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Anbessa
Displaced from their farm, a mother and her precocious 10-year-old scavenge on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital. When encroaching condominiums further threaten them, the youngster taps into the fierce power of his own imagination to battle forces beyond his control.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Italy | | USA | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Amharic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Poverty | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Mo Scarpelli | | Producer(s): | Caitlin Mae Burke | | Executive Producer(s): | Danielle Perissi | | Gelila Bekele | | Editor(s): | Nico Leunen | | Thomas Pooters | | Cinematography: | Mo Scarpelli | | Composer: | Erik K. Skodvin | | Sound: | Tijn Hazen |
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Behind the Shutters
The poetic musings of the director, who moved into her grandmother's house while pregnant with her first child, offer a visually enchanting reverie about memory, women's bodies and the difficulties of intergenerational understanding.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Labour & Working People | | Personal Histories | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Messaline Raverdy | | Producer(s): | Messaline Raverdy | | Editor(s): | Ivanne de Cannart | | Rudi Maerten | | Writer(s): | Messaline Raverdy | | Cinematography: | Olivier Dekegel | | Composer: | Hilde Nash | | Sound: | Messaline Raverdy |
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Beloved
Shot in glorious colours in the mountains of Northern Iran, this portrait of an 82-year-old female cowherd captures the sublime independence and profound isolation of a life well lived on the rugged fringes of the world.
| | Runtime: | 54 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Iran | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Persian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Aging & the Elderly | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Middle East | | | Director(s): | Yaser Talebi | | Producer(s): | Elaheh Nobakht | | Editor(s): | Reza Shirvani | | Writer(s): | Farzaneh Fathi | | Yaser Talebi | | Cinematography: | Yaser Talebi | | Composer: | Akbar Rastgar | | Sound: | Hossein Abolsedgh |
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Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire
Through the eyes of a survivor of one of the worst massacres in the 50-year conflict between the Colombian military and FARC guerillas, discover the darker reality that lingers beneath the veneer of recent peace talks.
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Ireland | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Survivor Stories | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Latin America | | | Director(s): | Oisín Kearney | | Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Editor(s): | Juangus Dinsmore | | Cinematography: | Oisín Kearney | | Composer: | Rod Morris |
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Confucian Dream
An aimless young wife and mother in China discovers Confucianism and becomes a zealous convert, intent on planting a seed in her impressionable four-year-old and resistant husband—but will her new values die on the vine?
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | China | | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Religion & Spirituality | | Asia | | | Director(s): | Mijie Li | | Producer(s): | Mijie Li | | Betsy Tsai | | Violet Feng | | Jeff Reichert | | Editor(s): | Evita YuePu Zhou | | Mijie Li | | Writer(s): | Mijie Li | | Evita YuePu Zhou | | Cinematography: | Mijie Li |
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Dear Brother
After a tragic car crash leaves his brother catatonic, a man strives to tether his sibling to life through a one-sided dialogue of music, videos and touch that deepens their bond and reveals the profound mutual value of caregiving.
| | Runtime: | 106 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Healthcare | | | Director(s): | Julia Horn | | Producer(s): | Erik Winker | | Martin Roelly | | Editor(s): | Alexandra Karaoulis | | Johannes Hiroshi Nakajima | | Writer(s): | Julia Horn | | Cinematography: | Timm Lange | | Composer: | Jörg Follert | | Sound: | Filipp Forberg | | Michael Arens | | Michael Ciesla |
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Dying for Gold
Long-hidden archives finally expose how the South African gold mining industry, dependent on cheap labour coerced under colonial rule, sparked one of the world's largest epidemics of tuberculosis and silicosis.
| | Runtime: | 98 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Isixhosa | | Sesotho | | Shangaan | | Siswati | | Afrikaans | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Healthcare | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Labour & Working People | | Race & Racism | | Website: | http://www.dyingforgold.com | | | Director(s): | Catherine Meyburgh | | Richard Pakleppa | | Producer(s): | Richard Pakleppa | | Catherine Meyburgh | | Editor(s): | Catherine Meyburgh | | Cinematography: | Richard Pakleppa | | Composer: | Philip Miller | | Sound: | Mapula Lehong |
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Faire-Part
On the eve of postponed elections in the DRC, a team of Congolese and Belgian directors turn the lens on performance art as political protest, but the true subject is their efforts to interrogate the colonial history that divides them.
| | Runtime: | 58 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Democratic Republic of the Congo | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | G | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Lingala | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Africa | | Filmmakers & Filmmaking | | Performers & Performance | | Website: | http://www.collectif-fairepart.com/fairepart-en | | | Director(s): | Anne Reijniers | | Nizar Saleh | | Paul Shemisi | | Rob Jacobs | | Producer(s): | Koen Bleuzé | | Anne Reijniers | | Sound: | Aïda Merghoub |
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Gods of Molenbeek
Growing up in Brussels' infamous Molenbeek district, a trio of curious six-year-olds grapple with oversized questions of religion and faith in a frightening adult world of subway bombings and police patrols.
| | Runtime: | 73 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Finnish | | Arabic | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Religion & Spirituality | | Western & Central Europe | | | Director(s): | Reetta Huhtanen | | Producer(s): | Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen | | Hanne Phlypo | | Alex Tondowski | | Editor(s): | Jamin Benazzouz | | Writer(s): | Reetta Huhtanen | | Cinematography: | Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen | | Composer: | Tuomas Nikkinen | | Cassis B. Staudt | | Sound: | Senjan Jansen |
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A Haunted Past
In this solemn portrayal of a family broken by war, an embittered Tunisian father is left alone to raise his three teenage daughters after he is released from prison on charges of terrorism following the 1990s Bosnian War.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Qatar | | Tunisia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Arabic | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Families & Family Relationships | | War, Conflict & the Military | | | Director(s): | Fatma Riahi | | Producer(s): | Fatma Riahi | | Muhammed Refaat | | Executive Producer(s): | Fatma Riahi | | Editor(s): | Najwa Khchemi | | Writer(s): | Fatma Riahi | | Cinematography: | Hatem Nechi | | Sound: | Ahmed Maalaoui |
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Hi, AI
With artificial intelligence already in our homes and androids at our doorsteps, this poetic contemplation offers a challenging look at the new normal: robots that transcend gadgetry to assume intimate and indispensable roles in the everyday.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | German | | Japanese | | Italian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Technology & Culture | | Science & Technology | | | Director(s): | Isa Willinger | | Producer(s): | Stefan Kloos | | Editor(s): | Stephan Krumbiegel | | Olaf Voigtlaender | | Writer(s): | Isa Willinger | | Cinematography: | Julian Krubasik | | Composer: | Ralf Pilgram | | Sound: | Clemens Becker | | Tim Hofer | | Philipp Sellier | | Yoshitake Hashimoto |
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Inside Lehman Brothers
A cautionary tale for the ages and a grim portent of what may come again, this detailed autopsy of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis highlights the mainly female mortgage brokers and accountants whose whistleblowing fell on deaf ears.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | France | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Justice | | | Director(s): | Jennifer Deschamps | | Producer(s): | Ina Fichman | | Frederick Lacroix | | Editor(s): | Myriam Milent | | Lessandro Socrates | | Writer(s): | John Turner | | Jennifer Deschamps | | Cinematography: | Pierre Taillez | | Composer: | Medhat Hanbali |
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A Kandahar Away
When a family originally from Kandahar, Afghanistan, buys land in the tiny hamlet of Kandahar, Saskatchewan, their journey to consider the potential of the Prairies reveals a generational divide and clashing ideas on what it means to be Canadian.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Middle East | | Personal Histories | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Producer(s): | Deborah Parks | | Executive Producer(s): | Shelley Saywell | | Editor(s): | Geoff Matheson | | Writer(s): | Aisha Jamal | | Cinematography: | John Westheuser | | Max Armstrong | | Composer: | Bruce Fowler | | Sound: | Sanjay Mehta | | Jason Milligan |
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Last Breath
When a commercial diver is stranded hundreds of feet underwater with only five minutes of oxygen, his crew launches an eleventh-hour rescue mission in a ferocious storm. Told with incredible underwater access, this suspenseful story stares death in the face.
| | Runtime: | 86 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Survivor Stories | | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/lastbreathdoc | | | Director(s): | Alex Parkinson | | Richard da Costa | | Producer(s): | Al Morrow | | Richard da Costa | | Stewart le Maréchal | | Angus Lamont | | Dylan Williams | | Alex Parkinson | | Executive Producer(s): | Jonny Persey | | Vesna Cudic | | Lesley Finlay | | Tony Nellany | | Martin Pieper | | Bastien Sirodot | | Adrian Politowski | | Editor(s): | Sam Rogers | | Writer(s): | Alex Parkinson | | Cinematography: | Alistair McCormick | | Eric Börjeson | | Composer: | Paul Leonard-Morgan | | Sound: | Ben Baird |
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Lourdes
Thousands converge daily on a tiny market town in southern France, each praying for their own miracle. In this clear-eyed look at one of the world's most important pilgrimage sites, raw hope and humanity merge with the theatre of religious tourism.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | France | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | French | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Health & Healthcare | | Mortality & Loss | | Religion & Spirituality | | Western & Central Europe | | Website: | http://www.upsidedistribution.com/?LOURDES | | | Director(s): | Alban Teurlai | | Thierry Demaizière | | Producer(s): | Stéphanie Schorter | | Thierry Demaizière | | Alban Teurlai | | Executive Producer(s): | Stéphanie Schorter | | Stéphane Célérier | | Valérie Garcia | | Editor(s): | Alban Teurlai | | Writer(s): | Alban Teurlai | | Thierry Demaizière | | Jeanne Aptekman | | Sixtine Léon-Dufour | | Cinematography: | Alban Teurlai | | Composer: | AVIA | | Sound: | Emmanuel Guionet |
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The Magic Life of V
Armouring herself with a fairy-tale alter ego through live-action role play, a young woman cannot let go of memories of brutal childhood abuse until she's ready to step out of her elaborate fantasy world and face the real monster from her past.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Finland | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Finnish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Survivor Stories | | Women & Women's Stories | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Tonislav Hristov | | Producer(s): | Kaarle Aho | | Kai Nordberg | | Kirstine Barfod | | Andrea Stanoeva | | Editor(s): | Anne Jünemann | | Tonislav Hristov | | Writer(s): | Tonislav Hristov | | Kaarle Aho | | Cinematography: | Alexander Stanishev | | Composer: | Petar Dundakov | | Sound: | Jacques Pedersen |
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Massacre River
When over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent are left stateless after the country rules their citizenship invalid, violence and unchecked xenophobia erupts, and one woman races to gain legal status to stay with her daughter before the clock runs out.
| | Runtime: | 79 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | R | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Haitian Creole | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Racism | | Carribean | | | Director(s): | Suzan Beraza | | Producer(s): | Suzan Beraza | | David Byars | | Executive Producer(s): | Abigail Disney | | Gini Reticker | | Editor(s): | Suzan Beraza | | Cheree Dillon | | Casey Nay | | Cinematography: | David Byars | | Composer: | Cleod9 Music | | Kirk Drogsvold | | Malou Beauvoir | | Kyra Kopestonsky |
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Midnight Family
In this suspenseful vérité study of a broken system, take a bumpy ride along the streets of Mexico City with a working-class family as they race to save lives and carve out a place in the cutthroat for-profit ambulance industry.
| | Runtime: | 81 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | USA | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Healthcare | | Labour & Working People | | Latin America | | Website: | http://www.midnightfamilyfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Luke Lorentzen | | Producer(s): | Kellen Quinn | | Luke Lorentzen | | Elena Fortes | | Daniela Alatorre | | Editor(s): | Luke Lorentzen | | Paloma López Carrillo | | Cinematography: | Luke Lorentzen | | Composer: | Los Shajatos | | Sound: | Matías Barberis |
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Midnight Traveler
When the Taliban puts a bounty on an Afghan director's head, he captures on camera his family's uncertain and dangerous quest for asylum in this account of the love shared between a family on the run.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2018 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Qatar | | UK | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Rating: | PG | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | Afghan Persian | | English | | Bulgarian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Immigration, Multiculturalism & Refugees | | Personal Histories | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Website: | http://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/films/midnighttraveler | | | Director(s): | Hassan Fazili | | Producer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Su Kim | | Writer(s): | Emelie Mahdavian | | Cinematography: | Hassan Fazili | | Fatima Fazili | | Nargis Fazili | | Zahar Fazili |
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Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man
An eccentric, passionate entrepreneur becomes an unlikely hero on a high-stakes mission: solving the dire global sanitation crisis. When his project to secure six million toilets for India is jeopardized, hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance.
| | Runtime: | 87 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Rating: | 14A | | | Festival Year: | 2019 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Hindi | | Telugu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Health & Healthcare | | South & Central Asia | | Website: | http://www.mrtoiletfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Lily Zepeda | | Producer(s): | Tchavdar Georgiev | | Lily Zepeda | | Eugene Efuni | | Executive Producer(s): | Conrad Whelan | | Jason Choo | | Co-Producer(s): | Greta McAnany | | Editor(s): | Monique Zavistovski | | Hee-Jae Park | | Writer(s): | Lily Zepeda | | Monique Zavistovski | | Tchavdar Georgiev | | Hee-Jae Park | | Cinematography: | Khairulhakim Mohamad Bashir | | Saptarshi Roy | | Mrinal Desai | | Siyan Lu | | Composer: | Nick Urata | | Sound: | Ugo Derouard | | Animation: | Kunal Sen | | Tisha Deb Pillai |
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