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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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Daddy
Available until June 24
In Copenhagen, a roving anthropologist turned stay-at-home dad turns the ethnographer’s lens on himself and his young children, reconciling his own childhood abandonment and exploring fatherhood in this tragicomedy about the exquisite torture of parenting.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Danish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Northern Europe | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Brendan Cooney | | Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Editor(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Writer(s): | Brendan Cooney | | Cinematography: | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Composer: | Frederik Ebert | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Available until June 24
For Anna and her kids, film is not an escape but a means of surviving the war on their literal doorstep in Ukraine. Repurposing tanks and rubble as sets for a homemade war movie, art’s power to transform reality shines in this Sundance award-winner.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Ukraine | | Lithuania | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Russian | | Ukrainian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Eastern Europe | | Families & Family Relationships | | Film & Filmmaking | | Performance & Performers | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Iryna Tsilyk | | Producer(s): | Anna Kapustina | | Giedre Žickyte | | Editor(s): | Ivan Bannikov | | Iryna Tsilyk | | Writer(s): | Iryna Tsilyk | | Cinematography: | Viacheslav Tsvietkov | | Sound: | Jonas Maksvytis |
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Eyes and Arms
Available until June 24
Deeply in love and perfectly matched, an isolated Iranian couple overcome their disabilities, with her becoming his eyes and him her arms. His only hesitation is her ongoing desire for a child as he copes with his own tragic loss.
| | Runtime: | 52 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Iran | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Persian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Middle East | | | Director(s): | Panahbarkhoda Rezaee | | Producer(s): | Panahbarkhoda Rezaee |
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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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Landfall
Available until June 24
How will Puerto Rico reinvent itself after the devastations of Hurricane Maria and a multi-billion-dollar debt crisis? Intimate encounters with afflicted locals and opportunistic newcomers offer a sharp-eyed analysis of disaster capitalism and a stirring portrait of resistance.
| | Runtime: | 91 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | | Director(s): | Cecilia Aldarondo | | Producer(s): | Ines Hofmann Kanna | | Cecilia Aldarondo | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Justine Nagan | | Chris White | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Sandy Viquez Pedlow | | Editor(s): | Terra Long | | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | | Composer: | Angelica Negron |
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt
Available until June 24
When her drug-addicted brother’s calls for money stop, his sister races from Estonia to Colombia to desperately seek him out on the rough streets of Bogotá. But as each rumoured sighting breeds new panic, is she chasing hope or a ghost?
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Colombia | | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Estonian | | English | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | https://nakedcinema.eu/A-Loss-of-Something-Ever-Felt | | | Director(s): | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | | Producer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Davood Mousavi | | Marcela Lizcano | | Editor(s): | Hendrik Mägar | | Writer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Carlos Eduarlo Lesmes Lopez | | Cinematography: | Aivo Rannik | | Giulia Ducci | | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | | Davood Mousavi | | Composer: | Ann Reimann | | Sound: | Gabriel Solis |
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Mayor
Available until June 6
Musa Hadid, Ramallah’s charismatic Christian mayor, balances his citizens’ everyday concerns with his own enduring mission to end Palestine’s occupation in this urgent political saga, told with intimacy and candour.
| | Runtime: | 89 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Arabic | | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | https://www.davidosit.com/mayor | | | Director(s): | David Osit | | Producer(s): | David Osit | | Executive Producer(s): | Maxyne Franklin | | Teddy Leifer | | Editor(s): | David Osit | | Cinematography: | David Osit | | Composer: | Geinoh Yamashirogumi | | Toru Takemitsu | | Sound: | Kent Sparling |
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Mein Vietnam
Available until June 24
Living in limbo for 30 years—physically in Germany but virtually in Vietnam via constant Skyping and karaoke chatrooms—a couple is torn on where to call home when a storm destroys their house in Vietnam that held the promise of their eventual return.
| | Runtime: | 70 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Germany | | Austria | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Vietnamese | | German | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Science & Technology | | South & Central Asia | | Western Europe | | Website: | http://coronado-film.com/mein-vietnam_.html | | | Director(s): | Tim Ellrich | | Thi Hien Mai | | Producer(s): | Leopold Pape | | Editor(s): | Tobias Wilhelmer | | Writer(s): | Tim Ellrich | | Cinematography: | Tim Ellrich | | Sound: | Leopold Pape | | Tim Ellrich | | Marco Schnebel | | Volker Armbruster |
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Merry Christmas, Yiwu
Available until June 24
In a surreal Chinese city where 600 factories manufacture Christmas decorations year-round, workers’ daily routines and personal dramas unfold, all set against a society at the intersection of communism and globalism.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Serbia | | France | | Germany | | Belgium | | Qatar | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | East Asia | | Labour & Working People | | | Director(s): | Mladen Kovacevic | | Producer(s): | Iva Plemic Divjak | | Mario Adamson | | Ruth Reid | | Editor(s): | Jelena Maksimovic | | Cinematography: | Marko Milovanovic | | Composer: | Olof Dreijer | | Sound: | Patrik Strömdahl |
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Mother-Child
Available until June 11
At a public hospital in Argentina—where abortion is still mostly illegal—vulnerable teenage girls confide in caring professionals, revealing the weightiness of their decisions and the fragility of their dreams.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Argentina | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | http://www.kinorebelde.com/dist_mother_en.html | | | Director(s): | Andrea Testa | | Producer(s): | Francisco Márquez | | Luciana Piantanida | | Andrea Perner | | Editor(s): | Lorena Moriconi | | Writer(s): | Andrea Testa | | Francisco Márquez | | Cinematography: | Gustavo Schiaffino | | Sound: | Abel Tortorelli |
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Only the Devil Lives Without Hope
Available until June 24
When her brother is wrongfully accused of terrorism in Uzbekistan, a woman leads a fight to free him from the desert prison nicknamed The Place of No Return. Through her harrowing pursuit, a real-life thriller about love, betrayal, spies and assassins unfolds.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Norway | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Uzbek | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Crime & Intrigue | | Families & Family Relationships | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | South & Central Asia | | | Director(s): | Magnus Gertten | | Producer(s): | Ove Rishøj Jensen | | Editor(s): | Jesper Osmund | | Cinematography: | Caroline Troedsson | | Composer: | Ola Kvernberg | | Sound: | Audun Kvitland Røstad | | Jørgen Meyer |
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The Reason I Jump
Available until June 24
Naoki Higashida’s bestselling book The Reason I Jump offered a rare first-person account of life as a non-speaking autistic child. Through inventive interviews and dramatizations, Higashida and fellow nonverbal people with autism now offer a cinematic glimpse beyond the neurotypical experience of the world.
| | Runtime: | 82 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Krio | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | People with Disabilities & Disability Issues | | Health & Medicine | | | Director(s): | Jerry Rothwell | | Producer(s): | Al Morrow | | Stevie Lee | | Jeremy Dear | | Editor(s): | David Charap | | Cinematography: | Ruben Woodin Dechamps | | Composer: | Nainita Desai |
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Shadow Flowers
Available until June 24
Attempts at smuggling herself out or seeking asylum prove fruitless as a woman struggles in vain against political absurdities to return to her family in Pyongyang after entering South Korea and being forced to stay for seven years.
| | Runtime: | 109 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | South Korea | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Korean | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | East Asia | | Immigration & Refugees | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | | Director(s): | Seung-Jun Yi | | Producer(s): | Gary Byung-Seok Kam | | Editor(s): | Seung-Jun Yi | | Hak-Min Lee | | Cinematography: | Seung-Jun Yi | | Mika Mattila |
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Softie
Available until June 24
Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist, Boniface Mwangi’s campaigns against injustice have always created turmoil for his family. Now, battling corruption as he runs for office, his ideals are tested as he must choose between country and those closest to him.
| | Runtime: | 96 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Kenya | | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Kiswahili/Kikuyu | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Africa | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Crime & Intrigue | | Journalism & the Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Website: | https://www.softiethefilm.com | | | Director(s): | Sam Soko | | Producer(s): | Toni Kamau | | Sam Soko | | Executive Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Sandra Whipman | | Marjon Javadi | | Jess Search | | Daniel Cross | | Bramwel Iro | | Justine Nagan | | Chris White | | Mandy Chang | | Editor(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Ryan Mullins | | Sam Soko | | Cinematography: | Joel “Ingo” Ngui | | Chris Rhys Howarth | | Sam Soko | | Composer: | Olivier Alary | | Johannes Malfatti | | Sound: | Cory Rizos |
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Tension Structures
Available until June 24
How do you build structures to withstand even the most devastating conditions without collapse? A disillusioned engineer travels through Europe and history seeking these ambitious constructions and the perfect way to balance immense opposing forces—in both architecture and society.
| | Runtime: | 45 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Ireland | | France | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Feargal Ward | | Adrian Duncan | | Producer(s): | Feargal Ward | | Editor(s): | Feargal Ward | | Writer(s): | Adrian Duncan (script) | | Cinematography: | Feargal Ward | | Composer: | Karl Burke | | Sound: | Adrian Duncan | | Jonathan Sammon |
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Things We Dare Not Do
Available until June 24
From one of Mexico’s rising cinematographers comes this story of 16-year-old Ñoño, who, living amid cartel violence and models of toxic machismo, seeks the courage to tell his family he wants to live life as a woman.
| | Runtime: | 71 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Latin America | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Producer(s): | Abril López Carrillo | | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Editor(s): | Andrea Rabasa | | Writer(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Cinematography: | Bruno Santamaría Razo | | Composer: | Tomás Barreiro | | Sound: | Zita Erffa | | Andrea Rabasa | | Javier Umpierrez |
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Two Gods
Available until June 24
After turning his own life around, a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer from Newark mentors two young boys facing turbulent times at home and on the streets, poetically underscoring the importance of redemption and healing.
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Website: | http://twogodsfilm.com | | | Director(s): | Zeshawn Ali | | Producer(s): | Aman Ali | | Editor(s): | Colin Nusbaum | | Cinematography: | Zeshawn Ali | | Emir Fils-Aime | | Composer: | Michael Beharie |
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Wood
Available until June 6
A crack team of spies infiltrate a global syndicate operating in remote Russian forests, Chinese factories and Romanian mills to expose illegal timber trading. Hidden cameras capture the pace of human greed and natural destruction in this white-knuckle enviro-thriller.
| | Runtime: | 95 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Austria | | Germany | | Romania | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Romanian | | German | | Spanish | | Russian | | Chinese | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | | Director(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Thomas Tielsch | | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Adrian Sitaru | | Executive Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Editor(s): | Andrea Wagner | | Roland Sto¨ttinger | | Writer(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Cinematography: | Lukas Gnaiger | | Jakub Bejnarowicz | | Jo¨rg Burger | | Attila Boa | | Jerzy Palacz | | Sound: | Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson | | Claus Benischke | | Nora Czamler | | Andreas Pils | | Peter Rösner | | Simon Bastian |
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World Showcase Shorts Program: One of a Kind
Available until June 24
Unique tales of kindness and caring—between strangers, humans and animals, and mothers and children—that highlight how demonstrating more vulnerabiity, generosity and empathy leads to happier and healthier growth.
| | Runtime: | 78 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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