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- A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.
- An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
- After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
- After a doctor is diagnosed with cancer, a new doctor joins him to help him treat his rural patients.
- An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit, the importance of the revenue they earn from sales of seal skins, and the negative impact that international campaigns against the seal hunt have had on their lives.
- In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. This form of radical harm reduction was a revolutionary act toward the government programs that transfixed the lives of black and brown communities throughout the South Bronx. Dope is Death utilizes an abundant archive while giving us insight into how the acupuncture clinic rose to prominence and, despite funding challenges, still functions to this day. Some of those who benefited from the program became acupuncturists themselves. Dr. Mutulu's legacy is cemented within this profound story of community healing and activism.
- Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.
- A revealing look at FEMEN--the topless female activists who fight corrupt and patriarchal political systems in Kyiv and all across Europe--as well as a portrait of the group's creative backbone, the bewitching Oksana Shachko.
- Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.
- Let There Be Light follows the story of dedicated scientists working to build a small sun on Earth, which would unleash perpetual, cheap, clean energy for mankind. After decades of failed attempts, a massive push is now underway to crack the holy grail of energy.
- In the Spring of 2004, an ambitious and naive Montreal girl named Lara Roxx headed to LA and tried her luck in the adult movie business. Within two months of working in this industry she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Miss Roxx's story created a public sensation, but it's when the media hype dies that Inside Lara Roxx begins - in a psychiatric ward in Montreal. Inside Lara Roxx follows this young woman through a tumultuous five-years period as she struggles to build a new identity and find hope in the wake of her past.
- At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
- Deprogrammed chronicles Ted 'Black Lightning' Patrick's rise as the notorious 'Father of Deprogramming'.
- "A Cambodian Spring" is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the 'Cambodian spring' and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities - both political and personal, of fighting for what you believe in.
- It explores the dark art of geopolitical spin-doctoring.
- Adventurers, exotic fruits fanatics and even movie star Bill Pullman, are the subjects of The Fruit Hunters, the new film from acclaimed director Yung Chang. A thrilling journey through nature, commerce and adventure, The Fruit Hunters is a cinematic odyssey that takes viewers from the dawn of humanity to the cutting of edge of modern agriculture - a film that will change not just the way we look at what we eat, but what it means to be human.
- [Ouvrir La Voix] SPEAK UP/MAKE YOUR WAY focuses on our common identities : "woman" and "black", whilst highlighting the diversity of Afropean diasporas. This documentary explores the intersections of discrimination, art and blackness. SPEAK UP/MAKE YOUR WAY is about black women reclaiming the narrative.
- A tour of the juke joints and other venues of the legendary Chitlin Circuit in the Mississippi Delta, including performances by aging blues musicians in their eighties who used to play the circuit.
- Manic chronicles filmmaker Kalina Bertin's journey to understand the devastating impacts of mental illness on her family. Convinced that her father holds a key piece of the puzzle, she sets out to find the truth about him.
- With the devastating economic impact of the pandemic and city redevelopment, Chinatowns in New York, Montreal and Vancouver search for innovative ways and resistance to keep their communities thriving.
- Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa. "Nollywood Babylon" is a feature documentary detailing the industry's phenomenal success. Propelled by a booming 1970s soundtrack of African underground music, the movie presents an electric vision of a modern African metropolis and a revealing look at the powerhouse that is Nigerian cinema.
- An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest - a state of repose whose quality defies definition.
- "In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together...." That is how one of the creation stories of the Akka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life. The film follows their unique community life as it unfolds over many years. We experience the practice of their spirituality in the most difficult situations. Their religion is playful and highly creative in dealing with deeply serious matters of life and death, and may be the oldest human religion practiced on earth today.
- An exclusive backstage pass into a fascinating underground world of alternative Christmas music. Starring an eclectic cast of characters - The Flaming Lips, Run DMC, John Waters - plus two dozen amazing and original songs, JINGLE BELL ROCKS. is a cinematic sleigh ride into the strange and sublime universe of alternative Christmas music.
- A look at the devastating effects that climate change has on the people living on Kiribati, a low-lying atoll in the Pacific.
- A documentary which examines copyright issues in the information age.
- The word Taqwacore is a combination of hardcore, a genre of punk music, and taqwa, an Arabic word that translates as "piety" or "god-fearing." The first to use the term was writer, journalist, and Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight. His novel The Taqwacores, about a group of young Islamic punk rockers, received a storm of recognition among young American Muslims and prompted the formation of various Muslim punk bands.
- A documentary on rural teenagers in southwestern China who are recruited as their country's next Olympic hopefuls, with a focus on the coach Qi Moxiang.
- Surrounded by change, Azam, a traditional herder and Buzkashi player, tries to find his place in the new Tajikistan.
- Political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, which puts pressure on his young family and his convictions.
- A sensitive depiction of the real and imaginary worlds of a little six-year-old boy, who is lucid, confident and blind.
- FORTUNATE SON is an autobiographical feature documentary about the echoes of depression and drug addiction. Over a decade ago, filmmaker Tony Asimakopoulos fell into a hole of severe drug use and nearly destroyed himself. Only recently did he discover the extent to which he shattered the lives of his Greek immigrant parents. Using a camera as a psychological probe, he looks at himself, his parents and his new fiancee, slowly uncovering layers of pain that still linger, and begins to understand his family's legacy of fear, anger and negativity - which he still has to overcome. A film about faith, despair, escape and renewal, FORTUNATE SON follows the filmmaker from his childhood home in Montreal, to the Greek villages of his parents' birth, and beyond...
- A bi-racial menage a trois drenched in surrealist urban skank. Maytag, a reservation displaced Mi'gMaq, latches onto the only other Indian within light years of the city only to have her snatched away by his drug dealer and friend. Sadistically lovesick and drug addled, Maytag launches an insecticide on the cockroaches that have colonized his trailer convinced that they helped steal his fiance. Heart broken and thoroughly crushed, he turns to his only friend for solace, his chainsaw. A demented allegory on miscegenation, the plight of modern native Canadians and their affinity for self-destruction.
- During Easter weekend in an immigrant neighborhood, a middle-aged man prepares to tell his aging mother that a dream has ended.
- Patrolling a popular tourist destination of steep cliffs that plummet into the Sea of Japan, a retired police officer vigilantly intercepts troubled souls looking to jump, his count of lives saved now over 500.
- The recorded footages of a Canadian documentary filmmaker for a final film called UTOPIA, as narrated by his daughter.
- Each generation of wireless technology has brought us closer together. Now, at the dawn of 5G, visionaries are further evolving the mission of connectivity - this time to tackle some of society's biggest challenges.
- The narrative unfolds from the point-of-view of a single character named Roach. As part of the filmmaking process, he's been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. This documentary is from the point of view of the kids themselves, in order to provide alternative voices. Roach's camera is positioned behind "enemy" lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world's most prosperous countries-considered thugs, criminals, and enemies. This film shatters the windshield between Us and Them. Roach's camera acts as the hammer: hard, forceful, direct; impacting with the force of an actual life. Cross's camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of individual lives, mirrored upon the shards of flying glass.
- Eight Inuit teens offer a vibrant view of life in Canada's North.
- A bluesy mood piece featuring an eclectic line-up of musicians who busk in Montreal's metro, or subways. Bad News Brown, a charismatic harmonica player, acts as our witty impromptu host.
- In Canada, George is a statistician. But in China, George is Elvis... CHAIRMAN GEORGE is a documentary feature about a Greek-Canadian troubadour who refuses to live anything but an extraordinary life. ln Ottawa, George is a statistician who lives with his mother. But every few months, he takes an extended leave from his job and heads to China where he metamorphoses into an international man of culture. Armed only with his bouzouki, guitar and cell phone, he becomes a star in China (with both the critics and the ladies). He concludes that since he is "the only Greek in the world who can sing in Chinese," it is his duty to perform at the Closing Ceremonies of the Athens Olympic Games, as the torch is passed from Athens to Beijing.
- Part documentary, animated film and performance, "Sisters: Dream and Variations" is an inspiring observation of the artistic approach and self-discovery of Tyr and Jasa, two Montreal artists of Icelandic descent.
- Family Demolition is the story of two teens who spend quality family time busting up cars.
- A look at the life and work of Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist who worked in Ghana.
- Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city of Yangon as they navigate their first democratic election in over 50 years.
- The controversial Belo Monte Dam is causing ecological devastation along Brazil's Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon and one of the world's most diverse ecosystems
- A short documentary about memory and dreams.
- West Street is in Dujiangyan City, in the Sichuan province in the southwest of China. Its history goes back more than 2,000 years. Debuting director shows us the old West Street community, in this first part following the last days of Grandma Jiang. The everyday conversations she has with the filmmaker about her health and children turn out to have a tragic subtext. THE VANISHING SPRING LIGHT is a film about love and loss within a family, about obligations and blood ties, about guilt, change and fate.