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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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Canadian Spectrum Shorts Program
Available until June 24
A selection of Canadian short films including Hollies Dress, Nancy's Workshop, Invasion, and Jo.
| Runtime: | 76 | Copyright: | 2020 | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum |
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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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Prayer for a Lost Mitten
Available until June 24
Montreal Metro’s Lost and Found department does its best to reconnect misplaced items with their rightful owners. The touching stories of those who come to claim their belongings warm this stunning snapshot of a long Québécois winter.
| Runtime: | 79 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | French | | English | | Creole | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Canada | | Urban Culture & Issues | | Director(s): | Jean-François Lesage | Producer(s): | Jean-François Lesage | Editor(s): | Mathieu Bouchard-Malo | | Ariane Pétel-Despots | Writer(s): | Jean-François Lesage | Cinematography: | Marianne Ploska | Composer: | Tom Brunt | Sound: | Marie-Pierre Grenier | | Olivier Germain | | Marie-Andrée Cormier |
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Stateless
Available until June 24
After the Dominican Republic Supreme Court strips citizenship from anyone with Haitian parentage—retroactive to 1929—200,000 people are rendered stateless due to anti-Black racism. In response, a young attorney ignites a grassroots campaign, relentlessly fighting to protect citizenship rights for all.
| Runtime: | 95 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | Creole | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Director(s): | Michèle Stephenson | Producer(s): | Jennifer Holness | | Michèle Stephenson | | Lea Marin | Executive Producer(s): | Anita Lee | | Joe Brewster | | Sudz Sutherland | Editor(s): | Sophie Farkas-Bolla | Writer(s): | Michèle Stephenson | Cinematography: | Jaime Guerra | | Nadia Hallgren | | Naiti Gámez | | Tito Rodriguez | | Alfredo Alcántara | | Pedro Arnau Bros Santana | Composer: | Ben Fox |
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There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace
Available until June 10
The film follows the historic Mirvish Village community as it looks at the gentrification of Toronto told through the stories of people affected by the closure of the iconic discount store, Honest Ed's.
| Runtime: | 75 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Website: | https://www.theresnoplacelikethisplace.com | | Director(s): | Lulu Wei | Producer(s): | Ali Weinstein | Editor(s): | Sarah Bachinski | Cinematography: | Lulu Wei | Composer: | Laura Barrett |
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Under the Same Sun
Available until June 24
In the South Caucasus, a region plagued by aggressive nationalist movements, Armenians and Azerbaijanis face propaganda and intolerance—with some undertaking an uphill battle to fight back—in this skilfully balanced exploration of humanity and hatred.
| Runtime: | 97 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Armenian | | Azerbaijani | | Russian | | English | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Race & Multiculturalism | | South & Central Asia | | Director(s): | François Jacob | Producer(s): | François Jacob | Editor(s): | Jéricho Jeudy | Writer(s): | François Jacob | | Antoine Dion-Ortega | Cinematography: | François Jacob | Composer: | Moses Baxter | Sound: | Hélène Magne | | Isabelle Lussier | | Simon Plouffe |
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The Walrus and the Whistleblower
Available until June 24
An animal trainer becomes an unlikely whistleblower and is sued for $1.5 million for plotting to steal a walrus, falling down the rabbit hole of a personal quest while a larger movement grows to end marine mammal captivity.
| Runtime: | 89 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Animals & Animal Rights | | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | Director(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | Producer(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | | Frederic Bohbot | Editor(s): | Vincent Guignard | Writer(s): | Nathalie Bibeau | Cinematography: | Christian Bielz | Composer: | Anaïs Larocque | | Raphael Reed | Sound: | Tod Van Dyk |
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A Woman, My Mother
Available until June 24
Balancing documentary and poetry, this touching exploration of family, memory and maternal love finds the filmmaker retracing his biological mother’s footsteps in a struggle to find her. Who was this independent and secretive woman?
| Runtime: | 76 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | French | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Personal Histories | | Women & Women's Stories | | Director(s): | Claude Demers | Producer(s): | Claude Demers | Editor(s): | Natalie Lamoureux | Writer(s): | Claude Demers | Cinematography: | Stéphanie Weber Biron | | Olivier Tétreault | Composer: | Serge Nakauchi Pelletier | Sound: | Patrice LeBlanc |
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The World Is Bright
Available until June 24
Notified by the Canadian government that their son committed suicide and has been buried, an elderly Chinese couple embarks on a decade-long investigation through a Kafkaesque bureaucracy to unravel the mysterious truth behind his tumultuous life and death.
| Runtime: | 116 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Mandarand English | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Canada | | Crime & Intrigue | | East Asia | | Education | | Families & Family Relationships | Website: | http://gyufilms.ca/the-world-is-bright-synopsis.html | | Director(s): | Ying Wang | Producer(s): | Jian Ping Su | | Jordan Paterson | Executive Producer(s): | Yun-Jou Chang | | Tyler Hagan | Editor(s): | Lawrence Le Lam | | Ying Wang | Writer(s): | Ying Wang | | Lawrence Le Lam | Cinematography: | Pieter Stathis | | Jian Ping Su | | Ying Wang | Composer: | Daniel J.K. Ross | Sound: | Matt Drake |
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