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Acadiana
Amusement park rides swing and swoop to the backdrop of giddy chatter. People wearing crawfish-printed outfits solemnly sway to country music. It's just another surreal day in America at the famed annual Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
| Runtime: | 9 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Samuel Matteau | | Yannick Nolin | | Guillaume Fournier | Producer(s): | Jean-Pierre Vézina | Editor(s): | Samuel Matteau | Writer(s): | Guillaume Fournier | Cinematography: | Yannick Nolin | Composer: | Mathieu Robineau |
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Acid Forest
An ancient pine forest, decimated by the toxic defecations of a booming cormorant population, is the backdrop of an uncanny commentary on environmental change and migration that swings between hilarious, horrifying and Hitchcockian.
| Runtime: | 61 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Lithuania | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Lithuanian | | English | | German | | French | | Spanish | | Finnish | | Japanese | | Russian | | Mandarand Estonian | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | Film Subjects: | Animals & Animal Rights | | Ecology & the Environment | | Northern Europe | Website: | http://neonrealism.lt/acid-forest | | Director(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | Producer(s): | Dovydas Korba | Executive Producer(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | | Dovydas Korba | Editor(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | Writer(s): | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | Cinematography: | Rugile Barzdžiukaite | Composer: | Jonas Maksvytis | Sound: | Dovydas Korba |
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After Parkland
This devastating chronicle meets with students and families in the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as they reckon with unthinkable loss and search for new meaning.
| Runtime: | 92 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | 14A | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | America | | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Survivor Stories | Website: | http://afterparklandmovie.com | | Director(s): | Jake Lefferman | | Emily Taguchi | Producer(s): | Emily Taguchi | | Jeanmarie Condon | | Jake Lefferman | | Steven Baker | | Stephanie Wash | Executive Producer(s): | Beth Hoppe | Editor(s): | Brendan Cusack | | Karl Dawson | | Douglas Blush | Cinematography: | Jake Lefferman | | Emily Taguchi | | Stephanie Wash | Composer: | Nathan Halpern | Sound: | Jeremy Grody (Design and Mix) |
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ahkameyimo nitanis / Keep Going My Daughter
A young couple narrate a poetic and hopeful love letter to their young daughter, reflecting the dreams of a new generation of Indigenous parents still healing from the traumas of colonialism.
| Runtime: | 12 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Candy Fox | Producer(s): | Chris Ross | Editor(s): | Jackie Dzuba | | Candy Fox | Writer(s): | Candy Fox | Cinematography: | Aaron Bernakevitch | Composer: | David Roman | Sound: | Muskwa Lerat | | Cory Rizos | | David Roman |
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Always in Season
The unresolved case of a Black teen found hanging from a swing set in North Carolina in 2014 is the lens through which this searing doc examines the lingering trauma of more than a century of lynching and continued racial violence.
| Runtime: | 88 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | R | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Crime & Justice | | Race & Racism | Website: | http://alwaysinseasonfilm.com | | Director(s): | Jacqueline Olive | Producer(s): | Jacqueline Olive | | Jessica Devaney | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Jim Butterworth | | Daniel J. Chalfen | | Patty Quillin | | Joan Platt | | Regina K. Scully | | Geralyn Dreyfous | Editor(s): | Don Bernier | Writer(s): | Jacqueline Olive | | Don Bernier | Cinematography: | Patrick Sheehan | | S. Leo Chiang | Composer: | Osei Essed |
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America
Using surviving footage from Lime Kiln Field Day (1913), the earliest feature film to showcase a Black cast and integrated crew, this soaring visual recreation rescues from obscurity a radical history of social progress and artistic innovation in American cinema. Adding to the story by filling symbolic and material gaps, it repositions play and the pleasures of the senses as tools of resistance and reclamation.
| Runtime: | 30 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Garrett Bradley | Producer(s): | Catherine Gund | | Lauren Domino | Executive Producer(s): | Agnes Gund | | Glenn Ligon | Editor(s): | Garrett Bradley | Cinematography: | Zac Manuel | | Brian Richard | Composer: | Trevor Mathison | Sound: | Udit Duseja |
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American Factory
When an abandoned General Motors factory in Ohio is reopened by a Chinese billionaire, the local blue-collar employees clash with modern Chinese innovations in this new work co-directed by this year's Outstanding Achievement Award recipient Julia Reichert.
| Runtime: | 115 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | | Mandarin | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Labour & Working People | | Asia | | Director(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | Producer(s): | Steven Bognar | | Julia Reichert | | Jeff Reichert | | Julie Parker Benello | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Skoll | | Diane Weyermann | Editor(s): | Lindsay Utz | Cinematography: | Steven Bognar | | Aubrey Keith | | Jeff Reichert | | Julia Reichert | | Erick Stoll | Sound: | Lawrence Everson | | Cindy Takehara Ferruccio |
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Animal Bridge U-3033
Observing the comings and goings on a highway overpass structure expressly built for the free and safe passage of wildlife, filmmaker Milja Viita has created an engaging exploration of the nexus at which people and animals intersect in this multi-format visual delight.
| Runtime: | 12 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Finland | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Milja Viita | Producer(s): | Veli Granö | Editor(s): | Milja Viita | Writer(s): | Milja Viita | Cinematography: | Milja Viita | Composer: | Viljami Mehto | Sound: | Viljami Mehto | | Veli Granö |
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Anthropocene: Carrara
Follow blocks of prized Carrara marble as they are hewn from pristine peaks in Tuscany and travel down the mountainside to artisans' studios and out into the global export economy.
| Runtime: | 9 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | Not rated | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | DocX | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | CSC Featuring: | Franco Barattini | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | | Silvio Repetto | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Dandora
The hills and canyons of a massive Kenyan landfill represent an emerging microeconomy where the discarded plastic is both a commodity and a future geological marker of humanity's time on Earth.
| Runtime: | 7 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | Not rated | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | DocX | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | CSC Featuring: | Rose Wanjiru | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Anthropocene: Ivory Burn
Witness the largest ivory burn in history, when over a hundred tons of confiscated elephant tusks and rhino horns were torched in Nairobi National Park to send a deeply symbolic and visceral message to poachers and illegal trade syndicates.
| Runtime: | 7 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | Not rated | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | DocX | Website: | https://theanthropocene.org/ | | Director(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Jennifer Baichwal | | Edward Burtynsky | Producer(s): | Nicholas de Pencier | | Nadia Tavazzani | CSC Featuring: | Winnie Kiiru | | President Uhuru Kenyatta | Editor(s): | Andrew Beach | Cinematography: | 360º Cinematography: Nicolas Jolliet | | Additional Cinematography: Nicholas de Pencier CSC | 360 Cinematography: | Nicolas Jolliet | Additional Cinematography: | Nicholas de Pencier | Sound: | Matthew Chan | | Graham Rogers |
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Ask Dr. Ruth
After helping the world find the clitoris, does 90-year-old sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer have anything left to teach us? This revealing look at a true trailblazer will have you assuming new emotional positions and reaching surprising climaxes…non-sexually speaking.
| Runtime: | 100 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Gender & Sexuality | | Jewish Interest | | Popular Culture | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Director(s): | Ryan White | Producer(s): | Rafael Marmor | | Ryan White | | Jessica Hargrave | | Christopher Leggett | Executive Producer(s): | Peggy Drexler | Editor(s): | Helen Kearns | Cinematography: | David Paul Jacobson |
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Assholes: A Theory
Inspired by the NYT bestselling book, this lively philosophical investigation into the rise of asshole behaviour across the world asks: What does it mean to be an asshole, and more importantly, how do we stop their proliferation?
| Runtime: | 81 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | | Italian | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | Director(s): | John Walker | Producer(s): | Ann Bernier | | John Walker | | Annette Clarke | Editor(s): | Jeff Warren | Writer(s): | John Walker | | Robert Sandler | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | Composer: | Sandy Moore | Sound: | Alex Salter |
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Authentically Us
In this three-part VR series, visit with a Two-Spirit artist in Boise, a trailblazing civil rights defender in Washington and a transgender mechanic in Montana, illuminating the personal and political struggles of being LGBTQ in America.
| Runtime: | 21 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | Not rated | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | DocX | Website: | www.authenticallyus.com | | Director(s): | Jesse Ayala | Producer(s): | Lauren Burmaster | | Paula Cuneo | | Jeremiah Allen | | Kris Hermans | Executive Producer(s): | Amy Seidenwurm | | Anna Therese Day | Editor(s): | Connor Lonning | | Jesse Ayala | Writer(s): | Jesse Ayala | | Connor Lonning | | Anna Therese Day | Cinematography: | Alan Bucaria | | Connor Lonning | Composer: | Miles Comiskey | | Kyle Kaner | | Michael Wilson | Sound: | Alan Bucaria | | Tony Ayala | Post-Production: | Flight School | Production Support: | Radiant Images |
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Backstage Action
They don't have a name, a role or a voice, yet their onscreen presence is essential. In this insightful and skilfully crafted observational documentary, film extras finally come into focus to transcend their clichés.
| Runtime: | 61 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Belgium | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | French | | English | | Luxemburgish | | German | | Persian | | Dutch | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Labour & Working People | | Performers & Performance | | Race & Racism | Website: | http://www.iotaproduction.be/en/film/backstage-action | | Director(s): | Sanaz Azari | Producer(s): | Isabelle Truc | Editor(s): | Simon Arazi | | Annick Ghijzelings | Writer(s): | Sanaz Azari | Cinematography: | Johan Legraie | | Pierre Choqueux | | Vincent Pinckaers | | Artur Castro Freire | Composer: | Pierre Dozin | | Frederic Becker | Sound: | Bruno Schweisguth | | Fred Meert | | Vincent Nouaille | | Zied Mokaddem | | Cosmas Antoniadis | | Fabrice Osinski | | Nicolas Dennefeld |
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Because We Are Girls
Haunted by a childhood secret, courageous Indo-Canadian sisters from small-town British Columbia finally face their abuser in court, exposing how their rigidly sexist upbringing—reinforced even by the Bollywood films they loved as girls—conditioned them as victims.
| Runtime: | 85 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | | Punjabi | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Persister | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Survivor Stories | | South & Central Asia | | Director(s): | Baljit Sangra | Producer(s): | Selwyn Jacob | Executive Producer(s): | Shirley Vercruysse | Writer(s): | Baljit Sangra | Cinematography: | Grant Baldwin | Composer: | Genevieve Vincent | Sound: | Eva Madden |
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Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World
As governments grow unreliable and traditional news sources decline in relevance and reach, follow a vigilante investigative journalist collective that uses cutting-edge tech and crowdsourcing to expose the truth behind the stories flooding our newsfeeds.
| Runtime: | 88 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Netherlands | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | | German | | Dutch | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Making Believe | Film Subjects: | Journalism & The Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Technology & Culture | | War, Conflict & the Military | Website: | http://www.bellingcatfilm.com | | Director(s): | Hans Pool | Producer(s): | Bruno Felix | | Femke Wolting | Editor(s): | Simon Barker | Cinematography: | Hans Pool | Composer: | Frank Wienk (Binkbeats) | Sound: | Pepijn Aben |
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Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint
Over a century after her first boldly colourful painting, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is finally taking her rightful place in history as a pioneer of abstract art—but why has the art world been so reluctant to recognize her?
| Runtime: | 93 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Germany | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | | German | | Swedish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Visual Artists, Art & Photography | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Northern Europe | | Director(s): | Halina Dyrschka | Producer(s): | Eva Illmer | | Halina Dyrschka | Executive Producer(s): | Alex Dewart | Editor(s): | Antje Lass | | Mario Orias | Writer(s): | Halina Dyrschka | Cinematography: | Luana Knipfer | | Alicja Pahl | Composer: | Damian Scholl | Sound: | Niklas Kammertöns |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
One of Canada's most beloved musical icons joins Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind directors Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe to share stories about his unparalleled career, his inspired songwriting and his connection to Toronto, the city that loves him back.
| Runtime: | 90 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Canada | | Music & Musicians | | Popular Culture | | Director(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | Producer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | Executive Producer(s): | John Brunton | | John Murray | | Gary Slaight | Editor(s): | Alex Shuper | Writer(s): | Joan Tosoni | | Martha Kehoe | Cinematography: | Kristoff Rochon | Composer: | John Welsman |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Human Nature
Meet celebrated biochemist and leading figure in the "CRISPR revolution" Jennifer Doudna, director Adam Bolt and executive producer Dan Rather, as they discuss breakthroughs in genetic engineering and what these mean not only for the future of medicine and disease, but for the evolution of humanity itself.
| Runtime: | 107 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Special Events & Big Ideas Series | Film Subjects: | Health & Healthcare | | Science & Technology | Website: | http://www.humannaturefilm.com | | Director(s): | Adam Bolt | Producer(s): | Sarah Goodwin | | Meredith Desalazar | | Elliot Kirschner | Executive Producer(s): | Elliot Kirschner | | Dan Rather | | Greg Boustead | Editor(s): | Regina Sobel | | Steve Tyler | Writer(s): | Adam Bolt | | Regina Sobel | Cinematography: | Derek Reich | Composer: | Keegan Dewitt |
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