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Some Kind of HeavenNew Release
Escape winter and go behind the gates of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community—a massive, palm-tree lined utopia located in Central Florida.
| | Runtime: | 81 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | Featured | | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Lance Oppenheim | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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A Glitch in the MatrixNew Release
What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? Go down the rabbit hole with acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237) as he explores the science, philosophy and conspiracy theories behind this mind-bending idea.
| | Runtime: | 108 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | Featured | | | Director(s): | Rodney Ascher | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Coded BiasNew Release
From advertising to surveillance, facial recognition software is steadily encroaching on many aspects of our lives. But who does it protect and who does it single out? Follow MIT computer scientist Joy Buolamwini on her quest to investigate the racial bias buried within the controversial algorithm.
| | Runtime: | 85 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA, China, UK | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Shalini Kantayya | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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CollectiveNew Release
In this shocking Oscar-buzzed exposé, follow a heroic team of investigators at a Romanian newspaper as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud in the aftermath of a deadly nightclub fire.
| | Runtime: | 109 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Romania, Luxembourg | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | Featured | | | Director(s): | Alexander Nanau | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Exhibition on Screen // Cezanne: Portraits of LifeNew Release
Filmed on location at the National Portrait Gallery London, National Gallery of Art Washington, and Musée d’Orsay Paris, Exhibition on Screen sheds light on perhaps one of the least known of all the Impressionists, painter Paul Cézanne.
| | Runtime: | 87 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Phil Grabsky | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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My RembrandtNew Release
Set in the high-stakes world of old masters collecting, this captivating doc follows art lovers whose passion for Rembrandt's paintings leads to unexpected twists and turns.
| | Runtime: | 97 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Netherlands | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Oeke Hoogendijk | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Emoji StoryNew Release
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: | 81 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Ian Cheney, Martha Shane | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Mr. Soul!Leaving March 11
Go backstage with the first all-Black variety show broadcast nationally on PBS, and meet its openly gay host, who was instrumental in ushering radical Black talent into American living rooms in the wake of the civil rights movement.
| | Runtime: | 108 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | Black History Month | | | Director(s): | Melissa Haizlip, Sam Pollard | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The New CorporationLeaving March 11
Discover how big business has made itself over to influence all aspects of our lives in this highly-anticipated sequel to the multi award-winning global hit, The Corporation
| | Runtime: | 106 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Reason I JumpLeaving March 11
Using the ground-breaking insights first revealed in 13-year old Naoki Higashida’s bestselling memoir, this Sundance Award-winning adaptation offers a wondrous cinematic glimpse inside the lives and minds of young non-verbal people with autism.
| | Runtime: | 82 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA, UK | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Jerry Rothwell | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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SorosLeaving March 11
From surviving the Holocaust to fighting authoritarianism and hate, uncover the life, career and philanthropy of controversial Billionaire activist George Soros in this revealing portrait that unravels fact from fiction.
| | Runtime: | 85 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Jesse Dylan | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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76 DaysLeaving April 29
One of the first major documentaries to recount the beginnings of the COVID-19 outbreak, this engrossing film takes you deep inside the frontlines of the outbreak in Wuhan, just days after the January 23, 2020 lockdown went into effect.
| | Runtime: | 93 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Weixi Chen, Hao Wu, Anonymous | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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First We EatLeaving March 11
Putting food security to the test in Yukon, filmmaker Suzanne Crocker bans all store-bought groceries from her house in a year-long adventure in farming, fishing and foraging complicated by three skeptical teenagers, no caffeine and -40° temperatures.
| | Runtime: | 101 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Suzanne Crocker | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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ZappaLeaving March 11
With unprecedented access to a personal vault of rarely seen home videos, filmmaker Alex Winter explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career of legendary artist and agitator Frank Zappa.
| | Runtime: | 129 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Alex Winter | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Fiddlin' with performances by Duncan McDougall & Alyssa Delbaere-SawchukMusic on Film
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, take a step back in time to the oldest fiddler's convention in the world, where strummers and pickers pass along the foot-stomping sounds of Old-Time and Bluegrass from one generation to another.
| | Runtime: | 92 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Featured | | New Releases | | | Director(s): | Julie Simone | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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What's Next for America? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Joe BidenLive Thursday, February 25, 8:00 PM
As President Biden enters his first term in office, join The New Yorker's Evan Osnos for a timely look at the man and his moment in history, as outlined in his anticipated new biography, Joe Biden.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Timely Talks | | Coming Soon | | Featured | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Meat the FutureSmart Science Collection
A potential solution to the impending climate crisis may lie with “clean meat,” a visionary food science that produces lab-grown meat without killing animals. But in a race to alter diets and save the planet, can this new approach win over omnivorous skeptics?
| | Runtime: | 88 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | | Director(s): | Liz Marshall | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Inventing TomorrowSmart Science Collection
Follow the journeys of bright teen scientists as they prepare to compete in the world’s largest high school science fair.
| | Runtime: | 87 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | G | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | | Director(s): | Laura Nix | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Particle FeverSmart Science Collection
Watch as scientists from around the world join forces to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang at this exhilarating front-row seat to the launch of Large Hadron Collider, one of the most significant experiments in history.
| | Runtime: | 99 min | | Copyright: | 2013 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | | Director(s): | Mark Levinson | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Rebroadcast // A Living Legacy: MSNBC’s Eddie Glaude on James BaldwinLive Event Rebroadcast
Join Princeton historian and MSNBC commentator Eddie Glaude for a timely look at the legacy of the late great public thinker James Baldwin—and how his life and work can serve as a powerful guide for our moment of social change.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Black History Month | | Timely Talks | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand UpSpotlight on Alberta
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 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Spotlight on Alberta | | | Director(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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John Ware ReclaimedSpotlight on Alberta
Follow filmmaker Cheryl Foggo on her quest to re-examine the mythology surrounding John Ware, the iconic Black cowboy who settled in Alberta in the wake of the American Civil War.
| | Runtime: | 72 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Spotlight on Alberta | | Black History Month | | | Director(s): | Cheryl Foggo | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Digging in the DirtSpotlight on Alberta
Underneath the layers of Alberta’s booming oil sands industry, a mental health crisis has been bubbling for a decade. Men living and working on the patches open up about the emotional cost of digging for oil, confronting the biggest obstacle to recovery: asking for help.
| | Runtime: | 44 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | 13+ | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Spotlight on Alberta | | | Director(s): | Dylan Rhys Howard | | Omar Mouallem | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Shorts Program: Fast Horse & LakeSpotlight on Alberta
This short-film double-bill features the captivating and intimate work of up-and-coming Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich whose docs Fast Horse and Lake garnered buzz at the 2019 Hot Docs and Sundance festivals.
| | Runtime: | 19 min | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | R | | 13+ | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Spotlight on Alberta | | | Director(s): | Alexandra Lazarowich | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Donut KingNew to Hot Docs at Home
Discover how America’s favourite pastry became a path to opportunity for Cambodian newcomers, thanks to an entrepreneur named Ted Ngoy.
| | Runtime: | 90 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | | Director(s): | Alice Gu | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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In Conversation with David Suzuki Leaving February 25
Joined by climate activist Luisa Neubauer, award-winning television host and environmental activist Dr. David Suzuki discusses his decades-long career fighting for a sustainable future as he celebrates the 60th anniversary of his longtime CBC science program, Nature of Things. Part of a new series of keynote addresses recorded at the 2020 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Timely Talks | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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In Conversation with Dr. Anthony FauciLeaving February 25
America's most prominent scientist during the pandemic speaks out about the virus, the media and what to expect in 2021. Part of a new series of keynote addresses recorded at the 2020 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Timely Talks | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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In Conversation with Bill GatesLeaving February 25
Learn about Bill Gates' efforts to fight COVID-19 in this exclusive interview with one of the world's greatest entrepreneurs turned philanthropists. Part of a new series of keynote addresses recorded at the 2020 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Dessert Person: Claire Saffitz on the Joys of BakingLeaving February 25
Celebrate your sweet tooth with a true pastry savant! In this exclusive live event, perfectly timed to the holiday baking season, the former host of Bon Appetit’s Gourmet Makes discusses her first-ever cookbook with Iron Chef Canada judge Tara O’Brady.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Timely Talks | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Robert Harris and Ben Macintyre on Bringing History to LifeLeaving February 25
Celebrated for their high-octane wartime thrillers, UK novelists Robert Harris and Ben Macintyre come together to discuss their common passion for history, and their anticipated new books: V2 and Agent Sonya.
| | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Magic of Musicals: Broadway’s Biggest HitsStreaming as of February 25
Join Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated producer of Come From Away Michael Rubinoff for an insider’s guide to the biggest Broadway shows in history, from West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof to Dream Girls and Les Mis.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | Featured | | Coming Soon | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Great Old MastersStreaming as of February 25
Explore the influential work of The Old Masters: Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez and Goya, and its lasting impact on generations of artists and art lovers, with acclaimed art lecturer Barbara Isherwood.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | Coming Soon | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Age of Innovation: La Belle Époque & The End of EmpiresStreaming until May 27
Dr. Peter Harris returns to guide us through the social and artistic innovations that shaped Europe’s cultural hotbeds at the turn of the 20th century.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Secrets of ScandinaviaStreaming until May 27
From Vikings to Hygge to the Nobel Prize, find out what makes the Nordic nations so unique in this exciting survey of Scandinavian history and culture.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Spain: A Historical JourneyStreaming until March 25
Embark on a virtual journey to the iconic landmarks, breathtaking landscapes and artistic masterpieces of Spain, one of Europe’s most distinctive and captivating countries.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Architectural Wonders: The Buildings that Reshaped HistoryStreaming until March 25
What are the buildings that have influenced the places we live, work and play? Longtime Toronto Star architecture critic Christopher Hume returns to assess history’s most influential structures, and what they mean to us today.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | Last Chance | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Italian RenaissanceStreaming until April 30
In his anticipated Curious Minds debut, world-renowned Renaissance scholar Dr. Kenneth Bartlett offers a richly illustrated survey of the great cultural flourishing that occurred on the Italian peninsula from the 14th to 16th centuries.
| | Display Category: | Curious Minds Speaker Series | | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Minding the GapLeaving February 25
An Oscar-nominated look at the struggles of growing up and the difficulties of moving from heavy pasts into uncertain futures.
| | Runtime: | 93 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | 13+ | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Black History Month | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Bing Liu | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Bikes Vs. CarsLeaving February 25
With over a billion cars worldwide, climate change and never-ending gridlock are a grim reality, but can we change our cities?
| | Runtime: | 90 min | | Copyright: | 2015 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Fredrik Gertten | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Woman Who Loves GiraffesLeaving February 25
Trailblazing biologist Dr. Anne Innis Dagg retraces her 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
| | Runtime: | 82 min | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Alison Reid | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Requiem for the American DreamLeaving February 25
Widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers alive, Noam Chomsky dissects the current decline of democracy with his cool and devastating intellectual power.
| | Runtime: | 73 min | | Copyright: | 2015 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Peter D. Hutchison | | Kelly Nyks | | Jared P. Scott | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My VoiceLeaving February 25
Explore the extraordinary life and career of one of the most popular female recording artists of all time.
| | Runtime: | 95 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Rating: | 13+ | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Rob Epstein | | Jeffrey Friedman | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Fruit HuntersLeaving February 25
A cinematic odyssey that travels the world in pursuit of some of the most unusual and delicious fruit.
| | Runtime: | 95 min | | Copyright: | 2013 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | G | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Yung Chang | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce ChatwinBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Trace the steps of the late great travel writer Bruce Chatwin from South America to Australia in this moving travelogue from the legendary Werner Herzog.
| | Runtime: | 85 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Werner Herzog | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The World Before HerLeaving February 25
A Bombay beauty pageant is juxtaposed with village girls undergoing combat training to capture the clash between modernity and tradition faced by young women in India.
| | Runtime: | 90 min | | Copyright: | 2012 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Nisha Pahuja | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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Integral ManLeaving February 25
An artfully crafted portrait of Toronto mathematician Jim Stewart and his beloved home.
| | Runtime: | 62 min | | Copyright: | 2017 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | PG | | | Display Category: | Free for Members | | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Joseph Clement | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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The Secret Trial 5Leaving February 25
A shocking look at Canadian security certificates, a highly controversial policy mechanism used to imprison five Muslim men for 30 years combined.
| | Runtime: | 84 min | | Copyright: | 2014 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Rating: | Not yet rated (STC) | | | Display Category: | Best of Hot Docs Cinema Collection | | Free for Members | | Last Chance | | | Director(s): | Amar Wala | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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*EXTENDED RUN* I Am SamuelStreaming for Free from Feb 19 - 26
Filmed over five years, I Am Samuel is an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man balancing pressures of family loyalty, love, and safety and questioning the concept of conflicting identities.
| | Runtime: | 69 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Kenya, Canada, UK, USA | | | Display Category: | Human Rights Watch Film Festival | | Black History Month | | | Director(s): | Peter Murimi | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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*EXTENDED RUN* Love ChildStreaming for Free from Feb 19 - 26
An intimately filmed, epic love story introduces Leila and Sahand at the start of a turbulent five-year period beginning with their escape from Iran where, while married to other people, they fell in love.
| | Runtime: | 112 min | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | | Display Category: | Human Rights Watch Film Festival | | | Director(s): | Eva Mulvad | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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*EXTENDED RUN* Wake Up on MarsStreaming for Free from Feb 19 - 26
The story of a tight-knit trying to rebuild a normal life from their native Kosovo, where they were victims of persecution.
| | Runtime: | 75 min | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Switzerland, France | | | Display Category: | Human Rights Watch Film Festival | | | Director(s): | Dea Gjinovci | | VR Director(s): | TRUE |
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