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| Runtime: | 3 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | | 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.
| Runtime: | 75 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Religion & Spirituality | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 88 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | World Showcase | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 11 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Korean. | Program Category: | Shorts | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 14 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Damien Ferland | Producer(s): | Damien Ferland | Writer(s): | Damien Ferland | Cinematography: | Dylan Baillie |
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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.
| Runtime: | 12 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://www.topic.com/broken-orchestra | | 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.
| Runtime: | 28 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | French | | Japanese | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://jeremiebattaglia.com/fr/projets/le-frere/ | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 76 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Ukrainian | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Urban Culture & Issues | | War & Conflict | | 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.
| Runtime: | 78 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Mental Health & Addiction | | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Urban Culture & Issues | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 85 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | Middle East | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 11 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Cree | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Theola Ross | Producer(s): | Alex Bailey | Editor(s): | Lucius Dechausay | Cinematography: | Alexandre Nour Desjardins | Sound: | Anthony Wallace |
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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.
| Runtime: | 78 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Amharic | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Revisionaries | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | 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.
| Runtime: | 101 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | Website: | https://firstweeat.ca/ | | 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 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.
| Runtime: | 119 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Dari | | Pashto | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Film & Filmmaking | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | War & Conflict | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 11 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/gun-killers/ | | 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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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?
| Runtime: | 25 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://www.anniesakkab.com/hollies-dress | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 70 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Kenya | | Canada | | UK | | USA | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | 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 | | 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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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.
| Runtime: | 7 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Japanese | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Anne Koizumi | Producer(s): | Sahar Yousefi | Editor(s): | Anne Koizumi | Writer(s): | Anne Koizumi | Composer: | respectfulchild |
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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.
| Runtime: | 106 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | | South Africa | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | 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/ | | 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.
| Runtime: | 18 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Toronto Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Wet'suwet'en | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://www.mutualaidmedia.com/invasion | | 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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