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Welcome to Hot Docs Festival Online
Welcome to Hot Docs Festival Online! To help you prepare for the Festival and test your streaming setup, we have recorded this FREE short three-minute welcome message from Hot Docs executive director Brett Hendrie.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Program Category: | Special Presentations |
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#BLESSED
Available until June 14
Peer inside C3, Canada’s fastest-growing millennial church, and witness a revelation. With locations multiplying across Toronto, young Pastor Sam deploys Instagram, Christian pop music and on-point fashion to preach the Word to hip souls seeking salvation.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Religion & Spirituality | | | Director(s): | Ali Weinstein | | Producer(s): | Cornelia Principe | | Executive Producer(s): | Nisha Pahuja | | Editor(s): | Robert Swartz | | Writer(s): | Ali Weinstein | | Cinematography: | Jesse McCracken |
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499
Available until June 6
Almost five centuries after Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire, a fictionalized conquistador retraces the Spanish army’s route to Mexico City. Through the haunting true stories he encounters, the ghosts of Mexico’s brutal colonial past reverberate.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | | Producer(s): | Andrew Houchens | | Inti Cordera | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Holmgren | | Carter Logan | | Co-Producer(s): | David Felix Sutcliffe | | Associate Producer(s): | Sam Schild | | Consulting Producer(s): | Gunter Hanfgarn | | Su Kim | | David Felix Sutcliffe | | Editor(s): | Andrea Chignoli | | Daniel Chávez Ontiveros | | Writer(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | | Lorena Padilla | | Alicia Valencia | | Cinematography: | Alejandro Mejía | | Composer: | Pablo Mondragón | | Sound: | Ricardo Arteaga |
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The 8th
Available until June 6
The 8th tells the story of Irish women and their fight to overturn one of the most restrictive laws on abortion in the world. After a 35-year struggle the pro-choice side have to radically shift tactics to try and bring this historically conservative electorate over the line.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | | Director(s): | Aideen Kane | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Lucy Kennedy | | Producer(s): | Aideen Kane | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Lucy Kennedy | | Alan Maher | | Executive Producer(s): | Lesley McKimm | | Gini Reticker | | Amy Nauiokas | | Abigail Disney | | Jess Kwan | | Editor(s): | Jordan Montminy | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Composer: | Sarah Lynch |
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9/11 Kids
Available until June 24
Sixteen schoolchildren were in the room with President Bush when he was informed about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Now in their mid-20s, learn how their lives have unfolded in this fascinating look at race, politics and the post-9/11 American Dream.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth St. Philip | | Producer(s): | Steve Gamester | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Gamester | | Betty Orr | | Michael Kot | | Editor(s): | Greg West | | Cinematography: | Chris Romeike | | Sound: | Michael Filippov | | Ryan Cox | | Nick Davey |
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All Her Dying Lovers
Available until June 24
A nurse, a Nazi and a fish: this is the incredible tale of a young Czech woman who, in the face of Nazi occupation, trumps the invaders with her unique form of resistance. Her story is given an animated retelling that explores the collision of history, truth and myth-making.
| | Runtime: | 6 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Czech Republic | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Czech | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://annabennerstudio.com/All-Her-Dying-Lovers | | | Director(s): | Anna Benner | | Eluned Zoe Aiano | | Producer(s): | Linda Dedková | | Anna Benner | | Martin Hulovec | | Composer: | Raphael Tschernuth | | Sound: | Michal Krajczok | | Vojtech Knot |
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All That I Am
Available until June 24
After surviving sexual abuse and years in foster care, 18-year-old Emilie returns home to her mom and stepsiblings. With sensitivity and patience, a family conversation unfolds about the years of silence and the real reason for their father's imprisonment.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Children & Youth | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Tone Grøttjord-Glenne | | Producer(s): | Anita Rehoff-Larsen | | Editor(s): | Cathrine Ambus | | Writer(s): | Tone Grøttjord-Glenne | | Cinematography: | Egil Håskjold Larsen | | Composer: | Ola Fløttum | | Sound: | Håkon Lammetun | | Andreas Lindberg Svensson |
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Always Amber
Available until June 24
Teenage besties Amber and Sebastian are inseparable, exploring gender, queerness and rainbow hair colours together until a love triangle upends everything. Now transitioning solo, Amber comes of age with an inspiring confidence unique to a new generation.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Swedish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Hannah Reinikainen | | Lia Hietala | | Producer(s): | Göran Hugo Olsson | | Melissa Lindgren | | Executive Producer(s): | Tobias Janson | | Editor(s): | Hannah Reinikainen | | Lia Hietala | | Anton Hemgren | | Charlotte Landelius | | Cinematography: | Lia Hietala | | Amber Mastracci | | Composer: | ShitKid | | Sound: | Fredrik Stålne |
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The Art of Fallism
Available until June 24
Revisit South Africa’s #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall protest movements through the eyes of central activists who shed light on what reporters missed—the crucial work shouldered by women and trans people to ensure the movement championed all.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Revisionaries | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Africa | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Education | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Aslaug Aarsæther | | Gunnbjørg Gunnarsdóttir | | Producer(s): | Ingvild Aagedal Skage | | Wisaal Abrahams | | Editor(s): | Morten Øvreås | | Selim Mutic | | Writer(s): | Aslaug Aarsæther | | Ingvild Aagedal Skage | | Cinematography: | Pascale Neuschäfer | | Jodi Windvogel | | Andrew Amorim | | Gerald Machona | | Sound: | Yngve Leidulv Sætre |
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At the Bottom of the Sea
Available until June 24
Attended by thousands in Seoul in December 2018, “The Courage to be Uncomfortable” was a demonstration against misogyny, surveillance and widespread sexism within the justice system. In the lead up to the protest, the filmmaker journeys through rural and urban areas, capturing women’s voices in this poetic, experimental film.
| | Runtime: | 11 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Korean. | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Producer(s): | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Editor(s): | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Writer(s): | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Cinematography: | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Composer: | Robin Lough | | Sound: | Caroline So Jung Lee | | Doug Paterson |
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At the River
Available until June 24
This astute film swings from the calm of a forest stroll to the cacophony of a family in upheaval on the Fourth of July. A perceptive observation of family and landscape in crisis, At the River speaks to the anxieties of middle America at the beginning of the 21st century.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | A. Madsen Minax | | Producer(s): | A. Madsen Minax |
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Bare
Available until June 24
Eleven naked men audition, rehearse and perform for the premiere of master Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits’s new contemporary dance piece in this exploration of artistic conflict, gender, taboos and the conceit that the body is the last bastion of personal freedom.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | French | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Performance & Performers | | Website: | http://baremovie.com/ | | | Director(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Producer(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Thierry Smits | | Fabien Defendini | | Executive Producer(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Editor(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Cinematography: | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Thomas Szacka-Marier | | Jean Counet | | Benjamin Wolf | | Alyx Ayn Arumpac | | Composer: | Francisco Lo´pez | | Aleksandr Vasilenko | | Sound: | Freek Vrijhof |
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Bible Camp Memories
Available until June 24
He didn’t fit in at school—but maybe he would at bible camp? Damien revisits the summers of his youth, including past traumas with oblivious camp counsellors, fresh air, nature, evangelical Christianity and, worst of all, a cabin full of other 13-year-old boys.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Damien Ferland | | Producer(s): | Damien Ferland | | Writer(s): | Damien Ferland | | Cinematography: | Dylan Baillie |
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Bile
Available until June 24
Intertwining a range of both historical and family footage, the director, seeking answers for her own ailments, reflects on how people have looked at their bodies and illnesses throughout the centuries in this experimental essay on disease and health.
| | Runtime: | 64 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Russian | | Dutch | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Medicine | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Producer(s): | Peter Krüger | | Editor(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Writer(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Cinematography: | Patrick Stevens | | Composer: | hypnoskull |
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Boys State - FREE Member Screening
Member Event: June 21, 4:30 PM
In advance of the release of this Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner, Hot Docs Members will be provided an exclusive sneak peek followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers.
| | Runtime: | 109 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | | Director(s): | Amanda McBaine | | Jesse Moss | | Producer(s): | Amanda McBaine | | Jesse Moss | | Executive Producer(s): | Laurene Powell Jobs | | Davis Guggenheim | | Jonathan Silberberg | | Nicole Stott | | Editor(s): | Jeff Gilbert | | Cinematography: | Thorsten Thielow | | Composer: | T. Griffin | | Sound: | Mark Roy |
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Breaking the Silence
Available until June 24
An Indigenous woman leaves her Emberá Chamí community for Bogotá as she grapples with her experience of female genital mutilation. Joining forces with a new friend, they return to engage with other Indigenous women about the tradition and enact change.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Bolivia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Embera | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Priscila Padilla | | Producer(s): | Laura Coronado Delgado | | Executive Producer(s): | Gustavo Pazmin | | Priscila Padilla | | Editor(s): | Ximena Franco | | Priscila Padilla | | Writer(s): | Priscila Padilla | | Cinematography: | Viviana Gomez | | Yvette Paz | | Composer: | Sol Okarina | | Sound: | Vladimir Diaz |
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Broken Orchestra
Available until June 24
Inventively peppered with elements of animation, this film profiles the educators and advocates of the Symphony for a Broken Orchestra—a project that mobilized a community to repair hundreds of instruments for students, in response to funding cuts for music education programs in Philadelphia.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.topic.com/broken-orchestra | | | Director(s): | Charlie Tyrell | | Producer(s): | Julie Baldassi | | Executive Producer(s): | Mona Panchal | | Anna Holmes | | Ryan Chanatry | | Editor(s): | Michael Barker | | Writer(s): | Josef Beeby | | Charlie Tyrell | | Cinematography: | Chet Tilokani | | Composer: | Colin Sigor | | David Lang | | Sound: | Joe Coupal |
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The Brother
Available until June 24
During his waking hours, Kais is in his bed or mobility device, completely dependent on his devoted family for round-the-clock care. At night, he dreams of himself as a manga character, starring in a story of love and bravery that mirrors the selflessness of his parents and siblings.
| | Runtime: | 28 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://jeremiebattaglia.com/fr/projets/le-frere/ | | | Director(s): | Jérémie Battaglia | | Producer(s): | Amélie Lambert Bouchard | | Editor(s): | Andrea Henriquez | | Writer(s): | Jérémie Battaglia | | Cinematography: | Jérémie Battaglia | | Composer: | Anais Larocque | | Sound: | Marie-Pierre Grenier | | Isabelle Lussier | | Jérémie Battaglia | | Lenny Fontaine |
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Bulletproof
Available until June 6
From homecoming parades and basketball games to lockdown drills and active shooter workshops, the landscape inside the American education system has drastically transformed. Can everyday high school rituals still exist alongside the new normal of fear and anxiety?
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Todd Chandler | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Todd Chandler | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Todd Chandler | | Shannon Kennedy | | Cinematography: | Emily Topper | | Composer: | Troy Herion |
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Canadian Spectrum Shorts Program
Available until June 24
A selection of Canadian short films including Hollies Dress, Nancy's Workshop, Invasion, and Jo.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum |
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Cane Fire
Available until June 24
The Hawaiian island of Kauai’s reputation as a leisure paradise is provocatively and at times humorously explored, calling into question the Hollywood stereotype that masked the locals’ reality of colonial displacement, worker exploitation and destructive environmental extraction.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Pidgin-English | | Hawaiian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | | Film Subjects: | America | | Ecology & the Environment | | Film & Filmmaking | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | Popular Culture | | Website: | https://anthonysimon.net/Cane-Fire-1 | | | Director(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Producer(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Michael Vass | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Holmgren | | Editor(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Writer(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Michael Vass | | Cinematography: | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Composer: | Mike Cooper | | Sound: | Anthony Banua-Simon |
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The Chimney Swift
Available until June 24
Based on a meticulously detailed letter, the hard-knock lives of young 19th century chimney sweeps are uncovered in this exquisite animation, which masterfully articulates the finer points of preparing children as young as four for a life of hard labour up the flues of the bourgeoisie.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.fabianfred.com/chimney/ | | | Director(s): | Frédéric Schuld | | Producer(s): | Fabian Driehorst | | Executive Producer(s): | Fabian Driehorst | | Editor(s): | Frédéric Schuld | | Writer(s): | Frédéric Schuld | | Fabian Driehorst | | Composer: | Frédéric Schuld | | Sound: | Alex Müller-Welt |
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City So Real
Available until June 24
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Steve James’s fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. All four episodes will be shown.
| | Runtime: | 240 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Punjabi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Deep Dive | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Steve James | | Producer(s): | Zak Piper | | Steve James | | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Skoll | | Diane Weyermann | | Alex Kotlowitz | | Gordon Quinn | | Betsy Steinberg | | Jolene Pinder | | Editor(s): | David E. Simpson | | Steve James | | Cinematography: | Jackson James | | Steve James | | Composer: | Will Miller and Resavoir |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Coded Bias
Available until June 24
When facial recognition software is used in clandestine surveillance, who does it protect and who is singled out? Scientists, scholars and activists all argue there is a clear racial bias buried in the algorithms, but will the US government take heed?
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Science & Technology | | Website: | https://www.codedbias.com/ | | | Director(s): | Shalini Kantayya | | Producer(s): | Shalini Kantayya | | Editor(s): | Zachary Ludescher | | Alex Gilwit | | Shalini Kantayya | | Cinematography: | Steve Acevedo | | Sound: | Peter Levin | | Barbara Parks |
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A Colombian Family
Available until June 24
Set against the backdrop of Colombia’s fraught peace treaty meant to end 50 years of violence, an estranged mother and daughter seek reconciliation—but where? Do they fight for a better country together, or leave as a family for Cuba?
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Latin America | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Tanja Wol Sørensen | | Producer(s): | Rikke Tambo Andersen | | Executive Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Editor(s): | Claudio Hughes | | Cinematography: | Maggie Olkuska | | Composer: | Sophia Maj | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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Comfort Zone
Available until June 24
Brigitte lives with a mysterious, invisible presence: her 21-year-old son, who has shut himself in his bedroom for the past three years. Communicating only via WhatsApp, mother and son are locked in a codependent waiting game. Will his door ever open again, or will it have to be forced?
| | Runtime: | 24 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.jonasegert.de/komfortzone | | | Director(s): | Jonas Egert | | Producer(s): | Emilia Möbus | | Editor(s): | Julia Furch | | Stefan Strüber | | Writer(s): | Jonas Egert | | Julia Furch | | Cinematography: | Felix Riedelsheimer | | Composer: | Pablo Jókay | | Sound: | Tobias Rehm | | Moritz Müller-Preißer |
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Consuming Contemporary
Available until June 24
Sunchica and her retired friends enjoy the many cultural offerings of North Macedonia's capital, Skopje, on a daily basis—not to mention the free food and drinks that come with these events. But when societal judgment threatens to stop their fun, they realize just how much they need these get-togethers.
| | Runtime: | 34 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Macedonia | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Macedonian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | | Director(s): | Ana Aleksovska | | Producer(s): | Marija Dimitrova | | Editor(s): | Mihail Dimitrov | | Vladimir Dimoski | | Bogoljub Mislovanoski | | Writer(s): | Ana Aleksovska | | Angelika Apsis | | Cinematography: | Vladimir Dimoski | | Gjorgji Klincarov | | Samir Ljuma | | Branko Avramovski | | Sound: | Sashko Potter Micevski |
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Daddy
Available until June 24
In Copenhagen, a roving anthropologist turned stay-at-home dad turns the ethnographer’s lens on himself and his young children, reconciling his own childhood abandonment and exploring fatherhood in this tragicomedy about the exquisite torture of parenting.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Danish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Northern Europe | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Brendan Cooney | | Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Editor(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Writer(s): | Brendan Cooney | | Cinematography: | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Composer: | Frederik Ebert | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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The Dakota Entrapment Tapes
Available until June 24
A seemingly straightforward drug bust turns out to be anything but when a cover-up involving police entrapment, unwilling informants and abuse of power is revealed in a sleepy college town in North Dakota.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Northern Ireland | | Film Subjects: | America | | Crime & Intrigue | | Families & Family Relationships | | | Director(s): | Trevor Birney | | Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Mairead Kelly | | Executive Producer(s): | Brendan Byrne | | Michael Fanning | | Editor(s): | Andy Tohill | | Michael Paisley | | Writer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Cinematography: | Mark Garrett | | Composer: | James Everett | | Sound: | Michael McKnight |
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Dark City Beneath the Beat
Available until June 24
Take a deep dive into the legendary Baltimore club scene with local DJs, producers, dancers, artists and activists who combat state violence with community care, using breakbeats and fast footwork to change lives.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Performance & Performers | | Urban Culture & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | | Director(s): | TT The Artist | | Producer(s): | Issa Rae | | Deniese Davis | | Astrid Curet | | Executive Producer(s): | TT The Artist | | Rose DiFerdinando | | Editor(s): | TT The Artist | | Cinematography: | Kirby Griffin | | Composer: | Mighty Mark | | Sound: | TT The Artist | | Marquis Gasque | | Willie Elias |
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Dead Souls' Vacation
Available until June 24
A once popular bass player in Tbilisi is now jobless, joyless and crammed into a shoebox-sized one-room apartment with his elderly mother, leaving little space for independence or optimism in this absurd, intimate slice of ex-Soviet life.
| | Runtime: | 67 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Georgia | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Georgian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | Music & Musicians | | Website: | https://www.parachutefilms.ge/films/dead-souls-vacation | | | Director(s): | Keko Chelidze | | Producer(s): | Kote Kalandadze | | Elene Margvelashvili | | Editor(s): | Kote Kalandadze | | Keko Chelidze | | Elene Asatiani | | Writer(s): | Keko Chelidze | | Kote Kalandadze | | Cinematography: | Kote Kalandadze | | Composer: | Levan Svanidze | | Gia Toidze | | Sound: | Kote Kalandadze | | Nika Paniashvili |
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Día de la Madre
Available until June 24
As night becomes day, a feisty group of youths make a decidedly unconventional ruckus that is sure to go down in the history books for the tired and shocked people at the receiving end of their exuberance.
| | Runtime: | 6 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ashley Brandon | | Dennis Höhne | | Producer(s): | Nevo Shinaar | | Editor(s): | Ashley Brandon | | Cinematography: | Ashley Brandon | | Dennis Höhne | | Sound: | Ashley Brandon |
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The Dilemma of Desire
Available until June 24
The scientific establishment has often left women’s pleasure off the priority list, relegating it to be mystery, myth or altogether missing. Meet an inspiring collection of women who take matters into their own hands, demanding pleasure for all.
| | Runtime: | 107 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Heath & Medicine | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | https://dilemmaofdesiredoc.com/ | | | Director(s): | Maria Finitzo | | Producer(s): | Diane Quon | | Cynthia Kane | | Executive Producer(s): | Barbara Kopple | | Gordon Quinn | | Hugh Schulze | | Editor(s): | Liz Kaar | | Mimi Wilcox | | Writer(s): | Maria Finitzo | | Cinematography: | Adam Singer | | Hillary Bachelder | | Keith Walker | | Composer: | Miriam Cutler | | Sound: | Shuling Yong |
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Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open
Available until June 24
A run-down, overcrowded Soviet-era commuter train serves as the backdrop for this verité portrait of the daily lives of its Ukrainian working-class passengers, and a country in the midst of reconciling its troubled past and uncertain future.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Ukrainian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Urban Culture & Issues | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Oksana Karpovych | | Producer(s): | Ina Fichman | | Judith Plamondon | | Editor(s): | Lessandro Sócrates | | Dominique Sicotte | | Writer(s): | Oksana Karpovych | | Cinematography: | Christopher Nunn | | Sound: | Simon Gervais | | André Smyelov | | Olivier Germain |
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Dope is Death
Available until June 24
Radical politics meets community health when Dr. Mutulu Shakur—Tupac’s stepdad—and fellow Black Panthers, viewing both heroin and methadone rehab as “chemical warfare” on the poor, launch instead America’s first acupuncture detox program in the 1970s.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Mental Health & Addiction | | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Urban Culture & Issues | | | Director(s): | Mia Donovan | | Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Executive Producer(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Editor(s): | Mia Donovan | | Writer(s): | Mia Donovan | | Cinematography: | Glauco Bermudez | | Composer: | Ramachandra Borcar | | Sound: | Cory Rizos |
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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Available until June 24
For Anna and her kids, film is not an escape but a means of surviving the war on their literal doorstep in Ukraine. Repurposing tanks and rubble as sets for a homemade war movie, art’s power to transform reality shines in this Sundance award-winner.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Ukraine | | Lithuania | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Russian | | Ukrainian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | Film & Filmmaking | | Performance & Performers | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Iryna Tsilyk | | Producer(s): | Anna Kapustina | | Giedre Žickyte | | Editor(s): | Ivan Bannikov | | Iryna Tsilyk | | Writer(s): | Iryna Tsilyk | | Cinematography: | Viacheslav Tsvietkov | | Sound: | Jonas Maksvytis |
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Eddy's Kingdom
Available until June 24
In this stranger-than-fiction tale, an entrepreneur’s obsessive dream of developing an Okanagan Lake island into a Middle Eastern–themed amusement park leads to a spiralling path of legal turmoil and financial ruin, with a hostage-taking and bomb plots along the way.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | Middle East | | | Director(s): | Greg Crompton | | Producer(s): | Greg Crompton | | Tony Cerciello | | Editor(s): | David Trevail | | Stephen Leck | | Writer(s): | Greg Crompton | | Cinematography: | Greg Gillespie | | Composer: | Red Heartbreaker | | Sound: | Reid Hendry |
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Egg Cup Requiem
Available until June 24
Octogenarian Johnny Green is a dedicated pocillovist, or egg cup collector. His vast collection, numbering more than 9,000, is crammed into his Auckland home. This touching portrait brings Johnny’s collection to life and creates a tangible link to precious memories from his past.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | New Zealand | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.loomfilms.co.nz/eggcuprequiem | | | Director(s): | Nick Mayow | | Prisca Bouchet | | Producer(s): | Nick Mayow | | Prisca Bouchet | | Editor(s): | Nick Mayow | | Cinematography: | Prisca Bouchet |
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Êmîcêtôsêt: Many Bloodlines
Available until June 24
A Cree filmmaker and her white partner document their pregnancy and journey to parenthood. From the search for an Indigenous donor and midwife to their concerns about raising a child as an interracial queer couple, the joy of having a child together gives them the courage to overcome any obstacle.
| | Runtime: | 11 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Cree | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Theola Ross | | Producer(s): | Alex Bailey | | Editor(s): | Lucius Dechausay | | Cinematography: | Alexandre Nour Desjardins | | Sound: | Anthony Wallace |
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Eyes and Arms
Available until June 24
Deeply in love and perfectly matched, an isolated Iranian couple overcome their disabilities, with her becoming his eyes and him her arms. His only hesitation is her ongoing desire for a child as he copes with his own tragic loss.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Iran | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Persian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Middle East | | | Director(s): | Panahbarkhoda Rezaee | | Producer(s): | Panahbarkhoda Rezaee |
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Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings
Available until June 6
In a small Berber community in the mountains of Morocco, locals follow an age-old division of labour. When a progressive woman from Casablanca challenges the status quo, female villagers—emboldened to demand more equality—start a cooking strike.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Morocco | | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Berber | | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Jawad Rhalib | | Producer(s): | Kristin Migeotte | | Executive Producer(s): | Hassan Benjelloun | | Editor(s): | Jawad Rhalib | | Writer(s): | Jawad Rhalib | | Cinematography: | Ali Benjelloun | | Sound: | Soufiane Harki |
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The Fantastic
Available until June 24
Former North Koreans recount their experiences watching forbidden foreign films and how these informed their perception of the outside world. Speculating solely from these illegal movies, fiction takes on a surprising new form, where reality, imagination and plausibility meet the unknown for both the North Koreans looking out and westerners looking in.
| | Runtime: | 30 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Korean | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Maija Blåfield | | Producer(s): | Maija Blåfield | | Editor(s): | Maija Blåfield | | Cinematography: | Maija Blåfield | | Composer: | Tuomo Puranen | | Sound: | Olli Huhtanen |
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Fat Kathy
Available until June 24
The lives of millions depend on eight small clams working hard to detect contamination in the city’s water supply. Clams are the new canaries in the coal mine in this stranger-than-fiction peek at how humans create problems for the planet and then use living organisms to protect themselves… from themselves.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Polish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.facebook.com/Gruba-Ka%C5%9Bka-Fat-Kathy-106542297490730 | | | Director(s): | Julia Pelka | | Producer(s): | Ewa Jastrzebska | | Editor(s): | Andrzej Czarnecki | | Julia Pelka | | Writer(s): | Julia Pelka | | Cinematography: | Szymon Kluz | | Sound: | Weronika Bloch | | Julia Pelka | | Grzegorz Kucharski |
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Finding Sally
Available until June 6
The remarkable story of the director’s aunt, who at 23 was an idealistic aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. After landing on the most-wanted list, she mysteriously disappears underground during the revolution’s tumultuous aftermath.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Amharic | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Revisionaries | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Tamara Dawit | | Producer(s): | Isabelle Couture | | Executive Producer(s): | Katarina Soukup | | Editor(s): | Mahi Rahgozar | | Writer(s): | Tamara Dawit | | Cinematography: | Alex Margineanu | | Composer: | Zaki Ibrahim | | Sound: | Catherine Van Der Donckt | | Benoît Dame |
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First We Eat
Available until June 6
Putting food security to the test in Yukon, the filmmaker 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 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | | Website: | https://firstweeat.ca/ | | | Director(s): | Suzanne Crocker | | Producer(s): | Suzanne Crocker | | Editor(s): | Michael Brockington | | Caroline Christie | | Astrid Schau-Larsen | | Writer(s): | Suzanne Crocker | | Cinematography: | Suzanne Crocker | | Story Editor(s): | Nettie Wild | | Composer: | Corb Lund | | Alex Houghton | | Jesse Cooke | | Marieke Hiensch | | Andrew Laviolette | | Sound: | David Parfit |
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The Flame
Available until June 24
In the Australian Outback, the stories of the past are reframed through a series of interwoven portraits. The Flame beautifully explores the powerful and shifting properties of fire and wind, bringing the stories of ancestors—and the upheaval that the white fella brought to the community—into the present.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Australia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Nick Waterman | | Producer(s): | Nick Waterman | | Raphaela Rosella | | Executive Producer(s): | Kim McConville | | Editor(s): | Nick Waterman | | Writer(s): | Nick Waterman | | Megan Washington | | Dayannah Baker Barlow | | Tyrese Fernando | | Paul Spearim | | Connie Taylor | | Lance Whitton Jr. | | Cinematography: | Adric Watson | | Composer: | Megan Washington | | Sound: | Sasha Zastavnikovic |
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For the Love of Rutland
Available until June 24
A recovering opioid addict and mother, Stacie barely gets by in her hardscrabble, job-scarce Vermont town. When Syrian refugees arrive, racism and xenophobia turn her community into a flashpoint of Trump’s America and Stacie into the unlikeliest of heroes.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | America | | Immigration & Refugees | | Labour & Working People | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Maytorena Taylor | | Producer(s): | Jennifer Maytorena Taylor | | Executive Producer(s): | Abigail Disney | | Heather Rae | | Editor(s): | Jen Bradwell | | Cinematography: | Jennifer Maytorena Taylor | | Jim Sabataso | | Sandra Valde-Hansen | | Mustafa Davis | | Composer: | Emily Rice | | Sound: | Alyssa Nevarez |
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The Forbidden Reel
Available until June 24
Creating amidst periods of war and chaos, Afghan filmmakers spawned an extraordinary national cinema that was nearly all lost to the Taliban. Marvelling in the magic of movies, this thrilling story celebrates the incredible films we almost never got to see.
| | Runtime: | 119 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Dari | | Pashto | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Film & Filmmaking | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Ariel Nasr | | Producer(s): | Sergeo Kirby | | Kat Baulu | | Executive Producer(s): | Sergeo Kirby | | Annette Clarke | | Jane Jankovic | | Linda Fong | | Editor(s): | Annie Jean | | Writer(s): | Ariel Nasr | | Cinematography: | Duraid Munajim | | Composer: | Olivier Alary | | Sound: | Marie-Pierre Grenier |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: The Forum
Available until June 24
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the most powerful leaders and thinkers on the planet gather, astonishing conversations unfold between the likes of Al Gore, Jair Bolsonaro and Greta Thunberg during an event with so much at stake.
| | Runtime: | 92 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Switzerland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | German | | English | | Swiss German | | French | | Spanish | | Indonesian | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | https://theforum-film.de/en/ | | | Director(s): | Marcus Vetter | | Producer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | | Caroline Schaper | | Executive Producer(s): | Julie Goldman | | Chris Clements | | Editor(s): | Marcus Vetter | | André Nier | | Ana R. Fernandes | | Michele Gentile | | Writer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | | Cinematography: | Georg Zengerling | | Composer: | Marcel Vaid |
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The Giverny Document (Single Channel)
Available until June 6 - FREE
Weaving textures and techniques, this experimental cinematic poem journeys between Harlem and Monet’s historic gardens at Giverny to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women, while celebrating their creativity and resistance.
| | Runtime: | 41 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Markers | | Website: | https://www.jatovia.com/the-giverny-document-2019#1 | | | Director(s): | Ja'Tovia Gary | | Producer(s): | Artesia Balthrop | | Paige Wood | | Editor(s): | Ja'Tovia Gary | | Cinematography: | Mia Cioffi Henry | | Composer: | Nelson Bandela | | Dyani Douze | | Sound: | Ja'Tovia Gary |
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Green Blood
Available until June 24
Furthering investigations launched by local reporters for which they faced threats, imprisonment and even death, 40 international journalists join forces to blow open large-scale crimes committed by mining behemoths, including Canada’s own Barrick, in India, Guatemala and Tanzania.
| | Runtime: | 208 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | English | | Spanish | | Tamoul | | Hindi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Deep Dive | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Intrigue | | Ecology & the Environment | | Journalism & the Media | | Latin America | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Jules Giraudat | | Arthur Bouvart | | Alexis Marant | | Producer(s): | Laurent Richard | | Aurélie Meimon | | Executive Producer(s): | Alex Winter | | Noor Sadar | | Editor(s): | Mathieu Goasguen | | Matthieu Lère | | Writer(s): | Jules Giraudat | | Arthur Bouvart | | Alexis Marant | | Cinematography: | Raoul Seigneur | | Arthur Bouvart | | Jules Giraudat | | Ram Pateriya | | Christophe Barreyre | | Julien Mauranne | | Composer: | Clément Tery |
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Gun Killers
Available until June 24
Steeped in the atmospherics of a taut spy thriller, Gun Killers portrays retired blacksmiths John and Nancy Little as national heroes. The couple are employed by local police to engage in the mass destruction of firearms, in a noble effort to protect the lives of all Canadians.
| | Runtime: | 11 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/gun-killers/ | | | Director(s): | Jason Young | | Producer(s): | Rohan Fernando | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Andrew MacCormack | | Writer(s): | Jason Young | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Composer: | Dave Anderson | | Paul Frehner | | Jason Michael MacIsaac | | Sound: | Luke Batiot |
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Her Mothers
Available until June 24
In this intimate tale of love and freedom, a lesbian couple contends with homophobia in an increasingly radicalized Hungary as they struggle to create a family through adoption and to define their roles in motherhood.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Hungary | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Hungarian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Asia Dér | | Sári Haragonics | | Producer(s): | Sára László | | Marcell Gero | | Noemi Veronika Szakonyi | | Editor(s): | Flóra Erdélyi | | Cinematography: | Asia Dér | | Sound: | Sári Haragonics |
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Hollie's Dress
Available until June 24
As 14-year-old Hollie sews her first dress with her mother, she faces the decision all Mennonite girls must make as they reach adulthood. Will she put on the dress, become a full member of the Mennonite church and assume her role as a mother, or will she join the wider world?
| | Runtime: | 25 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.anniesakkab.com/hollies-dress | | | Director(s): | Annie Sakkab | | Producer(s): | Paul Lee | | Annie Sakkab | | Editor(s): | Annie Sakkab | | Writer(s): | Annie Sakkab | | Cinematography: | Annie Sakkab | | Vanessa Tignanelli | | Composer: | APM Music Library | | Ken Young | | Sound: | Amanda Ann-Min Wong |
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Hong Kong Moments
Available until June 24
As pro-democracy protestors battle armed police in the streets of Hong Kong, ordinary citizens take sides. Cameras follow a cop, a paramedic, a tea shop owner and politicians as their city—an outlier of both western and Chinese power—quakes in crisis.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Hong Kong | | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Cantonese | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | East Asia | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Bing Zhou | | Producer(s): | Bing Zhou | | Christian Beetz | | Executive Producer(s): | Ricky Choy | | Tuan Lam | | Editor(s): | Jeff Kwok | | Cinematography: | Wade John Muller | | Xue Ming | | Barry Chung | | Lin Qian Xia | | Christopher Tang | | Sida Wang | | Key Jamjan Chen | | Yi Bing Quan | | Composer: | Sonic Lee | | Sound: | Saturday Chu | | Lam Yun Kwan | | Fun Yiu Ton | | Ben |
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Hydebank
Available until June 24
A 21-year-old offender serving his sentence in the Northern Irish countryside forms an unlikely bond with the facility’s flock of sheep and begins to accept the brutal act that landed him in prison. A quiet and contemplative film about repentance, Hydebank shows a young man’s internal struggle with innocence and evil.
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ross McClean | | Producer(s): | Chris Kelly | | Editor(s): | Anders S Jepsen | | Cinematography: | Ross McClean | | Sound: | Ciaran Devlin-Rushe |
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I Am Samuel
Available until June 24
Filmed over five years, this powerful tale follows Kenyan-born Samuel who, while dutiful to his family, finds his desire to live life as he chooses at odds with his conservative rural upbringing and must find a balance between the two.
| | Runtime: | 70 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Kenya | | Canada | | UK | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Kiswahili | | English | | Luhya | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Families & Family Relationships | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Peter Murimi | | Producer(s): | Toni Kamau | | Peter Murimi | | Executive Producer(s): | Judy Kibinge | | Peter Mudamba | | Roger Ross Williams | | Editor(s): | Ricardo Acosta | | Phil Jandaly | | Writer(s): | Peter Murimi | | Ricardo Acosta | | Cinematography: | Peter Murimi | | Elijah Kanyi | | Sam Soko | | Chris King | | Composer: | Eric Wainaina | | Sound: | Peter Murimi |
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I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die
Available until June 24
Living below the poverty line in suburban Colorado Springs, Betty is a kid raising kids. Through a colourful collage of sights and sounds, this sensory portrait reveals motherhood as a symbiotic experience, where love and dependency go hand in hand.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | America | | Families & Family Relationships | | Labour & Working People | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Eva Marie Rødbro | | Producer(s): | Julie Friis Walenciak | | Editor(s): | Mark Bukdahl | | Cinematography: | Eva Marie Rødbro | | Troels Rasmus Jensen | | Sound: | Bo Asdal | | Hans Christian Arnt Torp |
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I Want You If You Dare
Available until June 24
In this unsentimental and refreshing look at disability, a young woman immobilized by cerebral palsy longs for independence and her first sexual encounter while her brash mother drafts a personal ad to help her along her way.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Czech Republic | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Czech | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Love & Relationships | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Dagmar Smržová | | Producer(s): | Miloš Lochman | | Editor(s): | Adéla Špaljová | | Writer(s): | Dagmar Smržová | | Cinematography: | Adam Kruliš | | Sound: | Petr Neubauer |
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If It Were Love
Available until June 24
Following 15 young dancers touring a piece about the ’90s rave scene, trance-like performances and intimate backstage moments push experimental documentary and blur the lines between real life and theatre.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Music & Musicians | | Performance & Performers | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Patric Chiha | | Producer(s): | Charlotte Vincent | | Editor(s): | Anna Riche | | Cinematography: | Jordane Chouzenoux | | Sound: | Pierre Bompy |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: iHUMAN
Available until May 31
Take a deep dive into rapidly expanding forms of artificial intelligence, as told by some of the pioneers and experts of the field who reflect on the massive impact these advancements have on our world.
| | Runtime: | 100 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | | Director(s): | Tonje Hessen Schei | | Producer(s): | Jonathan Borge Lie | | Executive Producer(s): | Philippa Kowarsky | | Annie Roney | | Editor(s): | Torkel Gjørv | | Cinematography: | Henrik Ipsen |
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Immortal
Available until June 24
Indoctrination’s insidious mechanisms are exposed in this impressionistic essay that observes life in a small Russian industrial city and how—even in seemingly benign situations—the state’s ideological structures grasp control of its youngest citizens.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Labour & Working People | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | https://immortal.ee/ | | | Director(s): | Ksenia Okhapkina | | Producer(s): | Riho Västrik | | Uldis Cekulis | | Editor(s): | Ksenia Okhapkina | | Stijn Deconinck | | Writer(s): | Ksenia Okhapkina | | Kersti Uibo | | Pauls Bankovskis | | Cinematography: | Aleksandr Demjanenko | | Artem Ignatov | | Ksenia Okhapkina | | Composer: | Robert Jürjendal | | Arian Levin | | Sound: | Aleksandr Dudarev |
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In the Shadow of the Pines
Available until June 24
Inspired by the filmmaker’s own upbringing, this deeply personal animated documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship questions ideas of shame around being othered as an immigrant in North America and how life-defining experiences can inhibit us from claiming and owning our identities.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Anne Koizumi | | Producer(s): | Sahar Yousefi | | Editor(s): | Anne Koizumi | | Writer(s): | Anne Koizumi | | Composer: | respectfulchild |
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In Your Eyes, I See My Country
Available until June 24
Two Israeli musicians travel throughout Morocco to rediscover their Jewish-Moroccan heritage. In life and on stage, they question their identity and home country, attempting to heal the wounds of ancestral exile from song to song.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Morocco | | France | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Arabic | | Hebrew | | Amazigh | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Music & Musicians | | Performance & Performers | | Jewish Interest | | Religion & Spirituality | | | Director(s): | Kamal Hachkar | | Producer(s): | Sebastien Marques | | Kamal Hachkar | | Editor(s): | Yaël Bitton | | Nadia Ben Rachid | | Cinematography: | Philippe Bellaiche |
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Influence
Available until June 24
Fake news, weaponized communication and political interference take centre stage in this story of spin, all charted through the rise and collapse of notorious British public relations and reputation management firm Bell Pottinger.
| | Runtime: | 106 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Intrigue | | Journalism & the Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | https://www.influence.film/ | | | Director(s): | Richard Poplak | | Diana Neille | | Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Neil Brandt | | Executive Producer(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Daniel Cross | | Thandi Davids | | Editor(s): | Ryan Mullins | | Writer(s): | Richard Poplak | | Diana Neille | | Cinematography: | Glauco Bermudez | | Mark Ó Fearghaíl | | Composer: | Florencia Di Concilio | | Sound: | Benoît Dame | | Catherine Van Der Donckt |
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Invasion
Available until June 24
Urgent and timely, Invasion documents the Unist’ot’en camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and larger Wet’suwet’en First Nation as they stand up to the Canadian government and corporations behind the Coastal GasLink pipeline, opposing colonial violence in an era of supposed reconciliation.
| | Runtime: | 18 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Wet'suwet'en | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.mutualaidmedia.com/invasion | | | Director(s): | Michael Toledano | | Sam Vinal | | Producer(s): | Franklin López | | Michael Toledano | | Sam Vinal | | Editor(s): | Franklin López | | Cinematography: | Michael Toledano |
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Jo
Available until June 24
Jo is the fierce, self-assured protagonist of this profile of a working-class hero. She embraces the troubles of her past while forging an unapologetic path forward, guided by uncompromising principles and a deep love for only two people: her daughter Karine and singer Diane Dufresne.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Carmen Rachiteanu | | Producer(s): | Kristine Thelle | | Editor(s): | Martin Morisette | | Writer(s): | Carmen Rachiteanu | | Cinematography: | Nicolas Canniccioni | | Composer: | Nicolas Borycki | | Sound: | Yann Cleary | | Marco Fania |
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Judy Versus Capitalism
Available until June 6
Second-wave feminist, radical activist and journalist Judy Rebick, who spent decades providing a platform for voices that needed to be heard, allows focus to shift to her own life in this deeply personal and visually experimental biography.
| | Runtime: | 62 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Markers | | | Director(s): | Mike Hoolboom | | Producer(s): | Mike Hoolboom | | Editor(s): | Mike Hoolboom |
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Just a Guy
Available until June 24
Eva, Sarah and filmmaker Shoko Hara all corresponded with Richard Ramirez, a notorious California serial killer and rapist, during his incarceration in the 1980s and ’90s. Using an ever-shifting, self-erasing claymation style, Just a Guy expresses their transgressive affection and attraction without judgment, and shows the destigmatizing and charitable potential of human interaction.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Shoko Hara | | Producer(s): | Stefan Michel | | Editor(s): | Tobias Wilhelmer | | Writer(s): | Simon Thummet | | Composer: | Chiara Strickland | | Sound: | Marc Fragstein | | Luis Schöffend |
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Kachalka
Available until June 24
Not just for pumping iron, the gym Kachalka is a place to see and be seen, where those working out are just as eclectic as the 200-plus machines fashioned from cast-off Soviet-era machinery. This living relic is thoroughly modern in its repurposing of 100 tons of iron.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Ukrainian | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Gar O'Rourke | | Producer(s): | Ken Wardrop | | Executive Producer(s): | Andrew Freedman | | Editor(s): | John O'Connor | | Cinematography: | Colm Hogan | | Sound: | Kateryna Herasymchuk |
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Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story
Available until June 24
Catapulted to cult status after decades of isolation, a Black transgender musical genius embarks on his first international tour in his seventies as the present day finally catches up to his barrier-breaking sounds and identities.
| | Runtime: | 63 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Website: | https://www.keyboardfantasies.movie/ | | https://www.patreon.com/beverlyglenncopeland | | | Director(s): | Posy Dixon | | Producer(s): | Liv Proctor | | Editor(s): | Tim Beeston | | Cinematography: | Lee Burnett | | Kevin A. Fraser | | Morgan K. Spencer | | Composer: | Beverly Glenn-Copeland | | Sound: | John Cohen | | Rob Szeliga |
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L.A. Tea Time
Available until June 24
From Montreal to Los Angeles, this genre-bending travelogue follows the adventures of an inspiration-seeking filmmaker and her director of photography. Meditative and magical, their journey is filled with humour and few eccentric characters along the way.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | America | | Canada | | Personal Histories | | Film & Filmmaking | | | Director(s): | Sophie Bédard-Marcotte | | Producer(s): | Caroline Galipeau | | Editor(s): | Joël Morin-Ben Abdallah | | Writer(s): | Sophie Bédard-Marcotte | | Cinematography: | Isabelle Stachtchenko | | Sound: | Juliette Guérin |
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Landfall
Available until June 24
How will Puerto Rico reinvent itself after the devastations of Hurricane Maria and a multi-billion-dollar debt crisis? Intimate encounters with afflicted locals and opportunistic newcomers offer a sharp-eyed analysis of disaster capitalism and a stirring portrait of resistance.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | | Director(s): | Cecilia Aldarondo | | Producer(s): | Ines Hofmann Kanna | | Cecilia Aldarondo | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Justine Nagan | | Chris White | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Sandy Viquez Pedlow | | Editor(s): | Terra Long | | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | | Composer: | Angelica Negron |
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The Last Archer
Available until June 24
In this intimate portrait of Alberto Manrique, one of the Canary Islands’ most innovative artists, the director—Manrique’s granddaughter—returns home to restore his memory, part of which he lost some years before, and discovers his work’s true magical power to heal.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Personal Histories | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Dácil Manrique de Lara | | Producer(s): | Ana Sánchez-Gijón | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | | Executive Producer(s): | Ana Sánchez-Gijón | | Editor(s): | Nacho Ruiz Capillas | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | | Writer(s): | Dacil Manrique de Lara | | Isabelle Dierckx | | Cinematography: | Juan A. Castaño (AEC) | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | | Composer: | Christian Johansen | | Hector R. Perdomo | | Sound: | Christian Johansen | | Elodium |
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The Last Autumn
Available until June 24
After centuries of rural tradition, a remote Icelandic sheep farm bordering the vast Arctic Ocean faces its final season, leaving the last in a long line of farmers to quietly grapple with its end in this gorgeously haunting elegy.
| | Runtime: | 73 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Iceland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Icelandic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Labour & Working People | | Northern Europe | | Rural Live & Agriculture | | | Director(s): | Yrsa Roca Fannberg | | Producer(s): | Yrsa Roca Fannberg | | Hanna Björk Valsdóttir | | Editor(s): | Federico Delpero Bejar | | Writer(s): | Yrsa Roca Fannberg | | Elín Agla Bríem | | Cinematography: | Carlos Vásquez Méndez | | Composer: | Gyða Valtýsdóttir | | Sound: | Björn Viktorsson |
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LEAP OF FAITH: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Available until June 24
The legacy, lore and lyricism of one of cinema’s greatest horror masterpieces is explored in candid detail as Academy Award–winning director William Friedkin sits down to unravel the complex genesis of The Exorcist.
| | Runtime: | 105 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Nightvision | | Film Subjects: | Film & Filmmaking | | Popular Culture | | | Director(s): | Alexandre O. Philippe | | Producer(s): | Kerry Roy | | Executive Producer(s): | Karyn Kusama | | Phil Hay | | Matt Manfredi | | Joey Porcelli | | Randy Pharo | | Editor(s): | David Lawrence | | Writer(s): | Alexandre O. Philippe | | Cinematography: | Robert Muratore | | Composer: | Jon Hegel | | Anthony Weeden | | Sound: | Leslie Gaston |
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Lessons of Love
Available until June 24
After escaping from an abusive marriage of 45 years, a free-spirited Polish woman rediscovers friendship and love. But can her personal reinvention coexist with the conservative attitudes of her generation?
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Polish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Love & Relationships | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Malgorzata Goliszewska | | Kasia Mateja | | Producer(s): | Anna Stylinska | | Izabela Lopuch | | Executive Producer(s): | Hanka Kastelicova | | Editor(s): | Alan Zejer | | Writer(s): | Malgorzata Goliszewska | | Anna Stylinska | | Cinematography: | Kasia Mateja | | Mateusz Czuchnowski | | Composer: | Marcin Lenarczyk | | Sound: | Anna Rok | | Jaroslaw Sadowski |
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Lhomme’s Dreams
Available until June 24
Without ever having travelled, Dr. Jules Lhomme amassed over 3,000 artifacts, becoming one of the world’s first collectors of African art. What was once considered a cabinet of curiosities now resembles a coffin of colonial atrocities, in this haunting animated archive of imaginary exploration and realized exploitation.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Florent Morin | | Producer(s): | Pierre Baussaron | | Emmanuel-Alain Raynal | | Editor(s): | Albane du Plessix | | Florent Morin | | Writer(s): | Florent Morin | | Cinematography: | Florent Morin | | Composer: | Manuel Morvant |
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Lola
Available until June 24
Lola dolefully observes the break up of her family. There’s nothing she can do but sit and watch as her loved ones act out, argue, silently stew and finally leave. A heartrending look at the end of a marriage and a time of transition, through the innocent eyes of the pet dog.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Miranda Carter-Watson | | Producer(s): | Jamie MacDonald | | Editor(s): | Ona Bartroli Portell | | Cinematography: | Miranda Carter-Watson | | Composer: | Saul Bragman | | Sound: | Ross Wilkes-Houghton |
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt
Available until June 24
When her drug-addicted brother’s calls for money stop, his sister races from Estonia to Colombia to desperately seek him out on the rough streets of Bogotá. But as each rumoured sighting breeds new panic, is she chasing hope or a ghost?
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Colombia | | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Estonian | | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | https://nakedcinema.eu/A-Loss-of-Something-Ever-Felt | | | Director(s): | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | | Producer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Davood Mousavi | | Marcela Lizcano | | Editor(s): | Hendrik Mägar | | Writer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Carlos Eduarlo Lesmes Lopez | | Cinematography: | Aivo Rannik | | Giulia Ducci | | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | | Davood Mousavi | | Composer: | Ann Reimann | | Sound: | Gabriel Solis |
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The Lost Astronaut
Available until June 24
Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to become NASA’s first African-American astronaut—until, suddenly, he wasn’t. In a succinct chronicling of 1960s US history, The Lost Astronaut looks back at pivotal moments in Ed’s career and exposes the systemic racism that snatched away his chance to make history.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://breakwaterstudios.com/film/the-lost-astronaut/ | | | Director(s): | Ben Proudfoot | | Producer(s): | Gabe Godoi | | Executive Producer(s): | Abby Davis | | Editor(s): | Nick Wright | | Cinematography: | Brandon Somerhalder | | Composer: | Nicholas Jacobson-Larson | | Sound: | Sean Higgins |
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Lost Lives
Available until June 24
Some of Ireland’s most well-known actors narrate passages from the famed book Lost Lives, bringing to life rare archival footage in this requiem for the over 3,700 lives lost during the Northern Irish Troubles.
| | Runtime: | 93 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Ireland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Made In Northern Ireland | | Film Subjects: | War & Conflict | | Western Europe | | Website: | https://www.lostlivesthefilm.com/ | | | Director(s): | Dermot Lavery | | Michael Hewitt | | Producer(s): | Dermot Lavery | | Michael Hewitt | | Executive Producer(s): | Paul McGuigan | | Editor(s): | David Gray | | Andrew Tohill | | Writer(s): | David McKittrick | | Seamus Kelters | | Chris Thornton | | Brian Feeney | | David McVea | | Cinematography: | Mark Garrett | | Composer: | Neil Martin | | Mark Gordon | | Richard Hill | | Charlie Graham | | Sound: | Paul Maynes |
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Love & Stuff
Available until June 24
While mourning the relatively recent loss of her own mother, filmmaker Judith Helfand prepares to become a “new old” mom at 50 in this exploration of the transformative power of parenting and our complex attachment to the past.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Revisionaries | | Film Subjects: | Health & Medicine | | Jewish Interest | | Personal Histories | | Women & Women's Stuff | | | Director(s): | Judith Helfand | | Co-Director(s): | David Cohen | | Producer(s): | Hilla Medalia | | Julie Parker Benello | | Judith Helfand | | Executive Producer(s): | Regina K. Scully | | Jenny Raskin | | Geralyn White Dreyfous | | Dan Cogan | | Nancy Blachman | | Sarah Cavanaugh | | Megan Gelstein | | Susan Margolin | | Editor(s): | Marina Katz | | David Cohen | | Writer(s): | Judith Helfand | | David Cohen | | Cinematography: | Daniel Gold | | Composer: | Paul Brill |
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Love and Fury
Available until June 24
Established and emerging Indigenous visual and musical artists uncover the stereotypes they face while pursuing careers in the United States and abroad, and boldly shatter perceptions of what it means to be a contemporary "Native American artist."
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | America | | Art & Architecture | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Performance & Performers | | | Director(s): | Sterlin Harjo | | Producer(s): | Sterlin Harjo | | Executive Producer(s): | Robin Ballenger | | Editor(s): | Sterlin Harjo | | Cinematography: | Jeremy Charles | | Sterlin Harjo | | Matt Leach | | Kyle Bell | | Shane Brown | | Sound: | Royce Sharp |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Available until June 24
Controversy erupts when the American art market is flooded with a slew of fake paintings valued in the millions. As the truth unravels and consequences mount, a reputed New York dealer unwittingly finds herself at the centre of an elaborate con.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Chinese | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | America | | Art & Architecture | | Crime & Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Barry Avrich | | Producer(s): | Barry Avrich | | Caitlin Cheddie | | Executive Producer(s): | Jay Hennick | | Barry Avrich | | Editor(s): | Tiffany Beaudin | | Writer(s): | Barry Avrich | | Cinematography: | Ken Ng | | Composer: | Michael Perlmutter | | Sound: | Richard Spence-Thomas |
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Mayor
Available until June 6
Musa Hadid, Ramallah’s charismatic Christian mayor, balances his citizens’ everyday concerns with his own enduring mission to end Palestine’s occupation in this urgent political saga, told with intimacy and candour.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | https://www.davidosit.com/mayor | | | Director(s): | David Osit | | Producer(s): | David Osit | | Executive Producer(s): | Maxyne Franklin | | Teddy Leifer | | Editor(s): | David Osit | | Cinematography: | David Osit | | Composer: | Geinoh Yamashirogumi | | Toru Takemitsu | | Sound: | Kent Sparling |
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Meat the Future
Available until June 24
Memphis Meats aims to go mainstream with its lab-grown “cultured meat” products, made without killing animals. But in a race to alter diets and save the planet, can this new approach to food win over omnivorous skeptics?
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Telugu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Ecology & the Environment | | Rural Life & Agriculture | | Science & Technology | | Website: | https://meatthefuture.com/ | | | Director(s): | Liz Marshall | | Producer(s): | Liz Marshall | | Executive Producer(s): | Janice Dawe | | Chris Hegedus | | Associate Producer(s): | Jessica Jennings | | Editor(s): | Roland Schlimme | | Caroline Christie | | Writer(s): | Liz Marshall | | Cinematography: | John Price | | Composer: | Igor Correia | | Sound: | Elma Bello | | Chris Miller | | Michelle Irving | | Graham Rogers | | Matt Chan |
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Mein Vietnam
Available until June 24
Living in limbo for 30 years—physically in Germany but virtually in Vietnam via constant Skyping and karaoke chatrooms—a couple is torn on where to call home when a storm destroys their house in Vietnam that held the promise of their eventual return.
| | Runtime: | 70 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Vietnamese | | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Science & Technology | | South & Central Asia | | Western Europe | | Website: | http://coronado-film.com/mein-vietnam_.html | | | Director(s): | Tim Ellrich | | Thi Hien Mai | | Producer(s): | Leopold Pape | | Editor(s): | Tobias Wilhelmer | | Writer(s): | Tim Ellrich | | Cinematography: | Tim Ellrich | | Sound: | Leopold Pape | | Tim Ellrich | | Marco Schnebel | | Volker Armbruster |
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Merry Christmas, Yiwu
Available until June 24
In a surreal Chinese city where 600 factories manufacture Christmas decorations year-round, workers’ daily routines and personal dramas unfold, all set against a society at the intersection of communism and globalism.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Serbia | | France | | Germany | | Belgium | | Qatar | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | East Asia | | Labour & Working People | | | Director(s): | Mladen Kovacevic | | Producer(s): | Iva Plemic Divjak | | Mario Adamson | | Ruth Reid | | Editor(s): | Jelena Maksimovic | | Cinematography: | Marko Milovanovic | | Composer: | Olof Dreijer | | Sound: | Patrik Strömdahl |
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Modern Whore
Available until June 24
Former escort Andrea Werhun is the star of this unprecedented portrayal of sex work, characterized by personal agency, humour and heart. Exposing deep complexities of sexual power and social stigma, this hybrid documentary brings the pages of Werhun’s candid memoir to life through interviews and scripted scenes.
| | Runtime: | 12 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://modernwhore.com/ | | | Director(s): | Nicole Bazuin | | Producer(s): | Lisa Baylin | | Executive Producer(s): | Nicole Bazuin | | Andrea Werhun | | Jonas Diamond | | Editor(s): | Nicole Bazuin | | Writer(s): | Nicole Bazuin | | Cinematography: | Nina Djacic | | Sound: | Daenen Bramberger |
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Mother-Child
Available until June 11
At a public hospital in Argentina—where abortion is still mostly illegal—vulnerable teenage girls confide in caring professionals, revealing the weightiness of their decisions and the fragility of their dreams.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Argentina | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | http://www.kinorebelde.com/dist_mother_en.html | | | Director(s): | Andrea Testa | | Producer(s): | Francisco Márquez | | Luciana Piantanida | | Andrea Perner | | Editor(s): | Lorena Moriconi | | Writer(s): | Andrea Testa | | Francisco Márquez | | Cinematography: | Gustavo Schiaffino | | Sound: | Abel Tortorelli |
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Nancy's Workshop
Available until June 24
One Sunday a month, natural hair specialist Nancy Falaise closes the doors of her Montreal salon to lead a private workshop for young Black girls struggling to love their natural hair. The group bonds and shares familiar experiences of navigating their self-image and racial identity.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/nancys-workshop | | | Director(s): | Aïcha Diop | | Producer(s): | Christina Carvalho | | Executive Producer(s): | Charles Officer | | Jake Yanowski | | Composer: | Emily Bitze |
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Nightvision Shorts Program: Pleasure Prison
Available until June 24
A collection of films that indulge in erotic explorations of disability and desire, feeding tube food fantasies, sex work and taboo attractions (according to law, religion and public opinion), set in prisons of the mind and body.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Nightvision |
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Nuxalk Radio
Available until June 24
Chart a day in the life of Nuxalk Radio, broadcasted from the Nuxalk village of Q'umk'uts' (Bella Coola, B.C.)—one station of many in a growing grassroots radio network focused on healing and empowering communities by broadcasting solely in Indigenous languages.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Nuxalk | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Slts'lani (Banshee Hanuse) | | Producer(s): | Jessica Hallenbeck | | Executive Producer(s): | Murray Battle | | Rudy Buttignol | | Editor(s): | Jason Schneider | | Writer(s): | Slts'lani (Banshee Hanuse) | | Cinematography: | Louvens Remy | | Slts'lani (Banshee Hanuse) | | Jessica Hallenbeck | | Dave Shortt | | Sound: | John Öhrn | | Jessica Hallenbeck |
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Oil & Water
Available until June 24
Facing imminent takeover of their ancestral lands, women in the Turkana region of Kenya organize themselves to stand up against oil giant Tullow. Despite resistance from the men in their community, they continue to oppose the corporation that threatens to snatch away their sovereignty and way of life.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Turkana | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Anjali Nayar | | Producer(s): | Andreas Mendritzki | | Editor(s): | Andres Landau | | Cinematography: | Guillaume Beaudoin | | Composer: | Jim Chuchu | | Sound: | Andreas Mendritzki |
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Once the Dust Has Settled
Available until June 24
A Canadian town called Asbestos was once home to the largest mine of its kind in the world. Years after the mine’s closure, Asbestos residents reflect on their changing city, built around the open pit that acts as a constant reminder of a not-so-distant industrial past.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://hervedemers.com/une-fois-la-poussiere-retombee | | | Director(s): | Hervé Demers | | Producer(s): | Hervé Demers | | Editor(s): | Hervé Demers | | Writer(s): | Hervé Demers | | Cinematography: | Hong An Nguyen | | Sound: | Mélanie Gauthier | | David Ledoux | | Olivier Calvert | | Daniel Toussaint |
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Available until June 24
In Venezuela, corruption, pollution and political decay take their toll as the small fishing village of Congo Mirador is literally sinking from sedimentation. Confronting the crisis, two local women clash over the upcoming election, eyeing different paths forward.
| | Runtime: | 99 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Venezuela | | UK | | Brazil | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Latin America | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Rural Live & Agriculture | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Anabel Rodríguez Ríos | | Producer(s): | Sepp Brudermann | | Executive Producer(s): | Claudia Lepage | | Editor(s): | Sepp Brudermann | | Cinematography: | John Márquez | | Composer: | Nascuy Linares | | Sound: | Daniel Turini |
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Only the Devil Lives Without Hope
Available until June 24
When her brother is wrongfully accused of terrorism in Uzbekistan, a woman leads a fight to free him from the desert prison nicknamed The Place of No Return. Through her harrowing pursuit, a real-life thriller about love, betrayal, spies and assassins unfolds.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Norway | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Uzbek | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Intrigue | | Families & Family Relationships | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Magnus Gertten | | Producer(s): | Ove Rishøj Jensen | | Editor(s): | Jesper Osmund | | Cinematography: | Caroline Troedsson | | Composer: | Ola Kvernberg | | Sound: | Audun Kvitland Røstad | | Jørgen Meyer |
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The Painter and the Thief
Available until June 24
After an artist’s two most famous paintings are stolen from an Oslo gallery, she meets—and unexpectedly befriends—the drug-addicted man who took them, resulting in this twisting, edge-of-your-seat study of the complicated and compelling duo.
| | Runtime: | 102 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Art & Architecture | | Crime & Intrigue | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Benjamin Ree | | Producer(s): | Ingvil Giske | | Editor(s): | Robert Stenga°rd | | Cinematography: | Benjamin Ree | | Kristoffer Kumar | | Composer: | Uno Helmersson | | Sound: | Svenn Jakobsen |
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Panquiaco
Available until June 24
Immersed in deep nostalgia, an Indigenous Panamanian fisherman working in Portugal leaves for his hometown only to be thwarted in this dreamlike journey into memory and personal history that asks if it’s even possible to return to the past.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Panama | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Dulegaya | | Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | | Director(s): | Ana Elena Tejera | | Producer(s): | Ana Elena Tejera | | María Isabel Burnes | | Executive Producer(s): | Tomás Cortes | | María Isabel Burnes | | Ana Elena Tejera | | Christian Bradford | | Leo Wiznitzer | | Editor(s): | Lorenzo Mora Salazar | | Ana Elena Tejera | | Ariadna Ribas Surís | | Writer(s): | Ana Elena Tejera | | Cinematography: | Mateo Gúzman | | Sound: | Juan Camilo Martínez |
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Performing Lives
Featuring recent video works, Performing Lives boldly bridges the supposed gap between documentary and entertainment, information and spectacle, fact and fiction. Making references to and borrowing methods from TV, film, dance, and music, these videos represent various groups using strategies that venture beyond the expository approach characteristically associated with documentary cinema.
| | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | DocX | | | Curated by: | Zoë Chan |
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Persister Shorts Program
Available until June 24
A collection of short films by women, about women speaking up and being heard including Radia, They're Just Fish, and Villa Villekulla.
| | Runtime: | 61 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Women & Women's Stories |
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Playback
Available until June 24
In the conservative city of Córdoba, Grupo Kalas, a chosen family of transgender women and drag queens combine performance and protest onstage at club La Piaff. This unknown history from the 1980s manipulates time and space using VHS tracking and re-enactments to produce alternate endings for those who died of AIDS.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Argentina | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | http://www.kinorebelde.com/kino2020/playback/ | | | Director(s): | Agustina Comedi | | Producer(s): | Magalí Mérida | | Editor(s): | Valeria Racioppi | | Writer(s): | Agustina Comedi | | Cinematography: | Magalí Mérida | | Sound: | Guido Deniro |
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A Pleasure, Comrades!
Available until June 19
In 1975, many European foreigners came to post–Carnation Revolution Portugal to assist in newly formed co-ops. Today, the aging men and women return to play-act their memories, celebrating sexual freedom and hedonistic utopia.
| | Runtime: | 106 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Portugal | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Portuguese | | English | | German | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Website: | http://www.umapedranosapato.com/#a-pleasure-comrades | | | Director(s): | José Filipe Costa | | Producer(s): | Filipa Reis | | João Miller Guerra | | Editor(s): | João Braz | | Writer(s): | José Filipe Costa | | Cinematography: | Hugo Azevedo | | Sound: | Rúben Costa |
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Prayer for a Lost Mitten
Available until June 24
Montreal Metro’s Lost and Found department does its best to reconnect misplaced items with their rightful owners. The touching stories of those who come to claim their belongings warm this stunning snapshot of a long Québécois winter.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | English | | Creole | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Urban Culture & Issues | | | Director(s): | Jean-François Lesage | | Producer(s): | Jean-François Lesage | | Editor(s): | Mathieu Bouchard-Malo | | Ariane Pétel-Despots | | Writer(s): | Jean-François Lesage | | Cinematography: | Marianne Ploska | | Composer: | Tom Brunt | | Sound: | Marie-Pierre Grenier | | Olivier Germain | | Marie-Andrée Cormier |
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Puberty
Available until June 24
A midwife and single mother who “drinks too often and cries too much,” according to her kids, is looking for companionship. Post-divorce, she’s lonely, with a limitless resource to love that’s not being used. Will a sexcation with a married man fill her need? Or will finding a way to love herself?
| | Runtime: | 29 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Russia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Russian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Elena Kondrateva | | Producer(s): | Elena Kondrateva | | Editor(s): | Lisa Kozlova | | Elena Kondrateva | | Writer(s): | Elena Kondrateva | | Cinematography: | Elena Kondrateva | | Sound: | Yurij Gedert | | Yulia Bazhenova |
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Radia
Available until June 24
Radia, a Moroccan shepherd and farmer whose childhood circumstances prevented her from accessing an education, demonstrates how girls and women are prescribed their fates at a young age. Radia reflects on the idea of agency and how invention, determination and achievement exist independently of anyone's permission.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Darija | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Erica Beebe | | Producer(s): | Erica Ticknor | | Jackie Bannon | | Executive Producer(s): | Emma Davie | | Amy Hardie | | Flora Gregory | | Editor(s): | Maggie Clark | | Cinematography: | Erica Ticknor | | Composer: | Alexandra Katerinopoulou | | Sound: | Gavin Mc Cabe |
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The Reason I Jump
Available until June 24
Naoki Higashida’s bestselling book The Reason I Jump offered a rare first-person account of life as a non-speaking autistic child. Through inventive interviews and dramatizations, Higashida and fellow nonverbal people with autism now offer a cinematic glimpse beyond the neurotypical experience of the world.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Krio | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Health & Medicine | | | Director(s): | Jerry Rothwell | | Producer(s): | Al Morrow | | Stevie Lee | | Jeremy Dear | | Editor(s): | David Charap | | Cinematography: | Ruben Woodin Dechamps | | Composer: | Nainita Desai |
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Recoding Art
Available until June 24
What do you get when a digital media researcher and a visual artist meet? A powerful amalgam of seven AI platforms, expressly married to interpret one of the world’s preeminent modern art collections—the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands. The results are revealing. Techno-capitalism is not an art aficionado.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Brazil | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.recodingart.com/ | | | Director(s): | Bruno Moreschi | | Gabriel Pereira | | Producer(s): | Fernanda Pessoa | | Editor(s): | Luara Oliveira | | Cinematography: | Rodrigo Levy | | Composer: | David Menezes |
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Res Creata – Humans and Other Animals
Available until June 24
Less than 80,000 years ago, humans were not superior, just one of many animals simply coexisting. Stunning compositions and insights resurrect the rituals and places where natural and human commonality still exists in this award-winning look at biocentrism.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Ecology & the Environment | | | Director(s): | Alessandro Cattaneo | | Producer(s): | Rino Sciarretta | | Silvia della Sala | | Alessandro Cattaneo | | Editor(s): | Pietro Malegori | | Writer(s): | Silvia della Sala | | Alessandro Cattaneo | | Cinematography: | Alessandro Cattaneo | | Composer: | Vittorio de Vecchi | | Linda della Sala | | Sound: | Tommaso Simonetta | | Guido Smider |
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Reunited
Available until June 24
The Syrian war splits one family across three continents—a father in Canada, a mother in Denmark and their two children alone in Turkey. Navigating three asylum systems and endless paperwork, cameras capture their formidable fight to reunite.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Arabic | | English | | Danish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | Immigration & Refugees | | Middle East | | Northern Europe | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Mira Jargil | | Producer(s): | Kirstine Barfod | | Editor(s): | Rasmus Steensgaard | | Rebekka Lønqvist | | Writer(s): | Mira Jargil | | Cinematography: | Mira Jargil | | Composer: | Joaquin Garcia | | Uno Helmersson | | Sound: | Jakob Garfield |
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Revisionaries Shorts Program
Available until June 24
Stories seen through new eyes, a corrective lens on the past or a reimagined frame of the future reveal a different perspective on history—both personal and political—and new versions and visions yet to be told.
| | Runtime: | 56 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Revisionaries |
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Run for His Life
Available until June 24
As he prepares for the New York City Marathon, Peter Monsanto Jr. pounds the pavement of his old neighbourhood, eliciting memories of a time before his father was incarcerated on federal drug charges. As race day approaches, it’s clear that Peter’s father is with him every step of the way.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.runforhislife.com/ | | | Director(s): | Sebastian Sdaigui | | Producer(s): | Michelle Budnick | | Executive Producer(s): | CarolAnne Dolan | | Melissa Potter | | Nick Stuart | | Editor(s): | Alex Trierweiler | | Cinematography: | Frances Chen | | Composer: | Gavin Brivik | | Sound: | Raphael Ajuelos |
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Sanmao. The Desert Bride
Available until June 24
Chinese writer Sanmao has inspired generations of young women through her conviction to fearlessly pursue a life as an artist and independent woman. Poetically told, this biography captures her extraordinary life, full of adventure, loves and losses.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Chinese | | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | East Asia | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Ana Pérez de la Fuente | | Marta Arribas | | Producer(s): | Edmon Roch | | Patricia Takata | | Executive Producer(s): | Edmon Roch | | Editor(s): | Clara Martínez Malagelada | | Writer(s): | Ana Pérez de la Fuente | | Marta Arribas | | Composer: | Marc Timón | | Sound: | Gabriel Gutiérrez |
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The School of Housewives
Available until June 24
The Reykjavík School of Housewives has taught cooking, cleaning and home economics since 1942. But ushering the domestic crafts of the past into the future—along with values of efficiency and conservation—requires a re-evaluation of gender roles and respect.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Iceland | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Icelandic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Education | | Families & Family Relationships | | Northern Europe | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | https://www.theschoolofhousewives.com/ | | | Director(s): | Stefanía Thors | | Producer(s): | Helgi Svavar Helgason | | Editor(s): | Stefanía Thors | | Cinematography: | Stefanía Thors | | Composer: | Davíð Þór Jónsson | | Helgi Svavar Helgason | | Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson | | Sound: | Friðjón Jónsson |
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See You Next Time
Available until June 24
In Brooklyn, a Chinese nail artist and her Black customer engage in a dance of commerce, a conversation dripping with possibility and a transaction that, with the right investment, could glue them together. See You Next Time taps into the high-gloss potential of women connecting across the service counter and different cultures.
| | Runtime: | 6 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Crystal Kayiza | | Producer(s): | Cady Lang | | Crystal Kayiza | | Editor(s): | Crystal Kayiza | | Cinematography: | Leroy Farrell | | Composer: | Baptiste Thiry | | Mozart | | Sound: | Kate Bilinski |
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Sex Assistant
Available until June 24
Daniela and Andrés, a Venezuelan couple with physical disabilities, engage an artist to assist them in taking their sexual relationship beyond the boundaries of their wheelchairs. An erotic autobiography that is part advocacy and part voyeurism, Sex Assistant overcomes obstacles and prejudices by sharing a sensual, empowering and romantic scene rarely seen.
| | Runtime: | 22 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Venezuela | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://www.facebook.com/SexAssistFilm | | | Director(s): | Andrés González Majul | | Producer(s): | Andrés González Majul | | Daniela Berlet | | Marcel Rasquin | | Joe Torres | | Juan Antonio Díaz | | Alain Gómez Reglá | | Editor(s): | Dester Linares | | Andrés González Majul | | Writer(s): | Andrés González Majul | | Marcel Rasquin | | Daniela Berlet | | Cinematography: | Andrés González Majul | | Marcel Rasquin | | Composer: | Francisco Mejía | | Leo Aldrey | | Luis Daniel González | | Alain Gómez Reglá | | Andrés González Majul | | Sound: | Pararrayos Studios |
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Shadow Flowers
Available until June 24
Attempts at smuggling herself out or seeking asylum prove fruitless as a woman struggles in vain against political absurdities to return to her family in Pyongyang after entering South Korea and being forced to stay for seven years.
| | Runtime: | 109 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | South Korea | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Korean | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | East Asia | | Immigration & Refugees | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Seung-Jun Yi | | Producer(s): | Gary Byung-Seok Kam | | Editor(s): | Seung-Jun Yi | | Hak-Min Lee | | Cinematography: | Seung-Jun Yi | | Mika Mattila |
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Shut Up Sona
Available until June 10
Singer, performer and self-styled “troublemaker” Sona Mohapatra channels the goddess energy of Chandi as she fights for equal rights as an empowered, modern Indian woman in a society and music industry denying her value.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | India | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Hindi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Website: | http://www.shutupsona.com | | | Director(s): | Deepti Gupta | | Producer(s): | Sona Mohapatra | | Co-Producer(s): | Deepti Gupta | | Ram Sampath | | Editor(s): | Arjun Gourisaria | | Cinematography: | Deepti Gupta | | Composer: | Ram Sampath | | Sona Mohapatra | | Sound: | Niraj Gera |
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Softie
Available until June 24
Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist, Boniface Mwangi’s campaigns against injustice have always created turmoil for his family. Now, battling corruption as he runs for office, his ideals are tested as he must choose between country and those closest to him.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Kenya | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Kiswahili/Kikuyu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Africa | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Crime & Intrigue | | Journalism & the Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | https://www.softiethefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Sam Soko | | Producer(s): | Toni Kamau | | Sam Soko | | Executive Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Sandra Whipman | | Marjon Javadi | | Jess Search | | Daniel Cross | | Bramwel Iro | | Justine Nagan | | Chris White | | Mandy Chang | | Editor(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Ryan Mullins | | Sam Soko | | Cinematography: | Joel “Ingo” Ngui | | Chris Rhys Howarth | | Sam Soko | | Composer: | Olivier Alary | | Johannes Malfatti | | Sound: | Cory Rizos |
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The Song of the Butterflies
Available until June 24
Finding himself stumped for artistic inspiration, an Indigenous painter travels from Lima to his ancestral land in Amazonia, absorbing his family’s stories and finding the strength to confront the painful past of a people nearly extinguished.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Peru | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Munuka | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Website: | http://www.thesongofthebutterflies.pe | | | Director(s): | Núria Frigola Torrent | | Producer(s): | Rolando Toledo Vega | | Núria Frigola Torrent | | Chela de Ferrari | | Executive Producer(s): | Rolando Toledo | | Editor(s): | Nicolé Hurtado Céspedes | | Cinematography: | Nicolás Landa Tami | | Composer: | Karin Zielinski | | Sound: | Raúl Astete |
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Speaking for the Dead
Available until June 24
There are two sides to every story. Six days after the Grenfell Tower fire, filmmaker Peiman Zekavat finds the media and residents at odds with how the unfolding events should be framed and presented to the world. This insightful film offers a number of alternative narratives to this tragic event.
| | Runtime: | 14 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Peiman Zekavat | | Producer(s): | Colin Farley | | Editor(s): | Nick Bridge | | Cinematography: | Peiman Zekavat | | Sound: | Rob Szeliga |
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Stateless
Available until June 24
After the Dominican Republic Supreme Court strips citizenship from anyone with Haitian parentage—retroactive to 1929—200,000 people are rendered stateless due to anti-Black racism. In response, a young attorney ignites a grassroots campaign, relentlessly fighting to protect citizenship rights for all.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Creole | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Race & Multiculturalism | | | Director(s): | Michèle Stephenson | | Producer(s): | Jennifer Holness | | Michèle Stephenson | | Lea Marin | | Executive Producer(s): | Anita Lee | | Joe Brewster | | Sudz Sutherland | | Editor(s): | Sophie Farkas-Bolla | | Writer(s): | Michèle Stephenson | | Cinematography: | Jaime Guerra | | Nadia Hallgren | | Naiti Gámez | | Tito Rodriguez | | Alfredo Alcántara | | Pedro Arnau Bros Santana | | Composer: | Ben Fox |
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Susana
Available until June 24
In the last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest raids in modern history at slaughterhouses, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the danger to herself and her family, former slaughterhouse worker Susana returns to the scene at night to care for animals on their way to the kill floor.
| | Runtime: | 5 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Laura Gamse | | Editor(s): | Laura Gamse | | Cinematography: | Laura Gamse | | Composer: | Moby | | Sound: | Michelle Mehrtens |
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Tales from the Prison Cell
Available until June 24
A film crew reconnects strained families divided by prison sentences, inviting fathers to write fairy tales for their kids that are brought to life in short films with their loved ones in the leading roles.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Hungary | | Croatia | | UK | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Hungarian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Intrigue | | Families & Family Relationships | | Performance & Performers | | | Director(s): | Ábel Visky | | Producer(s): | Eszter Gyárfás | | Executive Producer(s): | Viktória Petrányi | | Editor(s): | László Hargittai | | Cinematography: | Zágon Nagy | | István Kürti | | Composer: | Asher Goldschmidt | | Sound: | Andor Horváth |
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Tears Teacher
Available until June 24
Yoshida is a “tears teacher.” A firm believer that weekly crying promotes healthier living, he’s made it his mission to make more people weep. Running workshops all over Japan extolling the benefits of vulnerability and tear-jerking films, books and music, he makes a convincing argument for welling up as wellness.
| | Runtime: | 10 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Japan | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Noemie Nakai | | Executive Producer(s): | Christian Parton | | Editor(s): | Macarena De Oto | | Cinematography: | Shen Lin | | Composer: | Kyo Acerbis Kitayama | | Sound: | Jason Pinches |
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Tension Structures
Available until June 24
How do you build structures to withstand even the most devastating conditions without collapse? A disillusioned engineer travels through Europe and history seeking these ambitious constructions and the perfect way to balance immense opposing forces—in both architecture and society.
| | Runtime: | 45 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Feargal Ward | | Adrian Duncan | | Producer(s): | Feargal Ward | | Editor(s): | Feargal Ward | | Writer(s): | Adrian Duncan (script) | | Cinematography: | Feargal Ward | | Composer: | Karl Burke | | Sound: | Adrian Duncan | | Jonathan Sammon |
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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Available until June 24
At first glance, Paul is always good for a laugh. He’s got a joke for every situation, or so it seems. A quirk of a catastrophic head injury, Paul’s waggishness no longer impresses his wife Lindsay. Filmmaker Hannah Currie asks where love goes once the jokes turn sour.
| | Runtime: | 13 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Hannah Currie | | Producer(s): | Beth Allan | | Editor(s): | Douglas Flockhart | | Blair Young | | Cinematography: | Hannah Currie | | Composer: | Francis Macdonald | | Sound: | William Aikman |
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There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace
Available until June 10
The film follows the historic Mirvish Village community as it looks at the gentrification of Toronto told through the stories of people affected by the closure of the iconic discount store, Honest Ed's.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Website: | https://www.theresnoplacelikethisplace.com | | | Director(s): | Lulu Wei | | Producer(s): | Ali Weinstein | | Editor(s): | Sarah Bachinski | | Cinematography: | Lulu Wei | | Composer: | Laura Barrett |
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They Call Me Dr. Miami
Available until June 16
The lure of online celebrity transforms a devoted family man and Orthodox Jew into Dr. Miami, a pop culture sensation celebrated in hip hop and viral memes, who takes plastic surgery marketing to outrageous extremes to feed the non-stop social media beast.
| | Runtime: | 77 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | | Director(s): | Jean-Simon Chartier | | Producer(s): | Jean-Simon Chartier |
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They're Just Fish
Available until June 24
Three women run a fish farm in the Algerian desert in this remarkable fish-out-of-water refugee story. Aquaculture magicians, the trio work a series of miracles and mirages to adapt to scorching temperatures, sandstorms and power outages. Far from the Nile, there are still tilapia, and far from Western Sahara, there are still Sahrawi.
| | Runtime: | 17 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Spain | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Ana Serna | | Paula Iglesias | | Producer(s): | Olatz Alonso | | Editor(s): | Paula Iglesias | | Writer(s): | Ana Serna | | Paula Iglesias | | Cinematography: | Ana Serna | | Iratxe Aranguren | | Composer: | Estudio Tidinit | | Sound: | Sidi Brahim Najem | | Paula Iglesias |
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Things We Dare Not Do
Available until June 24
From one of Mexico’s rising cinematographers comes this story of 16-year-old Ñoño, who, living amid cartel violence and models of toxic machismo, seeks the courage to tell his family he wants to live life as a woman.
| | Runtime: | 71 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Latin America | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Producer(s): | Abril López Carrillo | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Editor(s): | Andrea Rabasa | | Writer(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Cinematography: | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Composer: | Tomás Barreiro | | Sound: | Zita Erffa | | Andrea Rabasa | | Javier Umpierrez |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: A Thousand Cuts
Available until June 24
Internationally acclaimed press-freedom fighter Maria Ressa must navigate fake news punditry, bomb threats and arrest warrants to chronicle Philippine President Duterte’s extrajudicial war on drugs and weaponization of social media in this urgent report on democracy itself.
| | Runtime: | 120 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Tagalog | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Website: | https://www.athousandcuts.film | | | Director(s): | Ramona S. Diaz | | Producer(s): | Ramona S. Diaz | | Julie Goldman | | Chris Clements | | Carolyn Hepburn | | Leah Marino | | Executive Producer(s): | Laurene Powell Jobs | | Davis Guggenheim | | Jonathan Silberberg | | Nicole Stott | | David J. Cornfield | | Linda A. Cornfield | | Editor(s): | Leah Marino | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Goodenough | | Jeffrey Johnson | | Composer: | Sam Lipman |
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Transhood
Available until June 6
Four transgender youth redefine coming of age over the course of five years in Kansas City. Navigating obstacles and celebrating personal triumphs, their journeys show how gender is reshaping perceptions of “the family next door” in America’s heartland.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | | Director(s): | Sharon Liese | | Producer(s): | Sasha Alpert | | Sharon Liese | | Executive Producer(s): | Kimberly Reed | | Jonathan Murray | | Gil Goldschein | | Editor(s): | Dava whisenant | | Cinematography: | Ty Jones | | Composer: | Nathan Halpern | | Chris Ruggiero |
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Trouble
Available until June 24
A filmmaker seeks out her estranged Northern Irish father in an attempt to parse Belfast’s sectarian history from their family’s own divided past. Through archive and innovative performance techniques, a myriad of truths and ghosts are unearthed.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Performance & Performers | | War & Conflict | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Mariah Garnett | | Producer(s): | Manal Laginaf | | Executive Producer(s): | Mariah Garnett | | Editor(s): | Mariah Garnett | | Writer(s): | Mariah Garnett | | Cinematography: | Kevin Treacy | | Simon Mills | | Mariah Garnett | | Sound: | Seamus Harahan |
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Two Gods
Available until June 24
After turning his own life around, a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer from Newark mentors two young boys facing turbulent times at home and on the streets, poetically underscoring the importance of redemption and healing.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | http://twogodsfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Zeshawn Ali | | Producer(s): | Aman Ali | | Editor(s): | Colin Nusbaum | | Cinematography: | Zeshawn Ali | | Emir Fils-Aime | | Composer: | Michael Beharie |
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Two Roads
Available until June 24
The Tap Tap, a popular Czech orchestra made up of individuals with physical disabilities, hits the road in rock-star style in this lively and unapologetic ode to the power of live performance and overcoming obstacles.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Czech Republic | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Czech | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Eastern Europe | | Music & Musicians | | Website: | http://www.tworoads.cz | | | Director(s): | Radovan Síbrt | | Producer(s): | Alžbeta Karásková | | Karel Poupe | | Hana Kastelicová | | Tereza Polachová | | Editor(s): | Tomáš Elšík | | Jorge Sánchez Calderón | | Cinematography: | Lukáš Milota | | Šimon Dvorácek | | Sound: | Dominik Dolejší |
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Ukweli
Available until June 24
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the prevailing media narrative is the brutal toll of war, conflict and poverty. Three Congolese artists, driven by the desire to reclaim their history, present an alternative perspective in this collaborative documentary, which illustrates the power of art as a conduit for change.
| | Runtime: | 20 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Democratic Republic of the Congo | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | Swahili | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Mike Ramsdell | | Producer(s): | Nadia Fazal | | Mike Ramsdell | | Mike Ramsdell | | Caleb Kabanda | | Executive Producer(s): | Alyssa Newman | | Editor(s): | Mike Ramsdell | | Cinematography: | Daniel Ali | | Composer: | Steve Jablonsky |
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Umbilical
Available until June 24
In this powerful animation, a mother and daughter talk frankly about the emotional scars they sustained at the hands of an abusive husband and father and at boarding school. In acknowledging their painful past, they boldly reclaim their power and forge a new path forward,?finally free of societal expectations.
| | Runtime: | 7 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | China | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Cantonese | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Danski Tang | | Producer(s): | Danski Tang | | Composer: | Sean Hayward | | Sound: | Danski Tang |
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Under the Same Sun
Available until June 24
In the South Caucasus, a region plagued by aggressive nationalist movements, Armenians and Azerbaijanis face propaganda and intolerance—with some undertaking an uphill battle to fight back—in this skilfully balanced exploration of humanity and hatred.
| | Runtime: | 97 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Armenian | | Azerbaijani | | Russian | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Race & Multiculturalism | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | François Jacob | | Producer(s): | François Jacob | | Editor(s): | Jéricho Jeudy | | Writer(s): | François Jacob | | Antoine Dion-Ortega | | Cinematography: | François Jacob | | Composer: | Moses Baxter | | Sound: | Hélène Magne | | Isabelle Lussier | | Simon Plouffe |
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Unforgivable
Available until June 24
A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in an isolation cell in El Salvador. But in prison, Geovanny is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay. A story of harrowing horror and homophobia, this unforgettable film stands alone as an example of extremes.
| | Runtime: | 35 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | El Salvador | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Marlén Viñayo | | Producer(s): | Marlén Viñayo | | Carlos Martínez | | Executive Producer(s): | José Luis Sanz | | Editor(s): | Andrea Bilbao | | Writer(s): | Carlos Martínez | | Marlén Viñayo | | Cinematography: | Neil Brandvold | | Additional Cinematography: | Víctor Peña | | Patrick Tómbola | | Marlén Viñayo | | Composer: | Omnion | | Sound: | Eduardo Cáceres |
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Villa Villekulla
Available until June 24
Eight far-flung siblings gather for a family reunion on the island of Falster in Denmark. There they combine the feasts and games of their Danish upbringing with the prayer and song of their Ugandan homeland, in an effort to better understand their parentage and the pain that marks their past.
| | Runtime: | 30 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Danish | | English | | Luganda | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Patricia Bbaale Bandak | | Producer(s): | Victor Cunha | | Editor(s): | Louis Emil Ramm Seeberg | | Cinematography: | Loui Ladegaard | | Composer: | Mia Terry | | Sound: | Mia Terry |
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The Wall of Shadows
Available until June 24
Desperate to earn money for their son’s education, a Nepalese Sherpa family breaks taboo and accompanies a western expedition on a holy mountain, wrestling with punishing conditions and their own religious beliefs along the way.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Germany | | Switzerland | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Nepali | | Ghunsa Dialect (Tibetan) | | English | | Russian | | Polish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Labour & Working People | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Eliza Kubarska | | Producer(s): | Monika Braid | | Umit Uludag | | Kaspar Winkler | | Executive Producer(s): | Sabine Bubeck-Paaz | | Agnieszka Balicka | | Editor(s): | Barbara Toennieshen | | Writer(s): | Eliza Kubarska | | Piotr Rosolowski | | Cinematography: | Piotr Rosolowski | | Composer: | Marcel Vaid | | Sound: | Franciszek Kozlowski | | Zofia Morus |
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The Walrus and the Whistleblower
Available until June 24
An animal trainer becomes an unlikely whistleblower and is sued for $1.5 million for plotting to steal a walrus, falling down the rabbit hole of a personal quest while a larger movement grows to end marine mammal captivity.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Animals & Animal Rights | | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | | Producer(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | | Frederic Bohbot | | Editor(s): | Vincent Guignard | | Writer(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | | Cinematography: | Christian Bielz | | Composer: | Anaïs Larocque | | Raphael Reed | | Sound: | Tod Van Dyk |
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Welcome Strangers
Available until June 24
At 6:00 p.m. every evening, Sarah Jackson and a group of dedicated volunteers collect asylum seekers from an ICE detention centre in Aurora, Colorado. For these anxious newcomers, the invitation of a warm bed, food and clothing is a welcome sojourn on the way to their next destination.
| | Runtime: | 21 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Cameroonian PidgEnglish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | Website: | https://welcomestrangersfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Dia Sokol Savage | | Producer(s): | Garret Savage | | Executive Producer(s): | Morgan J. Freeman | | Editor(s): | Chelsea Jackson | | Cinematography: | Matthias Grunsky | | Composer: | Mark A. Crawford | | Sound: | Michael Kranicke | | Matthew Polis |
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Welcome to a Bright White Limbo
Available until June 24
Dancer and choreographer Oona Doherty takes us on a mesmerizing journey into the all-encompassing process of creating a new piece, “Hope Hunt,” which explores identity, place and gender. The raw physicality of Doherty’s work breaks through abstract concepts and manages to speak to her audience directly: body to body.
| | Runtime: | 11 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Cara Holmes | | Producer(s): | Zlata Filipovic | | Editor(s): | Mick Mahon | | Writer(s): | Cara Holmes | | Cinematography: | Luca Truffarelli | | Composer: | DIE HEXEN |
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Welcome to Chechnya
Available until June 6
A searing look at current anti-LGBTQ persecution in the Russian republic of Chechnya and the brave LGBTQ activists who risk unimaginable peril to rescue victims from a targeted campaign of torture and brutality.
| | Runtime: | 107 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Russian | | Chechen | | French | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Website: | https://www.welcometochechnya.com | | | Director(s): | David France | | Producer(s): | Alice Henty | | Askold Kurov | | Joy A Tomchin | | David France | | Executive Producer(s): | Joy A Tomchin | | Neal Baer | | Kevin Jennings | | Masha Gessen | | Jonathan Logan | | Jess Search | | Lekha Singh | | Jesse Tyler Ferguson | | Alan Getz | | Justin Mikita | | Editor(s): | Tyler H. Walk | | Writer(s): | David France | | Tyler H Walk | | Cinematography: | Askold Kurov | | Composer: | Evgueni Galperine | | Sacha Galperine | | Sound: | Lora Hirschberg |
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When I Write It
Available until June 24
During the last days of summer before college, two Oakland teens explore what it means to be young Black artists in their rapidly gentrifying city. A special feeling of eavesdropping permeates this sun-soaked tour of neighbourhood sights and sounds, as they both realize they’re on the cusp of personal and community change.
| | Runtime: | 15 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Nico Opper | | Shannon St. Aubin | | Producer(s): | Nico Opper | | Shannon St. Aubin | | Editor(s): | Laura Green | | Writer(s): | Nico Opper | | Shannon St. Aubin | | Ajai Kasim | | Leila Mottley | | Cinematography: | Hanna Miller | | Composer: | Ajai Kasim |
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Wintopia
Available until June 24
A box of tapes uncovered. A father’s obsession with Utopia. A daughter’s attempt to reconnect through his unfinished film. The enigmatic path of filmmaker Peter Wintonick is traced by his daughter as she tries to decipher the map he left behind.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Anatyerr | | Sichuanese Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Film & Filmmaking | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Mira Burt-Wintonick | | Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Bob Moore | | Executive Producer(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Daniel Cross | | Editor(s): | Anouk Deschênes | | Cinematography: | Peter Wintonick | | Composer: | David Drury |
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A Woman, My Mother
Available until June 24
Balancing documentary and poetry, this touching exploration of family, memory and maternal love finds the filmmaker retracing his biological mother’s footsteps in a struggle to find her. Who was this independent and secretive woman?
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Personal Histories | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Claude Demers | | Producer(s): | Claude Demers | | Editor(s): | Natalie Lamoureux | | Writer(s): | Claude Demers | | Cinematography: | Stéphanie Weber Biron | | Olivier Tétreault | | Composer: | Serge Nakauchi Pelletier | | Sound: | Patrice LeBlanc |
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Women of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Available until June 24
Six housewives in an Iranian desert village fight for gender equality by filming their struggles for higher incomes and greater personal freedom, but they face community resistance after screening their stories at the mosque.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Iran | | France | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Farsi | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Middle East | | Religion & Spirituality | | Rural Life & Agriculture | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Hamed Zolfaghari | | Producer(s): | Hamed Zolfaghari | | Nina Amin Zadeh | | Executive Producer(s): | Marie Balducchi | | Editor(s): | Gladys Joujou | | Cinematography: | Video Group of Gojino (Women of the Sun) | | Hamed Zolfaghari | | Fatemeh Zolfaghari | | Ramin Rouhani | | Sound: | Boris Chapelle |
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Wood
Available until June 6
A crack team of spies infiltrate a global syndicate operating in remote Russian forests, Chinese factories and Romanian mills to expose illegal timber trading. Hidden cameras capture the pace of human greed and natural destruction in this white-knuckle enviro-thriller.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Austria | | Germany | | Romania | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Romanian | | German | | Spanish | | Russian | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | | Director(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Thomas Tielsch | | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Adrian Sitaru | | Executive Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Editor(s): | Andrea Wagner | | Roland Sto¨ttinger | | Writer(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Cinematography: | Lukas Gnaiger | | Jakub Bejnarowicz | | Jo¨rg Burger | | Attila Boa | | Jerzy Palacz | | Sound: | Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson | | Claus Benischke | | Nora Czamler | | Andreas Pils | | Peter Rösner | | Simon Bastian |
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The World Is Bright
Available until June 24
Notified by the Canadian government that their son committed suicide and has been buried, an elderly Chinese couple embarks on a decade-long investigation through a Kafkaesque bureaucracy to unravel the mysterious truth behind his tumultuous life and death.
| | Runtime: | 116 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Mandarand English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | East Asia | | Education | | Families & Family Relationships | | Website: | http://gyufilms.ca/the-world-is-bright-synopsis.html | | | Director(s): | Ying Wang | | Producer(s): | Jian Ping Su | | Jordan Paterson | | Executive Producer(s): | Yun-Jou Chang | | Tyler Hagan | | Editor(s): | Lawrence Le Lam | | Ying Wang | | Writer(s): | Ying Wang | | Lawrence Le Lam | | Cinematography: | Pieter Stathis | | Jian Ping Su | | Ying Wang | | Composer: | Daniel J.K. Ross | | Sound: | Matt Drake |
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World Showcase Shorts Program: One of a Kind
Available until June 24
Unique tales of kindness and caring—between strangers, humans and animals, and mothers and children—that highlight how demonstrating more vulnerabiity, generosity and empathy leads to happier and healthier growth.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 2
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including Oil & Water, Umbilical, Flame, The Chimney Swift, At the Bottom of the Sea, and When I Write It.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 3
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including The Lost Astronaut, Fat Kathy, Bible Camp Memories, and Lola.
| | Runtime: | 62 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 4
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including In the Shadow of the Pines, At the River, êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines, Run for His Life and Comfort Zone.
| | Runtime: | 62 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 5
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including Día de la Madre, Once the Dust Has Settled, Broken Orchestra, Tears Teacher, and Hydebank.
| | Runtime: | 60 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 6
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including Oil & Water, Umbilical, Flame, The Chimney Swift, At the Bottom of the Sea, and When I Write It.
| | Runtime: | 63 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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A Youth
Available until June 24
An Afghan refugee on the cusp of adulthood is stuck in Athens, waiting for his life to start. Buried, but ready to sprout, the budding rapper and his friends try to make sense of the world around them through music and poetry, taking pleasure in small freedoms while dreaming their futures.
| | Runtime: | 40 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Dari | | Farsi | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Shorts | | | Director(s): | Giorgio Bosisio | | Producer(s): | Afolabi Kuti | | Charlotte Carroll | | Executive Producer(s): | Emma Beanland | | Editor(s): | Andrew Joseph Cross | | Giorgio Bosisio | | Cinematography: | Giorgio Bosisio | | Composer: | Giacomo Carlone | | Peyman Fael | | Sound: | Joe Cochrane |
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Zero
Available until June 6
An elderly Japanese psychiatrist retires from his practice to take care of his wife and as his patients lament the departure of their beloved doctor, the couple must navigate changes in their own twilight years.
| | Runtime: | 128 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Japan | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Japanese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | https://www.chineseshadows.com/zero | | | Director(s): | Kazuhiro Soda | | Producer(s): | Kazuhiro Soda | | Kiyoko Kashiwagi | | Editor(s): | Kazuhiro Soda | | Cinematography: | Kazuhiro Soda |
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Zlota Street
Available until June 24
Krzysztof and Ida are landlords of a Warsaw tenement, returned to his family as the rightful Jewish heirs. Now home to Syrian, Afghan and Ukrainian residents, the building is imbued with a new sense of belonging, nation and ancestry shaped by impermanence.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Poland | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Polish | | English | | Russian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Revisionaries | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | Jewish Interest | | Race & Multiculturalism | | | Director(s): | Tomasz Knittel | | Producer(s): | Maciej Puczynski | | Tomasz Knittel | | Editor(s): | Arek Iwaniuk | | Writer(s): | Tomasz Knittel | | Cinematography: | Maciej Puczynski | | Composer: | José Manuel Albán Juárez | | Sound: | Filip Kuncewicz |
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