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APRIL 23–MAY 3, 2015 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
WELCOME TO HOT DOCS 2015 PHOTO: T. Andrew Morton
FIND YOUR FILMS CHOOSE YOUR TICKETS OR PASS Choose your films from this schedule or visitwww.hotdocs.ca for more SINGLE TICKETS: $17 detailed film descriptions. SPECIAL Events: $22 With this schedule you can browse films by program, or search for films Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Members receive a discount of up to 20%. using the subject and title indexes on pages 33 and 35. See our website for details www.bloorcinema.com A schedule-at-a-glance can be found starting on page 26, including a map of Festival venues. Ticket Packages Ticket packages allow you to share tickets with friends and redeem BUY YOUR TICKETS tickets in advance.
Advance Tickets FESTIVAL 10-PACK: $149 • 10 tickets to regular Festival screenings www.hotdocs.ca
FESTIVAL 20-PACK: $248 416.637.5150 • 20 tickets to regular Festival screenings CraveTV Hot Docs Box Office STUDENT/SENIOR 6-PACK: $83 2 Bloor Street West • Six tickets to regular Festival screenings (max two per screening) (Cumberland Terrace—Main Level) Visit our website for directions www.hotdocs.ca Ticket package holders can redeem their tickets by phone, in person Hours at the CraveTV Hot Docs Box Office or online at www.hotdocs.ca. Monday–Friday: 11am–7pm Saturday–Sunday: 11am–5pm ADDITIONAL PACKAGES Thursday, April 23–Sunday, May 3: 10am–9pm • Film packages curated by our programmers are available on our website www.hotdocs.ca SAME DAY and RUSH Tickets On the day of the screening, tickets can only be purchased at the screening Passes venue’s box office. A screening venue’s box office opens one hour before the Passes offer access to screenings without having to select films in venue’s first screening of the day (refer to schedule-at-a-glance on page 26). advance. Simply show your pass at the screening venue to obtain your If advance tickets have sold out for a screening, a limited number of rush tickets ticket. Passes are non-transferrable. may be available at the screening venue’s box office 10 minutes before the start PREMIUM PASS: $339 time. Line ups for rush tickets form roughly one hour before the start time. • One ticket to every Festival screening Screening venue box offices accept cash only. BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA ALL-ACCESS: $150 FREE Daytime Screenings • Access to all Festival screenings at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, plus two large popcorns Seniors (60+) and students with valid ID can take advantage of free daytime screenings (starting before 5pm). Pick up your same day tickets at the Passholders can visit the screening venue’s box office on the day. A block screening venue’s box office on the day of the screening, subject to availability. of tickets will be held for these passholders, subject to availability. Courtesy of documentary Channel. * All prices include HST. All prices exclude online service fees. No refunds or exchanges.
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SPECIAL EVENTS The Scotiabank Big Ideas Series
Tig Featuring Tig Notaro Join comedian Tig Notaro in conversation about the film Tig (p. 20), which charts her life in the eventful year following her bravely candid 2012 stand-up performance. Opening with “Good evening, I have cancer,” her groundbreaking set made her an overnight media sensation.
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Danny Featuring Danny Williams Join us in a discussion with Danny Williams, the outspoken Canadian politician at the centre of Danny (p. 6), a dynamic portrait laced with humour, political shenanigans and backroom anecdotes. Hear directly from the charismatic premier who stared down two prime ministers and Big Oil to transform the fortunes of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Deep Web Featuring director Alex Winter, journalist Andy Greenberg and parents Lyn and Kirk Ulbricht Following the international premiere of Deep Web (p. 6), Lyn and Kirk Ulbricht join WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg (This Machine Kills Secrets) and director Alex Winter to discuss the plight of their son, Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of the online black market Silk Road, and the murky world operating in the darkest corners of the internet.
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Sweet Micky for President Featuring Pras Michel Ex-Fugee Pras Michel joins us to discuss Haitian politics, the future of his home country, and his political campaign supporting controversial musician Michel Martelly for President of Haiti in the pivotal election following the 2010 earthquake, as depicted in Sweet Micky for President (p. 8).
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Out to Win Featuring Olympic Gold Medal–winning hockey player Charline Labonté, former Major League Baseball player Billy Bean and American college football player Conner Mertens From such pioneers as tennis champs Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King to tomorrow’s superstars, Out to Win (p. 8) chronicles the personal stories of the trailblazers whose sacrifices and conflicts have consumed their professional aspirations, and charts the greater path ahead for professional LGBT athletes around the globe.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH MASTER FILMMAKER FREDERICK WISEMAN AND PRODUCER KAREN KONICEK Prolific and innovative, legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has helmed such classic documentaries as Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, Crazy Horse, National Gallery and At Berkeley. Join Wiseman OPENING NIGHT SCREENING and long-time collaborator, producer and distributor Karen Konicek in a live on- TIG stage conversation with CBC journalist and Enjoy the international premiere host Piya Chattopadhyay as they discuss screening of our opening night film Tig their documentary in progress In Jackson (p. 20), including an exclusive Q&A Heights, pitching at Hot Docs Forum, self- with the filmmakers and Tig Notaro. distribution and longevity in an evolving media landscape. THU, APR 23 9:45 PM BLOOR WED, APR 29 6:00 PM TBLB Tickets: $22 Tickets: $22 Frederick Wiseman
INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING THROUGH DOCX: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ORIGINAL EXPERIENCES
DOCX VIRTUAL REALITY SHOWCASE
Witness the future creative and technical possibilities of documentary cinema. These four short films employ revolutionary
Polar sea 360° 3D stereoscopy video, Oculus Rift technology and Samsung’s Gear Virtual Reality headsets to immerse you in unforgettable documentary experiences. Take a breathtaking voyage through the Northwest Passage in Polar Sea 360° HIGHRISE: (D: Thomas Wallner). Transport yourself UNIVERSE WITHIN, LIVE to the stunning landscapes of Mongolia songs of freedom and into the lives of nomadic yak A one-night-only participatory live herders in Herders (D: Félix Lajeunesse, performance launching the final chapter of the Paul Raphaël). Experience renowned acclaimed Highrise digital documentary opera singer Measha Brueggergosman project, Universe Within, Live (D: Katerina in concert in Cameroon and Canada in Cizek) takes audiences on a fascinating Songs of Freedom (D: Thomas Wallner); journey from Brooklyn to Mumbai to and, in Strangers With Patrick Watson Guangzhou through the original portraits of (D: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, Herders highrise residents and their digital lives from Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski), go around the globe. Mixing live and recorded behind the scenes with the acclaimed images, documentaries and music, this Montreal singer. performance is navigated by a live host in conversation with the audience. The exhibit is free to view at the Isabel Bader Theatre from Friday April 24 WED, APR 29 7:30pm INNIS to Friday May 1, 10am-7pm. Tickets: $22 strangers with patrick watson
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North American Premiere World Premiere Danny The Arms Drop Being Canadian D: Justin Simms, William D. MacGillivray | Canada D: Andreas Koefoed | Denmark | 94 min D: Robert Cohen | Canada, USA | 89 min | 84 min After narrowly escaping execution and surviving Calgary hometown boy turned Hollywood This dynamic portrait laced with humour, political eight years in an Indian prison, a British arms comedy guru Rob Cohen (The Simpsons, shenanigans and backroom anecdotes reveals dealer hunts down the MI5 agent who betrayed The Big Bang Theory) returns to Canada on the real Danny Williams, the charismatic premier him, leading to a shocking confrontation with an epic quest to rediscover our national who stared down two prime ministers and the Danish terrorist who started it all. identity. Meeting up with Canadian funny Big Oil to transform the fortunes of Newfoundland men Mike Myers, Seth Rogen and and Labrador. FRI, APR 24 3:30 PM HART Will Arnett along the way, it’s a comic SAT, APR 25 6:30 PM TBLB maple syrup-filled odyssey. SAT, APR 25 6:30 PM BLOOR* SAT, MAY 2 11:00 AM BADER SUN, APR 26 10:30 AM BADER SUN, MAY 3 3:00 PM REVUE SUN, MAY 3 1:15 PM BADER SAT, APR 25 9:45 PM BLOOR SUN, APR 26 3:30 PM HART Around the World * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4 in 50 Concerts World Premiere International Premiere D: Heddy Honigmann | Netherlands | 94 min The Bolivian Case Deep Web Award-winning documentary veteran Heddy D: Violeta Ayala | Australia, Bolivia, Colombia, USA D: Alex Winter | USA | 90 min Honigmann follows Netherlands’ prestigious | 75 min Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on an Three Norwegian teenaged girlfriends get Following the story of Ross Ulbricht, alleged astounding musical journey as they perform caught smuggling cocaine out of Bolivia. founder of the online black market Silk Road, 50 concerts on six continents to celebrate Each is guilty, so why does only one take the Deep Web weaves the historic government case their 125th anniversary. With stunning passion fall? Cue a tabloid media storm, professional against him with an exploration of the darkest and intellect, the masters perform and kidnappers and a behind-bars pregnancy in corners of the internet to offer a revelatory look discuss their music. this sensational exposé. at this Pandora’s box of the online world.
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A Different Drummer: Every Last Child How To Change The World Celebrating Eccentrics D: Tom Roberts | UAE | 82 min D: Jerry Rothwell | UK, Canada | 112 min D: John Zaritsky | Canada | 86 min Caught in the crosshairs of violence and politics, In the early 1970s, a group of young Canadians Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky celebrates healthcare workers are everyday heroes as combined forces to create Greenpeace. Using eccentrics in this light-hearted but affectionate they struggle to protect children from polio in interviews and previously unseen footage, this look at non-conformists—from a Utah cave Pakistan—the epicentre for this crippling disease is the story of a group of friends who set out dweller who hasn’t used money in 12 years to that has once again become a global threat. to change the world. a beloved Vancouver psychic often seen with her pet duck in a buggy. SUN, APR 26 9:00 PM BADER SUN, APR 26 1:00 PM BLOOR MON, APR 27 7:00 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 9:30 PM BLOOR THU, APR 30 9:30 PM BADER SUN, APR 26 8:45 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 2:15 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE North American Premiere INDIAN POINT Foodies Dreamcatcher D: Ivy Meeropol | USA | 93 min D: Henrik Stockare, Thomas Jackson, Charlotte D: Kim Longinotto | UK | 98 min Enter the reactor core of Indian Point, a nuclear Landelius | Sweden | 94 min Acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto crafts power plant situated only 35 miles from Deliciously lavish and inventive, the world’s top a deeply moving portrait of a former teenage New York City. Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear restaurants unveil their latest offerings to the new prostitute who fought her way off the streets disaster, the plant has become a battleground for power players on the culinary scene: globe-trotting to become an unstoppable force for change politicians, big business and activists. foodies whose online reviews reach hundreds of in the lives of Chicago’s at-risk women. thousands and can make or break a dish. SUN, APR 26 10:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 1:00 PM HART FRI, APR 24 3:45 PM BADER SAT, MAY 2 7:00 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 10:30 AM BADER SUN, APR 26 6:45 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 9:00 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 3:30 PM HART SAT, MAY 2 11:30 AM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 9:00 PM BLOOR Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck D: Brett Morgen | USA | 132 min International Premiere Drone Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi In this first fully authorized cinematic portrait D: Tonje Hessen Schei | Norway | 78 min D: Neal Broffman | USA | 75 min of music legend Kurt Cobain, never-before-seen A penetrating investigation into the War on home movies, striking animation and interviews The potential and perils of online vigilantism and Terror’s defining weapon—the armed drone— with those who knew him best take us into the crowdsourcing are starkly realized for a family featuring incisive analysis from pilots, military life and mind of an icon. searching for their missing son, when the theory experts and powerless bystanders who live that he is a terrorist behind the Boston Marathon in fear of becoming the collateral damage of this FRI, APR 24 9:45 PM TBLB bombings goes viral. SAT, APR 25 1:15 PM BLOOR high-tech weaponry. WED, APR 29 7:00 PM ROM FRI, APR 24 3:45 PM TBLB THU, APR 30 11:00 AM BADER SAT, APR 25 4:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 9:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 10:30 AM BLOOR
Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi
The arms drop T he CirCUS Dynasty
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WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? MUSIC LESSONS
Anniversary Screening World Premiere Cinema Eye Legacy Award Screening The Last Mogul Music Lessons Psari is Burning D: Barry Avrich | Canada, USA | 2005 | 110 min D: Michael Mabbott | Canada | 20 min D: Jennie Livingston | USA | 1990 | 71 min The legendary Lew Wasserman has been Go behind the scenes with the inspiring children Electrifying audiences with a window into the credited with creating—and later dismantling— and music teachers at Sistema Toronto and see fierce—and fiercely competitive—world of Hollywood’s studio system in a near-mythic career firsthand how this international movement the 1980s New York black and Latino LGBT spanning more than six decades. But what does employs ensemble-based music to build community, ball scene, this paradigm-shifting classic is Wasserman’s legacy mean in the modern media confidence and a next generation of talent. as audacious and profound as the day it was landscape transformed by Kickstarter, Netflix and released 25 years ago. YouTube? TUE, APR 28 6:30 PM BADER THU, APR 30 6:30 PM BADER SUN, APR 26 4:00 PM TBLB To be followed by a live performance by the Sistema Toronto Yorkwoods Orchestra and Planetary Following the film, a special panel conversation a special in-conversation session. D: Guy Reid | UK | 85 min with industry luminaries and modern moguls will consider the future of the film industry. Witness Earth like never before. Combining Out to Win arresting cinematography with provocative D: Malcolm Ingram | USA, Canada | 99 min International Premiere thoughts from the world’s foremost Mavis! The groundbreaking 2014 NFL draft of Michael environmentalists, scientists and philosophers, Sam blew the closet door wide open on the Planetary offers an alternate theory for D: Jessica Edwards | Canada, USA | 85 min challenges facing LGBT athletes. Trailblazers survival in our planet’s most desperate age. Music legends and civil rights icons Mavis Staples Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King and Jason and the Staple Singers shine in this powerful Collins give voice to their pioneering leadership. FRI, APR 24 4:15 PM TBLB film rich with six decades of glorious songs and SAT, APR 25 10:30 AM BLOOR wonderful stories from the star herself, alongside WED, APR 29 6:30 PM BLOOR* THU, APR 30 6:30 PM KWAY SUN, MAY 3 1:15 PM BLOOR Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and more. FRI, MAY 1 1:00 PM HART SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM BADER International Premiere SUN, APR 26 6:15 PM BADER MON, APR 27 10:30 AM BADER * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4 Sweet Micky For President THU, APR 30 9:00 PM INNIS FREE!* D: Ben Patterson | USA | 86 min
* Free outdoor screening with live music Musical strains resound in the pivotal Haitian presidential election following the 2010 earthquake. As ex-Fugee Pras Michel campaigns for controversial musician Michel Martelly, things MEMBERSHIPS get heated when former bandmate Wyclef Jean throws his hat into the ring.
TUE, APR 28 6:30 PM BLOOR* WED, APR 29 1:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 5:30 PM REVUE BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! WWW.BLOORCINEMA.COM * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4
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International Premiere North American Premiere International Premiere (T)ERROR War of Lies Western D: David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral | USA | 93 min D: Matthias Bittner | Germany | 89 min D: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | USA, Mexico | 93 min This Sundance award winner exposes the How did one refugee in Germany become the As cowboy and lawman navigate their shocking practices and murky justifications American government’s justification for the 2003 rapidly changing hometowns and an ever-growing driving FBI counterterrorism investigations Iraq invasion? The unrepentant Iraqi “engineer” divide, Western paints a stunning and subtle by following an informant who provides full —the lone source of weapons of mass destruction portrait of two towns straddling the US-Mexico access on the trail of a new suspect. misinformation—finally reveals how the war border that previously existed in harmony. based on his lie truly began. Sun, Apr 26 9:45 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 6:30 PM TBLB Tue, Apr 28 4:00 PM SCOTIA MON, APR 27 9:15 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 1:30 PM BADER Sun, May 3 11:30 AM TBLB WED, APR 29 1:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 1:45 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 9:30 PM BLOOR SAT, MAY 2 1:30 PM REVUE International Premiere Ttom Swif and His International Premiere What Happened, Miss Simone? Electric Rifle Welcome to Leith D: Liz Garbus | USA | 102 min D: Nick Berardini | USA, Canada | 93 min D: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker The legendary Nina Simone is brought back to | USA | 86 min This investigative look at the allegedly non-lethal life in this intimate portrait of her tumultuous TASER gun shows how their initial promise A real-life horror story unfolds in the near- life. Deemed the “High Priestess of Soul,” Simone as a safer alternate weapon for law enforcement deserted town of Leith, North Dakota, when made her mark as a pianist, singer and civil has proven complicated—even fatal. a dangerous white supremacist attempts rights icon. to buy up land in a plot to establish a community TUE, APR 28 6:30 PM SCOTIA of neo-Nazis. WED, APR 29 9:00 PM BADER THU, APR 30 9:45 PM HART FRI, MAY 1 6:00 PM BLOOR FRI, MAY 1 6:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 1:00 PM BLOOR SAT, APR 25 2:00 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 9:30 PM REGENT SUN, APR 26 1:00 PM HART THU, APR 30 1:30 PM TBLB
WELCOME TO LEITH
WS AR OF LIE WESTERN
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All The Time In The World World Premiere World Premiere D: Suzanne Crocker | Canada | 87 min DEPROGRAMMED H aida GwAII: On the Edge A family disconnects with the modern world D: Mia Donovan | Canada | 90 min of the World to reconnect with each other by relocating to an Anti-cult crusader Ted Patrick’s controversial D: Charles Wilkinson | Canada | 75 min isolated cabin in the remote Canadian North— deprogramming techniques spurred an The team behind Oil Sands Karaoke captures the spending nine winter months without electricity, underground movement that spanned decades stunning beauty of Haida Gwaii, where Aboriginal running water or a trace of technology. until halted by lawsuits and felony convictions rights activists, newcomer ecologists and quirky for kidnapping and imprisonment. Years islanders unite to create a sustainable and WED, APR 29 7:15 PM SCOTIA later, his subjects speak to the true cost of healing community—now at risk from a proposed FRI, MAY 1 4:45 PM ROM their ‘emancipation.’ SAT, MAY 2 4:30 PM TBLB oil tanker route.
SUN, APR 26 6:15 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 7:15 PM TBLB The Amina Profile MON, APR 27 1:30 PM SCOTIA WED, APR 29 4:30 PM ROM D: Sophie Deraspe | Canada | 85 min THU, APR 30 9:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 8:15 PM TBLB Lesbian eroticism, the Arab Spring and a nternIAN PREMIERE suspicious abduction turn an online love affair Finding Macpherson between a Montreal woman and the writer D: Serge Giguère | Canada | 77 min JESUS TOWN USA of the popular blog A Gay Girl in Damascus into Gorgeously hand-painted sequences from her D: Julian Pinder, Billie Mintz | Canada, USA | 80 min an international thriller about identity. films illuminate a black Montreal artist’s magical In this cinematically stylish comedy, the 10-year search across continents to discover Wichita foothills stand in for Jerusalem as a SAT, APR 25 7:00 PM TBLB the true identity of a black lumberjack mentioned small Christian community that has re-enacted MON, APR 27 1:00 PM HART in a popular Quebec song. Christ’s Passion for 88 years grapples with the news that the paperboy playing Jesus is Chameleon THU, APR 30 7:00 PM TBLB a Buddhist. D: Ryan Mullins | Canada | 78 min FRI, MAY 1 4:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 3:30 PM SCOTIA Screening with A Ghanaian investigative journalist with a dash THE LITTLE DEPUTY of James Bond rises to become a national World Premiere D: Trevor Anderson | Canada | 9 min hero as he slips into disguise undercover to Fractured Land expose corruption and injustice while on a FRI, APR 24 9:15 PM BADER D: Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher | Canada | 78 min SAT, APR 25 1:00 PM HART relentless campaign of “naming, shaming and SUN, MAY 3 9:00 PM BADER jailing” criminals. With some of the world’s largest fracking operations on his territory, a young indigenous World Premiere Screening with leader and lawyer confronts the fractures A DAY AT SCHOOL within his community and himself as he struggles L oWDOWN Tracks D: Victor Ghizaru, Mikael Platon | Canada | 7 min to reconcile traditional teachings with the law D: Shelley Saywell | Canada | 86 min SAT, APR 25 5:30 PM ROYAL to protect the land. Passion, talent and tragedy combine in the SUN, APR 26 4:30 PM SCOTIA performances of five transient musicians Screening with who busk for change on Toronto’s streets. Their THE WOLVERINE: THE FIGHT songs of survival and stories of life on the OF THE JAMES BAY CREE margins deeply resonate, with help from The D: Ernest Webb | Canada | 9 min Parachute Club’s Lorraine Segato. TUE, APR 28 9:00 PM TBLB THU, APR 30 2:30 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 8:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 4:00 PM SCOTIA MON, APR 27 6:30 PM SCOTIA 2015–16 DOC SOUP SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM SCOTIA SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW AVAILABLE AT SPECIAL FESTIVAL RATES.
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World Premiere World Premiere International Premiere The Messenger Nuestro Monte Luna S peed SiSTERS D: Su Rynard | Canada, France | 93 min D: Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | Canada, Colombia | 96 min D: Amber Fares | Palestine, USA, Qatar, Denmark, From Turkey’s Mount Ararat to the streets of The deadly risks faced by teenaged matadors- UK, Canada | 80 min New York, experts and enthusiasts raise the in-training are overshadowed by the threats Bold and fearless, the first all-female car racing alarm over the disappearance of populations to their livelihood when the controversial sport team in the Middle East is burning rubber of glorious songbirds—humanity’s canary of bullfighting, and the values and traditions and tearing up tracks all over Palestine as they in the coalmine signalling ever-worsening at its heart, is challenged in Colombia. defy the odds and shatter stereotypes of environmental devastation. Arab women. WED, APR 29 9:30 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 9:00 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 1:30 PM TBLB Screening with FRI, MAY 1 1:30 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 7:15 PM SCOTIA HELL RUNS ON GASOLINE! SUN, MAY 3 6:30 PM INNIS D: Martin Bureau | Canada | 9 min World Premiere WED, APR 29 6:15 PM TBLB World Premiere Poinocchi THU, APR 30 7:15 PM HART Mom and Me D: André-Line Beauparlant | Canada | 75 min SAT, MAY 2 4:00 PM BADER D: Lena Macdonald | Canada | 58 min The director’s con-artist brother sits In this deeply personal film, the director delves imprisoned in Brazil, facing deportation to World Premiere into her complicated relationship with her Canada. He’s an elusive world traveller, Sugar Coated mother, following her painful journey through a skilled liar and manipulator, both charming D: Michèle Hozer | Canada | 85 min addiction, prostitution and homelessness and charismatic. How do you trust someone As obesity rates skyrocket and doctors treat the on the streets of Toronto, and ultimately shapes who feels no obligation to the truth? first generation of children suffering from fatty a moving testament to love and hope. liver disease, the sugar industry has adopted Screening with the Big Tobacco playbook to sow confusion and THU, APR 30 7:00 PM SCOTIA JULIO doubt—and keep its profits sweet. SAT, MAY 2 5:00 PM SCOTIA D: Eui Yong Zong | Canada | 5 min MON, APR 27 9:00 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 7:00 PM HART World Premiere TUE, APR 28 3:45 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 6:30 PM TBLB No Place to Hide: SAT, MAY 2 9:45 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 1:45 PM SCOTIA The Rehtaeh Parsons Story D: Rama Rau | Canada | 47 min T he SandWICH Nazi Transatlantic D: Lewis Bennett | Canada | 72 min D: Felix Dufour-Laperrière | Canada | 72 min Those closest to Rehtaeh Parsons, the Canadian teenager whose suicide due to cyber-bullying Deli owner Salam Kahil is an art collector, former Thirty days at sea showcases powerful rolling shocked the world, recall her brief life, exposing male escort, amateur musician and sandwich Atlantic swells in breathtaking black-and-white the systems that failed her and the public outcry, maker to the homeless in Vancouver’s Downtown as a crew commands a cargo ship between led by Anonymous, for justice. Eastside who delights in shocking his customers continents. The ocean’s vastness and immense with outrageously lewd stories. power contrasts the routine duties of modern Screening with seafarers in this cinematic meditation. SURVIVORS ROWE Screening with D: Daniel Roher | Canada | 29 min POP-UP PORNO: M4M Screening with SUN, APR 26 7:30 PM TBLB D: Stephen Dunn | Canada | 3 min NAN LAKOU KANAVAL MON, APR 27 1:15 PM TBLB FRI, APR 24 7:15 PM SCOTIA D: Kaveh Nabatian | Canada | 8 min SUN, MAY 3 1:00 PM ROYAL SUN, APR 26 9:45 PM SCOTIA FRI, APR 24 5:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 7:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 4:00 PM SCOTIA
MOM AND ME No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story
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INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM THE LIVING FIRE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE World Premiere World Premiere Above and Below The Closer We Get Drawing the Tiger D: Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland, Germany | 118 min D: Karen Guthrie | UK | 87 min D: Ramyata Limbu, Amy Benson, Scott Squire | USA From the tunnels below the Las Vegas strip After the filmmaker’s indomitable mother | 96 min to simulated missions to Mars in the Utah suffers a debilitating stroke, her normally A desperately poor Nepalese family rests their desert, Above and Below is a strikingly beautiful tight-lipped family opens up to unravel the hopes on the narrow shoulders of their studious exploration of people inhabiting unusual astonishing secrets of her parents’ 50-year daughter who attends school on scholarship, spaces that almost offers a glimpse into an relationship and their twisted family tree with but when she doesn’t return home, their dreams apocalyptic world. roots stretching from Scotland to Ethiopia. of a brighter future dim under the harsh realities of survival. MON, APR 27 9:00 PM SCOTIA WED, APR 29 9:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 1:30 PM TBLB THU, APR 30 2:00 PM SCOTIA WED, APR 29 6:30 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 3:45 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 4:45 PM SCOTIA World Premiere SAT, MAY 2 9:15 PM TBLB World Premiere Daughter of the Lake North American Premiere Blood Sisters D: Ernesto Cabellos Damián | Peru | 87 min D: Malin Andersson | Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, Exotica, Erotica, Etc. When a mining corporation threatens the Finland, Norway, France | 83 min D: Evangelia Kranioti | France | 73 min waters that she holds sacred, a young indigenous Bearing deep emotional scars from their Andean woman who seemingly speaks with As a former prostitute lyrically recalls her abduction as children, twin sisters flee their the spirits of the lake summons all her mystical encounters with the lonely sailors she has native Azerbaijan to seek refuge in Sweden. powers to come to their defense. met at port, her poetry combined with exquisite Bound by their trauma, they find comfort in each cinematography of the ships at sea creates other, but will their intense attachment TUE, APR 28 8:45 PM SCOTIA a stunning visual essay of adventure, desire smother their independence? THU, APR 30 6:15 PM TBLB and heartbreak. SAT, MAY 2 4:30 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 9:15 PM INNIS Screening with MON, APR 27 2:00 PM TBLB KARACHI STORIES: GRAVEYARD FOR GIANTS SUN, MAY 3 4:30 PM TBLB D: Madeeha Syed | UK | 4 min WED, APR 29 9:45 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 4:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 9:30 PM SCOTIA
ABOVE AND BELOW DRAWING THE TIGER
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STAND By for Tape Back-Up
BLOOD SISTERS TUK-TUK
International Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Hot Sugar’s Cold World The Living Fire S tAND By for Tape Back-Up D: Adam Lough | USA | 85 min D: Ostap Kostyuk | Ukraine | 77 min D: Ross Sutherland | UK | 63 min A modern-day Mozart or a hyped music Set in the Ukraine’s breathtaking Reminiscing while grainy fragments from producer, Hot Sugar is in crisis. He mixes Carpathian Mountains, three generations Ghostbusters, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and everyday noises into Grammy-nominated beats, of shepherds struggle with change as other childhood touchstones play from an old but when girlfriend, internet-phenom “Kitty,” their simple but laborious way of life becomes VHS tape that he and his grandfather frequently dumps him, he takes off to Paris seeking himself harder to sustain when faced with the allure used, the filmmaker imparts a poetic and and new sounds in this fantastical road trip. of the modern world. humourous meditation on memory and loss.
SAT, APR 25 9:30 PM SCOTIA Screening with Screening with MON, APR 27 2:15 PM SCOTIA A HOUSE IN FOG COPYCAT FRI, MAY 1 3:45 PM HART D: Mokhtar Namdar | Iran | 22 min D: Charlie Lyne | UK | 8 min TUE, APR 28 9:30 PM TBLB FRI, APR 24 6:15 PM TBLB International Premiere FRI, MAY 1 2:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 1:00 PM TBLB Leaving Africa SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM INNIS SUN, MAY 3 6:45 PM TBLB D: Iiris Härmä | Finland | 89 min In Uganda, a Finnish woman shares a deep International Premiere World Premiere friendship with her Ugandan housemate, but Shoulder The Lion Tkuk-tu when they courageously confront religious D: Erinnisse Rebisz, Patryk Rebisz | USA | 74 min D: Romany Saad | Egypt | 75 min leaders on women’s rights and sexuality, they Three artists’ dramatic experiences of sensory Amongst the thousands of tuk-tuks zipping face a government backlash that could cost loss—a blind photographer, a musician through Cairo’s frenetic streets are three child- them everything. battling tinnitus and the brain-damaged painter drivers who maneuver the narrow thoroughfares who inspired Million Dollar Baby—are visually and slim economic prospects of contemporary Screening with rendered into this ravishing essay about art’s Egyptian life, seizing every opportunity to find THE TYPIST singular ability to transform and transcend. joy in difficult circumstances. D: Kristine Stolakis | USA | 8 min MON, APR 27 6:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 9:45 PM SCOTIA Screening with TUE, APR 28 1:45 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 4:00 PM BADER NEW SAT, MAY 2 9:15 PM BADER SAT, MAY 2 3:00 PM TBLB D: Eefje Blankevoort | Netherlands | 19 min SUN, APR 26 9:15 PM SCOTIA TUE, APR 28 1:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 9:00 PM SCOTIA
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Sponsored by documentary Channel PEACE OFFICER
International Premiere INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE North American Premiere Beyond the Fear (Dis)Honesty—The Truth Elephant’s Dream D: Maria Kravchenko, Herz Frank | Latvia, Russia, About Lies D: Kristof Bilsen | Belgium, UK | 74 min Israel | 80 min D: Yael Melamede | USA | 90 min Boiling over with poetry, absurdity and Delving deep into the mind of Yigal Amir, the Lying gets easier the more you do it—that compassionate insight, this revealing portrait of rightwing Israeli radical who assassinated Prime is, until you get caught! That’s just one of the a country in transition focuses on public sector Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the directors pore over conclusions from this fascinating and insightful workers in the Congo who resiliently toil his life-altering decisions, opening a window onto study on honesty. From marketing scams —sometimes in vain—to reconstruct a nation humankind’s capacity for both good and evil. to financial corruption, the “fudge factor” is marred by civil war. explored in all its forms. SAT, APR 25 6:30 PM BADER Screening with MON, APR 27 3:45 PM BADER FRI, APR 24 9:30 PM TBLB THE DICTATOR’S HOTEL SAT, MAY 2 6:45 PM FOX SAT, APR 25 2:00 PM SCOTIA D: Florian Hoffmann | Germany, Central African SUN, MAY 3 9:30 PM HART FRI, MAY 1 6:45 PM SCOTIA Republic | 16 min TUE, APR 28 6:15 PM SCOTIA CENSORED VOICES World Premiere THU, APR 30 5:00 PM SCOTIA D: Mor Loushy | Israel | 82 min Doglegs SAT, MAY 2 7:00 PM SCOTIA Shortly after the Six-Day War, renowned author D: Heath Cozens | Japan, USA | 90 min World Premiere Amos Oz and others audiotaped Israeli soldiers’ In a renegade Tokyo wrestling league, the battlefield stories. Strictly censored until disabled battle the able-bodied in the name of End of the World now, these explosive recordings reveal a hidden smashing stereotypes. After 20 years of glory, D: Monika Pawluczuk | Poland | 40 min narrative that questions the treatment of a reigning champ dreams of life beyond the mat, As the looming threat of the Mayan doomsday the enemy, Zionism and their role as occupier. but his mentor has other plans. prophecy hangs over a dark night in Poland, the radio speaks of the end of the world while TUE, APR 28 9:00 PM BADER MON, APR 27 9:15 PM SCOTIA crisis dispatch centres and therapy groups THU, APR 30 6:30 PM BLOOR TUE, APR 28 1:30 PM TBLB share their own personal struggles. FRI, MAY 1 7:15 PM SCOTIA The Creation of Meaning Screening with D: Simone Rapisarda Casanova | Canada, Italy | 90 min North American Premiere THE PLACE Once the scene of a devastating World War II Double Happiness D: Julia Popławska | Poland | 15 min massacre, the breathtaking Tuscan Alps are D: Ella Raidel | Austria | 75 min SUN, APR 26 7:00 PM TBLB now home to a shepherd whose pastoral life is This fiercely intelligent essay film centres on the MON, APR 27 1:45 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 8:30 PM TBLB made precarious by money troubles. But time strange case of a Chinese town built to replicate an and meaning can blur at high altitudes, as this idyllic Austrian village—examining larger questions International Premiere unhurried study shows. of reproduction, creativity and contemporary Chinese society’s relationship to the West. F or GrACE FRI, APR 24 8:30 PM TBLB D: Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski | USA | 93 min SUN, APR 26 12:30 PM TBLB Screening with From inspiration to opening night, For Grace SAT, MAY 2 4:15 PM TBLB OF THE UNKNOWN follows renowned American chef Curtis Duffy D: Eva Weber| UK | 10 min as he strives to overcome adversity in his TUE, APR 28 9:30 PM SCOTIA personal life to build his dream restaurant. THU, APR 30 4:30 PM ROM FRI, MAY 1 8:45 PM TBLB SUN, APR 26 7:00 PM SCOTIA TUE, APR 28 3:15 PM ROM SAT, MAY 2 4:15 PM FOX SUPPORT HOT DOCS! DID YOU KNOW THAT HOT DOCS IS A REGISTERED CHARITY? LEARN MORE WWW.HOTDOCS.CA/SUPPORT
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International Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Frame by Frame Hadwin’s Judgement Mussa D: Mo Scarpelli, Alexandria Bombach | USA | 84 min D: Sasha Snow | Canada, UK | 87 min D: Anat Goren | Israel | 65 min Four Afghan photojournalists risk their lives to In 1997, Grant Hadwin cut down The Golden A 12-year-old mute refugee from Darfur lives in build a free national press and tell their country’s Spruce, a unique 300-year-old tree that a Tel Aviv slum but is allowed to attend a rich stories after years of war and an oppressive was both sacred and scientifically remarkable, private school. Exposed to two disparate worlds Taliban regime that banned all photography. in a desperately audacious sounding of the and belonging to neither, he faces a staggering alarm to save BC’s rainforest; instead, it brought crisis in this heartbreaking study of haphazard TUE, APR 28 7:15 PM HART sorrow and despair. immigration policies. WED, APR 29 3:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 7:00 PM HART MON, APR 27 8:30 PM TBLB Screening with WED, APR 29 4:00 PM SCOTIA ORBIS International Premiere THU, APR 30 9:00 PM ROM D: Simon Wood | South Africa | 20 min From This Day Forward FRI, APR 24 7:30 PM SCOTIA D: Sharon Shattuck | USA | 74 min Last of the Elephant Men SUN, APR 26 3:45 PM TBLB An awkward teenager when her father first came D: Arnaud Bouquet, Daniel Ferguson | Canada, SUN, MAY 3 9:30 PM SCOTIA out as transgender, the director returns to her France | 90 min parents as she approaches her own wedding day From the awe-inspiring temples of Angkor MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS that River to ask how, against such high stakes, they made to the bustling streets of Phnom Penh, three D: Mo-young Jin | South Korea | 86 min their love last. generations of indigenous Bunong elephant A Korean husband and wife known as the “100- owners struggle against industrial development year-old lovebirds” inhabit a fairy-tale romance; Screening with to save these magnificent creatures at the heart but with love comes loss, and as death looms MY GAL, ROSEMARIE of their own and their people’s identity. over one, the other holds tightly, not ready to D: Jason Tippet | USA | 16 min let go. MON, APR 27 9:45 PM SCOTIA SUN, APR 26 9:30 PM ROM WED, APR 29 1:45 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 4:30 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 6:30 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 9:15 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 4:00 PM SCOTIA MON, APR 27 4:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 8:45 PM SCOTIA World Premiere World Premiere G aYBY Baby Milk International Premiere D: Maya Newell | Australia | 85 min D: Noemi Weis | Canada | 90 min Omo Child: The River In this moving and honest look into the lives A sweeping cinematic investigation across and the Bush of children of same-sex parents, the challenges of five continents into the politics of birthing and D: John Rowe | USA | 89 min navigating a world rife with gender stereotypes breastfeeding, Milk constellates debates about After witnessing the killing of a child as a youth, and homophobia weave into the routine struggles the medicalization of birth, midwifery and the and then learning of his two older sisters of just growing up. use—or abuse—of infant formula. who met the same fate, a young Ethiopian man is determined to one day stop his tribe’s horrific WED, APR 29 6:30 PM BADER MON, APR 27 6:30 PM BADER FRI, MAY 1 1:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 11:00 AM BADER custom of slaying “cursed” children. SAT, MAY 2 3:45 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 6:30 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 2:00 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 9:30 PM ROM
From This Day Forward GAYBY BABY
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International Premiere North American Premiere World Premiere On Her Own The Pawn Possessed by Djinn D: Morgan Schmidt-Feng | USA | 80 min D: Jean-Cosme Delaloye | Switzerland | 78 min D: Dalia Al Kury | Jordan, Germany | 75 min When her parents suddenly die, Nancy inherits Brutally kidnapped at 14, a young Guatemalan After a Jordanian man tragically kills his four- the fifth-generation family farm on the verge woman survives when many others do not. year-old daughter, convinced she is possessed of foreclosure, but with incredible strength and Now her family and those of other victims are by evil, the filmmaker launches a disturbing determination she risks it all—including family bravely fighting back and demanding justice investigation into a controversial Islamic belief bonds—to try and save her ancestral home. amidst a chilling climate of violence and impunity. in the supernatural forces of “djinn.”
Screening with TUE, APR 28 9:45 PM HART TUE, APR 28 6:00 PM ROM THE LAST SMALLHOLDER WED, APR 29 4:15 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 7:30 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 1:30 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 4:15 PM SCOTIA D: Francis Lee | UK | 9 min MON, APR 27 7:00 PM ROM International Premiere North American Premiere WED, APR 29 4:30 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 9:15 PM SCOTIA Peace Officer The Queen of Silence D: Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber | USA | 109 min D: Agnieszka Zwiefka | Germany, Poland | 80 min North American Premiere Thirty years after establishing Utah’s first SWAT Suffering severe hearing loss, a young Roma girl On the Bride’s Side team, a former sheriff looks on in horror as is an outcast in her community; but when she D: Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry, Gabriele Del Grande, that same unit kills his son-in-law in this timely discovers a Bollywood DVD in the trash, her dark Antonio Augugliaro | Italy | 98 min investigation of the controversies behind world transforms into an enchanted stage in this With elaborate planning and more than a little recent police shootings and the militarization extraordinary fairy-tale musical. nerve, a Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist of American law enforcement. help a group of refugees travel safely from Screening with Italy to Sweden, where they will seek asylum, MON, APR 27 7:00 PM SCOTIA HOW TO CROSS (FROM JILIZ TO JILIZ) TUE, APR 28 1:00 PM TBLB D: Sona Kocharyan, Marine Kocharyan | Armenia | by staging a fake wedding. THU, APR 30 1:15 PM BADER 15 min TUE, APR 28 8:30 PM ROM FRI, APR 24 7:00 PM ROM THU, APR 30 9:15 PM SCOTIA Pervert Park SAT, APR 25 5:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 12:45 PM TBLB D: Lasse Barkfors, Frida Barkfors | Sweden, Denmark FRI, MAY 1 1:15 PM BADER | 77 min North American Premiere World Premiere Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is On the Rim of the Sky home to 120 convicted sex offenders. With Radical Grace D: Hongjie Xu | Germany, China | 102 min unprecedented access, this Sundance winner D: Rebecca Parrish | USA | 80 min When a young idealist arrives with revolutionary exposes unspeakable acts and tragedies, From confronting bishops over the Affordable ideas for the children of a remote village and questions whether, even in this sheltered Care Act to protesting for women’s equality at on the edge of a lush cliff in China’s Sichuan community, freedom can, or should, exist. the Vatican, American nuns have bucked the province, conflict mounts between him and the hierarchy for decades by following a gospel of village’s veteran teacher. MON, APR 27 9:00 PM BADER love, social justice and inclusion to transform TUE, APR 28 3:45 PM TBLB their country and the Church. FRI, MAY 1 7:00 PM HART MON, APR 27 6:15 PM SCOTIA WED, APR 29 3:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 9:15 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 6:15 PM TBLB Portraits of a Search THU, APR 30 4:30 PM TBLB D: Alicia Calderón | Mexico | 67 min FRI, MAY 1 3:30 PM TBLB International Premiere As the Mexican drug wars rage on, thousands Over the Rainbow International Premiere of mothers ceaselessly search for their children D: Tara Fallaux | Netherlands | 39 min Sailing A Sinking Sea who’ve vanished in the senseless conflict. D: Olivia Wyatt | USA | 65 min Leny discovered her true sexual identity at 68, Choosing different paths, three brave mothers when she fell in love with another woman. Now confront the uncertainty of their inquiries The nomadic seafaring Moken of Myanmar in her 80s, she has adopted the gay lifestyle with in this powerful film. and Thailand keep their unique way of life alive urgency and pride—pushing determinedly through amidst the sweeping changes that encroach reminders of her failing body and past regrets. Screening with upon them. This immersive documentary paints POEM OF THE DAY a lush portrait of their daily practices and Screening with D: Youdid Kahveci | Germany | 29 min beliefs through traditional folklore and music. THE GNOMIST SAT, APR 25 9:45 PM SCOTIA D: Sharon Liese | USA | 20 min MON, APR 27 4:00 PM TBLB Screening with WED, APR 29 7:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 6:30 PM SCOTIA TERRITORY THU, APR 30 4:15 PM SCOTIA D: Eleanor Mortimer | UK | 17 min SUN, MAY 3 9:00 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 9:15 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 1:30 PM ROM FRI, MAY 1 7:15 PM ROM
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ON HER OWN THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
North American Premiere North American Premiere Those Who Feel the The Shore Break Strange Particles Fire Burning D: Ryley Grunenwald | South Africa | 90 min D: Denis Klebleev | Russia | 52 min D: Morgan Knibbe | Netherlands | 74 min On South Africa’s Wild Coast, two cousins Summer school on the beach might seem like Cameras literally fall overboard when a boat square off—one supports a shady mining a recipe for fun, but a young physics teacher smuggling undocumented people capsizes. proposal, while the other risks everything to struggles with finding his place as his quantum Swirling shots and stunning aerials assume one preserve her tribe’s land. As royal families are approach to the world baffles and sometimes drowned man’s soul in this experimental roving deposed and corrupt officials grandstand, who insults his peers and students. observation of refugees across Europe stuck will triumph in this provocative eco-exposé? between dreams and despair. Screening with FRI, APR 24 9:45 PM HART THE CONVERSATION SAT, APR 25 9:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, APR 25 1:30 PM ROM D: Anastasia Novikova | Russia | 21 min MON, APR 27 4:45 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 6:30 PM BADER WED, APR 29 9:15 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 3:45 PM HART FRI, MAY 1 3:45 PM TBLB World Premiere SUN, MAY 3 1:30 PM TBLB International Premiere Southern Rites Thought Crimes D: Gillian Laub | USA | 87 min North American Premiere D: Erin Lee Carr | USA | 80 min The Strongest Man After her photographs of Montgomery, Georgia’s Policeman Gil Valle secretly chatted online about D: Louise Hémon | France | 52 min racially segregated proms ignite a firestorm that kidnapping and eating women. He never touched force the town to finally integrate, the filmmaker From the mountains to the sea, one young anyone, yet “The Cannibal Cop” now faces a returns to find a controversial murder trial bodybuilder is relentless in his pursuit of physical life sentence. This sensational court thriller begs and historic election that expose the true pace perfection. Working jobs that utilize his strength a most prescient question: when does virtual of progress in America. to save lives, this gentle profile shows how a fantasy become criminal? man’s earnest dream can make him a superhero. WED, APR 29 6:45 PM HART Screening with THU, APR 30 2:00 PM TBLB Screening with FRI, MAY 1 7:00 PM FOX THE 414S: THE ORIGINAL TEENAGE HACKERS SAT, MAY 2 9:45 PM TBLB GIOVANNI AND THE WATER BALLET D: Michael T. Vollmann | USA | 12 min D: Astrid Bussink | Netherlands | 17 min FRI, APR 24 9:30 PM SCOTIA TUE, APR 28 9:30 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 3:15 PM TBLB Spartacus & Cassandra THU, APR 30 9:15 PM TBLB THU, APR 30 4:15 PM TBLB D: Ioanis Nuguet | France | 81 min SUN, MAY 3 6:30 PM TBLB Two Roma children find belonging under the big Toto and His Sisters International Premiere top when a young trapezist takes them under D: Alexander Nanau | Romania | 93 min her wing. But when the circus folds, they must T-Rex While their mother is imprisoned, young Toto and choose between the custody of their indigent D: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper | USA | 86 min his teenaged sisters strive to raise themselves in parents or that of the French state. Seventeen years old, African American and poor, this raw and astonishing look at drug abuse, lost “T-Rex” knows a gold medal in women’s boxing at Screening with innocence, and the dawning realization of a world 2012 Olympics is her only chance of escaping family Treasure Island of possibilities beyond a Bucharest slum. drama and a dead-end town. Get knocked out by the D: Melissa Langer, Elizabeth Lo | USA | 7 min hype and hypocrisy of the celebrity sports industry. FRI, APR 24 9:45 PM ROM SUN, APR 26 7:00 PM ROM SAT, APR 25 4:30 PM SCOTIA TUE, APR 28 4:15 PM TBLB FRI, APR 24 4:15 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 9:00 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 1:30 PM BADER SAT, APR 25 3:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 2:00 PM FOX
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World Premiere International Premiere North American Premiere Unbranded Uncertain W arriORS From the North D: Phillip Baribeau | USA | 105 min D: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands | USA | 81 min D: Søren Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah | Denmark Four young men embark upon an adventure of The tiny town of Uncertain, Texas, is the unlikely | 58 min a lifetime. Traversing desert to mountain, they setting for this arrestingly beautiful Southern This complex and multilayered story of a father ride over 3000 miles from Mexico to Canada on Gothic tale of three men grappling with their desperately trying to make contact with his son adopted wild mustangs—a journey once a reality demons—all under the quiet threat of their water who has joined al-Shabaab offers chilling insight for western frontiersmen. supply being choked by an aquatic weed. into what fuels the current trend of Western Muslim youth joining radical groups abroad. SAT, APR 25 9:45 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 9:00 PM SCOTIA SUN, APR 26 1:15 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 7:15 PM TBLB Screening with SUN, MAY 3 10:30 AM BLOOR SAT, MAY 2 6:00 PM TBLB MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER D: Ann Shin | Canada | 18 min FRI, APR 24 4:45 PM SCOTIA SUN, APR 26 11:30 AM ROM FRI, MAY 1 9:45 PM SCOTIA
MADE IN INDIA
Placebo North American Premiere D: Abhay Kumar | India | 96 min The Superstars of Koti A moment of transitory madness that nearly D: Anuj Adlakha, Farha Alam | India | 75 min cost a student their arm sparks this surreal High in the Himalayas, three boys are united as exploration of life inside India’s most “chosen ones” by the local ancient deity. This prestigious medical school: a place where coming-of-age tale sees them navigate outside isolation and intense academic pressure often influences, social conditioning and their own drive students to despair. identity issues carrying the weight of a god on their shoulders. THU, APR 30 6:15 PM SCOTIA FRI, MAY 1 6:15 PM SCOTIA Screening with Journey with Prabhat IMRAAN, C/O CARROM CLUB World Premiere D: Udita Bhargava | Germany, India | 14 min World Premiere A Sinner in Mecca SUN, APR 26 9:00 PM SCOTIA English India D: Parvez Sharma | Saudi Arabia, India, USA | 80 min TUE, APR 28 1:30 PM SCOTIA D: Spandan Banerjee | India | 75 min A devout gay Muslim man living in New York With stunning visuals, this creative travelogue risks his life on a perilous pilgrimage to visits India’s big cities and small tourist towns, Mecca, hoping to find the answer to a burning exploring the nation’s history through the once- question: is it possible for someone like him robust community of tour guides who have to be a good Muslim? been rendered jobless with the advent of audio guides and apps. WED, APR 29 6:45 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 2:00 PM ROM Screening with SAT, MAY 2 12:00 PM TBLB PANCHAGAVYA D: Hana Kitasei, Shriya Pilgaonkar | India, USA | 15 min North American Premiere TUE, APR 28 6:45 PM TBLB Small Things, Big Things WED, APR 29 1:45 PM SCOTIA D: Saumyananda Sahi | India | 67 min A Sinner in Mecca Education is experiential for children attending North American Premiere the alternative Sita School in a small Indian Journey with Prabhat village. A year in the life of the students and D: Samarth Dixit, Jessica Sadana | India | 89 min teachers showcases its holistic approach Established in 1929, the legendary Prabhat to learning that emphasizes creativity and Film Company broke boundaries, made national social interaction. stars and gave India a film industry lauded by international audiences. This nostalgic ode Screening with shines the spotlight on those pioneers, paying SILENT VOICES tribute to the origins and art of cinema. D: Pritha Chakraborty | India | 26 min SAT, APR 25 6:30 PM INNIS FRI, APR 24 2:30 PM SCOTIA MON, APR 27 3:45 PM SCOTIA SUN, APR 26 4:00 PM INNIS SUN, MAY 3 4:30 PM SCOTIA THE SUPERSTARS OF KOTI
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SCREEN ON SCREEN Showcasing the power of cinema ORIGINAL COPY
International Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Beaver Trilogy Part IV Lanzmann Original Copy D: Brad Besser | USA | 84 min D: Adam Benzine | UK, Canada | 40 min D: Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Georg Heinzen | Germany A chance meeting in 1979 between a filmmaker On the eve of its 30th anniversary, the filmmaker | 95 min and a charming young man, who moonlights behind landmark Holocaust documentary Shoah Bollywood stars shine larger than life in the in drag as Olivia Newton-Don, grew into reflects on suicidal thoughts, death threats, political one-of-a-kind film posters hand painted underground classic The Beaver Trilogy—but pressure and even a severe beating endured to by Mumbai’s last screen painter, but as his the film itself is only part of the adventure. fulfill creation of his 10-hour masterpiece. workshop is threatened by demolition and his livelihood by plastic posters, he fights SUN, APR 26 9:00 PM TBLB Screening with to pass on his craft. MON, APR 27 1:30 PM TBLB POSITIVE SUN, MAY 3 12:30 PM TBLB D: Polina Kelm | Ukraine | 29 min SUN, APR 26 6:30 PM INNIS SAT, APR 25 9:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 28 12:30 PM ROM Chuck Norris vs Communism TUE, APR 28 5:00 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 6:00 PM SCOTIA D: Ilinca Calugareanu | UK, Germany, Romania FRI, MAY 1 6:30 PM INNIS | 81 min International Premiere Raiders! In Communist Romania of the 1980s, Listen to Me Marlon D: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen | USA | 104 min ordinary citizens risked arrest and imprisonment D: Stevan Riley | UK | 102 min to secure bootlegged copies of Hollywood Legendary actor Marlon Brando recounts his life In 1982, two young friends started a blockbusters. Hear the stories of these Stallone- through his private audio tapes in this beautifully shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost loving, dictatorship-toppling movie fans. crafted and highly artistic portrait that allows Ark. After seven years, they finished all the viewer inside the mind of the elusive and but one scene—until now. Twenty-five years SAT, APR 25 9:30 PM HART acclaimed movie icon. and one jaw-dropping twist of fate MON, APR 27 4:00 PM TBLB reunite them for this unmissable final take. THU, APR 30 4:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 26 9:45 PM BLOOR TUE, APR 28 2:15 PM BADER SUN, APR 26 9:30 PM HART North American Premiere FRI, MAY 1 10:30 AM BADER TUE, APR 28 4:00 PM TBLB Filming Obstinately, Meeting SUN, MAY 3 6:45 PM REGENT SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM REVUE Patricio Guzmán D: Boris Nicot | France | 98 min This revealing portrait of acclaimed filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, recipient of this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award, takes the viewer on an intimate journey of his life’s work in the shadow of Chile’s tumultuous past.
MON, APR 27 9:30 PM ROM WED, APR 29 12:30 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 8:30 PM INNIS
Listen to Me Marlon
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Sam Klemke’s Time Machine THE WOLFPACK International Premiere D: Matthew Bate | Australia | 89 min D: Crystal Moselle | USA | 86 min A Woman Like Me In 1977, 17-year-old Sam Klemke began to Six bright teenage brothers have spent their D: Alex Sichel, Elizabeth Giamatti | USA | 84 min document his life, recording updates annually. entire lives locked away from society in a When filmmaker Alex Sichel is diagnosed with Travel through time with over 35 years of Manhattan housing project. All they know of the terminal cancer, her survival instinct resorts personal footage in this intimate and revealing outside is gleaned from the movies they watch to storytelling, conjuring a fictitious version of portrait of a man trying to make sense of obsessively (and recreate meticulously). Yet as herself, played by Lili Taylor, to navigate her it all. adolescence looms, they dream of escape, ever tumultuous journey in this exceptionally creative, more urgently, into the beckoning world. funny and moving documentary-drama hybrid. SAT, APR 25 9:45 PM ROM MON, APR 27 3:30 PM TBLB FRI, APR 24 6:30 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 7:30 PM SCOTIA THU, APR 30 8:45 PM TBLB SUN, APR 26 4:00 PM SCOTIA MON, APR 27 1:00 PM BADER SUN, MAY 3 3:15 PM TBLB
Show Me the Funny Celebrating comedians and the art of comedy
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live D: Roger Graef, James Rogan | UK | 92 min Go backstage with the Python troupe as they prepare for their first live performance in 35 years. With never-before-seen footage, candid backstage interviews and new musical numbers, this show will please any fan and convert any uninitiated.
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live MON, APR 27 6:30 PM BLOOR TUE, APR 28 11:30 AM BADER INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE International Premiere SAT, MAY 2 9:00 PM FOX SUN, MAY 3 4:00 PM BLOOR 3 STILL STANDING Drunk Stoned Brilliant D: Robert Campos, Donna LoCicero | USA | 90 min Dead: The Story of the OPENING NIGHT FILM— Three stand-up comics are joined by National Lampoon INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE contemporaries Dana Carvey and Robin Williams D: Douglas Tirola | USA | 93 min Tig in this hilarious and moving look at success, With audacity and verve, the National D: Kristina Goolsby, Ashley York | USA | 95 min 30 years after making their start in the comedy Lampoon magazine became America’s top In 2012, comedian Tig Notaro took to the hotbed of 1980s San Francisco. humour publication, casting a wide cultural net stage and opened her act with “Good evening, and launching the careers of many comedy I have cancer.” A testament to her defiant WED, APR 29 7:00 PM TBLB THU, APR 30 9:00 PM TBLB legends including John Belushi, Chevy Chase spirit and incredible humour in the face of SAT, MAY 2 1:00 PM HART and Bill Murray. adversity, Tig follows the year after her groundbreaking set. International Premiere TUE, APR 28 9:45 PM BLOOR Committed WED, APR 29 3:15 PM HART THU, APR 23 9:45 PM BLOOR* SAT, MAY 2 9:45 PM BLOOR FRI, APR 24 6:00 PM BLOOR** D: Howie Mandel, Reed Grinsell, Steve Sunshine SUN, MAY 3 7:00 PM TBLB | USA | 63 min International Premiere * Opening Night screening, p. 5 Aspiring performer Vic Cohen talked his way Live From New York! ** Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4 into comedian Howie Mandel’s life. Charmed D: Bao Nguyen | USA | 90 min by Cohen’s determination to find his creative Lorne Michaels couldn’t have guessed that his path, Mandel begins shooting him for 13 years, little sketch comedy experiment would become capturing a fearless struggle not only to America’s highest temple of comedy. Saturday make it in show business, but in life. Night Live alumni Chase, Curtain, Newman, Samberg, Poehler and countless more, reflect SAT, APR 25 6:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 26 11:00 AM TBLB on 40 years of television magic. SAT, MAY 2 9:30 PM HART WED, APR 29 9:30 PM BLOOR THU, APR 30 7:15 PM TBLB
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International Premiere International Premiere International Premiere As I AM: The Life and Times For the Record Lveo Between the Covers of DJ AM D: Marc Greenberg | USA | 68 min D: Laurie Kahn | USA | 84 min D: Kevin Kerslake | USA | 95 min Court reporters, live captioners and CART A guilty pleasure or a disparaged art form? This moving and fascinating portrait of pioneer providers strive for the world speed record in Romance fiction outsells all other genres DJ AM takes us through his meteoric rise court reporting in this fascinating look at the combined, yet its largely female authors and to stardom, long-time battle with addiction, world of the stenographer, the “keepers of the readers are derided—until now! Nora Roberts dedication to recovery and miraculous plane record” from the Nuremberg trials to 9/11. and other titans confront the sexism and crash survival less than a year before his stereotypes of this multi-billion dollar industry. untimely death. MON, APR 27 9:45 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 1:00 PM HART SAT, APR 25 9:00 PM BADER SUN, MAY 3 11:00 AM BADER SUN, APR 26 4:15 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 8:00 PM ROYAL FRI, MAY 1 9:30 PM FOX SUN, APR 26 6:15 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 3:15 PM ROYAL How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock World Premiere International Premiere in Normandy Magic Island Best of Enemies D: Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht | USA | 64 min D: Marco Amenta | Italy, France | 85 min D: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville | USA | 87 min When documentary film giants Les Blank In 2005, acclaimed character actor Vincent When ABC News hired archenemies Gore Vidal and Richard Leacock convene in Leacock’s Schiavelli (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and William F. Buckley Jr to cover the 1968 kitchen, the conversation is sprightly and the Amadeus) died in his family’s Sicilian village. Ten Republican and Democratic National Conventions, food delicious. The two friends reveal their years later, his estranged son returns to collect their intellectual and personal mudslinging not recipes for good living and great filmmaking. a surprise inheritance and confronts unexpected only revolutionized TV news, but the shape of feelings in this lyrical study of family ties. American political discourse. Screening with FAKE FRUIT FACTORY WED, APR 29 9:30 PM ROM THU, APR 30 9:00 PM SCOTIA FRI, APR 24 7:00 PM TBLB D: Chick Strand | 1986 | 22 min SUN, MAY 3 6:00 PM ROYAL SUN, APR 26 3:15 PM BADER SAT, APR 25 4:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 26 4:30 PM TBLB World Premiere International Premiere SUN, MAY 3 4:00 PM TBLB Breaking a Monster Missing People D: David Shapiro | USA | 80 min D: Luke Meyer | USA | 93 min IT’S ME, HILARY: THE MAN WHO Mixing metal and speed punk, the talented DREW ELOISE An enigmatic New York curator investigates her brother’s long-unsolved murder while obsessing Brooklyn seventh-graders behind the D: Matt Wolf | USA | 34 min over the violent work and life of an outsider artist band Unlocking the Truth skyrocket to fame A deep friendship was struck between the when their video goes viral, but can these from New Orleans, but her quest for answers artist behind the beloved Eloise children’s leads to mysteries long buried. adolescents manoeuvre the music industry series and Lena Dunham, a long-time admirer— and emerge unscathed? as evidenced by her Eloise tattoo! Together Screening with they chronicle his life and work in this delightful MEND AND MAKE DO SUN, APR 26 7:00 PM HART MON, APR 27 4:30 PM TBLB and loving documentary. D: Bexie Bush | UK | 8 min SAT, MAY 2 4:00 PM REVUE FRI, APR 24 7:00 PM SCOTIA Screening with SAT, APR 25 11:30 AM TBLB THE 100 YEARS SHOW FRI, MAY 1 9:15 PM HART D: Alison Klayman | USA | 29 min TUE, APR 28 7:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 29 4:15 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 4:15 PM TBLB
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International Premiere Seth’s Dominion International Premiere Nicola Costantino: D: Luc Chamberland | Canada | 42 min Thank You For Playing The Artefacta Made over eight years, this award-winning trip into D: Malika Zouhali-Worrall, David Osit | USA | 77 min D: Natalie Cristiani | Argentina | 75 min the imagination of Canadian cartoonist dubbed When a four-year-old boy is diagnosed with In this stunning and artistically crafted “Seth” combines animation and stylized live action terminal cancer, his father begins working on a new portrait of Nicola Costantino—Latin America’s to imitate the artist’s comic book aesthetic. kind of video game to honour the life of his son: a most controversial and admired visual artist profound and immersive virtual experience of hope. Screening with —audiences become completely submersed in her work as she prepares to represent Argentina I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!! TUE, APR 28 6:15 PM TBLB D: Charlie Tyrell | Canada | 13 min WED, APR 29 4:00 PM BADER in the Venice Biennale 2013. SAT, MAY 2 2:15 PM TBLB FRI, APR 24 8:45 PM TBLB Screening with SAT, APR 25 1:00 PM ROYAL THU, APR 30 9:45 PM SCOTIA BERNICE They Will Have to Kill Us First D: Kristina Sorge | USA | 29 min D: Johanna Schwartz | UK | 105 min SAT, APR 25 7:00 PM ROM S tAY Awhile Under threat of torture and death, musicians SUN, APR 26 3:30 PM SCOTIA D: Jessica Edwards | Canada | 71 min fight to keep their songs alive in northern FRI, MAY 1 6:00 PM TBLB One of Canada’s first-ever musical sensations Mali where Jihadists have ruled with a strict to crack the American market, 70s pop group interpretation of Sharia law since 2012. International Premiere The Bells is the focus of this intimate and loving Rolling Papers portrait, directed by the daughter of the group’s SUN, APR 26 6:30 PM SCOTIA D: Mitch Dickman | USA | 79 min TUE, APR 28 3:30 PM HART two principals. THU, APR 30 3:30 PM HART When Colorado legalized marijuana, the Screening with Denver Post hired the world’s first marijuana International Premiere HOME COOKED MUSIC editor. Sit back as he and his pot reviewers, T ransFaTTY Lives D: Mike Maryniuk | Canada | 10 min “high” mommy bloggers and grass-preneurs D: Patrick O’Brien | USA | 84 min roll establishment and counter-cultures FRI, APR 24 9:30 PM BLOOR into a strange new canni-business. SAT, APR 25 3:00 PM ROYAL Patrick O’Brien aka TransFatty, a New York DJ, SUN, MAY 3 3:45 PM HART internet personality and filmmaker, views Screening with his ALS diagnosis as “enlightenment by shotgun” DEAR ARAUCARIA and turns his world upside down to document D: Matt Houghton | UK | 9 min the changes it brings, all with humour and an FRI, APR 24 7:00 PM HART artist’s eye. SUN, APR 26 1:45 PM ROM SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM BLOOR WED, APR 29 9:15 PM HART FRI, MAY 1 9:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 2 6:30 PM TBLB
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NIGHTVISION Future Cult Classics
THE NIGHTMARE
The Barkley Marathons: INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Orion: The Man Who Would The Race That Eats Its Young Finders Keepers Be King D: Timothy Kane, Annika Iltis | USA | 90 min D: Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel | USA | 82 min D: Jeanie Finlay | UK | 87 min With a secret application process, unknown start When an enterprising entrepreneur inadvertently Thrust into the spotlight by a crazy scheme time and an ever-changing course, each year buys a human foot at an auction, he fashions it concocted after The King’s death, an obscure the Barkley Marathons tempt runners to rural into an unlikely tourist attraction. But when the singer skyrockets to fame masquerading as Elvis Tennessee to test their limits in a gruelling original owner lays claim to his errant extremity, resurrected, but seeking success on his own trail race that’s seen only 10 competitors finish a stranger-than-fiction and larger-than-life legal terms, he quickly discovers his golden voice has in 25 years. battle ensues. become his curse.
Screening with Screening with TUE, APR 28 7:00 PM SCOTIA BORN TO BE MILD SPEARHUNTER THU, APR 30 4:30 PM SCOTIA SUN, MAY 3 8:45 PM ROYAL D: Andy Oxley | UK | 15 min D: Luke Poling, Adam Roffman | USA | 14 min FRI, APR 24 6:30 PM BADER SAT, APR 25 3:30 PM HART SUN, APR 26 4:15 PM ROM MON, APR 27 7:00 PM HART The Visit SAT, MAY 2 3:45 PM BLOOR SUN, MAY 3 7:45 PM REVUE D: Michael Madsen | Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway | 85 min The Creeping Garden International Premiere The Nightmare What happens if intelligent alien life lands on D: Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp | UK | 82 min Earth? You will be glad to know the UN Office for D: Rodney Ascher | USA | 91 min Take a psychedelic science-non-fiction plunge Outer Space Affairs has a team ready for extra- into the world of plasmodial slime moulds—a Director Rodney Ascher (Room 237) crafts a real- terrestrial contact. See a rare simulation of their rare organism that moves like a plant/animal life documentary horror film that asks viewers to response scenario in this cinematic gem. hybrid—and the fascinating people who study drift off into the phenomenon of sleep paralysis and collaborate with them. A vibrant cinematic and the waking reality of those who suffer from WED, APR 29 6:30 PM TBLB visits from the shadow men. THU, APR 30 1:00 PM HART cabinet of curiosities! FRI, MAY 1 9:30 PM TBLB MON, APR 27 9:45 PM HART FRI, APR 24 9:45 PM SCOTIA TUE, APR 28 1:15 PM TBLB SAT, APR 25 2:30 PM SCOTIA SAT, MAY 2 9:15 PM REVUE SAT, MAY 2 8:45 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 3 9:30 PM TBLB
International Premiere The Cult of JT Leroy D: Marjorie Sturm | USA | 90 min By captivating readers with stories of his traumatic childhood, JT LeRoy was catapulted to literary fame at age 19 and earned a fiercely devoted celebrity following, but lurking just beneath the pages was a secret that would explode into a scandal.
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The VISIT
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FOCUS ON CAROLE Laganière
E aST End Kids The Moon and the Violin D: Carole Laganière | Canada | 2004 | 52 min D: Carole Laganière | Canada | 2003 | 65 min In this Hot Docs award winner, Laganière There’s no business like show business in revisits the low-income neighbourhood this award-winning film about a retirement of her youth and arms young people with community for artists. Often funny, cameras to document their lives and reveal sometimes bittersweet, the residents reflect their hopes for their future. on their successes, failures and lives lived with creativity and passion. Screening with E aST End Forever SAT, MAY 2 9:00 PM INNIS Some Farewells D: Carole Laganière | Canada | 2011 | 80 min Some Farewells Eight years after East End Kids, Laganière The Fiancee of Life D: Carole Laganière | Canada, Argentina | 2014 catches up with its subjects to recollect D: Carole Laganière | Canada | 2001 | 52 min the dreams they once shared onscreen and | 63 min With a delicate touch, Laganière bravely to trace to unexpected paths their lives In a small Quebec hospital, patients smoke provides a space for children who have lost have taken. cigarettes, sleep under the stars and reap a parent or sibling to speak honestly, and the benefits of a novel approach to palliative often profoundly, on their feelings about death. FRI, APR 24 3:00 PM TBLB care that treats the facility like a home and the patients like family. THU, APR 30 2:30 PM TBLB
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REDUX Films that Deserve Another Outing ON THE BIG SCREEN
GRASS: A NATION’S BATTLE Pleasant Street FOR LIFE D: Gerry Rogers | Canada | 2004 | 60 min D: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | USA In picturesque St. John’s, Newfoundland, three | 1925 | 71 min friends are forced to face their mortality when In 1924, the makers of King Kong teamed up they are diagnosed with cancer. This award- with journalist and sometime-spy Marguerite winning firsthand work from the director Harrison to document the twice-yearly migration behind My Left Breast chronicles their funny, of over 50,000 people and half a million animals gut-wrenching and inspiring stories. by the Bakhtiari tribe of what was then Persia. FRI, APR 24 6:45 PM TBLB ARAYA FRI, APR 24 4:30 PM ROM A rAYA Pleasure at Her Majesty’s D: Margot Benacerraf | Venezuela, France | 1959 News From Home D: Roger Graef | UK | 1976 | 85 min | 82 min D: Chantal Akerman | France, Belgium | 1977 | 85 min Peek behind the curtain as Monty Python, Peter A rarely seen and recently restored masterpiece, New York circa 1976 is famed filmmaker Chantal Cook, Alan Bennett and other leading British Margot Benacerraf’s poetic film portrays a day Akerman’s visual backdrop for the letters from comedians come together in 1976 for the first in the life of three families living and working her mother since relocating to the city in this of what would become the groundbreaking in one of the harshest places on earth: Araya, visual time capsule and poetic exploration of Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. distance, alienation and disconnection. FRI, APR 24 11:00 AM BLOOR SAT, APR 25 11:00 AM ROM SUN, MAY 3 9:00 PM INNIS
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RETROSPECTIVE HONOURING Patricio Guzmán Nostalgia for the Light
THE BATTLE OF CHILE Nostalgia for the Light Ronobins Crusoe Island D: Patricio Guzmán | Chile, Cuba, France | 1975, D: Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France, Germany, Spain, D: Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 1999 | 41 min 1976, 1979 | 263 min USA | 2010 | 90 min Guzmán embarks on a journey to the real island Widely regarded as one of the best In this contemplative exploration of the quest on which Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked, documentaries ever made, this three-part for the unknown, astronomers gaze at the where he discovers the truth behind a legend, epic following Chile’s popular revolution stars from observatories in Chile’s Atacama the beauty of adventure and the interweaving and eventual coup d’état is a vital historic Desert, while women search the sands of two very different odysseys. document that captures the spirit of the below for remnants of their loved ones who Chilean people. “disappeared” under Pinochet. Screening with MY JULES VERNE FRI, APR 24 10:15 AM BADER THU, APR 30 3:30 PM TBLB D: Patricio Guzmán | France, Canada | 2005 | 56 min In this exploration of his literary hero, Chile, Obstinate Memory THE PINOCHET CASE Guzmán captures the iconic author’s spirit of D: Patricio Guzmán | Canada, France | 1997 | 59 min D: Patricio Guzmán | France, Chile, Belgium, Spain storytelling and adventure through his far- Returning to Chile after a 23-year absence, | 2001 | 109 min reaching influence on contemporary explorers Guzmán uses The Battle of Chile as a catalyst Following events in the months after charting the centre of the earth and the far for discussing the country’s turbulent past Pinochet’s arrest in London, Guzmán captures reaches of outer space. with those lived through it, and explores the the intricacies of the Chilean dictator’s devastating impact of decades of imposed- arraignment on charges of crimes against SAT, APR 25 12:00 PM TBLB and self-censorship. humanity—the first such case against a leader since the Nuremberg trials. SAT, MAY 2 6:45 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 1 2:00 PM ROM
T he BaTTLE OF Chile Nostalgia for the Light
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SPECIAL EVENTS SHOW ME THE FUNNY BADER Isabel Bader Theatre REGENT The Regent SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS NEXT BLOOR Bloor Hot Docs Cinema REVUE The Revue CANADIAN SPECTRUM NIGHTVISION FOX Fox Theatre ROM ROM Theatre INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM FOCUS ON CAROLE LAGANèRE HART Hart House Theatre ROYAL The Royal Cinema WORLD SHOWCASE REDUX INNIS Innis Town Hall SCOTIA Scotiabank Theatre Toronto MADE IN INDIA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RETROSPECTIVE KWAY Kingsway Theatre TBLB TIFF Bell Lightbox SCREEN ON SCREEN
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ACTIVISM Nuestro Monte Luna 11 FAMILIES & FAMILY STORIES INDIGENOUS CULTURES & ISSUES TransFatty Lives 22 Fractured Land 10 The Queen of Silence 16 All the Time in the World 10 Daughter of the Lake 12 A Woman Like Me 20 Hadwin’s Judgement 15 Small Things, Big Things 18 Araya 24 Fractured Land 10 MUSIC & MUSICIANS How to Change the World 7 Spartacus & Cassandra 17 Beyond the Fear 14 Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life 24 Around the World in 50 Concerts 6 Indian Point 7 Strange Particles 17 Blood Sisters 12 Hadwin’s Judgement 15 As I AM: The Life and Times On the Bride’s Side 16 The Superstars of Koti 18 The Circus Dynasty 6 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of DJ AM 21 The Pawn 16 T-Rex 17 The Closer We Get 12 of the World 10 Breaking a Monster 21 Peace Officer 16 Toto and His Sisters 17 Deprogrammed 10 Last of the Elephant Men 15 Finding Macpherson 10 Radical Grace 16 Tuk-tuk 13 Drawing the Tiger 12 Omo Child: The River and the Bush 15 Hot Sugar’s Cold World 13 ADDICTION & DRUGS The Wolfpack 20 The Fiancee of Life 24 Sailing a Sinking Sea 16 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 7 As I AM: The Life and Times COMEDY & COMEDIANS Finders Keepers 23 JEWISH INTEREST Lowdown Tracks 10 of DJ AM 21 3 Still Standing 20 For Grace 14 Beyond the Fear 14 Mavis! 8 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 7 Being Canadian 6 Gayby Baby 15 Censored Voices 14 Music Lessons 8 Mom and Me 11 Committed 20 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 Lanzmann 19 Orion: The Man Who Would Be King 23 Portraits of a Search 16 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Magic Island 21 Mussa 15 Shoulder the Lion 13 Rolling Papers 22 Story of the National Lampoon 20 On Her Own 16 Songs of Freedom 5 Spartacus & Cassandra 17 JOURNALISM & THE MEDIA Toto and His Sisters 17 Live From New York! 20 The Amina Profile 10 Stay Awhile 22 Monty Python: The Meaning Thank You for Playing 22 Strangers With Patrick Watson 5 AFRICAN CULTURES & ISSUES T-Rex 17 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans Chameleon 10 of Live 20 and the Last Nazi War Crime 6 Sweet Micky for President 8 Pleasure at Her Majesty’s 24 Warriors From the North 18 They Will Have to Kill Us First 22 Democrats 6 Western 9 Best of Enemies 21 Elephant’s Dream 14 Tig 20 The Bolivian Case 6 What Happened, Miss Simone? 9 Leaving Africa 13 CRIME & PUNISHMENT FILM & FILMMAKERS Chameleon 10 MYSTERY & INTRIGUE Mussa 15 The Arms Drop 6 Beaver Trilogy Part IV 19 Finders Keepers 23 The Arms Drop 6 Omo Child: The River and the Bush 15 Beyond the Fear 14 Chuck Norris vs Communism 19 Foodies 7 Chameleon 10 The Shore Break 17 The Bolivian Case 6 Filming Obstinately, Meeting Frame by Frame 15 Missing People 21 Songs of Freedom 5 Chameleon 10 Patricio Guzmán 19 Rolling Papers 22 The Visit 23 How to Smell a Rose: A Visit They Will Have to Kill Us First 22 Deep Web 6 LABOUR & WORKING PEOPLE PERFORMANCE & PERFORMERS Deprogrammed 10 with Ricky Leacock in Normandy 21 AGING & THE ELDERLY Journey with Prabhat 18 Araya 24 The Circus Dynasty 6 3 Still Standing 20 (Dis)Honesty—The Truth Danny 6 Jesus Town USA 10 About Lies 14 Lanzmann 19 Leaving Africa 13 The Last Mogul 8 Elephant’s Dream 14 Listen to Me Marlon 19 Mavis! 8 Dreamcatcher 7 The Living Fire 13 Magic Island 21 For the Record 21 Listen to Me Marlon 19 The Moon and the Violin 24 Original Copy 19 Transatlantic 11 The Moon and the Violin 24 My Love Don’t Cross That River 15 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 Tuk-tuk 13 Paris is Burning 8 Missing People 21 Raiders! 19 Over the Rainbow 16 Sam Klemke’s Time Machine 20 LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES Spartacus & Cassandra 17 Some Farewells 24 No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story 11 Stand by for Tape Back-up 13 & ISSUES PERSONAL HISTORIES ANIMALS The Pawn 16 The Wolfpack 20 Araya 24 The Closer We Get 12 Last of the Elephant Men 15 Peace Officer 16 A Woman Like Me 20 The Battle of Chile 25 Committed 20 The Messenger 11 Pervert Park 16 FOOD & AGRICULTURE The Bolivian Case 6 From This Day Forward 15 Nuestro Monte Luna 11 Pinocchio 11 Foodies 7 Chile, Obstinate Memory 25 Mom and Me 11 Unbranded 18 The Pinochet Case 25 For Grace 14 Daughter of the Lake 12 News From Home 24 ART & ARTISTS Possessed by Djinn 16 Milk 15 Filming Obstinately, Meeting Pinocchio 11 Finding Macpherson 10 Southern Rites 17 On Her Own 16 Patricio Guzmán 19 Pleasant Street 24 It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who (T)ERROR 9 Sugar Coated 11 Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta 22 Sam Klemke’s Time Machine 20 Nostalgia for the Light 25 Stand by for Tape Back-up 13 Drew Eloise 21 Thought Crimes 17 GENDER & SEXUALITY Missing People 21 Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle 9 Nuestro Monte Luna 11 Stay Awhile 22 Leaving Africa 13 The Pawn 16 TransFatty Lives 22 Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta 22 DISABILITY & PEOPLE Exotica, Erotica, Etc. 12 Original Copy 19 The Pinochet Case 25 A Woman Like Me 20 WITH DISABILITIES From This Day Forward 15 Portraits of a Search 16 Seth’s Dominion 22 Doglegs 14 Pervert Park 16 PHOTOGRAPHY & Shoulder the Lion 13 Sweet Micky for President 8 PHOTOGRAPHERS The Queen of Silence 16 The Sandwich Nazi 11 Western 9 BOOKS & WRITERS Shoulder the Lion 13 The Strongest Man 17 Frame by Frame 15 Best of Enemies 21 TransFatty Lives 22 LGBT CULTURES & ISSUES Southern Rites 17 HEALTH & MENTAL HEALTH The Amina Profile 10 The Cult of JT LeRoy 23 EAST ASIAN CULTURES & ISSUES A Woman Like Me 20 POLITICS & POLITICAL INTRIGUE For the Record 21 From This Day Forward 15 The Arms Drop 6 Doglegs 14 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans Gayby Baby 15 It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Double Happiness 14 and the Last Nazi War Crime 6 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans Drew Eloise 21 It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who and the Last Nazi War Crime 6 Gayby Baby 15 Blood Sisters 12 Drew Eloise 21 Love Between the Covers 21 Highrise: Universe Within Live 5 Deprogrammed 10 The Battle of Chile 25 My Jules Verne 25 News From Home 24 Best of Enemies 21 My Love Don’t Cross That River 15 Every Last Child 7 Out to Win 8 Robinson Crusoe Island 25 On the Rim of the Sky 16 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 Beyond the Fear 14 Seth’s Dominion 22 Over the Rainbow 16 Chile, Obstinate Memory 25 EASTERN EUROPEAN CULTURES & Lowdown Tracks 10 Paris is Burning 8 CANADIAN STORIES Milk 15 Danny 6 ISSUES A Sinner in Mecca 18 Democrats 6 Being Canadian 6 Chuck Norris vs Communism 19 Pinocchio 11 Tig 20 Danny 6 Placebo 18 Indian Point 7 The Living Fire 13 OVE & RELATIONSHIPS The The Pinochet Case 25 A Different Drummer: The Queen of Silence 16 Pleasant Street 24 Celebrating Eccentrics 7 Some Farewells 24 Amina Profile 10 The Shore Break 17 Strange Particles 17 The Circus Dynasty 6 Southern Rites 17 Hadwin’s Judgement 15 Toto and His Sisters 17 Sugar Coated 11 How to Change the World 7 Thank You for Playing 22 The Closer we get 12 Sweet Micky for President 8 Lowdown Tracks 10 ECOLOGY & THE ENVIRONMENT Tig 20 Exotica, Erotica, Etc. 12 (T)ERROR 9 Mom and Me 11 All the Time in the World 10 TransFatty Lives 22 From This Day Forward 15 The Visit 23 Daughter of the Lake 12 My Love, Don’t Cross That River 15 War of Lies 9 Music Lessons 8 IMMIGRATION, The Sandwich Nazi 11 Fractured Land 10 MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES & POPULAR CULTURE Hadwin’s Judgement 15 MULTICULTURALISM & RACE Stay Awhile 22 The Bolivian Case 6 ISSUES 3 Still Standing 20 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge The Amina Profile 10 As I AM: The Life and Times CAPITALISM & BIG BUSINESS of the World 10 Double Happiness 14 Daughter of the Lake 12 Finding Macpherson 10 Blood Sisters 12 of DJ AM 21 How to Change the World 7 Censored Voices 14 Beaver Trilogy Part IV 19 Double Happiness 14 Indian Point 7 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 Fractured Land 10 Mavis! 8 Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life 24 Being Canadian 6 Last of the Elephant Men 15 On the Bride’s Side 16 Best of Enemies 21 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge The Messenger 11 Mussa 15 of the World 10 On the Bride’s Side 16 Possessed by Djinn 16 The Cult of JT LeRoy 23 Planetary 8 A Sinner in Mecca 18 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Indian Point 7 Polar Sea 360 5 Southern Rites 17 Milk 15 Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 17 Speed Sisters 11 Story of the National Lampoon 20 Sailing a Sinking Sea 16 Tuk-tuk 13 Foodies 7 Sugar Coated 11 The Shore Break 17 Warriors From the North 18 The Shore Break 17 Welcome to Leith 9 War of Lies 9 Hot Sugar’s Cold World 13 Transatlantic 11 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 7 CHILDREN & YOUTH Western 9 ORTALITY EDUCATION What Happened, Miss Simone? 9 Beyond the Fear 14 The Last Mogul 8 Breaking a Monster 21 Drawing the Tiger 12 Listen to Me Marlon 19 Drawing the Tiger 12 INDIAN CULTURE & ISSUES End of the world 14 Music Lessons 8 The Fiancee of Life 24 Live From New York! 20 East End Kids 24 On the Rim of the Sky 16 The Arms Drop 6 Love Between the Covers 21 The Fiancee of Life 24 English India 18 My Love, Don’t Cross That River 15 Placebo 18 Nostalgia for the Light 25 Monty Python: The Meaning Gayby Baby 15 Small Things, Big Things 18 Highrise: Universe Within Live 5 of Live 20 Music Lessons 8 Journey with Prabhat 18 Pleasant Street 24 Strange Particles 17 Some Farewells 24 Orion: The Man Who Would Be King 23 Mussa 15 Original Copy 19 Raiders! 19 No Place to Hide: Placebo 18 Stand by for Tape Back-up 13 Thank You for Playing 22 Rolling Papers 22 The Rehtaeh Parsons Story 11 Small Things, Big Things 18 Stand by for Tape Back-up 13 The Superstars of Koti 18 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca : 33 hand-picked by top festival programmers and guest curators like Ira Glass
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STUBJEC INDEX (continued) POVERTY Omo Child: The River and the Bush 15 The Creeping Garden 23 WAR & CONFLICT Radical Grace 16 Drawing the Tiger 12 On Her Own 16 Deep Web 6 The Arms Drop 6 The Shore Break 17 Dreamcatcher 7 On the Rim of the Sky 16 Drone 7 The Battle of Chile 25 Speed Sisters 11 East End Forever 24 The Creation of Meaning 14 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 Censored Voices 14 Tig 20 East End Kids 24 The Living Fire 13 The Nightmare 23 Chile, Obstinate Memory 25 T-Rex 17 Every Last Child 7 The Superstars of Koti 18 No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons The Creation of Meaning 14 A Woman Like Me 20 Lowdown Tracks 10 Uncertain 18 Story 11 Drone 7 Mom and Me 11 Welcome to Leith 9 Planetary 8 Elephant’s Dream 14 The Queen of Silence 16 Western 9 Thank You for Playing 22 Every Last Child 7 Spartacus & Cassandra 17 SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN Thought Crimes 17 Frame by Frame 15 Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 17 CULTURES & ISSUES The Visit 23 Nostalgia for the Light 25 Toto and His Sisters 17 Drawing the Tiger 12 TRAVEL & ADVENTURE, On the Bride’s Side 16 The visual identity for T-Rex 17 Portraits of a Search 16 Drone 7 EXPLORATION this year’s Festival was The Wolfpack 20 Every Last Child 7 Above and Below 12 (T)ERROR 9 QUEBEC STORIES Frame by Frame 15 English India 18 War of Lies 9 created by Guelph-based Warriors From the North 18 East End Forever 24 Last of the Elephant Men 15 Exotica, Erotica, Etc. 12 illustrator Cai Sepulis East End Kids 24 Sailing a Sinking Sea 16 Herders 5 WOMEN & WOMEN’S STORIES Finding Macpherson 10 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN CULTURES My Jules Verne 25 Blood Sisters 12 (hello.caisepulis.com). The Moon and the Violin 24 & ISSUES Planetary 8 The Bolivian Case 6 A dynamic depiction of Pinocchio 11 The Creation of Meaning 14 Polar Sea 360 5 The Closer We Get 12 Some Farewells 24 Magic Island 21 Robinson Crusoe Island 25 Daughter of the Lake 12 Hot Docs and the Transatlantic 11 Drawing the Tiger 12 RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY SPORTS & RECREATION Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Deprogrammed 10 Unbranded 18 Dreamcatcher 7 The Barkley Marathons: The Race Exotica, Erotica, Etc. 12 Jesus Town USA 10 That Eats Its Young 23 URBAN STORIES as the destination Leaving Africa 13 Breaking a Monster 21 Leaving Africa 13 (Dis)Honesty—The Truth Love Between the Covers 21 for documentary filmmakers Mavis! 8 About Lies 14 Dreamcatcher 7 Possessed by Djinn 16 East End Forever 24 Milk 15 and audiences in Toronto, Doglegs 14 News From Home 24 Radical Grace 16 Nuestro Monte Luna 11 East End Kids 24 A Sinner in Mecca 18 Highrise: Universe Within Live 5 Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta 22 it shows how documentaries Out to Win 8 No Place to Hide: The Superstars of Koti 18 Speed Sisters 11 Hot Sugar’s Cold World 13 beckon us to come together, They Will Have to Kill Us First 22 News From Home 24 The Rehtaeh Parsons Story 11 The Strongest Man 17 On Her Own 16 share in stories, encourage Warriors From the North 18 T-Rex 17 Paris is Burning 8 Peace Officer 16 Over the Rainbow 16 RURAL STORIES TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE The Pawn 16 different perspectives, and All the Time in the World 10 The Sandwich Nazi 11 All the Time in the World 10 Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 17 Portraits of a Search 16 inspire discussion. Finders Keepers 23 The Amina Profile 10 Possessed by Djinn 16 Jesus Town USA 10 The Wolfpack 20
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The 100 Years Show 21 A Different Drummer: How to Change the World 7 The Nightmare 23 Silent Voices 18 3 Still Standing 20 Celebrating Eccentrics 7 How to Cross (From Jiliz to Jiliz) 16 No Place to Hide: A Sinner in Mecca 18 The 414s: The Original (Dis)Honesty—The Truth How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with The Rehtaeh Parsons Story 11 Small Things, Big Things 18 Teenage Hackers 17 About Lies 14 Ricky Leacock in Normandy 21 Nostalgia for the Light 25 Some Farewells 24 Above and Below 12 Doglegs 14 Imraan, C/o Carrom Club 18 Nuestro Monte Luna 11 Songs of Freedom 5 All the Time in the World 10 Double Happiness 14 Indian Point 7 Of the Unknown 14 Southern Rites 17 The Amina Profile 10 Drawing the Tiger 12 It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Omo Child: The River and the Bush 15 Spartacus & Cassandra 17 Araya 24 Dreamcatcher 7 Drew Eloise 21 On Her Own 16 Spearhunter 23 hand-picked by top festival programmers The Arms Drop 6 Drone 7 I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! 22 On the Bride’s Side 16 Speed Sisters 11 Around the World in 50 Concerts 6 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Jesus Town USA 10 On the Rim of the Sky 16 Stand by for Tape Back-up 13 and guest curators like Ira Glass As I AM: The Life and Times Story of the National Lampoon 20 Journey with Prabhat 18 Orbis 15 Stay Awhile 22 of DJ AM 21 East End Forever 24 Julio 11 Original Copy 19 Strange Particles 17 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans East End Kids 24 Karachi Stories: Graveyard Orion: The Man Who Would Strangers with Patrick Watson 5 and the Last Nazi War Crime 6 Elephant’s Dream 14 for Giants 12 Be King 23 The Strongest Man 17 The Barkley Marathons: The Race End of the World 14 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 7 Out to Win 4, 8 Sugar Coated 11 That Eats Its Young 23 English India 18 Lanzmann 19 Over the Rainbow 16 The Superstars of Koti 18 The Battle of Chile 25 Every Last Child 7 The Last Mogul 8 Panchagavya 18 Survivors Rowe 11 Beaver Trilogy Part IV 19 Exotica, Erotica, Etc. 12 Last of the Elephant Men 15 Paris is Burning 8 Sweet Micky for President 4, 8 Being Canadian 6 Fake Fruit Factory 21 The Last Smallholder 16 The Pawn 16 Territory 16 Bernice 22 The Fiancee of Life 24 Leaving Africa 13 Peace Officer 16 (T)ERROR 9 Best of Enemies 21 Filming Obstinately, Meeting Listen to Me Marlon 19 Pervert Park 16 Thank You for Playing 22 including free tickets to local screenings Beyond the Fear 14 Patricio Guzmán 19 The Little Deputy 10 Pinocchio 11 They Will Have to Kill Us First 22 Blood Sisters 12 Finders Keepers 23 Live From New York! 20 The Pinochet Case 25 Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 17 and festival premieres The Bolivian Case 6 Finding Macpherson 10 The Living Fire 13 The Place 14 Thought Crimes 17 Born to Be Mild 23 Foodies 7 Love Between the Covers 21 Placebo 18 Tig 4, 5, 20 Breaking a Monster 21 For Grace 14 Lowdown Tracks 10 Planetary 8 Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle 9 Censored Voices 14 For the Record 21 Magic Island 21 Pleasant Street 24 Toto and His Sisters 17 Chameleon 10 Fractured Land 10 Mavis! 8 Pleasure at Her Majesty’s 24 Transatlantic 11 Chile, Obstinate Memory 25 Frame by Frame 15 Mend and Make Do 21 Poem of the Day 16 TransFatty Lives 22 Chuck Norris vs Communism 19 Frederick Wiseman and producer The Messenger 11 Polar Sea 360° 5 Treasure Island 17 The Circus Dynasty 6 Karen Konicek in Conversation 5 Milk 15 Pop-Up Porno: m4m 11 T-Rex 17 The Closer We Get 12 From This Day Forward 15 Missing People 21 Portraits of a Search 16 Tuk-tuk 13 Committed 20 Gayby Baby 15 Mom and Me 11 Positive 19 The Typist 13 The Conversation 17 Giovanni and the Water Ballet 17 Monty Python: The Meaning Possessed by Djinn 16 Unbranded 18 on your phone, tablet, TV, and online Copycat 13 The Gnomist 16 of Live 20 The Queen of Silence 16 Uncertain 18 The Creation of Meaning 14 Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life 24 The Moon and the Violin 24 Radical Grace 16 The Visit 23 The Creeping Garden 23 Hadwin’s Judgement 15 Music Lessons 8 Raiders! 19 War of Lies 9 The Cult of JT LeRoy 23 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge Mussa 15 Robinson Crusoe Island 25 Warriors From the North 18 Danny 4, 6 of the World 10 My Enemy, My Brother 18 Rolling Papers 22 Welcome to Leith 9 Daughter of the Lake 12 Hell Runs on Gasoline! 11 My Gal, Rosemarie 15 Sailing a Sinking Sea 16 Western 9 A Day at School 10 Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi 7 My Jules Verne 25 Sam Klemke’s Time Machine 20 What Happened, Miss Simone? 9 Dear Araucaria 22 Herders 5 My Love, Don’t Cross That River 15 The Sandwich Nazi 11 The Wolfpack 20 Deep Web 4, 6 Highrise: Universe Within Live 5 Nan Lakou Kanaval 11 Scotiabank Big Ideas Series 4 The Wolverine: The Fight Democrats 6 Home Cooked Music 22 New 13 Seth’s Dominion 22 of the James Bay Cree 10 Deprogrammed 10 Hot Sugar’s Cold World 13 News From Home 24 The Shore Break 17 A Woman Like Me 20 The Dictator’s Hotel 14 A House in Fog 13 Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta 22 Shoulder the Lion 13
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