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Acadiana
Amusement park rides swing and swoop to the backdrop of giddy chatter. People wearing crawfish-printed outfits solemnly sway to country music. It's just another surreal day in America at the famed annual Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Yannick Nolin | | Guillaume Fournier | | Producer(s): | Jean-Pierre Vézina | | Editor(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Writer(s): | Guillaume Fournier | | Cinematography: | Yannick Nolin | | Composer: | Mathieu Robineau |
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Acid Forest
An ancient pine forest, decimated by the toxic defecations of a booming cormorant population, is the backdrop of an uncanny commentary on environmental change and migration that swings between hilarious, horrifying and Hitchcockian.
| | Runtime: | 61 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Lithuania | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Lithuanian | | English | | German | | French | | Spanish | | Finnish | | Japanese | | Russian | | Mandarand Estonian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Ecology & the Environment | | Northern Europe | | Website: | http://neonrealism.lt/acid-forest | | | Director(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Producer(s): | Dovydas Korba | | Executive Producer(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Dovydas Korba | | Editor(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Writer(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Cinematography: | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Composer: | Jonas Maksvytis | | Sound: | Dovydas Korba |
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After Parkland
This devastating chronicle meets with students and families in the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as they reckon with unthinkable loss and search for new meaning.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Survivor Stories | | Website: | http://afterparklandmovie.com | | | Director(s): | Jake Lefferman | | Emily Taguchi | | Producer(s): | Emily Taguchi | | Jeanmarie Condon | | Jake Lefferman | | Steven Baker | | Stephanie Wash | | Executive Producer(s): | Beth Hoppe | | Editor(s): | Brendan Cusack | | Karl Dawson | | Douglas Blush | | Cinematography: | Jake Lefferman | | Emily Taguchi | | Stephanie Wash | | Composer: | Nathan Halpern | | Sound: | Jeremy Grody (Design and Mix) |
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ahkameyimo nitanis / Keep Going My Daughter
A young couple narrate a poetic and hopeful love letter to their young daughter, reflecting the dreams of a new generation of Indigenous parents still healing from the traumas of colonialism.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Candy Fox | | Producer(s): | Chris Ross | | Editor(s): | Jackie Dzuba | | Candy Fox | | Writer(s): | Candy Fox | | Cinematography: | Aaron Bernakevitch | | Composer: | David Roman | | Sound: | Muskwa Lerat | | Cory Rizos | | David Roman |
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Always in Season
The unresolved case of a Black teen found hanging from a swing set in North Carolina in 2014 is the lens through which this searing doc examines the lingering trauma of more than a century of lynching and continued racial violence.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Crime & Justice | | Race & Racism | | Website: | http://alwaysinseasonfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Jacqueline Olive | | Producer(s): | Jacqueline Olive | | Jessica Devaney | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Jim Butterworth | | Daniel J. Chalfen | | Patty Quillin | | Joan Platt | | Regina K. Scully | | Geralyn Dreyfous | | Editor(s): | Don Bernier | | Writer(s): | Jacqueline Olive | | Don Bernier | | Cinematography: | Patrick Sheehan | | S. Leo Chiang | | Composer: | Osei Essed |
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America
Using surviving footage from Lime Kiln Field Day (1913), the earliest feature film to showcase a Black cast and integrated crew, this soaring visual recreation rescues from obscurity a radical history of social progress and artistic innovation in American cinema. Adding to the story by filling symbolic and material gaps, it repositions play and the pleasures of the senses as tools of resistance and reclamation.
| | Runtime: | 30 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Garrett Bradley | | Producer(s): | Catherine Gund | | Lauren Domino | | Executive Producer(s): | Agnes Gund | | Glenn Ligon | | Editor(s): | Garrett Bradley | | Cinematography: | Zac Manuel | | Brian Richard | | Composer: | Trevor Mathison | | Sound: | Udit Duseja |
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American Factory
When an abandoned General Motors factory in Ohio is reopened by a Chinese billionaire, the local blue-collar employees clash with modern Chinese innovations in this new work co-directed by this year's Outstanding Achievement Award recipient Julia Reichert.
| | Runtime: | 115 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Labour & Working People | | Asia | | | Director(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Producer(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Jeff Reichert | | Julie Parker Benello | | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Skoll | | Diane Weyermann | | Editor(s): | Lindsay Utz | | Cinematography: | Steven Bognar | | Aubrey Keith | | Jeff Reichert | | Julia Reichert | | Erick Stoll | | Sound: | Lawrence Everson | | Cindy Takehara Ferruccio |
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Animal Bridge U-3033
Observing the comings and goings on a highway overpass structure expressly built for the free and safe passage of wildlife, filmmaker Milja Viita has created an engaging exploration of the nexus at which people and animals intersect in this multi-format visual delight.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Milja Viita | | Producer(s): | Veli Granö | | Editor(s): | Milja Viita | | Writer(s): | Milja Viita | | Cinematography: | Milja Viita | | Composer: | Viljami Mehto | | Sound: | Viljami Mehto | | Veli Granö |
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Anthropocene: Carrara
Follow blocks of prized Carrara marble as they are hewn from pristine peaks in Tuscany and travel down the mountainside to artisans' studios and out into the global export economy.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Franco Barattini | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Silvio Repetto | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Dandora
The hills and canyons of a massive Kenyan landfill represent an emerging microeconomy where the discarded plastic is both a commodity and a future geological marker of humanity's time on Earth.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Rose Wanjiru | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Ivory Burn
Witness the largest ivory burn in history, when over a hundred tons of confiscated elephant tusks and rhino horns were torched in Nairobi National Park to send a deeply symbolic and visceral message to poachers and illegal trade syndicates.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | | CSC Featuring: | Winnie Kiiru | | President Uhuru Kenyatta | | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | | Cinematography: | 360º Cinematography: Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: Nicholas de Pencier CSC | | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Ask Dr. Ruth
After helping the world find the clitoris, does 90-year-old sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer have anything left to teach us? This revealing look at a true trailblazer will have you assuming new emotional positions and reaching surprising climaxes…non-sexually speaking.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Gender & Sexuality | | Jewish Interest | | Popular Culture | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | | Director(s): | Ryan White | | Producer(s): | Rafael Marmor | | Ryan White | | Jessica Hargrave | | Christopher Leggett | | Executive Producer(s): | Peggy Drexler | | Editor(s): | Helen Kearns | | Cinematography: | David Paul Jacobson |
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Assholes: A Theory
Inspired by the NYT bestselling book, this lively philosophical investigation into the rise of asshole behaviour across the world asks: What does it mean to be an asshole, and more importantly, how do we stop their proliferation?
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | John Walker | | Producer(s): | Ann Bernier | | John Walker | | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Jeff Warren | | Writer(s): | John Walker | | Robert Sandler | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Composer: | Sandy Moore | | Sound: | Alex Salter |
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Authentically Us
In this three-part VR series, visit with a Two-Spirit artist in Boise, a trailblazing civil rights defender in Washington and a transgender mechanic in Montana, illuminating the personal and political struggles of being LGBTQ in America.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | www.authenticallyus.com | | | Director(s): | Jesse Ayala | | Producer(s): | Lauren Burmaster | | Paula Cuneo | | Jeremiah Allen | | Kris Hermans | | Executive Producer(s): | Amy Seidenwurm | | Anna Therese Day | | Editor(s): | Connor Lonning | | Jesse Ayala | | Writer(s): | Jesse Ayala | | Connor Lonning | | Anna Therese Day | | Cinematography: | Alan Bucaria | | Connor Lonning | | Composer: | Miles Comiskey | | Kyle Kaner | | Michael Wilson | | Sound: | Alan Bucaria | | Tony Ayala | | Post-Production: | Flight School | | Production Support: | Radiant Images |
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Backstage Action
They don't have a name, a role or a voice, yet their onscreen presence is essential. In this insightful and skilfully crafted observational documentary, film extras finally come into focus to transcend their clichés.
| | Runtime: | 61 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Luxemburgish | | German | | Persian | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Labour & Working People | | Performers & Performance | | Race & Racism | | Website: | http://www.iotaproduction.be/en/film/backstage-action | | | Director(s): | Sanaz Azari | | Producer(s): | Isabelle Truc | | Editor(s): | Simon Arazi | | Annick Ghijzelings | | Writer(s): | Sanaz Azari | | Cinematography: | Johan Legraie | | Pierre Choqueux | | Vincent Pinckaers | | Artur Castro Freire | | Composer: | Pierre Dozin | | Frederic Becker | | Sound: | Bruno Schweisguth | | Fred Meert | | Vincent Nouaille | | Zied Mokaddem | | Cosmas Antoniadis | | Fabrice Osinski | | Nicolas Dennefeld |
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Because We Are Girls
Haunted by a childhood secret, courageous Indo-Canadian sisters from small-town British Columbia finally face their abuser in court, exposing how their rigidly sexist upbringing—reinforced even by the Bollywood films they loved as girls—conditioned them as victims.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Punjabi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Survivor Stories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Baljit Sangra | | Producer(s): | Selwyn Jacob | | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Writer(s): | Baljit Sangra | | Cinematography: | Grant Baldwin | | Composer: | Genevieve Vincent | | Sound: | Eva Madden |
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Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World
As governments grow unreliable and traditional news sources decline in relevance and reach, follow a vigilante investigative journalist collective that uses cutting-edge tech and crowdsourcing to expose the truth behind the stories flooding our newsfeeds.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Netherlands | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Journalism & The Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Website: | http://www.bellingcatfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Hans Pool | | Producer(s): | Bruno Felix | | Femke Wolting | | Editor(s): | Simon Barker | | Cinematography: | Hans Pool | | Composer: | Frank Wienk (Binkbeats) | | Sound: | Pepijn Aben |
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Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint
Over a century after her first boldly colourful painting, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is finally taking her rightful place in history as a pioneer of abstract art—but why has the art world been so reluctant to recognize her?
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Swedish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Halina Dyrschka | | Producer(s): | Eva Illmer | | Halina Dyrschka | | Executive Producer(s): | Alex Dewart | | Editor(s): | Antje Lass | | Mario Orias | | Writer(s): | Halina Dyrschka | | Cinematography: | Luana Knipfer | | Alicja Pahl | | Composer: | Damian Scholl | | Sound: | Niklas Kammertöns |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
One of Canada's most beloved musical icons joins Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind directors Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe to share stories about his unparalleled career, his inspired songwriting and his connection to Toronto, the city that loves him back.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Canada | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Producer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Executive Producer(s): | John Brunton | | John Murray | | Gary Slaight | | Editor(s): | Alex Shuper | | Writer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Cinematography: | Kristoff Rochon | | Composer: | John Welsman |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Human Nature
Meet celebrated biochemist and leading figure in the "CRISPR revolution" Jennifer Doudna, director Adam Bolt and executive producer Dan Rather, as they discuss breakthroughs in genetic engineering and what these mean not only for the future of medicine and disease, but for the evolution of humanity itself.
| | Runtime: | 107 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Health & Healthcare | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.humannaturefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Adam Bolt | | Producer(s): | Sarah Goodwin | | Meredith Desalazar | | Elliot Kirschner | | Executive Producer(s): | Elliot Kirschner | | Dan Rather | | Greg Boustead | | Editor(s): | Regina Sobel | | Steve Tyler | | Writer(s): | Adam Bolt | | Regina Sobel | | Cinematography: | Derek Reich | | Composer: | Keegan Dewitt |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: The Rest
Ai Weiwei, celebrated contemporary artist, activist and director of The Rest, discusses the plight of refugees in Europe trapped between a disintegrating humanitarian aid system and intensifying nationalism, and his mission to ensure their stories be heard.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Turkish | | Arabic | | Kurdish | | Farsi | | Italian | | Greek | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Western & Central Europe | | | Director(s): | Ai Weiwei | | Producer(s): | Ai Weiwei | | Editor(s): | Fen Wang | | Cinematography: | Niels Benoist | | Christopher Doyle | | Wenhai Huang | | Konstantinos Koukoulis | | Renaat Lambeets | | Dongxu Li | | Hengzhong Lv | | Yan Ma | | Johannes Waltermann | | Zanbo Zhang | | Zhenwei Xie | | Composer: | Karsten Fundal | | Sound: | Srdjan Bajski | | Stelios Bouziotis | | Yves Goossens Bara | | Tasos Karededos | | Oguz Kaynak | | Zenon Panosiflis | | Kiriakos Poukamisas | | Lajos Wienkamp Marques |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Toxic Beauty
Whistleblower Deane Berg, along with Dr. Daniel Cramer of the Harvard Cancer Center and Dr. Ami Zota of George Washington University, join Toxic director Phyllis Ellis to discuss the public heath risks of the beauty products we use daily and the explosive lawsuit that's bringing them to light.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Phyllis Ellis | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Barri Cohen | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Ord | | Cheryl Staurulakis | | Peter Raymont | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Willie
In 1958, Willie O'Ree broke the colour barrier in hockey and went on to become an inspiration for generations of players. He joins Willie director Laurence Mathieu-Leger and some very special guests to discuss his remarkable life and career and his dedication to eradicating racism in the sport he loves.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://www.williedoc.com | | | Director(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Producer(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Bryant McBride | | Ebyan Bihi (associate producer) | | Executive Producer(s): | Bryant McBride | | Editor(s): | Rosella Tursi | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Cinematography: | Ninon Pednault | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Composer: | Justin Melland |
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Born in Evin
After discovering she was born in one of Iran's most notorious torture prisons, and with her mother refusing to speak, the filmmaker sets off to find answers from anyone willing to break decades of silence.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | Persian | | German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Personal Histories | | Survivor Stories | | Middle East | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://syndicadofs.com/films/born-in-evin | | | Director(s): | Maryam Zaree | | Producer(s): | Alex Tondowski | | Ira Tondowski | | Editor(s): | Dieter Pichler | | Writer(s): | Maryam Zaree | | Cinematography: | Siri Klug | | Sound: | Rudolf Gottsberger |
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Camera Test
What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re-enactments, Joyce Wong crafts a tartly subversive look at patriarchy and racism in the film industry.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Joyce Wong | | Producer(s): | Justine Pimlott | | Executive Producer(s): | Anita Lee | | Editor(s): | Avril Jacobson | | Writer(s): | Joyce Wong | | Cinematography: | Maya Bankovic |
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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
The late Pepita Ferrari seats 33 leading documentarians—from the iconic Alanis Obomsawin to iconoclast Werner Herzog—in front of the camera to delve into the unique challenges and ethical entanglements of documentary filmmaking.
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2008 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2009 | | Language: | English | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | | Director(s): | Pepita Ferrari | | Producer(s): | Michelle van Beusekom |
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Cavebirds
Intrigued by her aging father's return to rural Malaysia to launch an edible bird nest farm, a Montreal filmmaker follows him seeking answers and instead discovers truths about home and heritage that help bridge the gap between them.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Mandarin | | English | | Hokkien | | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Personal Histories | | Southeast Asia | | | Director(s): | Emily Gan | | Producer(s): | Emily Gan | | Cinematography: | Emily Gan | | Thomas Kimmerlin | | Composer: | Emily Gan | | Sound: | Christian Olsen |
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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Was it accident or assassination when a UN Secretary General's plane crashed en route to peace talks for the Congo Crisis? In this probe into the 1961 tragedy, sinister new evidence draws the director into a discovery more horrific than he imagined.
| | Runtime: | 128 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Norway | | Sweden | | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | Danish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Mads Brügger | | Producer(s): | Arno Becker | | Andreas Rocksén | | Bjarte Mørner Tveit | | Executive Producer(s): | Peter Engel | | Torstein Grude | | Bjarte Mørner Tveit | | Editor(s): | Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani | | Writer(s): | Mads Brügger | | Cinematography: | Tore Vollan | | Composer: | John Erik Kaada | | Sound: | Senjan Jansen | | Bert Aerts |
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Colors & Shadows
An 88-year-old man traces significant moments in his rich and eventful life, only to learn that the boundaries between his memories, dreams and imagination tend to blur when reflecting on so many turning points in a life well lived.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Greece | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andreas Hadjipateras | | Producer(s): | Irene Thomas | | Executive Producer(s): | Christos V Konstantakopoulos | | Editor(s): | Chronis Theocharis | | Cinematography: | Andreas Hadjipateras | | Composer: | Teemu Takatalo | | Sebastian Boulter | | Sound: | Teemu Takatalo |
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Conviction
Dreaming of a society that empowers rather than jails the marginalized, a group of incarcerated women in Canada joins forces with an advocacy organization, determined to author their own stories and rebuild their communities from the inside out.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Women & Women's Stories | | Poverty | | Website: | http://www.convictiondocumentary.com | | | Director(s): | Ariella Pahlke | | Nance Ackerman | | Teresa MacInnes | | Producer(s): | Teresa MacInnes | | Annette Clarke | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Writer(s): | Nance Ackerman | | Ariella Pahlke | | Teresa MacInnes | | Cinematography: | Nance Ackerman | | Sound: | Judith Gruber-Stitzer |
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The Corporate Coup D'État
Piercing insights from journalist Chris Hedges and philosopher John Ralston Saul dissect America at a troubling crossroads, exposing Trump's MAGA doctrine as a symptom of a broken democracy where power now lies with corporations, not citizens.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | http://www.whitepinepictures.com/project/the-corporate-coup-detat | | | Director(s): | Fred Peabody | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Cohen | | Hans Robert Eisenhauer | | Fred Peabody | | Peter Raymont | | Steve Ord | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | John Westheuser | | Composer: | Michelle Osis | | Sound: | Ben Chesneau | | Johnathan Fuhrer |
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Daddy and the Warlord
Haunted by her father's secretive past, a journalist goes on a challenging journey through postwar Liberia to uncover his ties with infamous war criminal Charles Taylor, and risks shattering forever his image as her hero.
| | Runtime: | 53 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Netherlands | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Crime & Justice | | Personal Histories | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Shamira Raphaëla | | Clarice Gargard (co-director) | | Producer(s): | Bram Bax | | Mylène Esmeijer | | Executive Producer(s): | Monique Busman | | Michiel van Erp | | Editor(s): | Paul de Heer | | Writer(s): | Shamira Raphaëla | | Clarice Gargard | | Cinematography: | Jefrim Rothuizen | | Composer: | Jeroen Goeijers | | Sound: | Diego van Uden |
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The Daughter Tree
In this evocative study of gender in India, where a cultural preference for baby boys has forced a seismic population imbalance, villages cope with their male surpluses and a midwife fearlessly advocates for unborn girls.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women & Women's Stories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Rama Rau | | Editor(s): | Rob Ruzic | | Cinematography: | Nagaraj Diwakar | | Composer: | Ken Myhr | | Sound: | Lalit Malik |
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The Day Don Died
When a condo community learns of a neighbour's death, the dramatic retelling of his disappearance and demise takes on a life of its own. Each version of the story sounds stranger than the last, until an Easter Monday revelation takes everyone by complete surprise.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.nootkastreet.co/the-day-don-died | | | Director(s): | Steve J. Adams | | Sean Horlor | | Producer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Ana Carrizales | | Editor(s): | Gregory J. Brown | | Writer(s): | Sean Horlor | | Steve J. Adams | | Cinematography: | Gregory J. Brown | | Composer: | Mark Dolmont | | Sound: | Mark Dolmont |
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Denoise
Step into a deserted oil field in Texas, the engine room of an ocean freighter and a massive anechoic chamber in Switzerland in an absorbing experience of the silent pockets of our industrial world.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2017 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Tagalog | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | http://www.beautifulthings.it/en/denoise | | | Director(s): | Georgio Ferrero | | Federico Biasin | | Producer(s): | Federico Biasin | | Executive Producer(s): | Federico Biasin | | Cast: | Van Quattro (USA) | | Danilo Tribunal (Philippines) | | Andrea Pavoni Belli (Italy) | | Vito Mirizzi (Switzerland) | | Editor(s): | Giorgio Ferrero | | Federico Biasin | | Filippo Vallegra | | Writer(s): | Giorgio Ferrero | | Cinematography: | Fabrizio Chyrek | | Matteo Ferrari | | Composer: | Giorgio Ferrero | | Rodolfo Mongitore | | Sound: | Giorgio Ferrero | | Rodolfo Mongitore |
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Dicktatorship: Macho Made in Italy
Frustrated by the macho culture that continues to dominate Italian life, the cheeky filmmakers of the acclaimed Italy: Love It or Leave It challenge misogyny, chauvinism and sexism in a country famous for its curious of mix of dictators and Latin lovers.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Italian | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Italy | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | Italy | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Gustav Hofer | | Luca Ragazzi | | Producer(s): | Marco Visalberghi |
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The Disappearance of My Mother
Now in her 70s, Italian fashion model Benedetta Barzini hates the camera's oppressive gaze. Fearful of her plan to "disappear," her son begins to mercilessly film the cover-girl-turned-feminist-academic, forcing a most unusual confrontation between privacy and self.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Italian | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Italy | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Italy | | Personal Histories | | Popular Culture | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Website: | http://www.thedisappearanceofmymother.com | | | Director(s): | Beniamino Barrese | | Producer(s): | Filippo Macelloni | | Executive Producer(s): | Lorenzo Garzella | | Matt Ippolito | | Bryn Mooser | | Giovanni Storti | | Hayley Pappas | | Editor(s): | Valentina Cicogna | | Writer(s): | Beniamino Barrese | | Cinematography: | Beniamino Barrese | | Composer: | Aaron Cupples | | Sound: | Massimo Mariani |
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Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Veteran Tlingit filmmaker Carol Geddes tells the story of five Indigenous women across Canada who have risen to the top of their chosen trades—from a deck hand on a fishing boat, to a band council chief, to a minister of the Yukon legislature—and become inspirational leaders in their communities.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 1986 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Carol Geddes | | Producer(s): | Barbara Janes |
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Double Exposed
Upon her grandfather's death, filmmaker Julie Buck is entrusted with his precious archive of Super 8 footage. One double exposed reel of film serves as a jumping off point for an explosive survey of her past and her family's fractured relationships. Eileen Arandiga
| | Runtime: | 4 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Julie Buck | | Producer(s): | Julie Buck |
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Drag Kids
Four precocious preteens perfect their lip synching and runway walks in anticipation of the biggest drag performance of their lives at Montreal Pride, in this fierce and joyous celebration of acceptance and self-discovery.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Performers & Performance | | | Director(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Producer(s): | Edward Peill | | Erin Oakes | | Editor(s): | Warren Jefferies | | Writer(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Sound: | Zan Rosborough | | Julia Innes | | Petros Kolyvas | | Barton Hewitt |
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Dust Devil
Marta Becket—dancer, theatre owner and octogenarian—takes us on an enchanting journey through her life, from dancing on Broadway to weaving her magic for audiences in the theatre she lovingly restored and performed in for over four decades. This portrait of an artist unforgettably captures Marta's passion and determination.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Poppy Walker | | Producer(s): | Poppy Walker | | Editor(s): | Danielle Boesenberg | | Cinematography: | Daniel Jarvis | | Composer: | Steve Nossiter |
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Dying for Gold
Long-hidden archives finally expose how the South African gold mining industry, dependent on cheap labour coerced under colonial rule, sparked one of the world's largest epidemics of tuberculosis and silicosis.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Isixhosa | | Sesotho | | Shangaan | | Siswati | | Afrikaans | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Healthcare | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Labour & Working People | | Race & Racism | | Website: | http://www.dyingforgold.com | | | Director(s): | Catherine Meyburgh | | Richard Pakleppa | | Producer(s): | Richard Pakleppa | | Catherine Meyburgh | | Editor(s): | Catherine Meyburgh | | Cinematography: | Richard Pakleppa | | Composer: | Philip Miller | | Sound: | Mapula Lehong |
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The Edge of Democracy
Featuring unprecedented access to former Brazilian presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, the personal and political brilliantly combine in this unflinching exploration of one of the most dramatic and polarizing periods in Brazilian history.
| | Runtime: | 122 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Justice | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Petra Costa | | Producer(s): | Joanna Natasegara | | Shane Boris | | Tiago Pavan | | Co-Producer(s): | Sara Dosa | | Mariana Oliva | | Abigail Anketell-Jones | | Editor(s): | Karen Harley | | Tina Baz | | David Barker | | Joaquim Castro | | Jordana Berg | | Felipe Lacerda | | Writer(s): | Carol Pires | | David Barker | | Moara Passoni | | Cinematography: | João Atala |
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Egg
In this intricate and visually arresting animation, a woman locked in a room is at war with an egg. A mental battle between the two ensues. Who will win: the woman or the egg?
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | France | | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Producer(s): | Emmanuel-Alain Raynal | | Lana Tankosa Nikolic | | Pierre Baussaron | | Editor(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Albane Du Plessix | | Writer(s): | Martina Scarpelli | | Composer: | Amos Cappuccio | | Sofie Birch | | Sound: | Amos Cappuccio | | Sofie Birch |
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The El Duce Tapes
The notorious frontman of shock-rock band The Mentors gained infamy in the '80s and '90s for donning black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics—but was he propagating hate, or confronting it?
| | Runtime: | 106 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | America | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Rodney Ascher | | David Lawrence | | Interviews directed by Ryan Sexton | | Producer(s): | Tim Kirk | | Editor(s): | David Lawrence | | Cinematography: | Ryan Sexton | | Composer: | Jonathan Snipes | | Sound: | Jonathan Snipes |
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El Hor
The Saluki is a sighthound, one of the world's oldest dog breeds and the perfect guide to lead this monochromatic tribute to pedigree, cosmology, history and dynasty. El Hor takes the viewer on a strange trip through the ancient past and alien future, into life and death itself, where man and beast share an afterlife—a tomb that looks like a womb.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/el-hor | | | Director(s): | Dianne Lucille Campbell | | Producer(s): | Brian J. Falconer | | Executive Producer(s): | Noe Mendelle | | Sonja Henrici | | Sound: | DIE HEXEN |
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El Toro
Romance and tragedy bind eight siblings who worked together in the '60s at their now-demolished family-run truck stop diner on the outskirts of Winnipeg. Rebuilt as a backdrop for this quirky hybrid doc, the diner infuses their charming story with a surreal nostalgia.
| | Runtime: | 43 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | Food | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://eltorofilm.com | | | Director(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Producer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Editor(s): | Dany Joyal | | Writer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Levesque | | Composer: | Lucille Starr | | Andrina Turenne | | Sound: | Danielle Sturk | | Dany Joyal | | Dioramas: | Peter C. Graham | | Janelle Tougas | | Illustration: | Diana Thorneycroft | | 3D Animation: | Stephanein Boulet | | Phi Images |
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#Female Pleasure
In this rousing feminist primer, five women from around the world risk their lives to question the patriarchal barriers oppressing female sexual pleasure. From porn to art to advertising to religion, the true culprit of shame—misogyny—is exposed in all its forms.
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Switzerland | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | Religion & Spirituality | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Website: | http://www.femalepleasure.org | | | Director(s): | Barbara Miller | | Producer(s): | Philip Delaquis | | Editor(s): | Isabel Meier | | Cinematography: | Anne Misselwitz | | Gabriela Betschart | | Akiba Jiro | | Composer: | Peter Scherer |
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Flamenco at 5:15
The third short to win an Oscar for Studio D is set to a very different beat. Flamenco at 5:15 lets the camera sit back and simply observe National Ballet School of Canada students as they are taught the moves and proud spirit of the folkloric Andalusian dance of flamenco.
| | Runtime: | 29 | | Copyright: | 1983 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Cynthia Scott | | Producer(s): | Cynthia Scott | | Adam Symansky |
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Flight of the Butterflies 3D
Scientific advenutre meets detective story meets natural history epic in the compelling journey of the monarch butterfly—a perilous year-long migration from Mexico, across the US to Canada, exquisitely captured in beautiful IMAX cinematography.
| | Runtime: | 44 | | Copyright: | 2012 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Website: | http://www.flightofthebutterflies.com/ | | | Director(s): | Mike Slee | | Producer(s): | Jonathan Barker | | Rafael Cuervo | | Mike Slee | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonathan Barker | | Wendy MacKeigan | | Maria Elena Gutierrez Santoscoy | | Joanna Baldwin-Mallory | | Editor(s): | Susan Shipton | | Writer(s): | Mike Slee | | Wendy MacKeigan | | Cinematography: | Simon De Glanville | | Paul Williams | | Composer: | Leo Heiblum | | Jacobo Lieberman | | Sound: | Peter Thillaye |
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Framing John DeLorean
Car design guru, genius entrepreneur or brilliant criminal—who was the real John DeLorean? Narrative recreations starring Alec Baldwin punctuate revealing interviews with the enigmatic automaker's inner circle to elegantly parse the man from the scandalous myth.
| | Runtime: | 109 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | | Director(s): | Don Argott | | Sheena M. Joyce | | Producer(s): | Tamir Ardon | | Nick Spicer | | Don Argott | | Sheena M. Joyce | | Executive Producer(s): | Nate Bolotin | | Aram Tertzakian | | Nick Moceri | | Thane Ritchie | | Editor(s): | Demian Fenton | | Writer(s): | Dan Greeney | | Alexandra Orton | | Cinematography: | Don Argott | | Matthew Santo | | Composer: | Brooke Blair | | Will Blair |
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From the Dirt
In rural Manitoba, an elderly couple devote their time to the upkeep of their garden, which becomes a symbol of their loving, committed relationship during trying times of deteriorating health and lost loved ones.
| | Runtime: | 22 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Low German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Producer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Editor(s): | Tyler Funk | | Writer(s): | Carmen Ponto | | Tyler Funk | | Cinematography: | Tyler Funk | | Composer: | Natanielle Felicitas | | Sound: | Dmitri Belichenko |
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Gaza
Fully blockaded and home to almost two million people, the Gaza Strip is portrayed in the news as the world's largest open-air prison—but this rare immersion into everyday Palestinian life reveals the pressures of occupation and the humanity straining to flourish.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | Canada | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Poverty | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Middle East | | Website: | http://www.gazadocumentary.com | | | Director(s): | Garry Keane | | Andrew McConnell | | Producer(s): | Paul Cadieux | | Brendan J. Byrne | | Executive Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Maryse Rouillard | | Co-Producer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Editor(s): | Mick Mahon | | Cinematography: | Andrew McConnell | | Composer: | Ray Fabi | | Sound: | Benoi^t Dame | | Catherine Van Der Donckt |
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Gloria's Call
Blending animation, interviews and a trippy soundscape, this is a fitting look at the life of radical academic and writer Gloria Feman Orenstein's serendipitous life. She vividly conjures an alternative history of art, surrealism and eco-feminism in the 20th century, with lively anecdotes about Leonora Carrington, Méret Oppenheim and Jane Graverol, to name a few.
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://gloriascall.com/ | | | Director(s): | Cheri Gaulke | | Producer(s): | Cheryl Bookout | | Sue Maberry | | Cheri Gaulke | | Anne Gauldin | | Christine Papalexis | | Editor(s): | Cheri Gaulke | | Writer(s): | Anne Gauldin | | Cheri Gaulke | | Cinematography: | Daniel V. Lynn | | Composer: | Miriam Cutler |
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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
From a rural Ontario childhood to Greenwich Village of the '60s, stadium tours of the '70s and beyond, vivid archival footage helps chart the career of the legendary songwriter as he reveals the inspiration behind his lyrics and longevity.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Canada | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Producer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Executive Producer(s): | John Brunton | | John Murray | | Gary Slaight | | Editor(s): | Alex Shuper | | Writer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | | Cinematography: | Kristoff Rochon | | Composer: | John Welsman |
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Growing Up Female
Considered to be the first film of the modern US women's movement, this landmark doc first screened to controversy and exhilaration, profiling a diverse group of six girls and women on what it means to come of age in America.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 1971 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | Film Subjects: | America | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Julia Reichert | | Jim Klein | | Producer(s): | Jim Klein | | Julia Reichert | | Editor(s): | Jim Klein | | Julia Reichert | | Cinematography: | Jim Medalia |
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Happy Android
Tubby the Robot delights audiences young and old at at festivals and events around the world, but the man inside the machine struggles to find joy within himself. Battling depression and anxiety, performer Paul Cooper often feels like an automaton when he's not playing his robotic alter ego in this poignant exploration of the transformative power of creativity.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Producer(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Editor(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Writer(s): | Jaina Kalifa | | Cinematography: | Jaina Kalifa | | Composer: | Jacob de Weger | | Sound: | Peter Kurucz |
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Hi, AI
With artificial intelligence already in our homes and androids at our doorsteps, this poetic contemplation offers a challenging look at the new normal: robots that transcend gadgetry to assume intimate and indispensable roles in the everyday.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Japanese | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Technology & Culture | | Science & Technology | | | Director(s): | Isa Willinger | | Producer(s): | Stefan Kloos | | Editor(s): | Stephan Krumbiegel | | Olaf Voigtlaender | | Writer(s): | Isa Willinger | | Cinematography: | Julian Krubasik | | Composer: | Ralf Pilgram | | Sound: | Clemens Becker | | Tim Hofer | | Philipp Sellier | | Yoshitake Hashimoto |
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Hope Frozen
As scandal swirls around a grief-stricken Bangkok family and their unorthodox decision to cryopreserve their deceased two-year-old daughter, her ambitious whiz-kid brother is consumed with the effort to find the technology that will revive her.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Thailand | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Thai | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Mortality & Loss | | Science & Technology | | Southeast Asia | | Website: | http://www.hopefrozen.com | | | Director(s): | Pailin Wedel | | Producer(s): | Pailin Wedel | | Executive Producer(s): | Amanda Feldon | | Editor(s): | Nina Ijäs | | Writer(s): | Pailin Wedel | | Nina Ijäs | | Cinematography: | Mark Dobbin | | Mark Oltmanns | | Julian Hadden | | Martijn Payens | | Mikael Enlund | | Santipab Somboon | | Composer: | Chapavich Temnitikul | | Sound: | Akritchalerm Kalayanamit |
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The Hottest August
Amid news of devastating wildfires and hurricanes, rising rents and white nationalist marches, anxious residents of New York City and its outer boroughs ponder an unpredictable and potentially catastrophic future during one steamy summer month.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | America | | Ecology & the Environment | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.thehottestaugust.com | | | Director(s): | Brett Story | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Brett Story | | Executive Producer(s): | Maida Lynn | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Nels Bangerter | | Cinematography: | Derek Howard | | Composer: | Troy Herion | | Sound: | Ernst Karel |
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Hubble 3D
May 2009: NASA astronauts embark on a mission to perform maintenance and repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. As they go about their tasks in this celestial workplace, the danger and beauty surrounding them are breathtakingly captured.
| | Runtime: | 45 | | Copyright: | 2010 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | | Director(s): | Toni Myers | | Producer(s): | Toni Myers | | Judy Carroll | | Executive Producer(s): | Graeme Ferguson | | Editor(s): | Toni Myers | | Writer(s): | Toni Myers | | Graeme Ferguson | | Frank Summers | | Cinematography: | James Neihouse | | Composer: | Maribeth Solomon | | Micky Erbe | | Sound: | Peter Thillaye |
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Human Nature
In a brave new world in which science fiction collides with fact and DNA sequences can be edited with ease, this provocative examination forces us to reconsider what it means to be human.
| | Runtime: | 107 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Health & Healthcare | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.humannaturefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Adam Bolt | | Producer(s): | Sarah Goodwin | | Meredith Desalazar | | Elliot Kirschner | | Executive Producer(s): | Elliot Kirschner | | Dan Rather | | Greg Boustead | | Editor(s): | Regina Sobel | | Steve Tyler | | Writer(s): | Adam Bolt | | Regina Sobel | | Cinematography: | Derek Reich | | Composer: | Keegan Dewitt |
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Hunting for Hedonia
This fascinating doc follows the historic controversy and renewed enthusiasm over the burgeoning medical practice of deep brain stimulation, where tiny implanted electrodes have a remarkable effect on depression, addiction, stress disorders and more.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Science & Technology | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Pernille Rose Grønkjær | | Producer(s): | Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær | | Editor(s): | Claudio Huges | | Writer(s): | Lone Frank | | Cinematography: | Ben Bernhard | | Composer: | Jonas Struck | | Sound: | Peter Albrechtsen |
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I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter
This two-part HBO docu-series dives past the headlines and into the ethical morass of the case of Michelle Carter, who faces the prospect of jail time after coercing her boyfriend into suicide via text, blowing open troubling questions of how we communicate in the digital age.
| | Runtime: | 140 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Love & Relationships | | Mental Health & Addiction | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | Erin Lee Carr | | Producer(s): | Andrew Rossi | | Executive Producer(s): | Sheila Nevins | | Editor(s): | Andrew Coffman | | Cinematography: | Bryan Sarkinen | | Composer: | Ian Hultquist |
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"I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip…"
Fusing tough subject matter with wicked humour and inventive spoken word, this thought-provoking performative doc stages four young actresses playing interchangeable roles to recount real-life abortion experiences.
| | Runtime: | 42 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Health & Healthcare | | Website: | http://www.20storieshigh.org.uk/show/i-told-my-mum-i-was-going-on-an-r-e-trip-television-broadcast | | | Director(s): | Lindy Heymann | | Producer(s): | Julia Samuels | | Justine Potter | | Roxanne Moores | | Editor(s): | Mark Elliott | | Writer(s): | Julia Samuels | | Cinematography: | Deepa Keshvala | | Composer: | Keith Saha | | Sound: | Keith Saha |
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If You Love This Planet
Long before An Inconvenient Truth, Terre Nash filmed an American activist's powerful lecture on the horrors of nuclear war and proliferation, cut with newsreel footage of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Reagan administration labelled this short as propaganda and attempted to have it banned, but instead it won an Oscar.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 1982 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Terre Nash | | Producer(s): | Edward Le Lorrain |
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I'll Find A Way
Nadia is nine years old and lives in Toronto. She goes to swimming class and basketball practice; plays dress-up with her brother; and gets annoyed by the boys at school. She also has spina bifida. This short, narrated with frankness and gentle humour by Nadia, earned Studio D its first Oscar.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 1977 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Beverly Shaffer | | Producer(s): | Yuki Yoshida |
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Illusions of Control
From nuclear fallout to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, five women across the globe find the means to survive in an apocalyptic world decimated by human activity.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Chinese | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://illusionsofcontrol.com | | | Director(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Producer(s): | Andréa Schmidt | | Shannon Walsh | | Executive Producer(s): | Patrick Reed | | Editor(s): | Hart Snider | | Writer(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | | Composer: | Owen Pallett | | Sound: | Eugenio Battaglia |
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In My Blood It Runs
Considered a promising leader by his elders but a failing student by his westernized school teachers, an Aboriginal boy in central Australia must straddle two worlds, coming of age in the midst of a larger cultural battle between colonizers and colonized.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Aboriginal Engilsh | | Arrernte | | Garrwa | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Australasia | | Website: | http://www.inmyblooditruns.com | | | Director(s): | Maya Newell | | Collaborating Director(s): | Dujuan Hoosan | | Carol Turner | | Megan Hoosan | | James Mawson | | Margaret Anderson | | Producer(s): | Larissa Behrendt | | Maya Newell | | Rachel Edwardson | | Sophie Hyde | | Executive Producer(s): | Felicity Hayes | | Editor(s): | Bryan Mason | | Maya Newell | | Simon Price | | Writer(s): | Maya Newell | | Larissa Behrendt | | Sophie Hyde | | Rachel Edwardson | | Cinematography: | Maya Newell | | Composer: | Benjamin Speed | | Amit May Cohen | | Sound: | Kim Patrick |
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The Infiltrators
A group of courageous undocumented teenagers allow themselves to be apprehended and held in a secretive for-profit holding facility in Florida, where they mount a nail-biting bid to free fellow detainees awaiting deportation.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2017 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | DocX | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | America | | Crime & Justice | | | Director(s): | Alex Rivera | | Cristina Ibarra | | Producer(s): | Daniel Chalfen | | Darren Dean | | Cristina Ibarra | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Cohen | | Paula Froehle | | Lagralane Group | | Cristina Nolan | | Ken Nolan | | Ken Pelletier | | Nancy Blachman | | Katy Bettner | | Jim Butterworth | | Editor(s): | Alex Rivera | | Randy Redroad | | Writer(s): | Alex Rivera | | Aldo Velasco | | Cinematography: | Liz Rinzler | | Composer: | Tomandandy |
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Inside Lehman Brothers
A cautionary tale for the ages and a grim portent of what may come again, this detailed autopsy of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis highlights the mainly female mortgage brokers and accountants whose whistleblowing fell on deaf ears.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | France | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Deschamps | | Producer(s): | Ina Fichman | | Frederick Lacroix | | Editor(s): | Myriam Milent | | Lessandro Socrates | | Writer(s): | John Turner | | Jennifer Deschamps | | Cinematography: | Pierre Taillez | | Composer: | Medhat Hanbali |
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A Kandahar Away
When a family originally from Kandahar, Afghanistan, buys land in the tiny hamlet of Kandahar, Saskatchewan, their journey to consider the potential of the Prairies reveals a generational divide and clashing ideas on what it means to be Canadian.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Middle East | | Personal Histories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Producer(s): | Deborah Parks | | Executive Producer(s): | Shelley Saywell | | Editor(s): | Geoff Matheson | | Writer(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Cinematography: | John Westheuser | | Max Armstrong | | Composer: | Bruce Fowler | | Sound: | Sanjay Mehta | | Jason Milligan |
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Kifaru
This emotionally devastating up-close account of extinction tracks the final years of the world's last male northern white rhino, which unfold under the eyes of the dedicated Kenyan rangers who care for and protect him until the very end.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Kenya | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Swahili | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Animal Magnetism | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Animals & Animal Rights | | Ecology & the Environment | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://www.kifaruthefilm.com | | | Director(s): | David Hambridge | | Producer(s): | Andrew Harrison Brown | | Editor(s): | Andrew Harrison Brown | | Cinematography: | David Hambridge | | Andrew Harrison Brown | | Composer: | Kevin Matley |
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Killing Patient Zero
Skilfully revealing the homophobia behind the headlines, this doc traces the devastating impact of the 1980s AIDS epidemic and clears the name of the Québécois flight attendant who was infamously known as Patient Zero.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Health & Healthcare | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Science & Technology | | Website: | http://killingpatientzero.com | | | Director(s): | Laurie Lynd | | Producer(s): | Corey Russell | | Executive Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Editor(s): | Trevor Ambrose | | Writer(s): | Laurie Lynd | | Cinematography: | Paul Steinberg |
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Kings of Pastry
In this irresistible vérité confection, 16 pastry chefs from around the world face three days of back-breaking competition at the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, creating fanciful, gravity-defying French patisserie under the scrutiny of meticulous judges. Bon appétit!
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2009 | | Country Listing: | France | | Netherlands | | USA | | UK | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | | Film Subjects: | Food | | | Director(s): | Chris Hegedus | | D A Pennebaker | | Producer(s): | Frazer Pennebaker | | Flora Lazar | | Executive Producer(s): | Frazer Pennebaker | | Editor(s): | Chris Hegedus | | D A Pennebaker | | Cinematography: | Chris Hegedus | | D A Pennebaker | | Nick Doob | | Composer: | Alex Toledano | | Sebastien Gineaux |
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Knock Down the House
This rollercoaster ride follows four progressive women—including Bronx bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—behind the scenes and in the streets as they grind through long-shot grassroots campaigns for Congress during the 2018 US midterms.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | | Director(s): | Rachel Lears | | Producer(s): | Rachel Lears | | Robin Blotnick | | Sarah Olson | | Editor(s): | Robin Blotnick | | Writer(s): | Rachel Lears | | Robin Blotnick | | Composer: | Ryan Blotnick | | Tyler Wood |
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Lake
Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic cinema verité to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in northern Alberta.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Alexandra Lazarowich | | Producer(s): | Coty Savard | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Editor(s): | Asia Youngman | | Writer(s): | Alexandra Lazarowich | | Cinematography: | Lindsay McIntyre | | Sound: | Charlene Moore | | Johnny Blerot |
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Last Breath
When a commercial diver is stranded hundreds of feet underwater with only five minutes of oxygen, his crew launches an eleventh-hour rescue mission in a ferocious storm. Told with incredible underwater access, this suspenseful story stares death in the face.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Survivor Stories | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/lastbreathdoc | | | Director(s): | Alex Parkinson | | Richard da Costa | | Producer(s): | Al Morrow | | Richard da Costa | | Stewart le Maréchal | | Angus Lamont | | Dylan Williams | | Alex Parkinson | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonny Persey | | Vesna Cudic | | Lesley Finlay | | Tony Nellany | | Martin Pieper | | Bastien Sirodot | | Adrian Politowski | | Editor(s): | Sam Rogers | | Writer(s): | Alex Parkinson | | Cinematography: | Alistair McCormick | | Eric Börjeson | | Composer: | Paul Leonard-Morgan | | Sound: | Ben Baird |
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The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
With remarkable access, this Oscar-nominated short follows workers affected by the closure of a General Motors plant in Ohio, as they prepare to build one final truck on the assembly line. Talking with the workers on the plant floor, in their cars and over beers at the bar, The Last Truck evocatively shows the human impact of not just the plant closing, but the loss of an entire social ecosystem.
| | Runtime: | 40 | | Copyright: | 2009 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | G | | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | Website: | http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-last-truck-closing-of-a-gm-plant | | | Director(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Producer(s): | Julia Reichert | | Steven Bognar | | Executive Producer(s): | Sheila Nevins | | Editor(s): | Steven Bognar | | Jim Klein | | Cinematography: | Steven Bognar | | Composer: | Tim Berger | | Sound: | Julia Reichert |
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Letter to Theo
A love letter to the late Greek director Theo Angelopoulos becomes a profoundly moving essay on contemporary Greece: a country battered by an interminable economic crisis, yet still passionately fighting to preserve its dignity.
| | Runtime: | 63 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Greek | | Dari | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Southern Europe | | Website: | http://www.iotaproduction.com/films/film.php?id=79 | | | Director(s): | Elodie Lélu | | Producer(s): | Isabelle Truc | | Editor(s): | Aurélien Lebourg | | Philippe Boucq | | Writer(s): | Elodie Lélu | | Cinematography: | Tristan Galand | | Sound: | Bruno Schweisguth | | Félix Brume |
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Libre
"Call today and reunite your family tomorrow." Undocumented immigrants are given the opportunity to leave detention by agreeing to be shackled with an electronic anklet. Libre, the company that supplies this hardware, makes a mockery of freedom by imprisoning their clients economically with exorbitant monthly fees.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Anna Barsan | | Producer(s): | Anna Barsan | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Editor(s): | Anna Barsan | | Mitra Bonshahi | | Cinematography: | Diana Diroy | | Brian Redondo | | Martyna Starosta | | Sound: | Gisella Fulla Silvestre |
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Life in Miniature
For Kath Holden, no detail is too small, as demonstrated by her whimsical miniatures of the paraphernalia of ordinary life. Hair dryers, ironing boards and cameras are amongst her meticulously crafted masterpieces. In eschewing the more genteel forms created by traditional miniaturists, Kath has carved a truly unique place for herself in this antiquated world.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.ellen-evans.com/life-in-miniature | | | Director(s): | Ellen Evans | | Producer(s): | Ellen Evans | | Editor(s): | Jon Crook | | Cinematography: | Thomas Doran | | Composer: | Danyal Dhondy |
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Rooted in Indigenous storytelling, a series of vignettes chronicle the traumas and triumphs that have shaped the remarkable life and work of climate justice activist Clayton Thomas-Müller.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com | | | Director(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Spencer Mann | | Producer(s): | Spencer Mann | | Executive Producer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Editor(s): | Spencer Mann | | Writer(s): | Clayton Thomas-Müller | | Anna Lee-Popham | | Cinematography: | Spencer Mann | | Composer: | Flying Down Thunder | | Rise Ashen | | Fawn Wood | | Leonard Sumner | | Sound: | Spencer Mann |
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Limit is the Sky
Raging wildfires, tanking oil prices and anti-pipeline sentiments are just a few of the obstacles facing millennials working service jobs in boomtown Fort MacMurray, dreaming of making big bucks in the macho culture of Alberta's oil sands.
| | Runtime: | 108 | | Copyright: | 2016 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Labour & Working People | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Bonnie Thompson | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova |
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A Lion in the House
This Emmy-winning, four-hour epic follows five children battling cancer over the course of six years. Filmed with unprecedented access to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, it is an intense and deeply moving monument to human fragility and resilience.
| | Runtime: | 230 | | Copyright: | 2006 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | 18A | | | Festival Year: | 2006 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Healthcare | | Mortality & Loss | | | Director(s): | Julia Reichert | | Steven Bognar | | Producer(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Editor(s): | Steven Bognar | | Kevin Jones | | Jim Klein | | Mary Lampson | | Jaime Meyers | | Julia Reichert | | Cinematography: | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Composer: | Tim Berger |
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Long Time Comin'
Acclaimed writer Dionne Brand charts the work of two trailblazing Black lesbian Canadian artists—singer-songwriter Faith Nolan and multimedia visual artist Grace Channer—who discuss art, race and sexuality in this intimate tête-a-tête.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 1993 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Canada | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Race & Racism | | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Dionne Brand | | Producer(s): | Nicole Hubert |
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Love Translated
In a poignant but fast-paced comedy of errors and exploitation, dreams clash with reality when 10 Western men seeking Ukrainian brides untainted by feminism take a tour in Odessa organized by an online dating site.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2010 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Love & Relationships | | Women & Women's Stories | | Russia & Eastern Europe | | Website: | http://www.lovetranslatedonfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Boris Ivanov | | Editor(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Cinematography: | Rene Smith | | Composer: | Boris Sichon | | Dave King |
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The Magic Life of V
Armouring herself with a fairy-tale alter ego through live-action role play, a young woman cannot let go of memories of brutal childhood abuse until she's ready to step out of her elaborate fantasy world and face the real monster from her past.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Finnish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Survivor Stories | | Women & Women's Stories | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Tonislav Hristov | | Producer(s): | Kaarle Aho | | Kai Nordberg | | Kirstine Barfod | | Andrea Stanoeva | | Editor(s): | Anne Jünemann | | Tonislav Hristov | | Writer(s): | Tonislav Hristov | | Kaarle Aho | | Cinematography: | Alexander Stanishev | | Composer: | Petar Dundakov | | Sound: | Jacques Pedersen |
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Mahogany Too
"Do you know where you're going to? Do you like the things that life is showin' you?" Diana Ross's lyrics bring the past into the present in this Nollywood-inspired sequel to her 1975 cult film Mahogany. A celebration of beauty, ambition and fashion, this reimagining blends vintage and visionary reflections of what the mirror sees.
| | Runtime: | 4 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Producer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Executive Producer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Editor(s): | Dylan Bowman | | Writer(s): | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Cinematography: | Akosua Adoma Owusu | | Sound: | Kari Rae Seekins |
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Massacre River
When over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent are left stateless after the country rules their citizenship invalid, violence and unchecked xenophobia erupts, and one woman races to gain legal status to stay with her daughter before the clock runs out.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Haitian Creole | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Racism | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Suzan Beraza | | Producer(s): | Suzan Beraza | | David Byars | | Executive Producer(s): | Abigail Disney | | Gini Reticker | | Editor(s): | Suzan Beraza | | Cheree Dillon | | Casey Nay | | Cinematography: | David Byars | | Composer: | Cleod9 Music | | Kirk Drogsvold | | Malou Beauvoir | | Kyra Kopestonsky |
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Maxima
A multi-billion-dollar mining corporation would never suspect that one Peruvian subsistence farmer could bring them to their knees, but they meet their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Latin America | | Poverty | | | Director(s): | Claudia Sparrow | | Producer(s): | Ryan Schwartz | | Claudia Sparrow | | Executive Producer(s): | Lesley Chilcott | | Leandro Marini | | Louise Runge | | Steven J. Berger | | Scott Dixon | | Susan Bay Nimoy | | Editor(s): | Alejandro Valdes-Rochin | | Composer: | Mauricio Yazigi |
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Meeting a Monster
In this sobering and timely experience of how hate takes root, follow one woman's journey from violent white supremacist to co-founder of the non-profit Life After Hate.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Gabriela Arp | | Producer(s): | Gabriela Arp | | Field Producer(s): | Evey Wilson | | Editor(s): | Gabriela Arp | | Jason Drakeford | | Flight School | | Cinematography: | Gabriela Arp | | Jason Drakeford | | Matthew Addington | | Marcelo Asher | | Composer: | Improvement Movement | | Sound: | Chris VanBrackle | | One Thousand Birds | | Graphic Design: | Jason Drakeford | | Joshua Sankar | | Set Designer: | Elizabeth Jarrett |
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Memory - The Origins of Alien
On the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's iconic masterpiece, travel deep into interstellar space and through the minds of the artists that created one of the most haunting and visceral science fiction horror films of all time.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Alexandre O. Philippe | | Producer(s): | Kerry Deignan Roy | | Robert Muratore | | Annick Mahnert | | Chad Herschberger | | Executive Producer(s): | Diane O’Bannon | | Carmen Giger | | Leslie Barany | | Editor(s): | Chad Herschberger | | Writer(s): | Alexandre O. Philippe | | Cinematography: | Robert Muratore | | Composer: | Jon Hegel | | Sound: | Phillip Lloyd Hegel |
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Memory Video
Viva Video in Philadelphia is the passion of owner Miguel Gomez, inspired by nostalgic childhood memories of video stores. In a post-Blockbuster age, his store has realized modest success, but as streaming looks set to swallow his audience, he fears Viva Video might become a retro curiosity.
| | Runtime: | 9 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.memoryvideo.film | | | Director(s): | Roy Power | | Producer(s): | Wendy Raad | | Executive Producer(s): | Justin Andrews | | Arty Goldstein | | Scott Beer | | Editor(s): | Murphy McCann | | Cinematography: | Andrew Drachman | | Composer: | Esin Aydingoz | | Adam Traister | | Sound: | Joanna Katcher |
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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Nine years after her death, a pioneering Maori filmmaker who paved the way internationally for Indigenous women in film is celebrated by her son and his siblings in this deeply moving tribute.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | New Zealand | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Australasia | | | Director(s): | Hepi Mita | | Producer(s): | Chelsea Winstanley | | Executive Producer(s): | Cliff Curtis | | Editor(s): | Te Rurehe Paki | | Writer(s): | Hepi Mita | | Cinematography: | Mike Jonathon | | Composer: | Tama Waipara |
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Midnight Traveler
When the Taliban puts a bounty on an Afghan director's head, he captures on camera his family's uncertain and dangerous quest for asylum in this account of the love shared between a family on the run.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Qatar | | UK | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Afghan Persian | | English | | Bulgarian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Personal Histories | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Website: | http://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/films/midnighttraveler | | | Director(s): | Hassan Fazili | | Producer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Su Kim | | Writer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Cinematography: | Hassan Fazili | | Fatima Fazili | | Nargis Fazili | | Zahar Fazili |
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Never-before-seen footage and studio session outtakes reconstruct the rich inner life of one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, along with new interviews from the artists he inspired, including Quincy Jones and Carlos Santana.
| | Runtime: | 113 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | UK | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | Website: | http://www.milesdavismovie.com | | | Director(s): | Stanley Nelson | | Producer(s): | Nicole London | | Stanley Nelson | | Executive Producer(s): | Terry Shand | | Geoff Kempin | | Michael Kantor | | Editor(s): | Lewis Erskine |
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Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
The filmmaker ushers us through a poignant memoir of her deaf son growing up and her deaf father facing his twilight years, scored by the melancholy notes of Beethoven's iconic sonata, written when the composer's own hearing began to fail.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | American Sign Language | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Music & Musicians | | | Director(s): | Irene Taylor Brodsky | | Producer(s): | Tahria Sheather | | Irene Taylor Brodsky | | Executive Producer(s): | Lisa Heller | | Nancy Abraham | | Nion McEvoy | | Leslie Berriman | | Sheila Nevins | | Sara Bernstein | | Lynda Weinman | | Patty Quillin | | Editor(s): | Bill Weber | | Irene Taylor Brodsky | | Cinematography: | Nick Midwig | | Irene Taylor Brodsky | | Composer: | Dylan Stark | | Ben Johnson | | Hunter Noack | | Lazerbeak | | August von Trapp | | Sound: | Lance Limbocker |
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Mothers Of
This is the unconscionable story of Teodora del Carmen Vasquez, who suffers a stillbirth at full term and is cruelly sentenced to an 11-year jail sentence in El Salvador under some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the world.
| | Runtime: | 19 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ross Lai | | Producer(s): | Nicolas Houghton | | Christian Tyler | | Tamara Sulliman | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrew Simon | | Editor(s): | Ashton Lewis | | Cinematography: | Diego Guijarro | | Composer: | Umber Hamid | | Christopher Stiliadis | | Sound: | Boombox Sound |
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Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man
An eccentric, passionate entrepreneur becomes an unlikely hero on a high-stakes mission: solving the dire global sanitation crisis. When his project to secure six million toilets for India is jeopardized, hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Hindi | | Telugu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Health & Healthcare | | South & Central Asia | | Website: | http://www.mrtoiletfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Lily Zepeda | | Producer(s): | Tchavdar Georgiev | | Lily Zepeda | | Eugene Efuni | | Executive Producer(s): | Conrad Whelan | | Jason Choo | | Co-Producer(s): | Greta McAnany | | Editor(s): | Monique Zavistovski | | Hee-Jae Park | | Writer(s): | Lily Zepeda | | Monique Zavistovski | | Tchavdar Georgiev | | Hee-Jae Park | | Cinematography: | Khairulhakim Mohamad Bashir | | Saptarshi Roy | | Mrinal Desai | | Siyan Lu | | Composer: | Nick Urata | | Sound: | Ugo Derouard | | Animation: | Kunal Sen | | Tisha Deb Pillai |
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My Dads, My Moms and Me
Twelve years ago, Julia Ivanova captured the plight of four gay men confronting homophobic social censure to raise babies. Now, weaving in joyful scenes from her original film, she returns to see how these brave new families are faring.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Focus On Julia Ivanova | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Producer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Editor(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Writer(s): | Julia Ivanova | | Cinematography: | Julia Ivanova | | Composer: | John Korsrud | | Sound: | Doug Paterson |
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Mystify: Michael Hutchence
The enigmatic frontman of wildly popular Australian rock band INXS, who died tragically in 1997, is remembered by the women in his life, including revealing interviews with famous girlfriends Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen.
| | Runtime: | 104 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Love & Relationships | | Mental Health & Addiction | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Richard Lowenstein | | Producer(s): | Maya Gnyp | | John Battsek | | Sue Murray | | Mark Fennessy | | Richard Lowenstein | | Lynn-Maree Milburn | | Andrew de Groot | | Executive Producer(s): | Maiken Baird | | Domenico Procacci | | Mandy Chang | | Editor(s): | Richard Lowenstein | | Lynn-Maree Milburn | | Tayler Martin | | Cinematography: | Andrew de Groot | | Composer: | Michael Hutchence | | Andrew Farriss | | Ollie Olsen | | Warren Ellis | | Sound: | Robert Mackenzie |
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N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear
The life and career of Pulitzer Prize–winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday, one of Native America's most celebrated literary figures, is explored in this spiritual journey through the expansive landscapes of the West and New Mexico.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Writers & Books | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/WordsfromaBear | | | Director(s): | Jeffrey Palmer | | Producer(s): | Jeffrey Palmer | | Youngsun Palmer | | Executive Producer(s): | Michael Kantor | | Shirley Sneve | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Editor(s): | Nancy Novack | | Evan Anthony | | Cinematography: | Jeffrey Palmer | | Youngsun Palmer | | Daniel Montano | | Charles Kennedy | | Peshawn Bread | | Aaron Hlavaty | | Composer: | Aska Matsumiya | | Sound: | Coll Anderson | | Michael Phenix |
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nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up
A grieving family's pursuit of justice becomes a flashpoint of the inequity and racism in the Canadian legal system after the killer of Colten Boushie, a young Cree man in Saskatchewan, is acquitted of murder charges.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Cree | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Families & Family Relationships | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Producer(s): | Bonnie Thompson | | Tasha Hubbard | | George Hupka | | Jon Montes | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Kathy Avrich-Johnson | | Janice Dawe | | Editor(s): | Hans Olson | | Writer(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Cinematography: | George Hupka | | Composer: | Jason Burnstick | | Sound: | Evan Rust |
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Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy
Dubbed "the Mick Jagger of Mexican cooking," a 96-year-old firebrand chef who's spent her career celebrating the country's regional cuisines rushes to solidify her hard-earned legacy in the face of her own mortality.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Ecology & the Environment | | Food | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Latin America | | Website: | http://nothingfancydk.com | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth Carroll | | Producer(s): | Elizabeth Carroll | | Dan Braun | | Gina Abatemarco | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonathan Gould | | Anna Godas | | Margaret Martin | | Editor(s): | Andrei Zakow | | Jordan Schulkin | | Cinematography: | Paul Mailman | | Andrei Zakow | | Composer: | Graham Reynolds | | Dan Teicher | | Sound: | Christopher Schneider |
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Older, Stronger, Wiser
A farmer; a union activist; a bookshop owner; a reverend; a domestic worker. In this short oral history, five Black women reflect on the lives they've led and describe the challenges of growing up in the rural townships and urban centres of mid-century Canada.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 1989 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Claire Prieto | | Producer(s): | Ginny Stikeman |
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On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship
The world celebrated in 2015 when Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to power by a landslide in Myanmar. But can she build a democracy on the foundations of a brutal military dictatorship and entrenched ethnic discrimination?
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | France | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Burmese | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Politics & Political Intrigue | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Women & Women's Stories | | Southeast Asia | | Website: | http://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/scener-fra-et-militaerdiktatur | | | Director(s): | Karen Stokkendal Poulsen | | Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Valerie Montmartin | | Editor(s): | Giles Gardner |
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On The President's Orders
With unprecedented access inside President Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines, this shocking exposé embeds cameras behind both the blue lines of a police kill squad in Manila and their targets, the ordinary families of the city's slums.
| | Runtime: | 71 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Tagalog | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Justice | | Mental Health & Addiction | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Poverty | | Southeast Asia | | Website: | http://www.onthepresidentsorders.com | | | Director(s): | James Jones | | Olivier Sarbil | | Producer(s): | Raney Aronson-Rath | | Dan Edge | | James Jones | | Executive Producer(s): | Mandy Chang | | Hayley Reynolds | | Raney Aronson-Rath | | Mark Edwards | | Dan Edge | | Sandra Whipham | | Rebecca Litchenfeld | | Editor(s): | Michael Harte | | Writer(s): | James Jones | | Dan Edge | | Cinematography: | Olivier Sarbil | | Composer: | Uno Helmersson |
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One Child Nation
Through vérité footage and raw interviews, this fearless, Sundance Award–winning exposé unmasks the wrenching costs to millions of families of China's infamous 1979 "one-child policy," introduced to curb population growth and boost sweeping economic development.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2018 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Asia | | | Director(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Jialing Zhang | | Producer(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Jialing Zhang | | Julie Goldman | | Christoph Jörg | | Christopher Clements | | Carolyn Hepburn | | Executive Producer(s): | Ken Pelletier | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Nanfu Wang | | Cinematography: | Nanfu Wang | | Yuanchen Liu | | Composer: | Nathan Halpern | | Chris Ruggiero |
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Our Dance of Revolution
Protest and passion ground this long-overdue look at Toronto's Black LGBTQ community, featuring a rousing oral history of struggle and triumph from four decades of local legends and freedom fighters.
| | Runtime: | 102 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Canada | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.ourdanceofrevolution.com | | | Director(s): | Phillip Pike | | Producer(s): | Phillip Pike | | Editor(s): | Eugene Weis | | Cinematography: | Jack Weisman | | Composer: | Gavin Bradley |
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Our Godfather
The family of a high-ranking Sicilian mob boss comes out of 30 years of hiding to tell the gripping tale of how he helped convict over 400 Mafiosi—and became the most hunted witness in US criminal history.
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Russia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Italian | | Brazilian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Crime & Justice | | Italy | | Website: | http://ourgodfatherdoc.com | | | Director(s): | Mark Franchetti | | Andrew Meier | | Producer(s): | Mark Franchetti | | Andrew Meier | | Editor(s): | David Charap | | Writer(s): | Mark Franchetti | | Andrew Meier | | David Charap | | Cinematography: | Lars Skree | | Composer: | Simon Elms | | Colin Smith | | Sound: | Joel Hernandez | | Vasily Amochkin |
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Pacific
Looming 25 storeys high, an apartment building in Brussels is known colloquially as the "Suicide Tower" after a rash of jumping deaths. With an elegant and subtle survey of her neighbours' reactions, filmmaker and resident Angie Obeid shows how a building can manifest its inhabitants' loneliness and fear of the other into something deadly.
| | Runtime: | 23 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Lebanon | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Angie Obeid | | Producer(s): | Angie Obeid | | Editor(s): | Dani Abo Louh | | Cinematography: | Angie Obeid | | Sound: | Arne Thomas |
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The Pickup Game
This provocative insider investigation exposes the secrets of the scandal-filled yet thriving pickup industry, where would-be Casanovas pay to be coached in the art of seduction.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | Technology & Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Producer(s): | James De Val | | Mike Willoughby | | Cassandra Roberts | | Giselle Fryatt | | Will Watson | | Executive Producer(s): | Will Watson | | Editor(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Writer(s): | Matthew O'Connor | | Barnaby O'Connor | | Mike Willoughby | | Will Watson | | Cassandra Roberts | | James De Val | | Giselle Fryatt | | Cinematography: | Vince Knight | | Claire Buxton | | Tom Webster | | Sound: | Ed Railton |
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Picture Character
Explore the evolution of emojis, the colourful and creative pictorial language that surged from a simple set of icons to a swiftly evolving linguistic phenomenon that is reshaping how we communicate.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Popular Culture | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | Ian Cheney | | Martha Shane | | Producer(s): | Jennifer Lee | | Ian Cheney | | Martha Shane |
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Pipe Dreams
Converging on Montreal for the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, five talented young musicians from around the globe face off to master "the king of instruments," with their determination proving to be as moving as their artistry and skill.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Music & Musicians | | Canada | | Website: | http://www.pipedreamsdoc.ca | | | Director(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Producer(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Editor(s): | Howard Goldberg | | Writer(s): | Stacey Tenenbaum | | Cinematography: | Pierre-Etienne Bordeleau | | Composer: | Tim Rideout | | Sound: | Michel Gauvin |
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A Place of Tide and Time
The old guard of a remote fishing village in eastern Quebec fight for their traditional life and livelihood after the cod industry's collapse, while their teenage children embrace exile as their only chance at happiness.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://www.aplaceoftideandtime.com | | | Director(s): | Sébastien Rist | | Aude Leroux-Lévesque | | Producer(s): | Jean-simon Chartier | | Editor(s): | Andréa Henriquez |
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Prey
This riveting story of deceit, corruption and vindication follows a survivor of sexual abuse as he and his lawyer take on the Catholic Church in an Ontario court.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Matt Gallagher | | Producer(s): | Cornelia Principe | | Matt Gallagher | | Nick Hector (co-producer) | | Editor(s): | Nick Hector | | Cinematography: | Matt Gallagher | | Composer: | Justin Small | | Ohad Benchetrit |
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Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
Artists Kent Monkman, Shepard Fairey and Ai Weiwei highlight this cautionary tale about the power of persuasion. As the roots of indoctrination are traced from cave drawings through to presidential tweets, potent lies have never been better disguised.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Italian | | Chinese | | Rohingya | | Korean | | Arabic | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Journalism & The Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | | Director(s): | Larry Weinstein | | Producer(s): | Aeschylus Poulos | | Bernd Wilting | | Sonya Di Rienzo | | Mathias von der Heide | | Executive Producer(s): | Jane Jankovic | | Wolfgang Bergmann | | Natasha Negrea | | Martin Pieper | | Michael Robson | | Neil Tabatznik | | Editor(s): | David New | | Writer(s): | David Mortin | | Andrew Edmonds | | Cinematography: | John Minh Tran | | Composer: | Raffael Seyfried | | Andreas Schäfer | | Sound: | Adam Burke | | Sanjay Mehta | | David McCallum | | Ian Rankin | | Jane Tattersall | | David Caporale | | David Rose |
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Prophecy
From first to last stroke of the paintbrush, watch Scottish painter Peter Howson's creative process unfold as he brings a massive canvas to life with an epic and apocalyptic work of art.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Western & Central Europe | | Website: | https://www.prophecymovie.uk | | | Director(s): | Charlie Paul | | Producer(s): | Lucy Paul | | Editor(s): | Joby Gee | | Cinematography: | Charlie Paul | | Composer: | Peteris Vasks | | Sound: | Charlie Paul |
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Push
As skyrocketing housing prices and stagnant incomes squeeze families out of cities worldwide, a newly appointed UN specialist from Ottawa travels from Toronto to Barcelona to London and beyond, fighting to have affordable housing recognized as a human right.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Italian | | Korean | | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | America | | Latin America | | Asia | | Southern Europe | | Northern Europe | | Western & Central Europe | | Website: | http://www.pushthefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Fredrik Gertten | | Producer(s): | Margarete Jangård | | Executive Producer(s): | Fredrik Gertten | | Editor(s): | Erik Bäfving | | Writer(s): | Fredrik Gertten | | Cinematography: | Janice d'Avila | | Iris Ng | | Composer: | Florencia Di Concilio | | Sound: | Martin Hennel |
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Question Period
A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions. Directed by Ann Marie Fleming, one of the original Five Feminist Minutes filmmakers.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Ann Marie Fleming | | Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | | Editor(s): | Jessica Dymond | | Writer(s): | Ann Marie Fleming | | Cinematography: | Lindsay George | | Sound: | Eva Madden |
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Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story
Following an infamous on-court brawl, Ron Artest became the most maligned athlete in sports. This distinctly American biography follows him from his childhood in Queens to his turbulent NBA years to his reinvention as inspiring mental health advocate Metta World Peace.
| | Runtime: | 116 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Mental Health & Addiction | | Sports & Recreation | | | Director(s): | Johnny Sweet | | Producer(s): | Colleen Dominguez | | Omar Michaud | | Johnny Sweet | | Editor(s): | Jason Sanchez | | Pier De Sanctis | | Writer(s): | Tom Friend | | Cinematography: | Jonathan Belinski | | Bryan Brousseau | | Mark James | | Danny Hardy |
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Radical
Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and time well spent as the fearless agent of her own destiny. A joyous call to action.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | | Director(s): | Deanne Foley | | Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Justin Simms | | Writer(s): | Mary Walsh | | Cinematography: | Sylvaine Dufaux | | Composer: | Lori Clarke | | Sound: | Scott Yates |
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
For three decades, a reclusive activist meticulously recorded 24-hour news cycles every day until her death. Now uncovered, her archive of 70,000 VHS tapes reveals a subtle form of resistance and an obsession that nearly tore her family apart.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Families & Family Relationships | | Journalism & The Media | | Website: | http://www.recorderfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Matt Wolf | | Producer(s): | Kyle Martin | | Andrew Kortschak | | Walter Kortschak | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrew Kortschak | | Walter Kortschak | | Editor(s): | Keiko Deguchi | | Cinematography: | Chris Dapkins | | Matt Mitchell | | Composer: | Owen Pallett |
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The Reformist – A Female Imam
In Denmark, a strong-willed Muslim woman opens one of Europe's first mosques run by female imams, challenging both fundamentalism and Islamophobia with a staunch belief that only the wisest and most knowledgeable—regardless of gender—should be religious leaders.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Danish | | English | | Arabic | | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Race & Racism | | Religion & Spirituality | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Marie Skovgaard | | Producer(s): | Jesper Jack | | Editor(s): | Rasmus Nyholm Schmidt | | Cinematography: | Marie Skovgaard | | Mathias Nyholm Schmidt | | Sun Hee Engelstoft | | Composer: | Philippe Boix-Vives | | Sound: | Peter Schultz |
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The Rest
From Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei comes a powerful work that follows the daily lives of refugees in Europe as they hang in limbo between a disintegrating humanitarian aid system and intensifying nationalism.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | French | | German | | Turkish | | Arabic | | Kurdish | | Farsi | | Italian | | Greek | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Western & Central Europe | | | Director(s): | Ai Weiwei | | Producer(s): | Ai Weiwei | | Editor(s): | Fen Wang | | Cinematography: | Niels Benoist | | Christopher Doyle | | Wenhai Huang | | Konstantinos Koukoulis | | Renaat Lambeets | | Dongxu Li | | Hengzhong Lv | | Yan Ma | | Johannes Waltermann | | Zanbo Zhang | | Zhenwei Xie | | Composer: | Karsten Fundal | | Sound: | Srdjan Bajski | | Stelios Bouziotis | | Yves Goossens Bara | | Tasos Karededos | | Oguz Kaynak | | Zenon Panosiflis | | Kiriakos Poukamisas | | Lajos Wienkamp Marques |
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RIOT NOT DIET
Outdated patriarchal notions of beauty, size and conformity are overthrown by a group of women who present a new and inclusive paradigm, embodied by the rallying cry "RIOT NOT DIET." Shame is shunned, and instead, size, feminism and queer modalities are celebrated and unleashed. Coming soon to a public space near you!
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | German | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://juliafuhrmann.com/portfolio_page/riotnotdiet/ | | | Director(s): | Julia Fuhr Mann | | Producer(s): | Andreas Günther | | Editor(s): | Andi Pek | | Writer(s): | Julia Fuhr Mann | | Anna Christ | | Cinematography: | Julia Swoboda | | Composer: | Zdrada Palki | | Sound: | Cornelia Böhm |
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Scenes from a Dry City
Cape Town is closing in on "Day Zero," when citizens' taps will run dry. It's a perfect storm of catastrophic drought, rapid population growth, political infighting, unchecked construction, racial and economic inequity—in all, a foreboding future shock. Part biblical disaster, part Thunderdome anarchy, this is what a world without water looks like.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | François Verster | | Simon Wood | | Producer(s): | François Verster | | Simon Wood | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Editor(s): | Khalid Shamis | | Cinematography: | Simon Wood | | François Verster | | Composer: | Peter Coyte | | Cornell Boshoff | | Braam du Toit |
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Scheme Birds
A scrappy soon-to-be mother, burning with her generation's frustration at society's unrealized promises, struggles to find peace and a future in a fading Scottish steel town rife with gang violence.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Poverty | | Women & Women's Stories | | Western & Central Europe | | | Director(s): | Ellinor Hallin | | Ellen Fiske | | Producer(s): | Ruth Reid | | Mario Adamson | | Editor(s): | Hanna Lejonqvist | | Cinematography: | Ellinor Hallin | | Composer: | Charlie Jefferson |
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Sea of Shadows
While harvesting a rare fish in the Gulf of California, reckless poachers are also pushing the world's most elusive whale to extinction. Follow activists and undercover agents as they fight Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia in a heart-pounding race against greed.
| | Runtime: | 104 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Austria | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Animal Magnetism | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Asia | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Richard Ladkani | | Producer(s): | Wolfgang Knöpfler | | Walter Köhler | | Executive Producer(s): | Laura Nix | | Rebecca Cammisa | | Scott Z. Burns | | Phillip Watson | | Leonardo DiCaprio | | Jennifer Davisson | | Michael Frenschkowski | | Dinah Czezik-Müller | | Editor(s): | Verena Schönauer | | Georg Michael Fischer | | Cinematography: | Richard Ladkani | | Composer: | H. Scott Salinas | | Sound: | Bernhard Zorzi | | Roland Winkler | | Michael Plöderl |
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Seahorse
For a British trans man yearning for a child, the journey to conceiving is anything but straightforward. Through intimate access, experience this story of heartache, determination and love that illuminates what it truly takes to be a father.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.seahorsefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Jeanie Finlay | | Producer(s): | Jeanie Finlay | | Andrea Cornwell | | Executive Producer(s): | Orlando Von Einsiedel | | Charlie Phillips | | Editor(s): | Alice Powell | | Writer(s): | Jeanie Finlay | | Cinematography: | Jeanie Finlay | | Richard Jephcote | | Mark Bushnell | | Composer: | Tara Creme | | Sound: | Pip Norton |
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Searching Eva
Refusing to fix her own identity and career in permanence, the enigmatic protagonist of this thoroughly millennial character study proves through selfies, sex scenes and social media that online, you can be everything and nothing at once.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Technology & Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://syndicadofs.com/films/searching-eva | | | Director(s): | Pia Hellenthal | | Producer(s): | Daniela Dieterich | | Erik Winker | | Editor(s): | Yana Höhnerbach | | Writer(s): | Giorgia Malatrasi | | Pia Hellenthal | | Cinematography: | Janis Mazuch | | Sound: | Marcus Zilz |
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Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Filmed at the height of Reaganism, this Oscar-nominated history of the Communist Party in America traces the roots of Social Security and EI, and went on to become one of the most widely screened docs of the '80s.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 1983 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | Film Subjects: | America | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Labour & Working People | | | Director(s): | Julia Reichert | | Jim Klein | | Producer(s): | Julia Reichert | | Jim Klein | | Editor(s): | Jim Klein | | Julia Reichert | | Cinematography: | Martin Duckworth | | Stephen Lighthill | | Sandi Sissel |
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The Seer and the Unseen
One of Iceland's most respected seers—thought to be able to communicate with the elvish realm—becomes a frontline ecological activist against development that threatens to devastate the countryside and the elves' sacred homelands.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Icelandic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Making Believe | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Religion & Spirituality | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Sara Dosa | | Producer(s): | Shane Boris | | Sara Dosa | | Executive Producer(s): | Richard Berge | | Bonni Cohen | | Jon Shenk | | Editor(s): | Erin Casper | | Cinematography: | Patrick Kollman | | Composer: | Giosue Greco | | Tara Atkinson | | Dan Romer | | Sound: | Lawrence Everson |
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Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery
When a reggae fanatic unearths a record by a mysterious diva in a Toronto junk shop, his resulting musical obsession drives him on an increasingly desperate quest to Kingston, Jamaica, to track down the song's elusive singer.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Jamaican Patois | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Popular Culture | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Producer(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Executive Producer(s): | Matthew Bate | | Herbie Miller | | Editor(s): | Sonia Godding Togobo | | Cinematography: | Graeme Mathieson | | Sound: | Lucas Prokaziuk |
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Some American Feminists
Weaving archival footage with interviews of key second-wave feminists, including Betty Friedan, Margo Jefferson, Kate Millett and Rita Mae Brown, this is a fascinating history of one of the 20th century's most consequential social movements.
| | Runtime: | 55 | | Copyright: | 1977 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Redux | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | America | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | | Director(s): | Luce Guilbeault | | Nicole Brossard | | Margaret Wescott | | Producer(s): | Kathleen Shannon |
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Sparkle
Sheri "Sparkle" Williams has danced for most of her life, and she's not about to give up now. Battling through injury, and performing at an age when most dancers have moved to the wings, Sheri inspires her colleagues and electrifies audiences with her talent, charisma and signature "sparkle." With intimacy and eloquence, Reichert and Bognar capture the tenacity and passion that keep this astounding dancer moving.
| | Runtime: | 19 | | Copyright: | 2012 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | | Director(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Producer(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Executive Producer(s): | Aron Gaudet | | Gita Pullapilly | | Editor(s): | Steven Bognar | | Cinematography: | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Liz Cambron | | Melissa Godoy | | Erick Stoll | | Gregory Tucker | | Kyle Wilkinson | | Kasey Hosp | | Megan Hague | | Composer: | Tim Berger |
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St. Louis Superman
Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a critical bill for his community.
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Qatar | | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Producer(s): | Smriti Mundhra | | Sami Khan | | Poh Si Teng | | Cheyenne Tan | | Executive Producer(s): | Fiona Lawson-Baker | | Editor(s): | Faisal Azam | | Cinematography: | Sami Khan | | Chris Renteria | | Jerry Henry | | Sound: | Michael Gassert |
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Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire
This compelling look at the Swedish journalist, whose The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series shot to wild posthumous fame, delves into his lesser-known but more significant contribution: fearlessly researching and exposing Neo-Nazism in his own country and beyond.
| | Runtime: | 99 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Swedish | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Journalism & The Media | | Race & Racism | | Writers & Books | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Henrik Georgsson | | Producer(s): | Mattias Nohrborg | | Fredrik Heinig | | Editor(s): | Kalle Lindberg | | Writer(s): | Henrik Georgsson | | Olof Berglind | | Cinematography: | Anders Bohman | | Sven Lindahl Lindahl | | Composer: | Andreas Mattsson |
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The Stroker
A fascinating and timely social experiment, The Stroker documents performance artist Pilvi Takala's two-week intervention at a trendy East London co-working space for young entrepreneurs and startups. Posing as the founder of Personnel Touch, a cutting-edge wellness company providing human contact in the workplace, Takala takes the temperature on western culture's tolerance of touch.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Pilvi Takala | | Producer(s): | Pilvi Takala | | Editor(s): | Elisa Purfürst | | Writer(s): | Iona Roisin | | Pilvi Takala | | Cinematography: | Katharina Dießner | | Sound: | Christian Obermaier |
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Supreme Law
This live event hosted by comedian Jus Reign takes a uniquely interactive and satirical approach to the story of how the Canadian Constitution came to be, with the help of some of the country's biggest YouTube personalities and content creators.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Katerina Cizek | | Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Bonnie Thompson | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Cinematography: | Katerina Cizek |
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SwampScapes
Take an incredible tour through the mangrove forests, sawgrass marshes and pine flatwoods of the Everglades, one of the world's most biologically diverse swamps, and meet those who maintain and protect this rich ecosystem.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | Website: | http://www.swampscapes.org | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Kim Grinfeder | | Juan Carlos Zaldivar | | Producer(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Editor(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Juan Carlos Zaldivar | | Writer(s): | Elizabeth Miller | | Cinematography: | Kim Grinfeder | | Sound: | Adrian Morales-Demori |
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Swatted
Online gamers share their terrifying experiences with "swatting," a cyber-harassment phenomenon involving fake 911 calls that result in real—and sometimes fatal—SWAT team takedowns. Blending YouTube clips of actual incidents, wireframe animation and performance, Swatted is a meta-tation on the internet in oxymorons: as transparent mess of crossed lines, as web of connection and concoction, as virtual reality.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/SwattedTheMovie | | | Director(s): | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Producer(s): | Natalia Trebik | | Editor(s): | Maël Delorme | | Céline Perreard | | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Writer(s): | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Cinematography: | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | | Composer: | Disasterpeace | | Sound: | Alban Cayrol |
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Take Me To Prom
Dressed in their dream outfits, a group of people take us back to the night of their prom. Vivid memories of the music, dancing, outrageous stories and poignant moments make the event an unforgettable turning point in a journey of unapologetic queer identity and expression.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Andrew Moir | | Producer(s): | Andrew Moir | | Editor(s): | Graeme Ring | | Cinematography: | Andrew Jeffrey | | Composer: | Ben Fox | | Sound: | Andrew Chung |
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That's My Jazz
The son of famed Kansas City jazz musician Milton Abel, Sr. contrasts his father's musical genius to his own dexterity as a pastry chef. While relishing the art of the two professions to the beat of a mesmerizing soundtrack, we discover deeper truths about relationships between fathers and sons.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ben Proudfoot | | Producer(s): | Jeremy Lambert | | Rich Graham | | Executive Producer(s): | Abby Davis | | Josh Rosenberg | | Editor(s): | Federico Conforti | | Cinematography: | David Bolen | | Composer: | Nicholas Jacobson-Larsen | | Sound: | Sean Higgins |
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There Are No Fakes
When a celebrity buyer begins to doubt the authenticity of a painting by iconic Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, he's drawn into the tragic web of an exploitative art forgery ring that quickly widens far beyond the canvas.
| | Runtime: | 114 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Website: | http://therearenofakes.com | | | Director(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Producer(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Laura Baron Kastner | | Executive Producer(s): | Mark Anthony Jacobson | | Editor(s): | Michael Hannan | | Writer(s): | Jamie Kastner | | Cinematography: | Derek Rogers | | Composer: | Kevin Hearn | | Sound: | Peter Sawade | | Stephen Dranitsaris | | David Best |
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They Should Be Flowers
Through audio interviews and artistic renderings, this pared-down and powerful piece tells the story of a six-year-old Black girl who was handcuffed, casting light on the precarious place of Black children in Canada.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Karen Chapman | | Producer(s): | Karen Chapman | | Digital Producer(s): | Henry Faber | | Writer(s): | Karen Chapman | | VR Audio: | Matt Miller (Level Curve) | | Technical Artist: | Sally Luc (Thousand Stars Studio) | | VR Developer: | Parth Soni (Thousand Stars Studio) |
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To Share or Not to Share
A squash coach abandons his successful career in London to launch a barter-based community in Estonia, but his food co-operative and tantric "energy sessions" are met with growing skepticism by locals. Is his newfound ethos credible or come-on?
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Estonian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Minna Hint | | Meelis Muhu | | Producer(s): | Meelis Muhu | | Editor(s): | Meelis Muhu | | Cinematography: | Minna Hint | | Sound: | Minna Hint |
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Touching from a Distance II: Transmediations in the Digital Age
This exhibition presents recent digital works immersed into the bookshelves and media hardware at the Goethe Media Space, exploring the theme of transmediation: the process of translating a work into a different medium—analog or digital, written or visual.
| | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Canada | | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | Not rated | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | German | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Director(s): | Tina Sauerlaender (Curator) |
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Toxic Beauty
Cancer, diabetes, developmental delays and more—the cosmetics industry's ugly secrets are exposed through exclusive interviews with scientists, whistleblowers and consumer survivors who raise pressing questions about the true cost of beauty.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Phyllis Ellis | | Producer(s): | Peter Raymont | | Barri Cohen | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Ord | | Cheryl Staurulakis | | Peter Raymont | | Editor(s): | James Yates | | Cinematography: | Iris Ng |
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The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Accused of horrific war crimes, the "Butcher of Bosnia" finally faces a verdict in the biggest trial since Nuremberg. Embedded with both the prosecution and defense, this courtroom thriller reveals the troublingly nuanced Serbian–Bosnian conflict that still rages on.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Norway | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2017 | | Language: | English | | Bosnian | | Croatian | | Serbian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Justice | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Southern Europe | | | Director(s): | Henry Singer | | Rob Miller | | Producer(s): | Henry Singer | | Rob Miller | | Ida Bruusgaard | | Executive Producer(s): | Raney Aronson-Rath | | Jutta Krug | | Mandy Chang | | Barbara Troyen | | Editor(s): | Anna Price | | Cinematography: | Richard Gillepsie | | Composer: | Anne Nikitin | | Sound: | Håkon Lammetun |
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Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts
The half-Ojibwa drag queen, musician, comedian and TV personality—best known for snatching the crown in season three of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars—provides an all-access pass to the tour of her rollicking one-woman show.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Performers & Performance | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Nick Zeig-Owens | | Producer(s): | David Silver | | Executive Producer(s): | Fenton Bailey | | Randy Barbato | | Editor(s): | James Codoyannis | | Cinematography: | Nick Zeig-Owens |
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Uncaged: A Stand-In Story
Uncaged tells the quirky tale of Marco Kyris, an aspiring actor whose only claim to Hollywood fame is working as a stand-in for Nicolas Cage—and living in the shadow of the electric, enigmatic star.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Producer(s): | Walter Woodman | | Executive Producer(s): | Marco Kyris | | Editor(s): | Daniel Haack | | Luca Tarantini | | Spencer Shiffman | | Writer(s): | Blake Johnston | | Kelso Steinhoff | | Cinematography: | Greg Francis | | Sound: | Adrian Pop |
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Union Maids
In this rousing chronicle of a defining moment in the American labour movement, three extraordinary women look back on the Depression-era trade unionist crusade, where they faced police brutality, sexism and racism, but never backed down.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 1977 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Outstanding Achievement Retrospective | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Labour & Working People | | Race & Racism | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Julia Reichert | | Jim Klein | | Miles Mogulescu | | Producer(s): | Julia Reichert | | Jim Klein | | Miles Mogulescu | | Editor(s): | Jim Klein | | Julia Reichert | | Cinematography: | Tony Heriza | | Sherry Novick |
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Untitled (Burned Rubber on Asphalt, 2018)
Curiosity and controversy collide on the winding roads of a remote Norwegian village when mysterious skid marks appear out of nowhere. Are the burnouts an act of creativity or criminality? This is a quirky and hilarious detective story that investigates human nature, random patterns and the elusive willow grouse population with pitch-perfect absurdity.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Norwegian | | Finnish | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Tinja Ruusuvuori | | Producer(s): | Marja Pihlaja | | Editor(s): | Inka Lahti | | Cinematography: | Pietari Peltola | | Sound: | Juuso Oksala |
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The Valley
As thousands of migrants attempt to cross the French-Italian border on foot through treacherous mountain routes, the state cracks down on the local communities that come to their aid in this revealing look at an unfolding human rights crisis.
| | Runtime: | 72 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | France | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Crime & Justice | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Western & Central Europe | | | Director(s): | Nuno Escudeiro | | Producer(s): | Luc Martin-Gousset | | Andreas Pichler | | Valerio B. Moser | | Editor(s): | Beatrice Segolini | | Cinematography: | Nikolaus von Schlebrügge | | Sound: | David Argi |
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Well Groomed
Move over, Westminster Kennel; there's a more colourful dog show in town. Creative groomers—those who dye and sculpt dog fur into kaleidoscopic shades and shapes—face off in an irresistibly over-the-top contest circuit that will leave you howling.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Popular Culture | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.wellgroomedfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Rebecca Stern | | Producer(s): | Rebecca Stern | | Justin Levy | | Matthew Mills | | Executive Producer(s): | Annie Roney | | Sue Turley | | Chris Vivion | | Editor(s): | Katharina Stroh | | Writer(s): | Rebecca Stern | | Cinematography: | Alexander Lewis | | Composer: | Dan Deacon |
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When We Walk
Recently divorced, the filmmaker attempts to relocate closer to his young son, but confronts the harsh inequity of the US Medicaid system, which would prevent him from accessing the care he needs to live while battling advanced multiple sclerosis.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Health & Healthcare | | Mortality & Loss | | Personal Histories | | Website: | http://whenwewalk.com | | | Director(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Producer(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Leigh DaSilva | | Richard O'Connell | | Executive Producer(s): | Chase Muratore | | Editor(s): | Simeon Hutner | | Writer(s): | Jason DaSilva | | Cinematography: | Jason DaSilva | | Composer: | Todd Griffin | | Jeff Beale | | Frank Henville | | Sound: | David Wilson | | Publicist(s): | Adam Segal | | The 2050 Group |
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Who Let the Dogs Out
The catchy hook of Baha Men's 2000 hit single asks an age-old question, and this hilariously earnest doc asks many more, taking a wild ride through eight years of a man's runaway obsession with the song and its much-disputed origins.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Brent Hodge | | Producer(s): | Aly Kelly | | Ben Sisto | | Executive Producer(s): | Blair Miller | | Kim Guise | | Conrad Whelan | | Jonas Woost | | Christina Willings | | Lizzy Karp | | Editor(s): | Jasleen Kaur | | Brent Hodge | | Frank Cassano | | Writer(s): | Ben Sisto | | Cinematography: | Charlie Ricottone | | Composer: | David Menzel | | Jordaniel Bennett | | Sound: | John Diemer |
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Willie
In the midst of the American civil rights movement, Willie O'Ree became the first Black player to skate in the NHL. An inspiration to many, the remarkable story of this recent Hall of Fame inductee's courage and resilience transcends the sport.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | Sports & Recreation | | Website: | http://www.williedoc.com | | | Director(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Producer(s): | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Bryant McBride | | Ebyan Bihi (associate producer) | | Executive Producer(s): | Bryant McBride | | Editor(s): | Rosella Tursi | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Cinematography: | Ninon Pednault | | Laurence Mathieu-Leger | | Composer: | Justin Melland |
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A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem
Football and feminism collide as former cheerleaders file class-action lawsuits and face off with the multi-billion-dollar NFL corporation, alleging rampant wage theft, sexism and labour violations.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | America | | Labour & Working People | | Popular Culture | | Sports & Recreation | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://www.awomansworkdoc.com | | | Director(s): | Yu Gu | | Producer(s): | Elizabeth Ai | | Yu Gu | | Co-Producer(s): | Jin Yoo-Kim | | Editor(s): | Victoria Chalk | | Writer(s): | Elizabeth Ai | | Cinematography: | Yu Gu | | Composer: | Allyson Newman | | Sound: | Sung Rok Choi |
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Wongar
When one of his beloved dingoes falls gravely ill, a reclusive Serbian-Australian writer in Melbourne delves into painful memories and his life's work, revealing a personal tragedy that speaks to Australia's colonial past.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Serbia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Writers & Books | | Australasia | | | Director(s): | Andrijana Stojkovic | | Producer(s): | Jelena Stankovic | | Miroslav Mogorovic | | Andrijana Stojkovic | | Executive Producer(s): | Jelena Stankovic | | Editor(s): | Andrijana Stojkovic | | M. Cem Öztüfekçi | | Writer(s): | Andrijana Stojkovic | | Cinematography: | João Ribeiro | | Composer: | Vladimir Kolaric | | Sound: | Aleksandar Protic | | Ben Travers |
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Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
Through revealing, candid interviews and never-before-seen footage, get to know one of the most influential hip-hop groups of all time in the first two episodes of this upcoming Showtime docu-series.
| | Runtime: | 104 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Sacha Jenkins | | Producer(s): | Robert Diggs | | Clifford Smith | | Gary Grice | | Lamont Hawkins | | Corey Woods | | Darryl Hill | | Elgin Turner | | Dennis Coles | | Jason Hunter | | Icelene Jones | | Cary Garber | | Vanessa Maruskin | | Executive Producer(s): | Peter J. Scalettar | | Peter Bittenbender | | Chris Gary | | Editor(s): | Paul Greenhouse | | James Lester | | Sean Frechette | | Writer(s): | Paul Greenhouse | | Peter J. Scalettar | | Cinematography: | Hans Charles | | Composer: | J Ralph | | Sound: | Hit The Ground Running |
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XY Chelsea
After her 35-year prison sentence is commuted by President Obama, former military intelligence analyst and whistleblower Chelsea Manning prepares to leave a military prison and transition to her new life as a free woman.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2017 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | America | | Crime & Justice | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Tim Travers Hawkins | | Producer(s): | Julia Nottingham | | Thomas Benski | | Lucas Ochoa | | Isabel Davis | | Executive Producer(s): | Laura Poitras | | Charlotte Cook | | Vinnie Malhotra | | Michael Bloom | | Lisa Leingang | | Mary Burke | | Sharon Chang | | Christos Konstanakouplous | | Blaine Vess | | Marisa Clifford | | Ryan Harrington | | Editor(s): | Enat Sidi | | Andrea Scott | | Writer(s): | Mark Monroe | | Tim Travers Hawkins | | Enat Sidi | | Andrea Scott | | Cinematography: | Shannon Palmer | | Composer: | Johnny Hostile | | Jehnny Beth |
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Your Last Walk in the Mosque
After a lone gunman opens fire in a Quebec City mosque, killing six, the survivors and families of a community in shock come together to heal, sharing stories and honouring the lives of those who were taken from them.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Race & Racism | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Producer(s): | Tariq Syed | | Editor(s): | Myriam Terristi | | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Cinematography: | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Sound: | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje |
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