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A 3 Minute Hug
As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event. For three minutes, they'll embrace in no man's land for the briefest and sweetest of reunions.
| Runtime: | 28 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Mexico | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Everardo González | Producer(s): | Daniela Alatorre | | Elena Fortes | Executive Producer(s): | Gael García Bernal | Editor(s): | Paloma López Carrillo | Cinematography: | Emilio Valdés | Composer: | Joe Rodríguez | | Javier Nuño | Sound: | Alejandro De Icaza |
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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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Adjournment
Five strangers to the judicial process attend a murder trial, where they share their experiences of the courtroom as theatre and testimony as performance. A moving charge against the influence of sensationalism and spectatorship in criminal cases, Adjournment analyzes human motives and empathy by hearing, not seeing, the violence of crime.
| Runtime: | 24 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Belgium | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | Rating: | 14A | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | French | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | http://www.apach-helb.be/ffe/suspension-daudience | | Director(s): | Nina Marissiaux | Producer(s): | Sébastien Andres | Editor(s): | Romain Dumont de Chassart | Cinematography: | Irène Tobias | Sound: | Sébastien Lheureux |
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Advocate
As one of the few Israeli human-rights lawyers willing to defend Palestinians, Lea Tsemel has been defying hostility and vitriol from the public and press for nearly 50 years to fight for clients in a stacked system.
| Runtime: | 105 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Israel | | Canada | | Switzerland | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | PG | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Hebrew | | Arabic | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Crime & Justice | | Jewish Interest | | War, Conflict & the Military | | Women Trailblazers & Rule Breakers | | Middle East | | Director(s): | Rachel Leah Jones | | Philippe Bellaïche | Producer(s): | Joëlle Bertossa | | Paul Cadieux | Editor(s): | Yael Bitton |
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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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Alla Salute
Just as his career takes off, a food TV personality receives a shocking cancer diagnosis. When his chef friends offer to cook the foods he craves, a quintessentially Italian search for happiness—somewhere between eggplant parmesan and wine—begins.
| Runtime: | 78 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Italy | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | Rating: | 14A | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Italian | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Made In Italy | Film Subjects: | Food | | Health & Healthcare | | Italy | | Director(s): | Brunella Filì | Producer(s): | Brunella Filì | | Ines Vasiljevic | | Nicola Lusuardi | Executive Producer(s): | Brunella Filì | | Fortuna Mosca | Editor(s): | Andrea Facchini | | Alessandro Alliaudi | Writer(s): | Antonella Gaeta | | Nicola Difino | | Brunella Filì | Cinematography: | Davide Micocci | Composer: | Vincenzo Deluci | | Gabriele Panico | Sound: | Alessandro Fusaroli | | Boris D'agostino |
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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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Amussu
When a Moroccan silver mine begins to siphon and pollute local aquifers, villagers occupy the water pipeline and refuse to leave. Seven years later, they remain in their ingenious solar-powered camp, weathering arrests and intimidation while waiting for divine justice.
| Runtime: | 99 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Morocco | | Qatar | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Tamazight | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | International Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Advocacy & Activism | | Africa | | Agriculture & Fishing | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Ecology & the Environment | | Director(s): | Nadir Bouhmouch | Producer(s): | Movement on Road '96 | | Nadir Bouhmouch | | Elias Terrass | | Sophia Menni | Executive Producer(s): | Local Film Committee of Imider | Editor(s): | Maria Mocpat | Writer(s): | The Community of Imider | | Nadir Bouhmouch | Cinematography: | Yassir Charak | | Nadir Bouhmouch | Composer: | The Community of Imider | Sound: | Jalal El Guermai | | Ghita Zouiten |
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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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And That Is How the Rivers Came To Be
The enchanting Peruvian legend of a Kukama god comes alive in this animated film about the creation of the vast, winding rivers of the Amazon, reminding us of our sacred, unbreakable connection to water.
| Runtime: | 3 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | | USA | | Peru | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | Rating: | G | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Kukama | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Miguel Araoz Cartagena | Producer(s): | Stephanie Boyd | Editor(s): | Fabricio Deza | Sound: | Cesar Centeno |
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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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Animal Magnetism Shorts Program
This collection of shorts reveals the push/pull, love/hate, friend/food tension that pervades our interactions with the creatures we raise as livestock, hunt for sport, keep as pets and see as a reflection of ourselves.
| Runtime: | 82 | Country Listing: | Various | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Various Languages | Program Category: | Animal Magnetism |
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Animus Animalis (A Story about People, Animals and Things)
Under glass cases, fake foliage and artificial snow, animals are always watching in this complex exploration of the work of taxidermists, hunters, farmers and museum workers, who erase the line between real and artificial, living and dead, kindness and cruelty.
| Runtime: | 69 | Copyright: | 2018 | Country Listing: | Lithuania | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | Rating: | 18A | | Festival Year: | 2019 | Language: | Lithuanian | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Animal Magnetism | Film Subjects: | Agriculture & Fishing | | Animals & Animal Rights | | Sports & Recreation | | Ecology & the Environment | Website: | http://www.facebook.com/people.animals.and.things | | Director(s): | Aiste Žegulyte | Producer(s): | Giedre Burokaite | Editor(s): | Mikas Žukauskas | Writer(s): | Aiste Žegulyte | | Titas Laucius | Cinematography: | Vytautas Katkus | Composer: | Gediminas Jakubka | | Mindaugas Urbaitis | Sound: | Jonas Maksvytis |
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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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