | Editor(s): | Liz Kaar | | Associate Editor(s): | Rory McFadden | | Cinematography: | Margaret Byrne | | Composer: | Eric Kuhn | | Sound: | Shuling Yong | | Motion Graphics: | Jake Meyers |
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ApartIncludes Q&A
In the US Midwest, plagued with opioid abuse and rising incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers return home from prison to rebuild their lives after years of separation from their children.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Crime & the Justice System | | Families & Family Stories | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://apartthemovie.com | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Redfearn | | Producer(s): | Tim Metzger | | Jennifer Redfearn | | Executive Producer(s): | Patty Quillin | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Francisco Bello | | Rabab Haj Yahya | | Cinematography: | Tim Metzger | | Sound: | Jennifer Redfearn |
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ArchipelagoIncludes Q&A
Evocative animation brings the landscape to life in this experimental exploration of the historic Saint Lawrence River and its famous thousand islands. Fluidly superimposed images mingle with performed dialogue to navigate the boundaries of cinema.
| | Runtime: | 72 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | Innu-Aimun | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Extra Tags: | Quebecois Films and Filmmakers | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Ecology & the Environment | | Website: | http://www.ladistributrice.ca/catalogue-films/archipel | | | Director(s): | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | | Producer(s): | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | | Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière | | Voices: | Florence Blain Mbaye | | Mattis Savard-Verhoeven | | Writer(s): | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | | Editor(s): | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | | Sound: | Olivier Calvert |
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Artscapes Shorts Program
A selection of short documentaries from our Artscapes program that explore creative minds, artistic pursuits and inventive filmmaking.
| | Runtime: | 118 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | | Director(s): | Various |
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Bajo Fuego (Under Siege)Includes Q&A
Caught between failed government promises and an occupation by armed militias, coca growers in Colombia confront displacement and mortal threats as they expose the relentless war in their countryside and shatter illusions of a successful peace process.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Rural Life | | War & Conflict | | Website: | http://www.bajofuego.com | | | Director(s): | Sjoerd van Grootheest | | Irene Vélez-Torres | | Producer(s): | Sjoerd van Grootheest | | Executive Producer(s): | Irene Vélez-Torres | | Archive Producer(s): | David Escobar | | Writer(s): | Sjoerd van Grootheest | | Irene Vélez-Torres | | Editor(s): | Sjoerd van Grootheest | | Cinematography: | Sjoerd van Grootheest | | Art Director(s): | Diana Corredor |
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Bangla Surf GirlsIncludes Q&A
Three rebellious working-class teenage girls in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards, chasing a fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Bengali | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://www.banglasurfgirls.com | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth D. Costa | | Producer(s): | Lalita Krishna | | Executive Producer(s): | Lalita Krishna | | Vijay Vaidyanathan | | Writer(s): | Lalita Krishna | | Editor(s): | Jordan Kawai | | Matthew E. Cohn | | Cinematography: | Elizabeth D. Costa | | Composer: | Ohad Benchetrit | | Justin Small |
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Bank JobIncludes Q&A
When a mischievous filmmaking duo convinces a community to come together to create their own currency, they challenge an accepted economic system and dream up a debt-free future in which money works for us all.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Art & Design | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Website: | http://www.bankjob.pictures | | | Director(s): | Daniel Edelstyn | | Hilary Powell | | Producer(s): | Daniel Edelstyn | | Christopher Hird | | Hilary Powell | | Executive Producer(s): | Lisa Marie Russo | | Editor(s): | Alice Powell | | Cinematography: | Clément Du Cruet | | Tom Maine | | Linden Nieto | | Christophe Tweedie | | Sound: | Rob Walker |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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Behind the HeadlinesIncludes Q&A
For the first time, cameras embed with the German investigative unit that broke the explosive Panama Papers story, following the journalists' pursuit of the truth behind the political assassination of a Maltese reporter and yet another history-making financial scandal.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | German | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Crime & the Justice System | | European Cultures & Issues | | Media & Journalism | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Daniel Andreas Sager | | Producer(s): | Marc Bauder | | Editor(s): | Hannes Bruun | | Writer(s): | Marc Bauder | | Daniel Andreas Sager | | Cinematography: | Börres Weiffenbach |
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Between Fire and WaterIncludes Q&A
Adopted as a baby by a Quillasinga Nation family, Afro-Colombian Camilo grows up facing racism and ostracization by his Indigenous community, propelling him on a spiritual journey to discover his origins and the truth about his mother.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Colombia | | By Program - Sort: | Made In Colombia | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Stories | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Website: | http://www.visoproducciones.com/between-fire-and-water | | | Director(s): | Viviana Gómez Echeverry | | Anton Wenzel | | Producer(s): | Sonia Barrera Gutiérrez | | Viviana Gómez Echeverry | | Co-Producer(s): | Señal Colombia | | Associate Producer(s): | Resguardo Indígena Quillasinga Refugio del Sol | | Chicken & Egg Pictures | | Editor(s): | Anton Wenzel | | Writer(s): | Viviana Gómez Echeverry | | Cinematography: | Viviana Gómez Echeverry | | Composer: | Carolina Ortiz Cerón | | Rodrigo Restrepo Pabón | | Sound: | José Jairo Flórez Flórez | | Sound Design: | Carolina Ortiz Cerón | | VFX: | Roberto Montoya |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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A Black JesusIncludes Q&A
At the height of Italy's migrant crisis, a tiny Sicilian town received over a thousand asylum seekers. But when an African refugee volunteers to carry the hallowed Jesus statue in the village's annual procession, traditional Christian values must reckon with new social realities.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Italian | | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Faith & Spirituality | | Migration & Immigration | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Luca Lucchesi | | Producer(s): | Wim Wenders | | Léa Germain | | Co-Producer(s): | Eric Friedler | | Silke Schütze (NDR Fernsehen) | | Writer(s): | Luca Lucchesi | | Hella Wenders | | Editor(s): | Luca Lucchesi | | Edoardo Morabito | | Cinematography: | Luca Lucchesi | | Sound: | Francesco Vitaliti |
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Bloom Up – A Swinger Couple StoryIncludes Q&A
An average middle-aged Italian couple by day, Hermes and Betta live out their unbridled sexual fantasies as swingers by night. With an unfiltered lens, this cinematic beauty plunges you deep into their world and the most intimate spaces of sex and love.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | By Program - Sort: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | | Director(s): | Mauro Russo Rouge | | Executive Producer(s): | Annunziato Gentiluomo | | Cast: | Elisabetta Barbero | | Hermes Osnato | | Editor(s): | Davis Alfano | | Writer(s): | Mauro Russo Rouge | | Cinematography: | Mauro Russo Rouge | | Sound: | Paolo Armao |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Jewish Interest | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Extra Tags: | Quebecois Films & Filmmakers | | | 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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Canadian Spectrum Shorts: Bodies Release
A mix of stories meditating on death, tradition and community care show us the countless ways we continue to survive, thrive and find joy in everyday acts of self-affirmation.
| | Runtime: | 72 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Various |
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Canadian Spectrum Shorts: Stories of Growth and Learning
Reflecting on the inherent wisdom of our bodies, our families and our environment, these stories reveal how moments of profound growth happen when we honour the people and places that existed before us.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Various |
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Cannon Arm and the Arcade QuestIncludes Q&A
With the heroic outsiders and dreamers at Bip Bip Bar cheering him on, Kim Cannon Arm attempts a world record by playing the 80s arcade game Gyruss for 100 hours straight in this quirky comedy about friendship.
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Danish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | By Program - Sort: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Popular Culture | | Science & Technology | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Mads Hedegaard | | Producer(s): | Katrine Sahlstøm | | Executive Producer(s): | Boris Bertram | | Patricia Drati | | Katrine Philp | | Kaspar Astrup Schröder | | Editor(s): | Mark Bukdahl | | Writer(s): | Mads Hedegaard | | Cinematography: | David Bauer | | Mads Hedegaard | | Sound: | Rasmus Winther Jensen |
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The Caviar ConnectionIncludes Q&A
How do dictatorships like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan launder their reputations from despotic to democratic? This investigative series exposes how Lady Gaga, luxury gifts and scandalous private wealth are used to wield a new "caviar diplomacy" around the world.
| | Runtime: | 104 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Azeri | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Deep Dive | | By Program - Sort: | Deep Dive | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Media & Journalism | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | http://rights.mediawan.com/world-catalogue/documentary/program/4535 | | | Director(s): | Benoit Bringer | | Producer(s): | Laurent Richard | | Editor(s): | Nils Montel | | Writer(s): | Benoit Bringer | | Laurent Richard | | Cinematography: | Mathias Denizo | | Christophe Astruc | | Christophe Barreyre | | Sound: | David Lassalle |
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CezanneIncludes Q&A
In picturesque Provence, tourists and art lovers flock to the atelier of Post-Impressionist master Paul Cézanne. There, in a meditative space frozen in time, his methods and artistic legacy are not only seen, but felt.
| | Runtime: | 61 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | Chinese | | English | | Spanish | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Design | | European Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Sophie Bruneau | | Producer(s): | Sophie Bruneau | | Editor(s): | Philippe Boucq | | Writer(s): | Sophie Bruneau | | Cinematography: | Marie-Françoise Plissart | | Sound: | Hélène Clerc-Denizot |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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Citizen Minutes
Commissioned by Hot Docs, Citizen Minutes is a short doc collection aimed at celebrating and inspiring civic engagement. Be among the first to see the incredible stories of ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better places.
| | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Special Events | | By Program - Sort: | Special Events | | Website: | http://citizenminutes.hotdocs.ca |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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Come Back AnytimeIncludes Q&A
Experience a year in the life of a self-taught Japanese ramen master, who considers his legendary noodle shop more than just a livelihood but his life, and his die-hard customers more than just regulars, but true friends.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Japan | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Food & Food Culture | | Website: | http://comebackanytime.com | | | Director(s): | John Daschbach | | Producer(s): | Wataru Yamamoto | | Editor(s): | John Daschbach | | Cinematography: | John Daschbach | | Composer: | Brent Lord | | Michael Shaieb | | Sound Design: | Ryotaro Harada |
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Courage
During Belarus's presidential elections, three actors from a Minsk underground theatre are swept up in street protests that demand free speech and new leadership—until the movement is crushed, they're arrested and the country teeters on the brink of civil war.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Belarus | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Belarusian | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Musicians & Performers | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Aliaksei Paluyan | | Producer(s): | Jörn Möllenkamp | | Editor(s): | Behrooz Karamizade | | Writer(s): | Aliaksei Paluyan | | Cinematography: | Tanya Haurylchyk | | Jesse Mazuch | | Sound: | Vensan Mazmanyan |
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracySpecial Screening! Includes Q&A
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson explores the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Stanley Nelson | | Producer(s): | Stanley Nelson | | Cameo George | | Naimah Jabali-Nash | | Keith Brown | | Nicole London | | Executive Producer(s): | Marcia Smith | | Editor(s): | Lewis Erskine | | Cinematography: | Eli Gamson | | Sound: | Benny Mouthon, CAS |
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Dark BlossomIncludes Q&A
A tight-knit trio of Danish Goths express their darkness through macabre make-up and fashion, and channel a shared fascination with death to combat loneliness and inner demons. But when rosy romantic love blooms, will it break their bond?
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Danish | | English | | Urdu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | By Program - Sort: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | European Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | | Director(s): | Frigge Fri | | Producer(s): | Mathilde Hvid Lippmann | | Executive Producer(s): | Helle Faber | | Editor(s): | Esben Bay Grundsøe | | Writer(s): | Frigge Fri | | Cinematography: | Frigge Fri | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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Dead Man's Switch a crypto mysteryIncludes Q&A
A riveting cryptocurrency thriller unravels the story of a Canadian blockchain wizard who mysteriously died on his honeymoon in India and the fate of his investors' $200 million. Did it vanish into the digital void or does it remain locked away in password-protected accounts?
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & the Justice System | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.deadmansfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Sheona McDonald | | Producer(s): | Sheona McDonald | | Executive Producer(s): | Betsy Carson | | Editor(s): | Ness Van Hassel | | Writer(s): | Sheona McDonald | | Cinematography: | Simon Schneider | | Monica Guddat | | Composer: | Daniel Ross | | Animation: | Electric Square | | Motion Design: | Brendan Cave |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Mania Akbari | | Producer(s): | Javad Soleimani | | Executive Producer(s): | Reza Akbari | | Amir Ghahari | | Editor(s): | Mania Akbari | | Rouzbeh Akhbari | | Cinematography: | 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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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The Death of My Two FathersIncludes Q&A
A man turns the experience of watching videotapes that his terminally ill father recorded into an unforgettable contemplation of race, death and the importance of family, composed as a letter to his own children.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | Personal Histories | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Sol Guy | | Producer(s): | Stine Chrone Moisen | | Sol Guy | | Travestine Guy - Tuggle | | Executive Producer(s): | Shoshana Guy | | Wolfgang Hammer | | Jane Rosenthal | | Alastair Siddons | | Editor(s): | Matthew Cooke | | Writer(s): | Sol Guy | | Matthew Cooke | | Shoshana Guy | | Cinematography: | Rafe Scobey-Thal | | Sol Guy | | Composer: | Joel Shearer | | Sound: | Andrew Tracy | | Andreas Velasquez |
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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 | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | Editor(s): | Nays Baghai | | Writer(s): | Nays Baghai | | Cinematography: | Stefan Andrews | | Nays Baghai | | Eero Heinonen | | Teemu Liakka |
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Dirty TricksIncludes Q&A
At the elite level, bridge—the world's most popular card game—has become a million-dollar cut-throat business. When the best competitive player is accused of cheating, the ensuing scandal confounds experts, criminal science, celebrities and basic belief in this hilarious true-crime thriller.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Hebrew | | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Crime & the Justice System | | Popular Culture | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Daniel Sivan | | Producer(s): | Daniel Sivan | | Executive Producer(s): | Danna Stern | | Guy Lavie | | Editor(s): | Daniel Sivan | | Doron Djerassi | | Jesse Overman | | Supervising Editor(s): | James Haygood | | Writer(s): | Daniel Sivan | | Cinematography: | Avner Shahaf | | Sound: | Yoss Appelbaum | | Animation: | Arik Weiss | | Ofir Yeger |
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DropstonesIncludes Q&A
After leaving an abusive husband, Sonya returns to Newfoundland's stunning but remote Fogo Island with her two sons, determined to raise them to be good men in the only place she knows how, despite having fled from it years before.
| | Runtime: | 57 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Rural Life | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Caitlin Durlak | | Producer(s): | Caitlin Durlak | | Editor(s): | Caitlin Durlak | | Cinematography: | Caitlin Durlak |
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Dying to DivorceIncludes Q&A
As rates of femicide and domestic abuse soar in Turkey and democratic rights for women are increasingly eroded, a lawyer and her clients bravely risk everything for their freedom by standing up to the government and putting violent men behind bars.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Norway | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Turkish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Crime & the Justice System | | Love & Relationships | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.dyingtodivorce.com | | | Director(s): | Chloe Fairweather | | Producer(s): | Sinead Kirwan | | Seda Gokce | | Özge Sebzeci | | Elisabeth Kleppe | | Executive Producer(s): | Christina Asquith | | Natasha Dack Ojumu | | Leslie Finlay | | Assistant Producer(s): | Mürvet Doganlar | | Editor(s): | Andrea Cuadrado | | Paul Dosaj | | Cinematography: | Lilia Sellami | | Composer: | Andy Cowton | | Sound: | Ali Murray | | Animation: | Andreas Næs | | Graphic Design: | Mario Urban Mannsåker | | Motion Graphics: | Andreas Næs | | VFX: | Andrew Donaldson | | Sjur Pollen |
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Eatnameamet – Our Silent StruggleIncludes Q&A
The colonization of Sámi lands by Finland was an historic crime, and decolonization today is the only remedy. From demanding truth and reconciliation hearings to debating self-determination rights, this portrait of Sámi multi-front activism maps a blueprint of resistance.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Sámi | | Finnish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | European Cultures & Issues | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.hiljainentaistelu.fi | | | Director(s): | Suvi West | | Producer(s): | Janne Niskala | | Writer(s): | Suvi West | | Editor(s): | Markus Leppälä | | Cinematography: | Anssi Kömi | | Music: | Mari Boine | | Sound: | Pekka Aikio |
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The Face of AnonymousIncludes Q&A
This timely portrait of 21st century activism follows Commander X, an iconic and divisive figure in the "hacktivist" network who spends his days dodging authorities across North America while surfing the web and surviving the streets.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.sidewaysfilm.com/the-face-of-anonymous | | | Director(s): | Gary Lang | | Producer(s): | Ed Barreveld | | Ian Thornton | | Writer(s): | Gary Lang | | Editor(s): | Rob Ruzic | | Cinematography: | Patrick McGowan | | Manuel Galves | | Composer: | Ken Myhr | | Sound: | Daniel Pellerin | | Patrick McGowan | | Peter Sawade | | Oscar Caymares |
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FacelessIncludes Q&A
Following four youth embroiled in protests against a controversial extradition bill, this immersive record bears witness to Hong Kong's collective awakening in 2019 to the larger fight against anti-authoritarianism to protect their freedom and democratic way of life.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Hong Kong | | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Cantonese | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Ngo | | Assistant Director(s): | Crystal Wong | | Producer(s): | Lorraine Ma | | Executive Producer(s): | Nancy Tong | | Bryn Mooser | | Kathryn Everett | | Tony Hsieh | | Roberto Grande | | Mimi Pham | | Associate Producer(s): | Christopher Niem | | Editor(s): | Samuel Rong | | Cinematography: | Scott Clotworthy | | Stanley Leung |
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Faith and BrankoIncludes Q&A
United by their passion for Roma music, cosmopolitan Faith and shy, sweet Branko marry on a whim—but their unlikely love story begins to crack as their clashing cultural values and lifestyles slowly tear them apart.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Serbia | | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Serbian | | English | | Romany | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Musicians & Performers | | Website: | https://www.catherineharte.com/faith-i-branko | | | Director(s): | Catherine Harte | | Producer(s): | Catherine Harte | | Snezana Van Houwelingen | | Editor(s): | Ljubodrag Starovlah | | Dragan Von Petrovic | | Cinematography: | Catherine Harte | | Sound: | Zoran Maksimovic |
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FANNY: The Right to RockIncludes Q&A
Ferocious female rockers Fanny shattered glass ceilings in the '70s, collecting fans like David Bowie before being buried in retro record bins. Fifty years later, they reunite with a new record deal and a chance to rewrite history.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Popular Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | Extra Tags: | Quebecois Films and Filmmakers | | Website: | http://www.fannythemovie.com | | | Director(s): | Bobbi Jo Hart | | Producer(s): | Bobbi Jo Hart | | Robbie Hart | | Executive Producer(s): | Katherine Buck | | Bobbi Jo Hart | | Anne Pick | | Catherine Bainbridge | | Ina Fichman | | Randy Lennox | | Glen Salzman | | Writer(s): | Bobbi Jo Hart | | Editor(s): | Catherine Legault | | Cinematography: | Claire Sanford | | Sam Trudelle | | Naomi Ture | | Composer: | Fanny | | Sound: | Claire Sanford | | Animation: | Kara Blake |
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Faya DayiIncludes Q&A
A stimulant with major cultural significance, the khat leaf is also Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop. Weaving together lives shaped by its trade, this dreamy docudrama captures the spirit of a young generation longing for a different future overseas.
| | Runtime: | 120 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Ethiopia | | Qatar | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Oromo | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Migration & Immigration | | | Director(s): | Jessica Beshir | | Producer(s): | Jessica Beshir |
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Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
Against all odds and at great personal cost, three Aboriginal brothers turn a dance troupe into one of Australia's leading performing arts companies and forge a language in dance that speaks to the burden of intergenerational trauma and the joyful reclamation of culture.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Australian Cultures & Issues | | Families & Family Stories | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Website: | http://in-films.com/new-page | | | Director(s): | Wayne Blair | | Nel Minchin | | Producer(s): | Ivan O'Mahoney | | Executive Producer(s): | Nial Fulton | | Editor(s): | Karen Johnson | | Nick Meyers | | Writer(s): | Wayne Blair | | Nel Minchin |
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Fly So Far
Once accused and imprisoned for aggravated homicide for having a late-term miscarriage, Teodora Vásquez has become the spokesperson for all such victims of El Salvador's cruel anti-abortion laws, and a symbol of empowerment, resistance and solidarity.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | El Salvador | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Crime & the Justice System | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Celina Escher | | Producer(s): | Mónica Hernández Rejón | | Maria Åkesson | | Saúl Callejas | | Impact Producer(s): | Lourdes Gil Alvaradejo | | Editor(s): | Matteo Faccenda | | Cinematography: | Celina Escher | | Guillermo Argueta | | Kalle Jansson | | Audun Fjeldheim | | Christian Rivera | | Fabricio Sibrián | | Nils Bucher | | Maria Åkesson | | Camilo Henríquez | | Sound: | Enrique Pocasangre | | Ángel Cortez | | Jaime Perla | | Animation: | Louisa Wallström | | Roland Seer |
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Four Seasons in One DayIncludes Q&A
As a ferry shuttles tourists and locals between British-controlled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland, cameras eavesdrop on their frank conversations about the new/old border in this delightfully politics-free Brexit critique.
| | Runtime: | 77 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Norway | | Croatia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Polish | | Chinese | | Philippine | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | http://www.offworld.be/film-borderline-four-seasons-day | | | Director(s): | Annabel Verbeke | | Producer(s): | Frederik Nicolai | | Eric Goossens | | Karl-Emil Rikardsen | | Ljubo Zdjelarevic | | Lukas Trimonis | | Editor(s): | Simon Arazi | | Writer(s): | Annabel Verbeke | | Frederik Nicolai | | Cinematography: | Pieter-Jan Claessens | | Sound: | Marijn Thijs | | Rune Hansen | | Jean-François Levillain |
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Fruits of LaborIncludes Q&A
Working in a food processing plant after class and in the fields on weekends, a California high school senior dreams of graduating while bearing the burden of being the family breadwinner and threats of separation as ICE raids increase in her community.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Mixtec | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Migration & Immigration | | Website: | http://www.fruitsoflaborfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Emily Cohen Ibañez | | Producer(s): | Emily Cohen Ibañez | | Executive Producer(s): | Tracy Rector | | Aurora Guerrero | | Richard Ray Perez | | Writer(s): | Emily Cohen Ibañez | | Ashley Solis Pavon | | Editor(s): | Kristina Motwani | | Andrea Chignoli | | Cinematography: | Gabriella Garcia-Pardo | | Emily Cohen Ibañez | | Composer: | Yamil Rezc | | Music: | Denise Guttierez (original song) | | Yamil Rezc (original song) | | Sound: | Dan Olmsted | | Animation: | Maribel Martinez |
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Gallant Indies
On the stage of Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres—hip-hop, krump, break and voguing—reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes, offering a dynamic take on the landmark opera.
| | Runtime: | 108 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Website: | http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramidefilms-international-catalogue/gallant-indies.html | | | Director(s): | Philippe Béziat | | Producer(s): | Philippe Martin | | David Thion | | Editor(s): | Henry-Pierre Rosamond | | Cinematography: | Arthur Cemin | | Balthazar Lab | | Raphaël O’Byrne | | Thomas Rabillon | | Julien Ravoux | | Sound: | François Waledisch |
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Gaucho AmericanoIncludes Q&A
When two Chilean gauchos of different generations leave to pursue their cowboy dreams on an Idaho ranch, a humorous and touching tale of clashing cultures unfolds when they must adapt their expectations to the realities of North American agri-business and lifestyles.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Chile | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Rural Life | | | Director(s): | Nicolás Molina | | Producer(s): | Joséphine Schroeder | | Executive Producer(s): | Joséphine Schroeder | | Marcela Santibañez | | Editor(s): | Camila Mercadal | | Writer(s): | Paula López Wood | | Valentina Arango | | Nicolás Molina | | Cinematography: | Nicolás Molina | | Sound: | Jorge Acevedo | | Roberto Espinoza |
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Generation UtøyaIncludes Q&A
Four female survivors of the 2011 terror attack in Utøya, Norway, remain true to the social democratic values for which they were targeted, transforming their trauma into strength in their fight for inclusivity and against rising right-wing extremism in parliament.
| | Runtime: | 99 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | European Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/Generasjon-Ut%C3%B8ya-103168538184067 | | | Director(s): | Aslaug Holm | | Sigve Endresen | | Producer(s): | Tore Buvarp | | Editor(s): | Lisa Ekberg | | Aslaug Holm | | Writer(s): | Aslaug Holm | | Sigve Endresen | | Cinematography: | Aslaug Holm |
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The Gig Is UpIncludes Q&A
App developers lured a massive labour force by promising flexible hours with no offices or bosses—but with gig workers from Uber, Amazon, Lyft and more in front of the camera, the human cost of disruption runs deep.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | French | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Science & Technology | | Extra Tags: | Quebecois Films and Filmmakers | | Website: | http://thegigisup.ca | | | Director(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Producer(s): | Ina Fichman | | Luc Martin-Gousset | | Writer(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Julien Goetz | | Harold Crooks | | Editor(s): | Sophie Farkas Bolla | | Cinematography: | Etienne Roussy | | Sound Design: | Sylvain Bellemare |
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Grey RoadsIncludes Q&A
A Toronto filmmaker returns to his declining hometown to reconnect with his father and grandfather, the two men who have shaped his life. Beautifully shot in black and white, this tender film captures a rural town and family in flux.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Personal Histories | | Rural Life | | | Director(s): | Jesse McCracken | | Producer(s): | Jesse McCracken | | Executive Producer(s): | Hannah Donegan | | Ann Shin | | Associate Producer(s): | Aaron Ries | | Editor(s): | Jesse McCracken | | Cinematography: | Jesse McCracken | | Composer: | Alun Myddleton | | Dafydd Myddleton | | Sound Design: | Troy Slocum |
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Hell or Clean WaterIncludes Q&A
A diver devotes himself to cleaning up the ocean floors in Newfoundland's harbours, one tire at a time. As he edges closer to financial ruin in his effort to save the planet, his good deeds don't go unnoticed.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Ecology & the Environment | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Cody Westman | | Producer(s): | Jennifer Hawley | | Executive Producer(s): | Lynne Wilson | | Jill Knox-Gosse | | Editor(s): | Justin Simms | | Writer(s): | Cody Westman | | Cinematography: | Troy Maher | | Animation: | Alexey Terehoff |
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Her Socialist Smile
This experimental essay resurrects the political imagination of the iconic deaf-blind author Helen Keller, a passionate socialist and disability rights advocate whose radical views, while largely suppressed or sanitized over the years, remain remarkably pertinent today.
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Disability | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | John Gianvito | | Producer(s): | John Gianvito | | Narration: | Carolyn Forché | | Writer(s): | John Gianvito | | Editor(s): | John Gianvito | | Eric Gulliver | | Cinematography: | John Gianvito | | Additional Cinematography: | Shaun Clarke | | Music: | Gaetano Donizetti | | Pankrti | | Martin Marks | | Sound: | Pierre Huberson |
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High Maintenance
Dani Karavan, a cocksure Israeli artist in his 80s, sets out on a riotous journey across Europe to say farewell to his deteriorating large-scale environmental sculptures, while also contemplating a decision on the most controversial piece of his career.
| | Runtime: | 66 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Israel | | Poland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Hebrew | | English | | French | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | Art & Design | | Jewish Interest | | | Director(s): | Barak Heymann | | Co-Director(s): | Lukasz Konopa | | Producer(s): | Barak Heymann | | Krzysztof Dzieciolowski | | Editor(s): | Shira Hochman | | Cinematography: | Lukasz Konopa | | Sound: | Aviv Aldema |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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HomeroomIncludes Q&A
The resilience and optimism of Oakland High School's 2020 senior class is captured in verité footage and social media videos as they confront anxieties over test scores, growing demands for social justice and the unprecedented uncertainty of a rapidly spreading pandemic.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Education | | | Director(s): | Peter Nicks | | Producer(s): | Sean Havey | | Executive Producer(s): | Laurene Powell Jobs | | Davis Guggenheim | | Nicole Stott | | Jonathan Silberberg | | Jen Rainin | | Tony Hsieh | | Mimi Pham | | Roberto Grande | | Editor(s): | Kristina Motwani | | Rebecca Adorno | | Cinematography: | Sean Havey |
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Hot Docs 2021 Awards PresentationLivestreaming May 7 at 7 PM
Join us for a livestream of our annual Awards Presentation, where the winners of our competitive programs will be announced and we celebrate all the outstanding filmmakers in this year’s Festival. Over $70,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Events | | By Program - Sort: | Special Events |
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HystericalIncludes Q&A
Hysterical is a backstage pass into the lives of the hilarious, boundary-breaking women shattering stand-up comedy's glass ceiling. Featuring Margaret Cho, Fortune Feimster, Marina Franklin, Nikki Glaser, Jessica Kirson, Iliza Shlesinger, Sherri Shepherd and more. Premiering on FX Canada this summer.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Musicians & Performers | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Andrea Nevins | | Producer(s): | Rebecca Evans | | Carolina Groppa | | Ross M. Dinerstein | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrea Nevins | | Ross Girard | | Jim Serpico | | Jessica Kirson | | Editor(s): | Dava Whisenant | | Andrea Lewis | | Cinematography: | Carmen Delaney |
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I'm WanitaIncludes Q&A
After 25 years of hard partying and insane choices, Australia's "Queen of Honky Tonk" has burned every bridge in the business. Can she keep it together to record with a Nashville legend or will she crash her sad country song of a life for good?
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Australian Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://wanitathemovie.com.au | | | Director(s): | Matthew Walker | | Producer(s): | Carolina Sorensen | | Clare Lewis | | Tait Brady | | Editor(s): | Peter O'Donoghue | | Nikki Stevens | | Cinematography: | Kathryn Milliss |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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In the Same BreathIncludes Q&A
Nanfu Wang's (director of One Child Nation, winner of Sundance's Grand Jury Prize) searing investigation into COVID-19's origins and spread exposes not only a global crisis of misinformation, but the leadership that misled the world about a still-unfolding emergency.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | China | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Health & the Pandemic | | Media & Journalism | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Producer(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Jialing Zhang | | Julie Goldman | | Christopher Clements | | Carolyn Hepburn | | Executive Producer(s): | Nancy Abraham | | Lisa Heller | | Editor(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Michael Shade | | Sound: | Ron Bochar |
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It Is Not Over YetIncludes Q&A
Inspired by Florence Nightingale's methods from 150 years ago, a small Danish retirement home deploys a controversial new treatment for dementia patients. With hugs, conversation, eye contact and cake, they shift the focus from pharmaceuticals to care.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Danish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | European Cultures & Issues | | Health & the Pandemic | | | Director(s): | Louise Detlefsen | | Producer(s): | Malene Flindt Pedersen | | Editor(s): | Julie Winding | | Jakob Juul Toldam | | Writer(s): | Louise Detlefsen | | Cinematography: | Per Fredrik Skiold | | Sound: | Rasmus Winther | | Maximillian Pontgratz |
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Ivan's LandIncludes Q&A
When an elderly, seemingly naïve rural painter, who enjoys singing to himself and dancing with animals, is acclaimed as Ukraine's last true folk artist, his work is exhibited in a major show in Kiev. Can fame or a corporate commission compete with the joy he finds in his land and his art?
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Ukraine | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Ukrainian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | Art & Design | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | Website: | http://magikafilm.com.ua/en/project/in-production/page1516817368/about | | | Director(s): | Andrii Lysetskyi | | Producer(s): | Olga Beskhmelnytsina | | Gennady Kofman | | Editor(s): | Serhiy Lysenko | | Cinematography: | Andrii Lysetskyi | | Sound: | Boris Peter |
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Just a MovementIncludes Q&A
West African revolutionary Omar Blondin Diop, known as the only real Marxist activist in Jean-Luc Godard's film La Chinoise, gets a vibrant tribute in this reimagining of the 1967 classic that explores the complex current relations between China and Africa.
| | Runtime: | 110 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | France | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | Wolof | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Films & Filmmakers | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | http://thankyouandgoodnight.be/folios/juste-un-mouvement | | | Director(s): | Vincent Meessen | | Producer(s): | Geneviève de Bauw | | Writer(s): | Vincent Meessen | | Editor(s): | Simon Arazi | | Cinematography: | Vincent Pinckaers | | Sound: | Laszlo Umbreit |
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Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of EmpathyIncludes Q&A
Since 2014, the opioid crisis has claimed hundreds of lives on the Kainai First Nation in Alberta. Inspiring and urgent, this unflinching chronicle captures a community's efforts to heal by cultivating empathy through harm reduction.
| | Runtime: | 125 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Blackfoot | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | | Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Lori Lozinski | | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Editor(s): | Hans Olson | | Writer(s): | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | | Cinematography: | Patrick McLaughlin | | Composer: | Chandra Melting Tallow |
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La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine PadillaIncludes Q&A
In this powerful story stretching over five decades, the former "First Lady" of the Savage Skulls gang emerges as a healer and matriarch, fiercely leading her South Bronx community through the perils of gentrification and gun violence.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Puerto Rican Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://lamadrinadoc.com | | | Director(s): | Raquel Cepeda | | Producer(s): | Raquel Cepeda | | Executive Producer(s): | Henry Chalfant | | Sacha Jenkins | | Editor(s): | Sonia González-Martinez | | Writer(s): | Raquel Cepeda | | Cinematography: | Alejandra Araujo | | Ethan Mills | | Sound: | Judy Karp | | Enrique Larreal |
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Lady BudsIncludes Q&A
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.ladybudsmovie.com | | | Director(s): | Chris J. Russo | | Producer(s): | Michael J. Katz | | Christian Bruno | | Executive Producer(s): | Shauna Harden | | Editor(s): | Tamara Maloney | | J. Davis | | Writer(s): | Chris J. Russo | | Tamara Maloney | | Cinematography: | Christian Bruno |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | Editor(s): | Céline Ducreux | | Writer(s): | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou | | 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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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Lost BoysIncludes Q&A
The director scours his footage and claustrophobic hotel rooms, seeking answers to the mysterious disappearance of two friends after they smoke and smash their way through bar girls and drugs in an endless bender through Bangkok and Phnom Penh.
| | Runtime: | 99 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Finnish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | By Program - Sort: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | European Cultures & Issues | | Films & Filmmakers | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Joonas Neuvonen | | Sadri Cetinkaya | | Producer(s): | Miia Haavisto | | Executive Producer(s): | Aleksi Bardy | | Helen Vinogradov | | Editor(s): | Sadri Cetinkaya | | Venla Varha | | Writer(s): | Sadri Cetinkaya | | Joonas Neuvonen | | Venla Varha | | Cinematography: | Sadri Cetinkaya | | Arttu Nieminen | | Arsen Sarkisiants | | Joonas Neuvonen | | Sound: | Arttu Hokkanen |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Jewish Interest | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Maya Sarfaty | | Producer(s): | Nir Sa'ar | | Kurt Langbein | | Editor(s): | Sharon Yaish | | Writer(s): | Maya Sarfaty | | Cinematography: | Ziv Berkovich | | Itay Gross | | Christian Roth |
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Magaluf Ghost TownIncludes Q&A
Every summer, a peaceful Spanish beach town explodes into a hellscape of budget European holidaymakers. Veering between horror story and fairy tale, tourists and locals navigate the daily tensions of risky behaviour, palpable excitement and genuine pleasure.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | France | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | European Cultures & Issues | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://boogaloofilms.com/projects/magaluf-ghost-town | | | Director(s): | Miguel Ángel Blanca | | Producer(s): | Bernat Manzano | | Valérie Montmartin | | Miguel Eek | | Executive Producer(s): | Bernat Manzano | | Editor(s): | Javier Gil | | Ariadna Ribas | | Miguel Ángel Blanca | | Writer(s): | Miguel Ángel Blanca | | Cinematography: | Raúl Cuevas | | Sound: | Cosmic d'Allessandro |
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Man in the Field: The Life and Art of Jim DenevanIncludes Q&A
In this graceful study of the balance between solitude and community, artist and chef Jim Denevan roams across the US, transforming landscapes into breathtaking, sustainable dining experiences framed by ephemeral installation art.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Art & Design | | Food & Food Culture | | | Director(s): | Patrick Trefz | | Producer(s): | Andreas Jaritz | | Christie Jarvis | | Patrick Trefz | | Editor(s): | Jess Carfield | | Sound: | Kyle Hartigan |
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The Man Who Paints Water DropsIncludes Q&A
When the filmmaker turns his lens on his elderly father, a renowned Korean artist, volumes are revealed about their relationship and his meditative silence and obsession with painting water drops, all rooted in the tragic past of the country he left behind.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | France | | South Korea | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | French | | Korean | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Food & Food Culture | | Aging & Mortality | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Oan Kim | | Brigitte Bouillot | | Producer(s): | Clarisse Tupin | | Young Kim | | Martine Kim | | Executive Producer(s): | Clarisse Tupin | | Editor(s): | Nassim Gordji-Tehrani | | Oan Kim | | Brigitte Bouillot | | Writer(s): | Oan Kim | | Brigitte Bouillot | | Cinematography: | Oan Kim | | Brigitte Bouillot | | Sound: | Jules Wysocki |
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Markers Shorts Program
A selection of short films from our Markers program that push the boundaries of the documentary form.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | | Director(s): | Various |
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A MarriageIncludes Q&A
When Zdenka in the Czech Republic falls in love online with Tabish in Pakistan, they marry—but five years later, Czech immigration still refuses him entry. With humour and grit, the couple must prove "real love" to a government and themselves.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Czech Republic | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Czech | | Urdu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Love & Relationships | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.amarriagefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Katerina Hager | | Co-Director(s): | Asad Faruqi | | Producer(s): | Katerina Hager | | Alena Müllerová | | Executive Producer(s): | Katerina Hager | | Editor(s): | Šárka Sklenárová | | Writer(s): | Katerina Hager | | Cinematography: | Asad Faruqi | | Jakub Šimunek | | Aleš Hart | | Nadir Siddiqui | | Sound: | Ivan Horák |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management // MauLive Q&A on May 5, 7:00 PM
Revolutionary Canadian designer Bruce Mau reveals truths that have shaped his long and expansive career, from designing sustainable platforms to social movements. His way of seeing could be just what's needed in this critical time in history.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Austria | | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management | | Hot Picks | | Special Events | | Film Subjects: | Hot Picks | | Art & Design | | Ecology & the Environment | | | Director(s): | Benji Bergmann | | Jono Bergmann | | Producer(s): | Karol Martesko-Fenster | | Executive Producer(s): | Leslie Iwerks | | Editor(s): | Mo Stoebe | | Cinematography: | Stefan Wuernitzer |
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Misha and the Wolves
Misha Defonseca's 1997 Holocaust memoir about escaping the Nazis as a seven-year-old girl on foot across Europe with a pack of wolves took the world by storm. But when Hollywood comes knocking, an even more audacious story and darker deceptions come to light.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Jewish Interest | | Popular Culture | | War & Conflict | | Website: | http://www.metfilmsales.com/misha-and-the-wolves | | | Director(s): | Sam Hobkinson | | Producer(s): | Jürgen Buedts | | Poppy Dixon | | Al Morrow | | Matthew Wells | | Gregory Zalcman | | Executive Producer(s): | Mandy Chang | | Vesna Cudic | | Thomas Høegh | | Stewart Le Maréchal | | Jonny Persey | | Martin Pieper | | Hayley Reynolds | | Adrian Sibley | | Barbara Truyen | | Editor(s): | Peter Norrey | | Writer(s): | Sam Hobkison | | Cinematography: | Will Pugh | | Composer: | Nick Foster |
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Molecules
In February 2020, filmmaker Andrea Segre was locked down in Venice, his late father's hometown. Emptied of all distractions, the city and a grieving son confront the fragilities of their foundations, finding extraordinary beauty in the powerful presence of absence.
| | Runtime: | 68 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Italian | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | European Cultures & Issues | | Health & the Pandemic | | Personal Histories | | Website: | http://deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/molecules | | | Director(s): | Andrea Segre | | Producer(s): | Valentino Girardi | | Andrea Segre | | Editor(s): | Chiara Russo | | Writer(s): | Andrea Segre | | Cinematography: | Matteo Calore | | Andrea Segre | | Composer: | Teho Teardo | | Sound: | Alberto Cagol | | Marco Zambrano |
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the WorldIncludes Q&A
Anointed "the most beautiful boy in the world" by Death in Venice director Luchino Visconti, actor Björn Andrésen reflects on how his iconic beauty made him famous as an adolescent, catapulting him into a life of stardom and glamour, and unmade him as an adult.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Swedish | | French | | English | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Films & Filmmakers | | LGBT Culture & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Website: | http://themostbeautifulboy.com | | | Director(s): | Kristian Petri | | Kristina Lindstrom | | Producer(s): | Stina Gardell | | Editor(s): | Dino Jonsäter | | Hanna Lejonqvist | | Cinematography: | Erik Vallsten | | Sound: | Brian Dyrby | | Jonas Goldmann Goldmann | | Kristoffer Salting |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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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My TreeIncludes Q&A
In 1975, Jason Sherman received a tree for his bar mitzvah, planted in Israel in his name. Forty years later, he decides to look for that tree and along the way discovers many uncomfortable truths stemming from his gift.
| | Runtime: | 105 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Hebrew | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Jewish Interest | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Jason Sherman | | Producer(s): | Jason Sherman | | Aeschylus Poulos | | Sonya Di Rienzo | | Writer(s): | Jason Sherman | | Editor(s): | Benjamin Lawrence | | Cinematography: | John M. Tran |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 (Keramati) | | Executive Producer(s): | Marjan Alizadeh (Keramati) | | Reza Farahmand | | Saeed Sadeghi | | Editor(s): | Fatemeh Bonyadi | | Reza Farahmand | | Mosayeb Hanaie | | Writer(s): | Marjan Alizadeh | | Cinematography: | Reza Farahmand | | Composer: | Christoph Rezaie | | Sound: | Mehrdad Barati | | Kumars Chenari | | Naeem Meschian |
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The New Plastic RoadIncludes Q&A
In 2004, China reopened Silk Road trading routes with impoverished former Soviet states such as Tajikistan. One hard-working man discovers the unexpected costs of trading with a global economic giant.
| | Runtime: | 66 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Greece | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Tajik | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Website: | http://www.thenewplasticroad.com | | | Director(s): | Myrto Papadopoulos | | Angelos Tsaousis | | Producer(s): | Angelos Tsaousis | | Editor(s): | Kyriakos Stylianopoulos | | Writer(s): | Myrto Papadopoulos | | Angelos Tsaousis | | Cinematography: | Myrto Papadopoulos | | Sound: | Aris Louziotis | | Alexandros Sidiropoulos |
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Nike's Big BetIncludes Q&A
Alberto Salazar was a coaching legend until his recent doping ban shocked the running world. Did his "Just Do It" attitude and questionable practices push the limits of human performance and technology too far?
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Popular Culture | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Paul Kemp | | Producer(s): | Corey Russell | | Paul Kemp | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonathan Ford | | David Walmsley | | Editor(s): | Michael Del Monte | | Lewis Gordon |
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No Hay Camino – There Is No Path
Facing terminal illness, legendary director Heddy Honigmann embarks on a self-reflective journey across the Netherlands and to her birthplace in Peru, weaving together visits to beloved places and people with moments from her most important films.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Netherlands | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Aging & Mortality | | European Cultures & Issues | | Films & Filmmakers | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Heddy Honigmann | | Producer(s): | Pieter van Huijstee | | Editor(s): | Ruben van der Hammen | | Writer(s): | Kristien Hemmerechts | | Heddy Honigmann | | Cinematography: | Adri Schrover | | Sound: | Pjotr van Dijk |
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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 | | By Program - Sort: | 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 | | Editor(s): | Valeria Racioppi | | Rebecca Troesch | | Writer(s): | Arami Ullón | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Lobos | | Sound: | Reto Stamm | | Jacques Kieffer | | Sound Design: | Tobias Koch |
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On the Other SideIncludes Q&A
Seeking the truth behind his late mother's two years in FARC-EP captivity, the director and his brother pore over her journals to map out an extraordinarily perilous journey through Colombia's jungles and mountains, retracing her path to confront her captors.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Spain | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Colombia | | By Program - Sort: | Made In Colombia | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Stories | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Personal Histories | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Iván Guarnizo | | Producer(s): | Jorge Caballero | | Pablo de la Chica | | Executive Producer(s): | Jorge Caballero | | Rosa Mercedes Caballero | | Pablo de la Chica | | Editor(s): | Iván Guarnizo | | Ariadna Ribas | | Writer(s): | Iván Guarnizo | | Nuria Polo | | Cinematography: | Carlos Villaoslada | | Sound: | Alejandro Castillo |
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A Once and Future PeaceIncludes Q&A
Through animated and live-action sequences, the failings of the criminal justice system are exposed and a more transformative approach through restorative justice and the Peacemaking Circle movement, which originated in the Yukon with First Nations Elders, is offered.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Tlingit | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://futurepeace.film | | | Director(s): | Eric Daniel Metzgar | | Producer(s): | Mikaela Beardsley | | Executive Producer(s): | Richard Burbidge | | Suzanne Burbidge | | Editor(s): | Eric Daniel Metzgar | | Writer(s): | Eric Daniel Metzgar | | Cinematography: | Domenic Barbero | | Sound: | Sarah McCormic | | Animation: | Reza Riahi | | Graphic Design: | Michael Heid |
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One of OursIncludes Q&A
After a Haitian-born youth is racially profiled at an Indigenous basketball tournament, he wrestles with his shaken sense of belonging in his Indigenous adoptive family while attempting to heal from his past.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Creole | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canadian Culture & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Stories | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Yasmine Mathurin | | Producer(s): | Laura Perlmutter | | Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith | | Executive Producer(s): | Jennifer Kawaja | | Writer(s): | Yasmine Mathurin | | Editor(s): | Eui Yong Zong | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng |
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Only I Can HearIncludes Q&A
Inhabiting an in-between world where their hearing is both a gift and a curse, children of deaf parents share their struggles and joys and band together against a culture that privileges the spoken word.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Japan | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Extra Tags: | Quebecois Films and Filmmakers | | Film Subjects: | Disability | | Families & Family Stories | | | Director(s): | Itaru Matsui | | Co-Director(s): | Heath Cozens | | Producer(s): | Mayu Hirano | | Kengo Toyoda | | Paul Cadieux | | Nancy Guerin | | Executive Producer(s): | Mayu Hirano | | Writer(s): | Itaru Matsui | | Nancy Guerin | | Editor(s): | Herbert Hunger | | Eddie Wednesday | | Cinematography: | Heath Cozens | | Itaru Matsui |
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Only the Ocean Between UsIncludes Q&A
Four young directors—Indigenous Shipibo filmmakers living in Lima, Peru, and Syrian filmmakers living as refugees in Jordan—share sisterhood, daily survival, displacement and first motherhood through their video letters.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Peru | | Jordan | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Arabic | | Shipibo | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | Personal Histories | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://onlytheoceanbetweenus.com | | | Director(s): | Khaldiya Amer Ali | | Marah Mohammad Alkhateeb | | Karoli Bautista Pizarro | | Christy Cauper Silvano | | Producer(s): | Laura Doggett | | EB Landesberg | | Lali Madueño Medina | | Tasneem Toghoj | | Editor(s): | Laura Doggett | | EB Landesberg | | Tasneem Toghoj | | Cinematography: | Khaldiya Amer Ali | | Marah Mohammad Alkhateeb | | Karoli Bautista Pizarro | | Christy Cauper Silvano | | Sound: | Daniela López Guerrero |
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Option Zero
When Obama abruptly ends the?"wet feet, dry feet" policy aimed at expediting residency for Cuban nationals, hundreds of Cubans, who risked their lives to get to the US, are now left homeless in a migratory limbo in Panama.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Cuba | | Brazil | | Colombia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Colombia | | By Program - Sort: | Made In Colombia | | Film Subjects: | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | | Director(s): | Marcel Beltrán | | Producer(s): | Maria Carla del Rio | | Paula Gastaud | | Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto | | Editor(s): | Marcel Beltrán | | Writer(s): | Marcel Beltrán | | Cinematography: | Marcel Beltrán | | Sound: | Homer Mora |
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Ostrov – Lost IslandIncludes Q&A
Abandoned after the USSR’s fall, denizens of a once-vibrant fishing village in the Caspian Sea turn to poaching to survive. While some faithfully await Putin’s promises of Russia’s return to greatness, others dream of a more prosperous future beyond the confines of the island’s shores.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Switzerland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Rural Life | | Russian & Eastern European Culture & Issues | | Website: | http://www.ostrov.ch | | | Director(s): | Svetlana Rodina | | Laurent Stoop | | Producer(s): | Corinna Dästner | | Sonja Kilbertus | | Urs Schnell | | Writer(s): | Svetlana Rodina | | Laurent Stoop | | Editor(s): | Orsola Valenti | | Karine Sudan | | Svetlana Rodina | | Cinematography: | Laurent Stoop | | Sound Design: | Jérôme Cuendet |
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People We Come AcrossIncludes Q&A
When 700 helpful Finnish tourists arrive in Benin to assist in a tropical disease vaccine study that could save the lives of millions of children, a unique cultural exchange reveals how humans can help and harm with the best of intentions.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Finnish | | English | | French | | Mina | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | European Cultures & Issues | | Health & the Pandemic | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://napafilms.fi/missatietkohtaavat | | | Director(s): | Mia Halme | | Producer(s): | Marianne Mäkelä | | Executive Producer(s): | Liisa Karpo | | Editor(s): | Phil Jandaly | | Antony Bentley | | Writer(s): | Mia Halme | | Cinematography: | Ditte Uljas | | Composer: | Kalle Vainio | | Sound: | Olli Huhtanen |
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Persister Shorts Program 1: Workforce
Women’s work has always been ignored, underpaid and taken for granted. Domestic workers, farmers, artists, hairdressers, reindeer herders and strippers remind us that their labour is essential and that as taxpayers, voters and bosses, appreciation of their efforts may come by force.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | | Director(s): | Various |
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Persister Shorts 2
From our Persister program, this selection of short documentaries features stories of women speaking up and being heard.
| | Runtime: | 99 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Various | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Various | | Program Category: | Persister | | By Program - Sort: | Persister | | | Director(s): | Various |
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Philly D.A.
Civil rights attorney Larry Krasner takes injustice personally. Having sued police over 75 times for misconduct, this most unlikely candidate for Philadelphia district attorney not only wins, but upends the whole system. A groundbreaking series follows his outrageous first term.
| | Runtime: | 440 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Deep Dive | | By Program - Sort: | Deep Dive | | Film Subjects: | American Culture & Issues | | Crime & the Justice System | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Ted Passon | | Yoni Brook | | Producer(s): | Ted Passon | | Yoni Brook | | Nicole Salazar | | Josh Penn | | Michael Gottwald | | Executive Producer(s): | Ryan Chanatry | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Dawn Porter | | Patty Quillin | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Rubin Daniels Jr. | | Dita Gruze | | Jim Hession | | Adriana Pacheco | | Hemal Trivedi | | Cinematography: | Yoni Brook |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management // Playing with SharksLive Q&A on May 2, 7:00 PM
From filming Jaws' near-lethal live scenes to saving a great white with her bare hands, underwater filmmaking legend Valerie Taylor faces her biggest challenge yet: fighting to conserve the world's remaining sharks.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management | | Hot Picks | | Special Events | | Film Subjects: | Hot Picks | | Ecology & the Environment | | Films & Filmmakers | | Sports & Recreation | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Sally Aitken | | Producer(s): | Bettina Dalton | | Executive Producer(s): | Alan Erson | | Anna Godas | | Oli Harbottle | | Paul Wiegard | | Editor(s): | Adrian Rostirolla | | Cinematography: | Nathan Barlow | | Michael Latham | | Judd Overton | | Toby Ralph | | Ron Taylor |
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Poly Styrene: I Am a ClichéIncludes Q&A
The death of Anglo-Somali punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother's archives to reconcile their fraught relationship and her place in music history as a key architect of the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | African Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Personal Histories | | Popular Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.polystyrenefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Paul Sng | | Celeste Bell | | Producer(s): | Rebecca Mark-Lawson | | Matthew Silverman | | Daria Nitsche | | Executive Producer(s): | Nikki Parrott | | Natasha Dack | | Jack Oliver | | Mark Thomas | | Lisa Marie Russo | | Richard Coram | | Bruno Waser | | Editor(s): | Xanna Ward Dixon | | Writer(s): | Celeste Bell | | Zoë Howe | | Cinematography: | Nick Ward | | Composer: | James Adrian Brown | | Marina Elderton | | Sound: | Raoul Brand |
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PortrayalIncludes Q&A
Haunted by a family secret revealed to him as a boy, a young man jeopardizes relationships and crosses continents to investigate the mystery behind the thousands of missing paintings his grandfather created during his lifetime.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Design | | Families & Family Stories | | Website: | http://www.portrayalfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Billie Mintz | | Producer(s): | Danny Webber | | Executive Producer(s): | Danny Webber | | Bruce Cowley | | Editor(s): | Michele Francis | | Writer(s): | Billie Mintz | | Cinematography: | Billie Mintz |
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Raise the Bar
How controversial can one basketball team of eight-year-olds be? With an unorthodox coach and training method, a tight-knit group of empowered Icelandic girls demand to play against boys and call time out on patriarchy.
| | Runtime: | 70 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Iceland | | Finland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Icelandic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | European Cultures & Issues | | Gender & Sexuality | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Gudjon Ragnarsson | | Producer(s): | Margret Jonasdottir | | Outi Rousu | | Executive Producer(s): | Hilmar Sigurdsson | | Editor(s): | Jakob Halldorsson | | Writer(s): | Gudjon Ragnarsson | | Margret Jonasdottir | | Cinematography: | Gudjon Ragnarsson | | Tomas Marshall | | Sound: | Pietari Koskinen |
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Rebel HeartsIncludes Q&A
A group of pioneering nuns in 1960s Los Angeles stood up to the patriarchy in such revolutionary ways, demanding pay cheques, marching on Selma and making political pop art, they would change Catholicism and the face of faith forever.
| | Runtime: | 103 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Faith & Spirituality | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://rebelheartsfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Pedro Kos | | Producer(s): | Shawnee Isaac-Smith | | Kira Carstensen | | Judy Korin | | Executive Producer(s): | Ethan Goldman | | Abigail E. Disney | | Adrienne Becker | | Christy Spitzer Thornton | | Quiet | | Meadow Fund | | Nancy Stephens | | Rick Rosenthal | | Tony Hsieh | | Executive Co-Producer(s): | Roberto Grande | | Bryn Mooser | | Justin Lacob | | Kathryn Everett | | Mimi Pham | | Nina Fialkow | | Kristin Ólafsdóttir | | Geralyn White Dreyfous | | Lyn Davis Lear | | Regina K. Scully | | Emma Ho | | Associate Producer(s): | Gabriella Ortega Ricketts | | Laurine DiRocco | | Writer(s): | Erin Barnett | | Shawnee Isaac-Smith | | Pedro Kos | | Editor(s): | Erin Barnett | | Yaniv Elani | | Pedro Kos | | Ondine Rarey | | Cinematography: | Emily Topper | | Clay Westervelt | | Sound: | Lawrence Everson | | Animation: | Una Lorenzen | | Brandon Blommaert | | Una Lorenzen | | Motion Graphics: | Emma Berliner | | Daniel Claridge | | Juan Delcan | | Spencer Haley | | Olivia Sebesky | | Hanbi Sung |
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Rebel LoveIncludes Q&A
Their relationship forbidden while in ranks of the FARC-EP, two Colombian rebels have a chance at a fresh start for their young love after the peace accords. But new daily demands, estranged families and fears for their safety burden their burgeoning life together.
| | Runtime: | 77 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Canada | | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Colombia | | By Program - Sort: | Made In Colombia | | Film Subjects: | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Alejandro Bernal | | Producer(s): | Jaime Escallon-Buraglia | | Ximena Sotomayor | | Editor(s): | Elsa Vásquez | | Gustavo Vasco | | Writer(s): | Jaime Escallon-Buraglia | | Alejandro Bernal | | Cinematography: | Alejandro Bernal | | Sound: | Ricardo Escallon |
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Red HeavenIncludes Q&A
Offering a fascinating glimpse of a possible future, six people sign up for a year-long NASA experiment that has them living in an isolated habitat meant to simulate what life and society would be like on Mars.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | German | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.redheavenfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Lauren DeFilippo | | Katherine Gorringe | | Producer(s): | Lauren DeFilippo | | Katherine Gorringe | | Executive Producer(s): | Greg Boustead | | Jessica Harrop | | Caroline Smith | | Suzanne Kolb | | Miriam Mintz | | Daniel J. Chalfen | | Jim Butterworth | | Editor(s): | Katherine Gorringe | | Cinematography: | David Alvarado | | HI-SEAS Crew IV |
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The Return: Life After ISISIncludes Q&A
This provocative doc reveals the deeper stories that drove several women to uproot their lives in the West and join ISIS in Syria. Now, infamous and reviled in the media, they yearn for absolution and the homelands that bar their return.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Faith & Spirituality | | Middle Eastern Cultures & Issues | | War & Conflict | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.metfilmsales.com/the-return | | | Director(s): | Alba Sotorra Clua | | Producer(s): | Alba Sotorra Clua | | Vesna Cudic | | Carles Torras | | Executive Producer(s): | Sam Collyns | | Poppy Dixon | | Jack Oliver | | Editor(s): | Michael Nollet | | Xavi Carrasco | | Cinematography: | Lara Vilanova | | Gris Jordana | | Núria Roldós |
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Rift FinfinneeIncludes Q&A
On a journey through the periphery of Addis Ababa, engrossing architectural and landscape images provide the backdrop to a multi-voiced narrative that reveals rapid urbanization, socioeconomic disparity and the seeds of civil war.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Ethiopia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Amharic | | Oromo | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.danielkoetter.de/projekte/rift-finfinnee-2020-79 | | | Director(s): | Daniel Kötter | | Producer(s): | Meike Martens | | Editor(s): | Daniel Kötter | | Cinematography: | Daniel Kötter | | Sound: | Marcin Lenarczyk |
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A River Runs, Turns, Erases, ReplacesIncludes Q&A
In this gorgeous cinematic letter from the director to her hometown of Wuhan, ordinary human activities unfold against an evolving urban landscape, sculpted by nature and rising infrastructure, composing a series of surprising and poetic set pieces.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | No Dialogue | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | By Program - Sort: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Asian Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | Website: | http://www.burnthefilm.org | | | Director(s): | Shengze Zhu | | Producer(s): | Zhengfan Yang | | Editor(s): | Shengze Zhu | | Cinematography: | Zhengfan Yang | | Shengze Zhu | | Sound: | Aymeric Dupas |
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Rockfield: The Studio on the FarmIncludes Q&A
Featuring candid interviews with rock legends Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne and Liam Gallagher, this is the unlikely tale of how two Welsh brothers turned their dairy farm into one of the most successful recording studios of all time.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Musicians & Performers | | Popular Culture | | Website: | http://rockfieldfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Hannah Berryman | | Producer(s): | Catryn Ramasut | | Executive Producer(s): | Kimberley Warner | | Julian Carey | | Keith Potter | | Editor(s): | Rupert Houseman | | Cinematography: | Patrick Smith |
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Rogers Audience Award AnnouncementLivestreaming May 9 at 7 PM
On the Festival’s final night, join us to celebrate our Canadian filmmakers and to announce the winners of this year’s Rogers Audience Award for the best Canadian documentaries. The top five films, as determined by audience poll, will split the $50,000 cash prize, courtesy of the Rogers Group of Funds.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Special Events | | By Program - Sort: | Special Events |
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Room Without a ViewIncludes Q&A
Migrant domestic workers from Africa and Southeast Asia hired under the Kafala system are targeted and exploited with broad impunity by employers and agents in Lebanon, in this chilling consideration of modern-day slavery.
| | Runtime: | 73 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Austria | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Arabic | | Amharic | | Bengali | | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/Room-without-a-view-103176931789976 | | | Director(s): | Roser Corella | | Producer(s): | Roser Corella | | Executive Producer(s): | Florian Kläger | | Editor(s): | Ginés Olivares | | Cinematography: | Roser Corella | | Alfonso Moral | | Sound: | Gábor Ripli |
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The RossellinisIncludes Q&A
In this fascinating look inside a complicated cinema dynasty, the eldest grandson of Roberto Rossellini, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, picks up the camera for himself and explores his family history.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Latvia | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Italian | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | By Program - Sort: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Films & Filmmakers | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Alessandro Rossellini | | Producer(s): | Raffaele Brunetti | | Editor(s): | Ilaria de Laurentiis | | Writer(s): | Andrea Paolo Massara | | Alessandro Rossellini | | Davis Simanis | | Cinematography: | Valdis Celminš | | Sound: | Stefano Varini |
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The SailorIncludes Q&A
After a life of freewheeling adventure spent sailing all over the world, Paul Johnson, now 80 with a frail body, a litre of vodka and a broken sailboat, contemplates his life and the cost of fulfilling an uncompromising dream.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Slovakia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Addiction & Mental Health | | Aging & Mortality | | Website: | http://www.toxpro.sk/sailor | | | Director(s): | Lucia Kasova | | Producer(s): | Nazarij Klujev | | Editor(s): | Roman Kelemen | | Writer(s): | Lucia Kasova | | Cinematography: | Martin Jurci | | Sound: | Igor Jedinak |
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School of HopeIncludes Q&A
Suffering from an extended drought caused by the climate crisis despite their own tiny carbon footprint, Morocco's Oulad Boukais tribe establishes a school to ensure their children's future, and combats isolation and desertification with optimism, dignity and education.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | France | | Morocco | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | African Cultures & Issues | | Children & Youth | | Ecology & the Environment | | Education | | Rural Life | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfHopeDocumentary | | | Director(s): | Mohamed El Aboudi | | Assistant Director(s): | Réda Nouiga | | Producer(s): | Pertti Veijalainen | | Co-Producer(s): | Hind Saïh | | Dominique Barneaud (Bellota Films) | | Aimee Link (Vulcan Productions) | | Lamia Chraibi (La Prod) | | Executive Co-Producer(s): | Leila Amran | | Jody Allen | | Ruth Johnston | | Rocky Collins | | Associate Co-Producer: | Susan Grella | | Writer(s): | Mohamed El Aboudi | | Editor(s): | Lizi Gelber | | Florence Bresson | | Mohamed El Aboudi | | Mikko Sippola | | Cinematography: | Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen | | Marita Hällfors | | Päivi Kettunen | | Sound: | Pietari Koskinen | | Graphic Design: | Antti Kangassalo |
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Secrets from PutumayoIncludes Q&A
In 1910, Roger Casement, British consul in Brazil, investigated atrocities against Indigenous Amazonians, his journals capturing a harrowing picture of their enslavement and murder by the rubber industry. Through his words, their plight is traced all the way to their current struggle for self-determination.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Brazilian Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & the Justice System | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Aurélio Michiles | | Producer(s): | Patrick Leblanc | | Executive Producer(s): | Patrick Leblanc | | Writer(s): | Aurélio Michiles | | Danilo Gullane | | André Finotti | | Editor(s): | André Finotti | | Cinematography: | André Lorenz Michiles | | Composer: | Alvise Migotto | | Sound: | Léo Bortolin | | Sound Design: | Miriam Biderman | | Ricardo Reis |
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Set!Includes Q&A
Competitive table setting? Yep, it's a thing, and it's fabulous. Seven cut-throat competitors feverishly prepare their entries for a prestigious county fair, serving up artistry, hilarity and serious frenemy vibes on a silver platter.
| | Runtime: | 105 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | By Program - Sort: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Design | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Scott Gawlik | | Producer(s): | Scott Gawlik | | Editor(s): | Scott Gawlik | | Cinematography: | Jon Salmon |
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Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and IslamIncludes Q&A
A bullet to the neck, fatwas and 24-hour police protection are just part of being one of Europe's first female imams. When Seyran Ates opens Germany's first liberal mosque, radical change meets modern Islam.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Turkish | | English | | Chinese | | German | | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | By Program - Sort: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | Faith & Spirituality | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://integralfilm.com/project/seyran-ates-sex-revolution-and-islam-2 | | | Director(s): | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen | | Producer(s): | Jørgen Lorentzen | | Editor(s): | Morten Haslerud | | Writer(s): | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen | | Cinematography: | Anders Hoft | | Composer: | Simon M. Valentine | | Sound: | Andreu Jacob Simonsen |
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Sieged: The Press vs. DenialismIncludes Q&A
As Brazil's COVID-19 death toll soars, President Bolsonaro unleashes a relentless media campaign of misinformation, undermining the efforts of journalists desperate to inform a nation during the darkest months of the pandemic.
| | Runtime: | 116 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Systems Down | | By Program - Sort: | Systems Down | | Film Subjects: | Health & the Pandemic | | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Media & Journalism | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Caio Cavechini | | Producer(s): | Erick Brêtas | | Ali Kamel | | Ricardo Villela | | Editor(s): | Caio Cavechini | | João Rocha | | Eliane Scardovelli | | Writer(s): | Caio Cavechini | | Eliane Scardovelli | | Cinematography: | Diogo André | | Caue Angeli | | Henrique Picarelli | | João Rocha |
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The Silence of the MoleIncludes Q&A
This gripping political mystery unravels how a courageous 1970s journalist dubbed "The Mole" risked his life to infiltrate Guatemala's government and uncover the truths behind one of the most violent and repressive periods in the country's history.
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Guatemala | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Latin American Cultures & Issues | | Media & Journalism | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Anaïs Taracena | | Producer(s): | Anaïs Taracena | | Rafael González | | Julio López | | Executive Producer(s): | Anaïs Taracena | | Editor(s): | Pedro García | | Writer(s): | Anaïs Taracena | | Cinematography: | Carla Molina | | Sound: | Eduardo Cáceres | | Deléon Francisco |
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Silent Voice
Fleeing Chechnya and his homophobic brother's tyranny, a young gay MMA fighter finds himself adrift in Brussels. Struck mute by trauma, he struggles to build a new identity against the chilling backdrop of voicemails from home.
| | Runtime: | 51 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | France | | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | French | | Chechen | | Flemish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | By Program - Sort: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | European Cultures & Issues | | LGBT Culture & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | | Director(s): | Reka Valerik | | Producer(s): | David Hurst | | Editor(s): | Jeanne Oberson | | Writer(s): | Reka Valerik | | Anaïs Llobet | | Cinematography: | Arnaud Alberola | | Sound: | Hélène Clerc Denizot |
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Someone Like MeIncludes Q&A
After 11 strangers band together to help a queer youth escape to Vancouver from life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his best interests test the limits of their commitment and jeopardize his fresh start.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2021 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2021 | | Language: | English | | Luganda | | Runyankole | | Swahili | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Closed Captions | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | By Program - Sort: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | African Cultures & Issues | | Canadian Culture & Issues | | LGBT Culture & Issues | | Migration & Immigration | | | Director(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Producer(s): | Teri Snelgrove | | Shirley Vercruysse | | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Editor(s): | Graham Kew | | Writer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Cinematography: | Blake Davey | | Farhad Ghaderi | |
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