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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.
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Runtime:3
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Religion & Spirituality
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:88
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Mexico
USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:94
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Persister
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:88
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:America
Black Cultures & Issues
Politics & Political Intrigue
Race & Multiculturalism
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:6
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Germany
Czech Republic
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Czech
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://annabennerstudio.com/All-Her-Dying-Lovers
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Norway
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Norwegian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Film Subjects:Mental Health & Addiction
Children & Youth
Northern Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Sweden
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:74
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Norway
South Africa
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:11
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Korean.
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:10
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
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Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:94
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Belgium
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
French
Dutch
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Gender & Sexuality
Performance & Performers
Website:http://baremovie.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:64
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Belgium
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Russian
Dutch
French
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Markers
Film Subjects:Families & Family Relationships
Health & Medicine
Western Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:109
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Special Presentations
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:83
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Colombia
Bolivia
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:12
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Toronto Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.topic.com/broken-orchestra
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:28
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
Japanese
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://jeremiebattaglia.com/fr/projets/le-frere/
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:85
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:International Spectrum
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:76
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:90
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:5
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Germany
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.fabianfred.com/chimney/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:240
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:83
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Film Subjects:Families & Family Relationships
Latin America
War & Conflict
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:24
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Germany
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:German
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:http://www.jonasegert.de/komfortzone
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:34
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Macedonia
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Macedonian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:The Changing Face of Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:50
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Danish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:Families & Family Relationships
Northern Europe
Personal Histories
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:90
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Made In Northern Ireland
Film Subjects:America
Crime & Intrigue
Families & Family Relationships
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:67
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Georgia
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:6
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:107
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Persister
Film Subjects:Gender & Sexuality
Heath & Medicine
Women & Women's Stories
Website:https://dilemmaofdesiredoc.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:76
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Ukrainian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Eastern Europe
Urban Culture & Issues
War & Conflict
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:78
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Activism
Mental Health & Addiction
America
Black Cultures & Issues
Race & Multiculturalism
Urban Culture & Issues
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:74
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Ukraine
Lithuania
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:85
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Canada
Crime & Intrigue
Middle East
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:12
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:New Zealand
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.loomfilms.co.nz/eggcuprequiem
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:11
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Cree
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:52
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Iran
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Persian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:People with Disabilities & Disability Issues
Love & Relationships
Middle East
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Morocco
Belgium
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Berber
Arabic
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:30
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Finland
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Korean
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Poland
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Polish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.facebook.com/Gruba-Ka%C5%9Bka-Fat-Kathy-106542297490730
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:78
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Amharic
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Revisionaries
Film Subjects:Black Cultures & Issues
Personal Histories
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:101
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:To Conserve & Protect
Website:https://firstweeat.ca/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:12
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Australia
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:92
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:119
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Dari
Pashto
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Film & Filmmaking
Religion & Spirituality
South & Central Asia
War & Conflict
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:92
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Germany
Switzerland
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:41
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Markers
Website:https://www.jatovia.com/the-giverny-document-2019#1
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:208
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:France
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:11
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/gun-killers/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Hungary
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:25
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.anniesakkab.com/hollies-dress
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:90
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Hong Kong
Germany
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Cantonese
English
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Film Subjects:Activism
East Asia
Politics & Political Intrigue
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:17
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:70
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Kenya
Canada
UK
USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:76
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Nightvision
Film Subjects:America
Families & Family Relationships
Labour & Working People
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:84
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Czech Republic
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:France
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
French
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Markers
Film Subjects:Music & Musicians
Performance & Performers
Popular Culture
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:100
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Norway
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Chinese
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:60
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Estonia
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:7
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Japanese
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Morocco
France
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Arabic
Hebrew
Amazigh
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Africa
Music & Musicians
Performance & Performers
Jewish Interest
Religion & Spirituality
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:106
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
South Africa
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:18
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Toronto Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Wet'suwet'en
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.mutualaidmedia.com/invasion
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:13
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:62
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Markers
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:15
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Germany
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:10
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Ireland
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Ukrainian
Russian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:63
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Artscapes
Website:https://www.keyboardfantasies.movie/
https://www.patreon.com/beverlyglenncopeland
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Toronto Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Markers
Film Subjects:America
Canada
Personal Histories
Film & Filmmaking
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:91
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Spain
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
Personal Histories
Western Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:73
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Iceland
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:105
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Nightvision
Film Subjects:Film & Filmmaking
Popular Culture
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Poland
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:France
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:21
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Estonia
Colombia
Sweden
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Estonian
English
Spanish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:https://nakedcinema.eu/A-Loss-of-Something-Ever-Felt
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:13
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Canada
Premiere Status:Toronto Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://breakwaterstudios.com/film/the-lost-astronaut/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:93
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Ireland
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Made In Northern Ireland
Film Subjects:War & Conflict
Western Europe
Website:https://www.lostlivesthefilm.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Revisionaries
Film Subjects:Health & Medicine
Jewish Interest
Personal Histories
Women & Women's Stuff
Cast/Crew Info
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."
Film Info
Runtime:89
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
UK
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:America
Art & Architecture
Indigenous Cultures & Issues
Music & Musicians
Performance & Performers
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:96
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Chinese
Spanish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:America
Art & Architecture
Crime & Intrigue
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:89
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Arabic
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:https://www.davidosit.com/mayor
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:90
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:70
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Germany
Austria
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:94
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Sweden
Serbia
France
Germany
Belgium
Qatar
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Mandarin
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:Capitalism & Big Business
East Asia
Labour & Working People
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:12
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://modernwhore.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Argentina
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:http://www.kinorebelde.com/dist_mother_en.html
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:20
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Toronto Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
French
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/nancys-workshop
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:84
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:3
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Nuxalk
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:13
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Turkana
English
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:15
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://hervedemers.com/une-fois-la-poussiere-retombee
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:99
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Venezuela
UK
Brazil
Austria
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:95
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Sweden
Norway
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:102
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Norway
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Norwegian
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Mental Health & Addiction
Art & Architecture
Crime & Intrigue
Northern Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:85
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Panama
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Dulegaya
Portuguese
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Markers
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Program Category:DocX
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:61
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Argentina
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:http://www.kinorebelde.com/kino2020/playback/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:106
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Portugal
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:79
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
English
Creole
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Canada
Urban Culture & Issues
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:29
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Russia
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Russian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Darija
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Krio
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:Children & Youth
People with Disabilities & Disability Issues
Health & Medicine
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:15
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Brazil
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.recodingart.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Italy
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Italian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:The Changing Face of Europe
Film Subjects:Animals & Animal Rights
Ecology & the Environment
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:78
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:56
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:10
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.runforhislife.com/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:86
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Spain
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Chinese
English
Russian
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
East Asia
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Iceland
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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/
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:6
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Mandarin
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:22
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Venezuela
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.facebook.com/SexAssistFilm
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:109
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:South Korea
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Korean
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:East Asia
Immigration & Refugees
Politics & Political Intrigue
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:85
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:India
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Hindi
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Persister
Website:http://www.shutupsona.com
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:96
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Kenya
Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Peru
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:95
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Creole
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Activism
Black Cultures & Issues
Latin America
Race & Multiculturalism
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:5
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Hungary
Croatia
UK
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Hungarian
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Crime & Intrigue
Families & Family Relationships
Performance & Performers
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:10
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Japan
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Japanese
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:45
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Ireland
France
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
Western Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:13
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Website:https://www.theresnoplacelikethisplace.com
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:77
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Special Presentations
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:17
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Spain
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Arabic
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:71
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Mexico
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:120
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Tagalog
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Website:https://www.athousandcuts.film
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:96
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Special Presentations
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Markers
Film Subjects:Families & Family Relationships
Performance & Performers
War & Conflict
Western Europe
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:85
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:http://twogodsfilm.com
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Czech Republic
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:20
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Democratic Republic of the Congo
USA
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
Swahili
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:7
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:China
USA
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Cantonese
Chinese
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:97
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Armenian
Azerbaijani
Russian
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Race & Multiculturalism
South & Central Asia
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:35
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:El Salvador
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:30
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Danish
English
Luganda
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:94
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Poland
Germany
Switzerland
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:89
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Activism
Animals & Animal Rights
Canada
Crime & Intrigue
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:21
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Spanish
Cameroonian PidgEnglish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://welcomestrangersfilm.com
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:11
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Ireland
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:107
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Russian
Chechen
French
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Website:https://www.welcometochechnya.com
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:15
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:89
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Anatyerr
Sichuanese Mandarin
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Canada
Film & Filmmaking
Personal Histories
Cast/Crew Info
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?
Film Info
Runtime:76
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Personal Histories
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:87
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Iran
France
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:95
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Austria
Germany
Romania
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Romanian
German
Spanish
Russian
Chinese
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:116
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
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
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:78
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:62
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:62
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:60
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:63
Copyright:2020
Festival Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:40
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:UK
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Dari
Farsi
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:128
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Japan
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Japanese
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:https://www.chineseshadows.com/zero
Cast/Crew Info
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.
Film Info
Runtime:84
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Poland
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Polish
English
Russian
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Revisionaries
Film Subjects:Eastern Europe
Families & Family Relationships
Jewish Interest
Race & Multiculturalism
Cast/Crew Info
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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