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Cavebirds
Intrigued by her aging father's return to rural Malaysia to launch an edible bird nest farm, a Montreal filmmaker follows him seeking answers and instead discovers truths about home and heritage that help bridge the gap between them.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Mandarin | | English | | Hokkien | | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Personal Histories | | Southeast Asia | | | Director(s): | Emily Gan | | Producer(s): | Emily Gan | | Cinematography: | Emily Gan | | Thomas Kimmerlin | | Composer: | Emily Gan | | Sound: | Christian Olsen |
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Conviction
Dreaming of a society that empowers rather than jails the marginalized, a group of incarcerated women in Canada joins forces with an advocacy organization, determined to author their own stories and rebuild their communities from the inside out.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Women & Women's Stories | | Poverty | | Website: | http://www.convictiondocumentary.com | | | Director(s): | Ariella Pahlke | | Nance Ackerman | | Teresa MacInnes | | Producer(s): | Teresa MacInnes | | Annette Clarke | | Executive Producer(s): | Annette Clarke | | Writer(s): | Nance Ackerman | | Ariella Pahlke | | Teresa MacInnes | | Cinematography: | Nance Ackerman | | Sound: | Judith Gruber-Stitzer |
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The Daughter Tree
In this evocative study of gender in India, where a cultural preference for baby boys has forced a seismic population imbalance, villages cope with their male surpluses and a midwife fearlessly advocates for unborn girls.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Women & Women's Stories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Rama Rau | | Editor(s): | Rob Ruzic | | Cinematography: | Nagaraj Diwakar | | Composer: | Ken Myhr | | Sound: | Lalit Malik |
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Drag Kids
Four precocious preteens perfect their lip synching and runway walks in anticipation of the biggest drag performance of their lives at Montreal Pride, in this fierce and joyous celebration of acceptance and self-discovery.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Performers & Performance | | | Director(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Producer(s): | Edward Peill | | Erin Oakes | | Editor(s): | Warren Jefferies | | Writer(s): | Megan Wennberg | | Cinematography: | Paul McCurdy | | Sound: | Zan Rosborough | | Julia Innes | | Petros Kolyvas | | Barton Hewitt |
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El Toro
Romance and tragedy bind eight siblings who worked together in the '60s at their now-demolished family-run truck stop diner on the outskirts of Winnipeg. Rebuilt as a backdrop for this quirky hybrid doc, the diner infuses their charming story with a surreal nostalgia.
| | Runtime: | 43 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Families & Family Relationships | | Food | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://eltorofilm.com | | | Director(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Producer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Editor(s): | Dany Joyal | | Writer(s): | Danielle Sturk | | Cinematography: | Gabriel Levesque | | Composer: | Lucille Starr | | Andrina Turenne | | Sound: | Danielle Sturk | | Dany Joyal | | Dioramas: | Peter C. Graham | | Janelle Tougas | | Illustration: | Diana Thorneycroft | | 3D Animation: | Stephanein Boulet | | Phi Images |
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Havana, from on High
Gorgeous cinematography and inspired soundscapes infuse this study of a decaying district in Havana, where chronic housing shortages force residents ever higher into rooftop homes—and into a bird's-eye view of a society in transformation.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Pedro Ruiz | | Producer(s): | Arantza Maldonado | | Editor(s): | Pedro Ruiz | | Cinematography: | Pedro Ruiz | | Composer: | Jérémi Roy | | Sound: | René Portillo |
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The Hottest August
Amid news of devastating wildfires and hurricanes, rising rents and white nationalist marches, anxious residents of New York City and its outer boroughs ponder an unpredictable and potentially catastrophic future during one steamy summer month.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | America | | Ecology & the Environment | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.thehottestaugust.com | | | Director(s): | Brett Story | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Brett Story | | Executive Producer(s): | Maida Lynn | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Nels Bangerter | | Cinematography: | Derek Howard | | Composer: | Troy Herion | | Sound: | Ernst Karel |
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Illusions of Control
From nuclear fallout to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, five women across the globe find the means to survive in an apocalyptic world decimated by human activity.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Japanese | | Chinese | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Women & Women's Stories | | Website: | http://illusionsofcontrol.com | | | Director(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Producer(s): | Andréa Schmidt | | Shannon Walsh | | Executive Producer(s): | Patrick Reed | | Editor(s): | Hart Snider | | Writer(s): | Shannon Walsh | | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | | Composer: | Owen Pallett | | Sound: | Eugenio Battaglia |
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nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up
A grieving family's pursuit of justice becomes a flashpoint of the inequity and racism in the Canadian legal system after the killer of Colten Boushie, a young Cree man in Saskatchewan, is acquitted of murder charges.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Cree | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Families & Family Relationships | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Race & Racism | | | Director(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Producer(s): | Bonnie Thompson | | Tasha Hubbard | | George Hupka | | Jon Montes | | Executive Producer(s): | David Christensen | | Kathy Avrich-Johnson | | Janice Dawe | | Editor(s): | Hans Olson | | Writer(s): | Tasha Hubbard | | Cinematography: | George Hupka | | Composer: | Jason Burnstick | | Sound: | Evan Rust |
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Our Dance of Revolution
Protest and passion ground this long-overdue look at Toronto's Black LGBTQ community, featuring a rousing oral history of struggle and triumph from four decades of local legends and freedom fighters.
| | Runtime: | 102 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Canada | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Website: | http://www.ourdanceofrevolution.com | | | Director(s): | Phillip Pike | | Producer(s): | Phillip Pike | | Editor(s): | Eugene Weis | | Cinematography: | Jack Weisman | | Composer: | Gavin Bradley |
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A Place of Tide and Time
The old guard of a remote fishing village in eastern Quebec fight for their traditional life and livelihood after the cod industry's collapse, while their teenage children embrace exile as their only chance at happiness.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Agriculture & Fishing | | Canada | | Labour & Working People | | Website: | http://www.aplaceoftideandtime.com | | | Director(s): | Sébastien Rist | | Aude Leroux-Lévesque | | Producer(s): | Jean-simon Chartier | | Editor(s): | Andréa Henriquez |
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Prey
This riveting story of deceit, corruption and vindication follows a survivor of sexual abuse as he and his lawyer take on the Catholic Church in an Ontario court.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Children & Youth | | Crime & Justice | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Matt Gallagher | | Producer(s): | Cornelia Principe | | Matt Gallagher | | Nick Hector (co-producer) | | Editor(s): | Nick Hector | | Cinematography: | Matt Gallagher | | Composer: | Justin Small | | Ohad Benchetrit |
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River Silence
As construction of one of the world's largest dams destroys the Amazon's ancient ecosystems and displaces tens of thousands, the filmmaker offers a potent and lyrical plea for those brutalized for the sake of rampant development.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Brazilian Portuguese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Rogério Soares | | Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Annette Clarke | | Editor(s): | Ryan Mullins | | Cinematography: | Glauco Bermudez | | Aldo Oviedo Tejo | | Composer: | Nicole Lizée | | Sound Design: | Benoît Dame | | Jérémie Jones | | Catherine van der Donckt | | Location Sound: | Catherine Van Der Donckt | | Victor Arturo Jaramillo Quevedo |
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Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery
When a reggae fanatic unearths a record by a mysterious diva in a Toronto junk shop, his resulting musical obsession drives him on an increasingly desperate quest to Kingston, Jamaica, to track down the song's elusive singer.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Jamaican Patois | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | Mystery & Intrigue | | Popular Culture | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Producer(s): | Chris Flanagan | | Executive Producer(s): | Matthew Bate | | Herbie Miller | | Editor(s): | Sonia Godding Togobo | | Cinematography: | Graeme Mathieson | | Sound: | Lucas Prokaziuk |
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The World or Nothing
Armed with a cellphone, a laptop and elaborate dance moves, determined twin brothers migrate from Cuba to Spain in pursuit of internet stardom in this tender look at millennial celebrity, brotherly love and the cost of realizing dreams.
| | Runtime: | 84 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Performers & Performance | | Popular Culture | | Technology & Culture | | Carribean | | Southern Europe | | | Director(s): | Ingrid Veninger | | Producer(s): | Ingrid Veninger | | Editor(s): | Claudia Munuera | | Cinematography: | Leon Guallart Diaz | | Composer: | Sensacion Gemela | | Sound: | Eric Apps | | John Switzer | | Jakob Thiesen |
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Your Last Walk in the Mosque
After a lone gunman opens fire in a Quebec City mosque, killing six, the survivors and families of a community in shock come together to heal, sharing stories and honouring the lives of those who were taken from them.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Justice | | Race & Racism | | Religion & Spirituality | | Survivor Stories | | | Director(s): | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Producer(s): | Tariq Syed | | Editor(s): | Myriam Terristi | | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje | | Cinematography: | Ubaydah Abu-Usayd | | Sound: | Abderrahmane Hedjoudje |
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