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Choose your films from this schedule or visitwww.hotdocs.ca for more SINGLE TICKETS: $14.60 detailed film descriptions. LATE-NIGHT SCREENINGS (AFTER 11 PM): $6.20 With this schedule you can browse films by program, or search for films SPECIAL Events: $19.25 using the subject and title indexes on pages 33 and 35. Ticket Packages A schedule-at-a-glance can be found starting on page 26, including a map of Festival venues. Ticket packages allow you to share tickets with friends and redeem tickets in advance. Buy Your Tickets FESTIVAL 10-PACK: $125 • 10 tickets to regular Festival screenings + one ticket to each Advance Tickets late-night screening online: www.hotdocs.ca by phone: 416.637.5150 FESTIVAL 20-PACK: $215 Get In Person: T he documentary Box Office • 20 tickets to regular Festival screenings + two tickets to each 2 Bloor Street West New Location! late-night screening (Cumberland Terrace—Lower Level) STUDENT 6-PACK: $70 • Six tickets to regular Festival screenings (max two per screening) By Public Transit: Between the Bay and Bloor-Yonge + one ticket to each late-night screening stations on the lower concourse of Cumberland Terrace. Ticket package holders can redeem their tickets by phone, in person at From Street Level: Enter door marked Shops of 2 Bloor the documentary Box Office or( new!) online at www.hotdocs.ca. West. Take the escalator to the lower level, then turn left. Passes Creative. HOURS Monday–Friday: 11am–7pm Passes offer access to screenings without having to select films in advance. Simply show your pass at the screening venue to obtain your Your dream in focus Saturday–Sunday: 11am–5pm ticket. Passes are non-transferrable. Thursday, April 24–Sunday, May 4: 11am–9pm BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA ALL-ACCESS: $130—only 75 available! SAME DAY and RUSH Tickets • Access to all Festival screenings at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, plus New Bachelor of Film and Television On the day of the screening, tickets can only be purchased at the screening two large popcorns on us! venue’s box office. A screening venue’s box office opens one hour before the ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT LATE-NIGHT PASS: $12.40—only 150 available! Sheridan has been a leader in the Canadian fi lm industry for decades, educating the next venue’s first screening of the day (refer to schedule-at-a-glance on page 26). • Access to each of the nine late-night Hot Docs screenings generation of fi lmmakers, directors, animators and cinematographers, and our grads work If advance tickets have sold out for a screening, a limited number of rush Passholders can visit the screening venue’s box office on the day. A on acclaimed projects worldwide. Now, our degree in Film & TV, o ers students an even tickets may be available at the screening venue’s box office 10 minutes block of tickets will be held for these passholders, subject to availability. before the start time. Line ups for rush tickets form roughly one hour before * All prices exclude HST. greater opportunity to hone their craft, learn the business and be prepared to succeed. the start time. Screening venue box offices accept cash only. FREE Daytime Screenings 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 docs.sheridancollege.ca Hot Docs was established in 1993 as an initiative of the Documentary organization of Canada/Documentaristes screening venue’s box office on the day of the screening, subject to availability. du Canada, and was separately incorporated as an independent, charitable organization in 1996.

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SPECIAL EVENTS The Scotiabank Big Ideas Series

Additional support by the Government of Ontario and Canada Arts Presentation Fund at Canadian Heritage

Mission Blue Featuring Sylvia Earle The Canadian premiere of Mission Blue (p. 8) is followed by a conversation with the film’s subject, renowned oceanographer and passionate environmental activist Dr. Sylvia Earle, who has been at the forefront of efforts to safeguard our largest and most essential ecosystems and to educate the public about the dire consequences of their loss. FRI, APR 25 6:30 PM bloor

To Be Takei Featuring George Takei Following the international premiere of To Be Takei (p. 9), pop culture icon and impassioned activist George Takei joins us for a discussion of his fascinating career, from Star Trek’s Sulu to surprising Internet super-stardom, and the formative experiences in Japanese-American internment camps that spurred his later battles against homophobia and for equal rights. SAT, APR 26 6:00 PM bloor

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Featuring Caroll Spinney Join Caroll Spinney (and a grouchy special guest) after the world premiere of I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (p. 7) and hear firsthand from the man behind two of Sesame Street’s most iconic characters as he discusses his more than 40 years at the centre of this revolutionary educational program. Moderated by Lisa de Wilde, CEO of TVO. SUN, APR 27 6:00 PM bloor

The Case Against 8 Featuring Ted Olson, Paul Katami, Jeff Zarrillo, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier The Canadian premiere of The Case Against 8 (p. 20) is followed by a live discussion with the brave couples in the film who took their fight for marriage equality to the US Supreme Court, and how their attorneys, David Boies and Ted Olson, former adversaries in Bush v. Gore, joined forces to triumph in this historic case. TUE, APR 29 6:30 PM bloor

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Featuring Cory Doctorow, Gabriella Coleman and Lawrence Lessig After The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (p. 6), join best-selling author Cory Doctorow, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig and hacker-culture expert Gabriella Coleman—close confidants and mentors of the late Internet activist—for a live conversation about the film’s critical issues of free speech, copyright and ownership in the Internet age. WED, APR 30 6:30 PM bloor

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SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS Featuring Alice Cooper LIVE DOCUMENTARY

D: Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn | Canada | 86 min D: Sam Green | USA | 65 min Join Alice Cooper, the ultimate rock star of the twisted and bizarre, after the Inspired by the most curious, wonderful and shocking stories Canadian premiere of Super Duper Alice Cooper (p. 9), as he and filmmakers from the Guinness World Records book, The Measure of Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn answer audience questions All Things weaves together portraits, interviews and archival about of this long-anticipated look at his life and celebrated career. footage of its most memorable characters with live narration by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and a stirring live Hot Docs Live! is presented in partnership with eOne Films. Front Row soundtrack by the New York band The Quavers. Centre will simulcast this special event into 45 Cineplex theatres coast to coast. Visit www.cineplex.com/events for other venues. SAT, APR 26 7:30 PM bADER

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Special Events are $19.25 + HST. A limited block of tickets are reserved for redemption by Ticket Package holders.

FREE EVENTS

Hot Docs Talk: Docs Change People. People Change the World.

Films, especially documentaries, can have an immense impact on a viewer’s knowledge and beliefs. How does this really work? Imagine if we could measure how our opinions and actions are being influenced by Docs at Dusk AVATAR SECRETS what we watch. Social science experts and filmmakers present stories and eye-opening D: Ramona Pringle Come join us for an outdoor screening analysis of how audiences are reacting to An interactive hybrid of documentary, graphic of Harmontown (p. 24) in Burwash Quad, agenda-focused documentaries. Presented novel and fine art, Avatar Secrets is a new next to the Victoria College building on the in partnership with the Inspirit Foundation. format of storytelling designed for the iPad, University of Toronto campus. The evening exploring human connection, empathy starts at 8pm with live music followed FRI, APR 25 4:00 PM TBLB and love in a networked world. Experience an by a fantastic film. Refreshments available. exclusive large-scale touch-screen version of Weather permitting. Avatar Secrets, on display in the main lobby of THU, MAY 1 9:00 PM QUAD the TIFF Bell Lightbox from April 25–May 4.

No advance tickets for free events. First-come first-serve at the venue.

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS HAPPINESS

OPENING NIGHT FILM–INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CONCERNING VIOLENCE E-TEAM THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: D: Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden, USA, Denmark, D: Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny | USA | 89 min THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ Finland | 84 min Imagine your job is witnessing war crimes, D: Brian Knappenberger | USA | 105 min Following the success of The Black Power genocide and acts of terrorism. Intrepid cameras An inspiring and emotional portrait of Internet Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson explores follow human rights investigators in Syria and visionary and activist Aaron Swartz explores how Africa’s independence movements. Based on Libya as they risk everything to expose shocking one of the most promising minds of a generation Frantz Fanon’s famous book, The Wretched of the truths in this Sundance award-winner. found himself staring down a government Earth, the film expertly uses archival material prosecuting him under the very laws he was and musician Lauryn Hill’s voiceover to bring FRI, APR 25 7:00 PM TBLB Fanon’s text to life. SAT, APR 26 1:45 PM TBLB fighting against. SAT, MAY 3 4:00 PM TBLB

THU, APR 24 10:00 PM bloor SUN, APR 27 4:00 PM bADER FRI, APR 25 2:00 PM bloor MON, APR 28 4:15 PM TBLB EVERYDAY REBELLION WED, APR 30 6:30 PM bloor* FRI, MAY 2 3:30 PM hART D: Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi | Austria, * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4. WORLD PREMIERE Switzerland, Germany | 112 min A DANGEROUS GAME What do topless Ukrainian women, Syrian INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE dissidents and Wall Street Occupiers D: Anthony Baxter | UK | 90 min CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS have in common? A colourful new tactic: OF PAMELA SMART In this explosive tale, everyday heroes battle creative non-violent protest. See why against Donald Trump and a cast of greedy and how modern pacifism is winning in this D: Jeremiah Zagar | USA, UK | 102 min Goliaths who want to turn some of the earth’s slick tribute to disobedience. Delving into the infamous To Die For Pamela most precious places into golf courses for Smart murder trial, this expertly crafted the super-rich. FRI, APR 25 9:30 PM bADER film explores one of the world’s biggest media SUN, APR 27 10:30 AM bADER frenzies and the role of the media, the psychology THU, MAY 1 6:00 PM bloor SUN, MAY 4 4:00 PM TBLB of the observer and public opinion in shaping FRI, MAY 2 8:30 PM bloor SUN, MAY 4 11:00 AM bADER INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE the trial’s outcome. FED UP FRI, APR 25 9:30 PM bloor DEMONSTRATION D: Stephanie Soechtig | USA | 92 min SUN, APR 27 11:00 AM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 11:00 AM bloor D: Victor Kossakovsky, 32 film students VVAA Combining the personal stories of three families | Russia, Spain | 70 min struggling with weight issues with a provocative WORLD PREMIERE Legendary director Victor Kossakovsky sends and revealing exposé of the food industry, Fed Up CHILDREN 404 32 film students to document Barcelona’s will turn your perspective on diet, nutrition and massive and violent anti-austerity street protest health inside out. D: Pavel Loparev, Askold Kurov | Russia | 70 min in 2012. Set to an operatic score, his stunning An intimate firsthand account of how Russia’s collage transforms into a brilliant crowd-sourced TUE, APR 29 6:30 PM TBLB LGBT youth are fighting with extreme courage street ballet. THU, MAY 1 9:00 PM bloor against President Vladimir Putin’s law forbidding SAT, MAY 3 3:30 PM hART “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations FRI, APR 25 1:30 PM sCOTIA INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE to minors.” SAT, APR 26 8:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 8:30 PM TBLB THE GREAT INVISIBLE MON, APR 28 9:30 PM bADER D: Margaret Brown | USA | 92 min TUE, APR 29 3:30 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 9:00 PM TBLB With unprecedented access, this comprehensive SAT, MAY 3 8:30 PM TBLB documentary utilizes an investigative eye and a humanizing touch to examine the causes and impacts of 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2014–15 DOC SOUP SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW in the Gulf of Mexico. AVAILABLE AT SPECIAL FESTIVAL RATES. MON, APR 28 6:00 PM bloor TUE, APR 29 1:00 PM hART SAT, MAY 3 9:00 PM TBLB 6 : 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca APRIL 24–MAY 4, 2014 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

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HAPPINESS HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. INTERNATIONAL D: Thomas Balmès | France, Finland | 80 min D: Barbara Kopple | USA | 103 min DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE In 1999, TV and the Internet come to Bhutan This Oscar-winning portrait follows the bitterly Filmmakers from around the world are given in an attempt to improve the country’s violent coal miners’ strike in Kentucky. Presented just five days to make a short documentary. “gross national happiness.” We see the imminent in partnership with the Cinema Eye Honors The top 12 films are premiered at Hot Docs and arrival of these new technologies into the last as the recipient of their 2014 Legacy Award, are awarded cash prizes. For a complete list of remaining unconnected village through the eyes the screening will be followed by an in-depth the finalists, please visitwww.hotdocs.ca . of an eight-year-old monk. conversation with filmmaker Barbara Kopple. THU, MAY 1 8:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 7:30 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 6:00 PM bADER MON, APR 28 4:00 PM bADER SUN, MAY 4 11:00 AM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE LADY VALOR: I AM BIG BIRD: INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE KRISTIN BECK STORY THE CAROLL SPINNEY STORY HAPPY VALLEY D: Mark Herzog, Sandrine Orabona | USA | 90 min D: Chad Walker, Dave LaMattina | USA | 85 min D: Amir Bar-Lev | USA | 98 min After decades of fighting for American ideals, This powerful and complex story uses the child With an incredible archive of home videos, the decorated Navy Seal Chris Beck discovers sex abuse scandal around former Pennsylvania story of Caroll Spinney reveals how a big heart a new appreciation of liberty and happiness as State University football coach Jerry Sandusky to and unstoppable talent created two of the he embarks on his most challenging mission: explore a town divided by sports allegiances and world’s most beloved Sesame Street Muppets, transitioning to Kristin and beginning life as a hero worship. Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. transgender woman. SUN, APR 27 6:00 PM bloor* TUE, APR 29 9:00 PM bADER MON, APR 28 6:30 PM TBLB MON, APR 28 11:00 AM bADER THU, MAY 1 7:00 PM hART TUE, APR 29 3:30 PM hART WED, APR 30 1:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 4:30 PM bloor THU, MAY 1 1:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 4:00 PM reVUE * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4.

CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS OF PAMELA SMART

CHILDREN 404 I AM BIG BIRD: THE CAROLL SPINNEY STORY

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THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT

RICH HILL

MISSION BLUE THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens | USA | 95 min D: Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin | USA, Russia PRIVATE VIOLENCE | 94 min The trailblazing career of internationally D: Cynthia Hill | USA | 81 min renowned oceanographer and eco-activist How does a “legitimate businessman” become the Exploring the fact that the most dangerous place Sylvia Earle is celebrated in this beautifully world’s most notorious arms dealer, and even the for a woman is her home, Private Violence is a shot testament to her passionate commitment subject of a Nicolas Cage action movie? Bout’s beautifully crafted story of two women tirelessly to saving the world’s oceans and its closest frenemies and his own footage thrillingly trying to change the lives of the women they imperiled inhabitants. expose “the merchant of death.” encounter, and society at large.

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* Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE RETURN TO HOMS THE OVERNIGHTERS D: Talal Derki | Syria, Germany | 87 min NE ME QUITTE PAS D: Jesse Moss | USA | 100 min Filmed over the course of two years, Sundance D: Niels van Koevorden, Sabine Lubbe Bakker When a small community in North Dakota World Cinema Grand Jury Prize-winner Return to | Netherlands, Belgium | 105 min attracts a massive migration of unemployed men Homs takes us into the lives of two friends caught When Marcel’s marriage ends, he leans on best seeking six-figure salaries in the oil fields, a local in the middle of the raging civil war in Syria. friend Bob, who shares his wicked wit. The pastor risks everything to welcome the desperate two Belgian men commiserate and hit the bottle down-and-out-of-towners to his flock. FRI, APR 25 4:30 PM bADER hard in this unforgettable tragicomic portrait SAT, APR 26 6:00 PM roM SAT, MAY 3 1:30 PM bADER of codependence in alcoholism and friendship. FRI, APR 25 9:00 PM TBLB SAT, APR 26 1:00 PM roM FRI, MAY 2 7:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE MON, APR 28 9:00 PM roM WED, APR 30 1:00 PM sCOTIA RICH HILL FRI, MAY 2 1:00 PM sCOTIA INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos | USA POINT AND SHOOT | 92 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Marshall Curry | USA | 82 min NELSON MANDELA: THE MYTH & ME In a small rural town, three young residents find Baltimore native Matthew VanDyke shares themselves dreaming big but living small in this D: Khalo Matabane | South Africa, Germany | 85 min extraordinary visual tales of his adventures achingly beautiful, Sundance Grand Jury Prize- Acclaimed filmmaker Khalo Matabane’s very motorcycling across the Middle East and North winning depiction of adolescence. personal, award-winning and somewhat Africa—including when he joins forces with controversial doc explores conflicting points of Libyan rebels to oust Moammar Gadhafi, MON, APR 28 7:00 PM TBLB is captured and held in solitary confinement WED, APR 30 4:00 PM bADER view on the truth and reconciliation process, SUN, MAY 4 12:30 PM hART the quality of life in post-apartheid South Africa for six months. and Mandela’s own sainthood status. WED, APR 30 6:30 PM bADER SAT, APR 26 9:30 PM hART THU, MAY 1 4:30 PM TBLB MON, APR 28 5:00 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 9:15 PM bloor SUN, MAY 4 4:00 PM bADER

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SACRO GRA SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER WATCHERS OF THE SKY D: Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France | 93 min D: Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn D: Edet Belzberg | USA | 120 min | Canada | 86 min Following the stories and endeavours of citizens Through the forgotten story of Raphel Lemkin, living and working along the giant ring road Alice Cooper’s onstage encounter with a chicken the inventor of the word “genocide”, Oscar- that encircles Rome, this Venice Golden Lion in Toronto in 1969 catapulted him from rock star nominated director Edet Belzberg presents winner paints an enchanting portrait of everyday to rock legend. This dizzying blend of archive an artistic and intellectually rigorous film on moments in The Eternal City. materials and rock opera follows the evolution of the history of genocide and those fighting for a preacher’s son to glam metal godfather. justice and global action for its victims. FRI, APR 25 3:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 9:00 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 9:00 PM sCOTIA* TUE, APR 29 7:00 PM hART FRI, MAY 2 9:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 9:50 PM bloor WED, APR 30 12:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 11:00 AM bloor SAT, MAY 3 6:30 PM bADER WORLD PREMIERE * Hot Docs Live special presentation, p. 5. THE SHEIK INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WE ARE THE GIANT D: Igal Hecht | Canada | 95 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Every hero needs a villain. Without the Iron TO BE TAKEI D: Greg Barker | USA, UK | 90 min Sheik there could be no Hulkamania. Khosrow Profiling a group of Arab Spring activists, D: Jennifer Kroot, Bill Weber | USA | 93 min Vaziri’s transformation from Olympic wrestler director Greg Barker (Sergio) offers incredible to American pop culture icon is a personal and Star Trek’s inter-galactic helmsman George Takei insight into what it means to be at the forefront emotional tale that will “make you humble.” explores his private and public personas— of a call to action—and the repercussions. from being William Shatner’s nemesis to being We hear firsthand the experiences of these SAT, APR 26 9:15 PM bloor a gay sex symbol—as he prepares his dream brave young people taking on governments SUN, APR 27 4:30 PM TBLB project: a musical based on his childhood inside and dictators. SAT, MAY 3 6:30 PM bloor a Japanese-American internment camp. SAT, APR 26 1:45 PM bloor INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SAT, APR 26 6:00 PM bloor* MON, APR 28 3:30 PM hART SILENCED SUN, APR 27 1:00 PM bloor FRI, MAY 2 7:00 PM hART D: James Spione | USA | 100 min * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Behind world-changing headlines are those men WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF and women who risk everything to speak truth to UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER power. Led by world-renowned national security and human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack, D: Kitty Green | Australia, Ukraine | 80 min D: Joe Berlinger | USA | 107 min three of the world’s most important government Ukraine’s gorgeous group of topless feminist Oscar-nominated director Joe Berlinger strips whistleblowers speak for the first time in one film. activists, FEMEN, take off their shirts to expose away the myths surrounding infamous Boston gender inequality and government corruption gangster and FBI informant James “Whitey” TUE, APR 29 9:00 PM TBLB through their provocative public protests. Bulger, exposing the truth behind his criminal THU, MAY 1 3:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 9:30 PM reGENT empire and revealing shocking new allegations SAT, APR 26 9:30 PM TBLB of government corruption and complicity. MON, APR 28 1:00 PM hART TUE, APR 29 12:30 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 9:00 PM bloor MON, APR 28 1:00 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 9:30 PM bloor

WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL

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Sponsored by TVO KUNG FU ELLIOT

WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE THE BACKWARD CLASS DAVID & ME GUIDELINES D: Madeleine Grant | Canada | 91 min D: Ray Klonsky, Marc Lamy | Canada | 69 min D: Jean-François Caissy | Canada | 76 min Intent on breaking out of the cycle of poverty, In 1985, a Brooklyn teen is convicted of From the tense confines of the principal’s the Dalit students of Shanti Bhavan school pre-meditated murder based on questionable office to the lawless outdoors, a series in India prepare to make history by becoming testimonies. A tenacious filmmaker has of tableaux illustrates defining teen moments the first from their “untouchable” caste to take taken up his cause, presenting compelling new and the daily trials of adolescents at a rural high-school graduation exams. evidence aimed at freeing him after 28 years Quebec secondary school. of incarceration. MON, APR 28 9:30 PM TBLB Screening with WED, APR 30 5:00 PM sCOTIA SUN, APR 27 9:00 PM bADER JUTRA SAT, MAY 3 6:30 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 3:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 4:00 PM bADER D: Marie-Josée St-Pierre | Canada | 13 min WORLD PREMIERE MON, APR 28 6:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 4:30 PM TBLB BEFORE THE LAST CURTAIN FALLS A DRESS REHEARSAL SAT, MAY 3 4:30 PM sCOTIA D: Thomas Wallner | Germany, Belgium, Canada FOR AN EXECUTION | 86 min D: Bahman Tavoosi | Canada | 60 min WORLD PREMIERE Stunning cinematography and soaring music I’VE SEEN THE UNICORN Jahangir Razmi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo unite the tumultuous off-stage lives of six aging of political prisoner executions in post-revolution D: Vincent Toi | Canada | 61 min Belgian transvestite and transsexual performers Iran was so powerful, he hid his identity for with scenes from their European ballet Gardenia On the tiny island nation of Mauritius, a 27 years to avoid life-threatening repercussions. into a profoundly human portrait of love— determined young fisherman sets his eye on His reemergence prompts an Iranian-Canadian and a masterpiece of documentary art and becoming a champion jockey in a legendary artist to recreate the photo using actors. contemporary dance cinema. horse-racing event that’s an evocative reminder of the country’s colonial past. Screening with MON, APR 28 8:30 PM bloor TUE, APR 29 4:00 PM TBLB GUN PORN Screening with FRI, MAY 2 12:30 PM TBLB D: Brahm Rosensweig | Canada | 10 min FLOR DE TOLOACHE FRI, APR 25 8:30 PM TBLB D: Jenny Schweitzer | USA, Canada | 4 min WORLD PREMIERE SUN, APR 27 5:00 PM sCOTIA SUN, APR 27 8:30 PM TBLB THE BOY FROM GEITA MON, APR 28 12:30 PM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE FRI, MAY 2 4:30 PM roM D: Vic Sarin | Canada | 79 min EVERYTHING WILL BE A young Tanzanian boy with albinism survives a brutal attempt to steal his body parts; witch D: Julia Kwan | Canada | 86 min JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING doctors claim a potion made from them will Vancouver’s once-thriving Chinatown is D: Denis Côté | Canada | 70 min bestow good fortune. The promise of surgery disappearing as hip new ventures move From machinists to garment makers, this in Canada offers him hope. into vacant storefronts to the astonishment cinematic essay captures the energies and rituals of the many elderly denizens. Sundance of labour that relies on routine and repetition. FRI, APR 25 8:00 PM TBLB award-winning director Julia Kwan crafts a SUN, APR 27 1:00 PM sCOTIA Director Denis Côté is a master craftsman in this FRI, MAY 2 4:00 PM TBLB heartwarming and cinematically stunning philosophical study of our need to work. ode to a community in transition. SAT, APR 26 9:45 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 7:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 7:30 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 1:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 7:30 PM TBL FRI, MAY 2 1:00 PM hART

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WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE JUST EAT IT: A FOOD MARINONI THE SECRET TRIAL 5 WASTE STORY D: Tony Girardin | Canada | 90 min D: Amar Wala | Canada | 84 min D: Grant Baldwin | Canada | 75 min Giuseppe Marinoni is Canada’s most revered The film tells the shocking story of Canada’s If our culture is so food obsessed, why do bicycle craftsman. At 75, he still builds bikes, security certificates, an unusual policy we toss away nearly 50 per cent of it? Two tends his chickens and forages for mushrooms. mechanism used to imprison five Muslim men filmmakers quit grocery shopping, surviving He’s also attempting a world cycling record, without charge for nearly 30 years combined, on discarded food as they explore consumable even if it kills him. while the evidence against them remains secret. waste from farm to fridge. Screening with SAT, APR 26 9:45 PM bADER Screening with HART MON, APR 28 1:30 PM bADER WED, APR 30 4:30 PM roM 米 花 糕 (OR THE CHINESE RICE Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay, Coussot Regis KRISPIES SQUARE) | Canada | 11 min SELF (LESS) PORTRAIT D: Xavier-Justin Nagy | Canada | 5 min FRI, APR 25 7:30 PM royAL SUN, APR 27 1:30 PM sCOTIA D: Danic Champoux | Canada | 98 min SUN, APR 27 9:45 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 7:00 PM sCOTIA TUE, APR 29 4:00 PM sCOTIA In an era when social media is redrawing WORLD PREMIERE the boundaries between private and public, KUNG FU ELLIOT OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT 50 people reveal their most intimate thoughts to camera in this funny and inventive montage D: Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau | Canada | 91 min D: John Kastner | Canada | 88 min exploring the diversity of human existence. Elliot “White Lightning” Scott wants to become With unprecedented access, multiple Emmy Canada’s first action hero by starring in his award-winner John Kastner returns to the SUN, APR 27 6:30 PM TBLB own low-budget karate epic, Blood Fight. This MON, APR 28 8:45 PM TBLB Brockville Mental Health Centre to capture SUN, MAY 4 3:00 PM TBLB Slamdance award-winning documentary follows patients struggling for control of their lives in Scott’s production as he realizes his dreams the face of a society that fears and demonizes “by any means necessary.” them for their violent acts. $7 LATE-NIGHT Screening with SUN, APR 27 6:30 PM bADER WILL THE REAL DAVE BARBER PLEASE WED, APR 30 1:30 PM bADER STAND UP? SUN, MAY 4 1:00 PM TBLB SCREENINGS D: Dave Barber | Canada | 4 min WED, APR 30 6:30 PM sCOTIA (after 11:00 PM) THU, MAY 1 3:30 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 9:30 PM sCOTIA

EVERYTHING WILL BE

SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW THE THEORY OF HAPPINESS

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SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW THE SOWER WORLD PREMIERE D: Jean-Nicolas Orhon | Canada | 81 min D: Julie Perron | Canada | 77 min THE THEORY OF HAPPINESS Challenging conventional thinking, first-person Driven to safeguard rare and forgotten vegetable D: Gregory Gan | Canada | 82 min stories from slum dwellers on four continents varieties for the sake of biodiversity, Patrice Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, a small but and brilliant analysis by such critics as Robert Fortier works with painstaking perseverance to passionate commune attempts to discover Neuwirth make the case that slums—home create a remarkable seed company based in a recipe for happiness through mathematical to a billion people worldwide—are the solution rural Quebec. formulas and political poetry. Will their utopian and not the problem. dreams turn into a veritable nightmare? TUE, APR 29 6:00 PM TBLB FRI, APR 25 5:30 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 2:00 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 7:30 PM TBLB SAT, APR 26 10:30 AM roM SUN, MAY 4 1:30 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 1:30 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 9:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 2:00 PM sCOTIA

Focus on JOHN ZARITSKY

LEAVE THEM LAUGHING

LEAVE THEM LAUGHING SKI BUMS D: John Zaritsky | Canada, USA | 2009 | 90 min D: John Zaritsky | Canada | 2002 | 76 min Diagnosed with ALS, Carla Zilbersmith, a 46-year-old writer, singer, Looking beyond the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll clichés, Ski Bums explores performer and wickedly funny smart-ass is determined to embrace every the seductive power of a life devoted to the mountains through a group single moment of the short time she has left. of extreme skiers and snowboarders in Whistler, B.C.

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ROMEO AND JULIET IN SARAJEVO THE WILD HORSE REDEMPTION D: John Zaritsky | Canada | 1994 | 90 min D: John Zaritsky | Canada | 2007 | 91 min A poignant and powerful documentary about the interlocking destinies At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, of two young lovers shot down amidst the carnage of besieged Sarajevo. some inmates volunteer to spend 90 days taming wild horses, providing The conflict which convulsed Bosnia in the 1990s comes into focus therapeutic rehabilitation for both prisoners and mustangs. through their story. Presented with the Toronto Public Library as part of the Keep Toronto Reading Festival 2014. FRI, APR 25 11:00 AM bADER

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE LIVING STARS ACTRESS THE ENGINEER D: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn | Argentina | 65 min D: Robert Greene | USA | 87 min D: Juan Passarelli, Mathew Charles | El Salvador, UK This perfectly composed and endlessly | 93 min The Wire’s Brandy Burre returns to acting entertaining love letter to dancing introduces after starting a family, but can she balance In this unflinching look at a fearless man on a us to Argentines of all ages and talent the demanding roles of mother, lover, wife macabre mission, El Salvador’s only criminologist, levels performing dance numbers in their and performer? A present-tense portrait of a Israel Ticas, pursues his life’s work of finding homes and workplaces with unabashed, dying relationship and a woman re-born. hundreds of missing victims of the country’s grin-inducing honesty. brutal gang war. WED, APR 30 6:30 PM TBLB FRI, APR 25 1:45 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 3:30 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 6:00 PM sCOTIA TUE, APR 29 11:59 PM bloor SAT, MAY 3 7:00 PM hART FRI, MAY 2 3:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 9:30 PM hART SAT, MAY 3 3:30 PM TBLB NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE BUGARACH WORLD PREMIERE NO LULLABY THE LIFE AND MIND D: Ventura Durall, Salvador Sunyer, Sergi Cameron D: Helen Simon | Germany | 72 min | Spain, Germany | 90 min OF MARK DEFRIEST In this powerful film, three generations of D: Gabriel London | USA | 96 min A tiny village in the South of France becomes the a German family are silenced by a horrific focus of global attention when a mysterious news Incarcerated for 30 years, legendary Florida secret, but when a mother and daughter find story suggests it’s the only place on Earth destined jailbreaker Mark DeFriest is determined to the courage to come forward they pay the to survive the Mayan doomsday prophecy. escape the violence and despair of prison. Now ultimate price. the doctor responsible for his imprisonment TUE, APR 29 9:30 PM TBLB makes a startling admission that could change WED, APR 30 4:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 30 9:45 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 4:00 PM bADER Mark’s life forever. THU, MAY 1 4:00 PM roM SUN, MAY 4 2:00 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 7:00 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 12:30 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 10:00 PM royAL

LIVING STARS TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR

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THE ENGINEER

WALKING UNDER WATER THE SONGS OF RICE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE VIRUNGA SEE NO EVIL TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR D: Orlando von Einsiedel | UK | 92 min D: Jos de Putter | Netherlands, Belgium | 75 min D: Adam Weber, Jimmy Goldblum | USA | 85 min A Belgian conservationist and a team of Congolese A former movie star, a brilliant scientist and When their neighbourhood is illegally sold to rangers work tirelessly to protect the world’s a fragile, injured senior reflect on days gone by real-estate developers, the magicians, acrobats last mountain gorilla population against an armed while passing time in their simian retirement and puppeteers of Delhi’s famed “tinsel slum” militia, violent poachers and sinister rebels, communities. A poetic look at apes past their prime. use every trick in their arsenal to fight against all vying for control over Virunga National Park’s their own disappearing act. TUE, APR 29 7:00 PM roM lucrative natural resources. THU, MAY 1 3:30 PM bADER WED, APR 30 9:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 7:00 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 3:30 PM hART MON, APR 28 9:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 1:30 PM bloor TUE, APR 29 3:30 PM sCOTIA NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE THU, MAY 1 8:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 9:30 PM bADER THE SONGS OF RICE TOUR OF DUTY D: Uruphong Raksasad | Thailand | 75 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Winner of the Fipresci Award at the Rotterdam D: Kyoung-tae Park, Dong-ryung Kim | South Korea WAITING FOR AUGUST | 150 min film festival, The Songs of Rice is a kaleidoscopic D: Teodora Ana Mihai | Belgium | 88 min homage to the staple food, rice. Through the A dark, strikingly beautiful portrait of the When her mother moves to Italy to find work, window of rice cultivation in Thailand, we see remnants of a US military camp in South Korea 15-year-old Georgiana is left in charge of taking how harvest celebrations, bullfights, music through the words of the women left inside it, care of her six siblings, abruptly catapulting the and firework displays intertwine with the land Tour of Duty delivers an artistic and empowering Romanian teen from adolescence into adulthood. and its traditions. account of an atrocity yet to be atoned for. TUE, APR 29 9:30 PM roM FRI, APR 25 6:30 PM roM MON, APR 28 5:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 1:00 PM TBLB WED, APR 30 4:30 PM sCOTIA SUN, APR 27 3:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 3:30 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 4:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 5:45 PM sCOTIA

WORLD PREMIERE WALKING UNDER WATER D: Eliza Kubarska | Poland, Germany, UK | 76 min SUPPORT HOT DOCS! The last compressor diver from the Badjao tribe in Malaysian Borneo imparts his wisdom and diving DID YOU KNOW THAT HOT DOCS IS A REGISTERED CHARITY? techniques to a young student in this magical look at tall tales, tradition, tree spirits and tourism. LEARN MORE WWW.HOTDOCS.CA/SUPPORT WED, APR 30 9:00 PM bADER FRI, MAY 2 6:30 PM bADER SAT, MAY 3 9:30 PM TBLB 14 : 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca APRIL 24–MAY 4, 2014 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

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Sponsored by documentary OLGA—TO MY FRIENDS

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE ABOVE ALL ELSE BINTOU DIVIDE IN CONCORD D: John Fiege | USA | 95 min D: Simone Catharina Gaul | Germany | 64 min D: Kris Kaczor | USA | 82 min A retired acrobat risks everything to prevent the An enterprising young dressmaker from Burkina A fiery octogenarian spends her golden Keystone XL pipeline from crossing his property. Faso yearns to show on Paris runways. But years cold-calling constituents and attending In this brave first-person account of American while catering to white ex-pat clients, her city council meetings in her hometown justice, individual civil liberties are pushed aside emotional past threatens her glamorous dreams of Concord, Massachusetts. Can one little old by corporate bullies and government interests. in this insightful portrait of a modern African lady make history by banning single-serve working woman. plastic water bottles? TUE, APR 29 9:45 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 4:30 PM TBLB Screening with SAT, APR 26 9:30 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 1:30 PM bADER THE WORLD OF ADRIEN MON, APR 28 1:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 11:00 AM bADER ABSENCES D: Katerine Giguère | Canada | 11 min MON, APR 28 9:30 PM sCOTIA NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Carole Laganière | Canada | 75 min WED, APR 30 1:00 PM roM FRI, MAY 2 6:00 PM TBLB EARTH´S GOLDEN PLAYGROUND As her mother gradually succumbs to Alzheimer’s, D: Andreas Horvath | Austria | 108 min two-time Hot Docs award-winner Carole Laganière INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The Yukon ushers in another Gold Rush as these weaves her own experience of separation with BRONX OBAMA three other deeply personal stories in this elegant unstable economic times push a new wave exploration of absence and loss. D: Ryan Murdock | USA | 91 min of amateur prospectors, treasure hunters and Louis Ortiz, a true doppelgänger of Barack Obama, adventure seekers on a quest for the fabled Screening with finds that life as the president isn’t always easy. mother lode. SUNDAY, WE’LL SEE Though the charismatic Bronx resident works hard WED, APR 30 9:00 PM sCOTIA D: Sophie B. Jacques | Canada | 19 min as a presidential impersonator, he struggles to FRI, MAY 2 10:30 AM bADER FRI, APR 25 6:00 PM TBLB make ends meet. SAT, MAY 3 12:30 PM hART SAT, APR 26 1:00 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 9:00 PM sCOTIA TUE, APR 29 7:00 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 12:30 PM hART EVAPORATING BORDERS WORLD PREMIERE SAT, MAY 3 1:30 PM TBLB D: Iva Radivojevic | USA, Cyprus | 73 min THE BEIJING ANTS Poetically guided by the filmmaker’s experiences NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Ryuji Otsuka | China | 88 min THE CONDEMNED and reflections, this beautifully told visual essay In 2013, apartments in Beijing reached the examines how tolerance, identity and nationalism D: Nick Read | Russia, UK | 80 min equivalent of $10,000 per square metre, far too collide over migration issues on the island of expensive for a young family who moves to the Hidden in a forest as large as Germany, Russia’s Cyprus, one of the easiest entry points to Europe. suburb of Tongzhou, in this cautionary tale about maximum-security prison exclusively for Screening with capitalism and customer service in modern China. murderers has been impenetrable—until now. ADRIFT With unprecedented access to 260 fearsome WED, APR 30 9:30 PM roM killers, The Condemned offers a chilling study D: Frederik Jan Depickere | Belgium, Colombia | 9 min THU, MAY 1 1:00 PM sCOTIA of punishment. WED, APR 30 7:00 PM sCOTIA SUN, MAY 4 4:30 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 11:00 AM roM SUN, MAY 4 7:30 PM TBLB MON, APR 28 7:15 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 11:00 AM roM SUN, MAY 4 3:30 PM TBLB

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE FOCUS ON INFINITY HOTLINE THE JOE SHOW D: Joerg Burger | Austria | 78 min D: Tony Shaff | USA | 80 min D: Randy Murray | USA | 101 min This visually breathtaking exposition questions Eavesdrop on the private exchanges that fill Media stunts and a great marketing team keep astronomers, physicists and church leaders on the telephone hotlines, where strangers connect infamous Arizonian sheriff Joe Arpaio in office origins of the universe and the condition of our to save lives, predict futures and satisfy lust. despite his habit of sidestepping the law. He environment, taking us to astronomical projects, Hotline exposes the inner workings of suicide, even brought back chain gangs. At 81, Arpaio is archeological sites and UFO-sighting locations in psychic and sex lines, revealing intimate portraits America’s quintessential “Teflon” politician. Chile, Armenia and the US. of those who call and those who answer. FRI, APR 25 6:30 PM TBLB WED, APR 30 7:00 PM hART MON, APR 28 7:15 PM hART SAT, APR 26 11:00 AM bADER THU, MAY 1 10:30 AM bADER TUE, APR 29 1:00 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 6:30 PM roM FRI, MAY 2 1:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 9:45 PM sCOTIA SUN, MAY 4 7:00 PM hART NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY WORLD PREMIERE THE IMMORTALISTS THE HOMESTRETCH D: Eszter Hajdu | Canada, Germany, Portugal, D: David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg | USA | 80 min Hungary, Switzerland, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, D: Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly | USA | 90 min France | 107 min Live forever or die trying. That’s the motto of two Three exceptional teens engage in a high-stakes free-thinking biologists on a quest to find the This tense, sobering courtroom saga, following fight to stay in school while facing the incredible cure for mortality and reverse the aging process the two-year trial of four men accused of obstacle of being homeless. Struggling with forever. Intriguing ethical debates echo in their murderous attacks on the Roma community in abandonment, isolation and instability, can they personal lives. a Hungarian town, reveals systemic corruption, build the future they dream of? negligence and apathy. SUN, APR 27 7:00 PM hART Screening with TUE, APR 29 3:30 PM roM THU, MAY 1 5:30 PM TBLB STEVE FRI, MAY 2 9:30 PM FOX FRI, MAY 2 11:00 AM roM SUN, MAY 4 9:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 3:45 PM sCOTIA D: Jesse McCracken | Canada | 8 min SAT, APR 26 3:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE MON, APR 28 3:30 PM roM SUN, MAY 4 7:00 PM sCOTIA IN COUNTRY KHRUSHCHEV DOES AMERICA D: Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara | USA | 80 min D: Tim Toidze | France, USA, Canada | 59 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE War is hell, so why spend your weekends there? At the peak of the Cold War, a surreal and AN HONEST LIAR In Oregon, reenactors shockingly recreate not unbelievably fleeting love affair developed D: Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom | USA | 91 min WWII or the Civil War, but Vietnam. A “platoon” between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Famed magician James “The Amazing” Randi, of unlikely men searches frontline fantasies for the American public. This pre-Glasnost road enraged at seeing self-proclaimed psychics meaning, therapy and unsettling truths. movie is a kaleidoscopic collage of archival and faith healers using his cherished illusions footage and Khrushchev’s voice recordings. Screening with dishonestly, commits his life to exposing lying REHEARSAL Screening with profiteers, but ultimately has to confront a secret CONTROVERSIES of his own. D: Tom Rosenberg | USA | 11 min FRI, APR 25 8:45 PM sCOTIA D: Ryan McKenna | Canada | 17 min SUN, APR 27 12:30 PM TBLB WED, APR 30 9:15 PM hART SUN, APR 27 9:30 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 6:30 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 7:00 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 10:30 AM roM SAT, MAY 3 4:00 PM reGENT SAT, MAY 3 6:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 9:45 PM TBLB

KHRUSHCHEV DOES AMERICA THE IMMORTALISTS

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE KINGS OF THE WIND & MY PLACE RED LINES ELECTRIC QUEENS D: Emmanuel Moonchil Park | Canada, South Korea D: Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs | USA | 98 min | 77 min D: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz | France | 56 min With no nation coming to Syria’s rescue, two This chaotic portrait reflects the vivid sights of Tensions arise when the director’s sister decides unlikely activists take to the ground with an India’s Sonepur Fair on the first day of Diwali, to become a single mom in Canada. Far from unthinkable plan: create one free, democratic subtly using tarot card figures as a framework South Korea where her more traditional parents Syrian village. Intrepid cameras capture for this hypnotic exploration of Bihari culture. live, the family is forced to straddle two worlds their death-defying struggle to map a blueprint in order to raise the child. for freedom. Screening with THROUGH THE FIRE Screening with TUE, APR 29 6:30 PM sCOTIA CHEVETTE 83 WED, APR 30 1:30 PM sCOTIA D: Miguel Narings | Netherlands | 15 min FRI, MAY 2 7:00 PM roM WED, APR 30 7:30 PM TBLB D: Luis Oliva | Canada | 4 min THU, MAY 1 4:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 4:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 2:00 PM sCOTIA THE STARFISH THROWERS THU, MAY 1 7:00 PM sCOTIA INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Jesse Roesler | USA | 83 min THE LAST SEASON OLGA—TO MY FRIENDS When a five-star chef, a retired teacher and a D: Sara Dosa | USA | 78 min sixth-grade girl make a simple gesture to feed the D: Paul-Anders Simma | Finland, Norway, Sweden poor, they unexpectedly ignite a movement in the Hundreds of mushroom hunters search the | 58 min woods of Southeast Oregon each fall for elusive fight against hunger, and prove that individuals In the Russian tundra a young girl lives alone matsutake mushrooms. This season, two former can make an enormous difference. in a reindeer herdsman’s cabin guarding her soldiers find an unlikely connection and the storage of provisions, the only food supply Screening with means to heal the deep wounds of war. during the summer months. A portrait of a girl 3 ACRES IN DETROIT TUE, APR 29 6:30 PM bADER navigating loneliness in a landscape she loves. D: Nora Mandray | France, USA | 12 min WED, APR 30 3:30 PM TBLB SAT, APR 26 3:30 PM hART SUN, MAY 4 6:30 PM reVUE Screening with MON, APR 28 10:30 AM roM MOM SUN, MAY 4 9:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Lidia Sheinin | Russia | 28 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE LIFE AFTER DEATH WED, APR 30 7:30 PM sCOTIA THULETUVALU D: Joe Callander | USA, Rwanda | 74 min FRI, MAY 2 7:30 PM TBLB D: Matthias von Gunten | Switzerland | 98 min In Rwanda, Kwasa seems allergic to work. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE So when wealthy Texans offer him Christian PENTHOUSE NORTH In the North Atlantic, Thule’s melting icecaps guidance and job opportunities, he takes are raising sea levels for the South Pacific island D: Johanna St Michaels | Sweden | 80 min their help and maybe more. Humour guides this nation of Tuvalu, forcing inhabitants of these fresh critique of both aid and the aided. Beauty queen has-been Agneta will do anything diverse locales to abandon their traditional ways not to lose her New York City penthouse. But of life and face an uncertain future. TUE, APR 29 9:30 PM sCOTIA holding on to her high-flying past may come at the WED, APR 30 4:00 PM sCOTIA cost of her sanity in this (un)real estate tragic-com. WED, APR 30 7:00 PM roM THU, MAY 1 4:00 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 7:30 PM royAL NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Screening with THE MALAGASY WAY HOW I LIVE, AS YOU WANTED TO KNOW INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Nantenaina Lova | France, Madagascar | 84 min D: Christian Einshøj | Denmark | 15 min TOUGH LOVE THU, MAY 1 6:30 PM sCOTIA The people of Madagascar make things from D: Stephanie Wang-Breal | USA | 85 min nothing by recycling materials and repurposing FRI, MAY 2 9:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 6:30 PM TBLB An addict father and a teenaged mother each household objects. Their ingenuity and lose their kids to foster care, but in this conservationist lifestyle makes perfect sense in PIPELINE rare glimpse inside the American child welfare the midst of the global economic crisis. But will system, they tirelessly fight poverty, prejudice and the world pay attention? D: Vitaly Mansky | Russia, Czech Republic, Germany | 117 min crushing bureaucracy for a second chance. Screening with Cross seven borders and even more social FLOTSAM & JETSAM SAT, APR 26 9:00 PM sCOTIA classes as cameras follow the route of a Russian MON, APR 28 1:00 PM sCOTIA D: Jan Bednarz | UK, Bahamas | 7 min natural gas pipeline from Siberia to sunny SAT, APR 26 3:30 PM roM Europe. Eccentric people, quirky locales and SUN, APR 27 4:00 PM sCOTIA ever-Westernizing political climates astound in SAT, MAY 3 9:15 PM sCOTIA this award-winning visual road trip.

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WHAT IS LEFT? INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE VELVET TERRORISTS D: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi | Italy | 74 min WONDER WORLD OF ICE D: Peter Kerekes, Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarcík D: Ilkka Rautio | Finland | 52 min The directors of Hot Docs hit Italy Love it or | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia | 87 min Leave It return with another cheeky, personal Chinese ice sculptors arrive in Finland’s largest Three men who fought against communist power and hilarious look at contemporary Italian ski resort to create a wonderland made of ice. in Czechoslovakia paid the price when they were society, this time examining the current state of Accompanying them is a young Chinese student sentenced as terrorists. Reenacting their intended Italy’s fabled socialist and communist parties. who is to become the resort’s panda mascot. A acts of armed resistance, the film employs playful blend of culture, craft and calling to a better life. flights of fancy to allow us a glimpse into their SUN, APR 27 7:00 PM royAL past and present lives. MON, APR 28 4:30 PM sCOTIA Screening with SUN, MAY 4 9:00 PM sCOTIA THE SUPREME SAT, APR 26 6:30 PM sCOTIA D: Katarzyna Gondek | Poland | 20 min SUN, APR 27 4:30 PM roM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SAT, MAY 3 9:30 PM hART WHERE I’M FROM TUE, APR 29 7:30 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 2:00 PM sCOTIA D: Claude Demers | Canada | 78 min SUN, MAY 4 3:30 PM sCOTIA INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Two boys discover their world between the VESSEL WORLD PREMIERE magical banks of the Saint Lawrence River and D: Diana Whitten | USA | 88 min WRITE DOWN, I AM AN ARAB the working class streets of Verdun. Clothing In this galvanizing voyage, a Dutch physician the hard knocks of poverty in memories of D: Ibtisam Mara’ana Menuhin | Israel, Palestine | 73 min works with activists to exploit maritime law to adventure, the film renders childhood trauma provide safe medical abortions in areas where into cinematic poetry. Mahmoud Darwish was Palestine’s national poet they’re otherwise illegal, while facing threats and considered one the most influential writers from hostile governments and violent protestors. Screening with in the Arab world. His brilliant and controversial CHRISTMAS WITH DON CHERRY works have inspired millions, and his rich life FRI, APR 25 6:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 1:00 PM hART D: Wade Vroom | Canada | 13 min is beautifully documented in this comprehensive SUN, MAY 4 9:30 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 8:30 PM TBLB and heart-breaking film. TUE, APR 29 3:00 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 6:30 PM sCOTIA Screening with SMILE, AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE BACK D: al-Haddad Family, Ehab Tarabieh, Yoav Gross | Israel, Palestine | 20 min SUN, APR 27 7:00 PM sCOTIA TUE, APR 29 1:00 PM roM SUN, MAY 4 1:00 PM sCOTIA

WHERE I’M FROM

PIPELINE VELVET TERRORISTS

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MADE IN DENMARK Supported by the Danish Film Institute

SONGS FOR ALEXIS

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE PINE RIDGE THE AGREEMENT A DIFFERENT KIND OF BOY D: Anna Eborn | Denmark | 77 min D: Karen Stokkendal Poulsen | Denmark | 58 min D: Ulrik Wivel | Denmark | 54 min As summer passes on South Dakota’s Be in the room as representatives of Serbia and Eighteen and autistic, Alexander is moving away Pine Ridge Reservation, the site of the Wounded Kosovo face off over a co-existence agreement. from home. To celebrate, his brother takes him Knee Massacre, its young inhabitants endure the An EU negotiator must battle two fierce on a road trip to Barcelona. This is the beginning uncertain future of life on the margins, still haunted opponents, juvenile antics and one bloody history of his journey to independence. by the turbulent past of their Sioux ancestors. in this undiplomatically comic exposé. Screening with Screening with Screening with LOUIS THE FERRIS WHEEL KID SOLITARY PLAINS AN IRANIAN NINJA D: Tara Fallaux | Netherlands | 18 min D: J. Christian Jensen | USA | 9 min D: Marjan Riahi | Iran | 24 min MON, APR 28 7:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 6:00 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 6:15 PM TBLB WED, APR 30 5:00 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 1:00 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 1:30 PM roM FRI, MAY 2 2:00 PM roM SUN, MAY 4 4:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 12:30 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE FOUR LETTERS APART—CHILDREN SONGS FOR ALEXIS AI WEIWEI THE FAKE CASE IN THE AGE OF ADHD D: Elvira Lind | Denmark | 75 min D: Andreas Johnsen | Denmark | 79 min D: Erlend E. Mo | Denmark | 87 min Two passionate teenagers are stuck in suburbia Out on probation after 81 days of solitary Victor, Martine and Marino struggle with the navigating their love story and its place in confinement, outspoken Chinese artist symptoms and stigma associated with their the world. When 16-year-old Alexis’ parents Ai Weiwei returns home to Kafkaesque police Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. But disapprove of her 18-year-old boyfriend surveillance, house arrest and a pending through their school’s alternative treatment Ryan, the talented transgender musician lawsuit. Yet he finds creative new ways to project, which replaces drugs with physiotherapy, wonders if he’ll be left all alone. provoke government authorities. they discover something else: self-esteem and Screening with self-awareness. SAT, APR 26 4:30 PM TBLB THE PINK HELMET POSSE SUN, APR 27 1:00 PM hART FRI, APR 25 3:45 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 6:00 PM bloor D: Kristelle Laroche, Ben Mullinkosson | USA | 9 min SUN, APR 27 9:30 PM roM SUN, MAY 4 6:00 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 9:45 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 8:30 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 7:00 PM sCOTIA

Also screening as part of the Made in Denmark program, Beach Boy p. 21, How I Live, as You Wanted to Know p. 17.

AI WEIWEI THE FAKE CASE A DIFFERENT KIND OF BOY

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LOVE FACTUALLY Love, Passion & Matters of the Heart

LOVE HOTEL

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE CASE AGAINST 8 WORLD PREMIERE 112 WEDDINGS D: Ben Cotner, Ryan White | USA | 112 min LOVE HOTEL D: Doug Block | USA | 92 min D: Philip Cox, Hikaru Toda | UK, France | 80 min Same-sex marriage equality has had a long and Is there real love after marriage? Years after arduous road to the US Supreme Court. This The Angelo Love Hotel in Osaka, Japan, shares its shooting their wedding videos, filmmaker Doug gripping and moving portrait of an emboldened sexy secrets in this intimate glimpse into a venue Block tracks down several of his customers to movement focuses on the struggle to strike down where everyday people seek refuge, privacy and find out if they lived happily ever after. His before California’s Prop 8 as unconstitutional. play. This unique world is now being threatened and after footage provides insight on what keeps by increasing conservatism enforced by the couples together. TUE, APR 29 6:30 PM bloor* “entertainment police.” WED, APR 30 10:30 AM bADER FRI, APR 25 7:00 PM bADER Screening with SAT, APR 26 11:00 AM bloor * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 4. GHOST TRAIN TUE, APR 29 1:30 PM bADER D: Kelly Hucker, James Fleming | Australia | 14 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SAT, APR 26 6:00 PM TBLB DOMINO EFFECT MON, APR 28 6:30 PM roM ALFRED AND JAKOBINE SAT, MAY 3 6:00 PM TBLB D: Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski | Germany, D: Tom Roberts, Jonathan Howells | UK, Canada Poland | 76 min | 73 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In Abkhazia, an unrecognized “country” in For years, madcap lovers Alfred and Jakobine LOVE ME Russia’s Caucasus, patriotism runs rather tour the globe in an old London taxi. Without D: Jonathon Narducci | USA | 93 min deep. In this Black Sea black comedy, its self- warning, he abandons her. Forty years later, this appointed sports minister must choose between How much would you pay to fall in love? The love-letter film follows the old scoundrel as his foreign wife and a bizarre tournament that scams and stereotypes of Ukraine’s mail-order he tries to drive the wreck back into her heart. will surely put them on the map. brides and the Western men who seek them get FRI, APR 25 9:45 PM TBLB equal exposure in this fascinating look at the SUN, APR 27 1:30 PM bADER THU, MAY 1 6:30 PM TBLB modern love industry. SUN, MAY 4 9:15 PM hART FRI, MAY 2 1:30 PM TBLB SAT, MAY 3 9:45 PM TBLB FRI, APR 25 9:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 1:00 PM sCOTIA LOVE & ENGINEERING FRI, MAY 2 7:00 PM FOX

D: Tonislav Hristov | Finland, Germany, Bulgaria WORLD PREMIERE | 85 min BECOME A MEET THE PATELS Can love be reduced to a scientific formula? A D: Geeta V. Patel, Ravi V. Patel | USA | 88 min MEMBER rag-tag gang of computer nerds is sure willing to try. They strive to provide practical proof Traditionally, every Patel marries a Patel, that an engineer can find a mate by approaching even in America. After a failed relationship, attraction as an algorithm, but everything a first-generation Indian-American decides changes once they step out of the lab. to find love the old-fashioned way by letting his parents find him a wife. THU, MAY 1 9:00 PM sCOTIA FRI, MAY 2 8:30 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 9:30 PM royAL SUN, MAY 4 1:30 PM reVUE TUE, APR 29 11:00 AM bADER THU, MAY 1 9:30 PM bADER

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE SPECIAL NEED STREAM OF LOVE SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK D: Carlo Zoratti | Germany, Italy | 84 min D: Ágnes Sós | Hungary | 70 min D: Christian Frei | Switzerland | 92 min A young autistic man embarks upon a journey As an old widower sizes up the single babas Heartbreak, though under-examined, affects with his two friends through Europe looking in his sleepy Transylvanian village, prospective us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei for the physical love he has been yearning for, grannies share uproariously salty talk about teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher but discovers something entirely different. sex and relationships. Laugh (and blush) along to examine, through intimate portraits, the power with this sweet look at silver love. and resilience of love despite it all. SUN, APR 27 6:30 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 1:00 PM roM Screening with SUN, MAY 4 9:00 PM bADER Screening with BEACH BOY LOVE IN THE TIME OF FIRES D: Emil Langballe | UK, Denmark | 27 min D: Gil González | Mexico | 6 min FRI, APR 25 6:00 PM sCOTIA WED, APR 30 9:30 PM TBLB SUN, APR 27 4:30 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 9:30 PM hART SUN, MAY 4 8:30 PM sCOTIA SUN, MAY 4 1:30 PM TBLB Mystery, The Power of Legends & THE Mysteries of the Real World Myth & Legend

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE later, the violent cause of death leaves the FIRE-FOLLOWERS locals reeling and we are taken to the heart of an unsolvable mystery. D: Karolina Bregula | Poland | 49 min Fear and paranoia engulf a Northern European MON, APR 28 9:45 PM hART town that has dealt with numerous fires TUE, APR 29 4:15 PM sCOTIA throughout its history. In a film that blurs the FRI, MAY 2 8:45 PM sCOTIA boundaries of truth and fiction, the town hunts for the next arsonist in their midst, as art MIRACULOUS TALES becomes a burning issue. D: Daniel Vernon | UK | 57 min

Screening With In a disappearing world of folklore and THE DARKSIDE WILD BOAR magic, a 73-year-old former farmer turns writer, documenting people along the AMERICAN INTERIOR D: Willem Baptist | Netherlands | 26 min Northern Irish border who may possess D: Gruff Rhys, Dylan Goch | UK | 90 min SUN, APR 27 9:00 PM TBLB the keys to potential miracles. TUE, APR 29 2:00 PM sCOTIA Welsh cult musician Gruff Rhys takes us on Screening with the funny and fantastical American journey NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE THE APOTHECARY of his 18th-century ancestor, the explorer KALYUG John Evans, showing us how myth-making D: Helen Hood Scheer | USA | 17 min can inspire the human spirit into astonishing D: Juri Mazumdar | Italy | 74 min FRI, APR 25 3:00 PM sCOTIA pursuits of glory and creativity. In this breathtaking debut from director Juri SAT, APR 26 9:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 4:30 PM sCOTIA Mazumdar, old folklore tales and legends FRI, APR 25 4:00 PM sCOTIA from the Bhil, an indigenous people living in INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SAT, APR 26 7:00 PM royAL central India, are interwoven with situations SAT, MAY 3 11:30 PM bloor faced by their people today. THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE FRI, APR 25 9:00 PM sCOTIA D: Jessica Oreck | USA | 72 min THE DARKSIDE SAT, APR 26 3:45 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 4:30 PM TBLB D: Warwick Thornton | Australia | 94 min The centuries-old Slavic fable of Baba Yaga, a ferocious witch who dwells in a forest hut This stunning and poignant collection of WORLD PREMIERE perched on chicken legs, is reimagined within indigenous ghost tales gathered from LOVE AND TERROR ON THE a dreamlike, anthropological portrait of across Australia—whether sad, humorous HOWLING PLAINS OF NOWHERE modern-day life. or haunting—are artfully brought to life by some of Australia’s most beloved actors. D: Dave Jannetta | USA | 95 min WED, APR 30 8:30 PM TBLB In a Twin Peaks-esque community, a brilliant THU, MAY 1 1:00 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 9:45 PM TBLB FRI, APR 25 9:00 PM roM mathematics professor disappears without a SAT, APR 26 1:30 PM sCOTIA SUN, MAY 4 9:30 PM royAL trace. When his body is discovered three months

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NEXT The Arts, Creativity & Pop Culture

QUE CARAMBA ES LA VIDA

WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ADVANCED STYLE THE CREATOR OF THE JUNGLE KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON D: Lina Plioplyte | USA | 72 min D: Jordi Morató | Spain | 77 min D: Alan Hicks | USA | 84 min Seven of New York’s most stylish elderly women Garrell, Catalonia’s own Tarzan and amateur Ninety-three-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry are profiled in this invigorating portrait about the movie star, constructs astounding architectural mentors blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin, intersection of aging and beauty, based on the labyrinths in his roadside jungle paradise. But as but as Terry’s health and sight fade, their popular blog by renowned fashion photographer forces of modernization raze his structures, he relationship deepens. Through their shared Ari Seth Cohen. doggedly rebuilds in an unending battle to keep passion in music, they find the strength to his fantastical world alive. face their individual challenges. Screening with YOU WON’T REGRET THAT TATTOO Screening with WED, APR 30 9:45 PM bloor THU, MAY 1 9:45 PM TBLB D: Angie Bird | Canada | 13 min STILL LIFE D: Johannes Krell, Florian Fischer | Germany | 12 min TUE, APR 29 10:00 PM hART WORLD PREMIERE THU, MAY 1 1:00 PM bADER SAT, APR 26 9:00 PM roM SAT, MAY 3 1:30 PM reGENT SUN, APR 27 3:30 PM TBLB MAD AS HELL SUN, MAY 4 1:30 PM bADER SAT, MAY 3 3:15 PM sCOTIA D: Andrew Napier | USA | 80 min Cenk Uygur is a man determined to change INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE THE BASEMENT SATELLITE the face of news media, and he’s not afraid FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE to ruffle some feathers along the way. In D: Hyoungju Kim | South Korea | 108 min D: Clare Young | Australia | 52 min this unlikely version of the American Dream, After five years of all-nighters, a South Korean A behind-the-scenes portrait of Jane Campion as Cenk rises from public access TV to become the amateur scientist has built the first-ever she writes and directs her latest project, the series creator of the most popular online news show in civilian satellite, which he hopes to launch in Top of the Lake. With the unusual dynamic of the world. Kazakhstan. Will his dream achieve lift-off? Campion being the filmmaker’s mentor, we gain a A reflection on failure’s necessary involvement TUE, APR 29 7:30 PM TBLB special insight into an artist’s creative process. WED, APR 30 3:15 PM hART in the creative process. FRI, MAY 2 4:00 PM sCOTIA Screening with FRI, APR 25 6:45 PM sCOTIA THE PIONEER SAT, APR 26 12:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE FRI, MAY 2 9:00 PM bADER D: Daniela Abke | Germany | 13 min MATEO FRI, APR 25 1:00 PM sCOTIA D: Aaron Naar | USA | 88 min COME WORRY WITH US! SAT, APR 26 8:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 3:00 PM TBLB “America’s first gringo mariachi singer” Matthew D: Helene Klodawsky | Canada | 81 min Stoneman is trying to kick his own gimmick and Can band members rock out on stage one minute NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE achieve musical greatness. A gold-plated voice and change diapers the next? Jessica and Efrim I LOVE KUDURO trapped inside a hapless dreamer tries to make the big time in this fantastically fun saga. take their baby on a North American tour with Thee D: Mário Patrocínio | Angola, Portugal | 95 min Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra to find out Born in the discos and raves of Luanda, Kuduro Screening with if musicians—especially moms—can have it all. music and dance is a bangin’ mix of house, THE CHILEAN ELVIS techno and traditional Angolan rhythms. Discover Screening with D: Marcelo Kiwi | Chile | 10 min the history, hot tracks and big stars driving this THINGS CHANGE SAT, APR 26 4:00 PM sCOTIA cultural movement as it spreads raw energy from D: Martine Asselin | Canada | 3 min SUN, APR 27 9:30 PM TBLB the big city to the ’burbs. SAT, MAY 3 9:45 PM sCOTIA SUN, APR 27 6:00 PM TBLB MON, APR 28 2:00 PM sCOTIA FRI, APR 25 10:00 PM royAL THU, MAY 1 1:00 PM hART SAT, APR 26 3:30 PM TBLB FRI, MAY 2 2:00 PM sCOTIA

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WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE QUE CARAMBA ES LA VIDA MUGSHOT THE NOSE—SEARCHING D: Doris Dörrie | Germany | 86 min FOR BLAMAGE D: Dennis Mohr | Canada | 52 min Mariachi may be an essential part of Mexican What do Justin Bieber, Rob Ford and Conrad D: Paul Rigter | Netherlands | 53 min culture but it is considered a man’s domain. Black have in common? They all have cameos In this olfactory portrait of Alessandro Gualtieri, the Follow some of Mexico’s female mariachis as they in this smart and fascinating investigation into vanguard perfumer muses giddily about aroma as fight to claim their rightful place singing how mug shots, originally intended to keep track he gathers smells from across the globe for what he the music they love. of criminals, have been repurposed as art and hopes will be his greatest fragrance: Blamage. historical evidence. FRI, APR 25 3:30 PM sCOTIA Screening with SUN, APR 27 7:00 PM roM FRI, MAY 2 7:30 PM sCOTIA Screening with THE FISH TAMER LOVE YA D: Dani Resines, Roger Gómez | Spain | 23 min WORLD PREMIERE D: Jessica Pronk, Chris Altorf | Canada | 19 min SAT, APR 26 4:30 PM sCOTIA SHIELD AND SPEAR MON, APR 28 7:00 PM bADER SUN, APR 27 9:45 PM sCOTIA TUE, APR 29 4:00 PM bADER SAT, MAY 3 1:00 PM TBLB D: Petter Ringbom | USA | 88 min SAT, MAY 3 1:00 PM sCOTIA In a country with a turbulent past and an uncertain THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS future, progressive South African artists and For screenings at the Isabel Bader Theatre, musicians test the limits of freedom of expression D: Edward Lovelace, James Hall | UK | 80 min audiences are invited before and after the film around issues of race, class and history. to view an on-site exhibit of original vintage With inventive craft, gorgeous cinematography mug shots, presented in collaboration with the and a uniquely evocative tone, this amazing true SUN, APR 27 7:00 PM TBLB Stephen Bulger Gallery. story follows renowned Scottish musician Edwyn TUE, APR 29 1:30 PM sCOTIA Collin’s road to recovery after a harrowing stroke FRI, MAY 2 9:30 PM roM takes his language and memories from him.

WED, APR 30 9:30 PM sCOTIA THU, MAY 1 1:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 7:30 PM royAL REDUX Films that Deserve Another Outing ON THE BIG SCREEN

LOVE TRANSLATED NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN D: Julia Ivanova | Canada | 2010 | 84 min D: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern | UK | 2010 | 104 min Ten men travel to Odessa on a commercial dating tour to meet gorgeous Ukrainian From Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (Shut women. Over just 10 days, both the men and Up and Play the Hits), this cinematic portrait the women navigate sex, romance and money of the UK band Blur as they re-form in 2009 in the search for an ideal mate. offers unseen archival material and interviews capturing shared history and friendship. SUN, APR 27 4:00 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 1:45 PM bloor

PORTRAIT OF JASON THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG AND THE NUN PORTRAIT OF JASON FOURTEEN DAYS IN MAY D: Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Denmark | 2006 D: Shirley Clarke | USA | 1967 | 90 min D: Paul Hamann | UK | 1987 | 88 min | 84 min Ingmar Bergman called legendary female A 26-year-old African-American convicted of A stubborn and eccentric 82-year-old bachelor documentarian Shirley Clarke’s masterpiece, the murder of a white police officer receives purchased a castle to establish a monastery. “the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my the news of his execution date. Convinced of When a delegation of nuns led by an equally life.” As an African-American street hustler his innocence, a young attorney, Clive Stafford obstinate matriarch moves in, an unlikely and aspiring cabaret singer narrates his life, Smith, fights to save him in a film that gave friendship is formed in this critically acclaimed a beautiful, captivating and mesmerizing birth to the organization Reprieve. masterpiece of Danish documentary. character is revealed. FRI, APR 25 11:00 AM bloor FRI, APR 25 1:30 PM TBLB TUE, APR 29 1:30 PM TBLB

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NIGHTVISION Future Cult Classics

DOC OF THE DEAD

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ART AND CRAFT DOC OF THE DEAD HARMONTOWN D: Jennifer Grausman, Sam Cullman | USA | 89 min D: Alexandre Philippe | USA | 82 min D: Neil Berkeley | USA | 101 min A talented, eccentric forger with a history of A love letter to zombies. George Romero, Freshly fired from Community, the cult sitcom deceiving museums is pitted against an obsessive Simon Pegg, Bruce Campbell and other “experts” he created, the hilariously funny but notoriously curator who may have no way of stopping him. dig through the guts of an enduring cultural difficult Dan Harmon takes his live podcast on This compelling tale paints a picture of the craft phenomenon, exploring the history of a movie a tour across the US. and ethics of non-original art. genre that just won’t die. FRI, APR 25 11:59 PM bloor TUE, APR 29 9:00 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 11:59 PM bloor SUN, APR 27 3:15 PM hART WED, APR 30 11:59 PM bloor SUN, APR 27 9:30 PM hART THU, MAY 1 9:00 PM QUAD FREE! SAT, MAY 3 4:00 PM bloor SAT, MAY 3 9:45 PM royAL SUN, MAY 4 11:00 AM reVUE PULP WORLD PREMIERE D: Florian Habicht | UK | 93 min BEYOND CLUELESS GIUSEPPE MAKES A MOVIE Alternative rockers Pulp regroup for a reunion D: Charlie Lyne | UK , Canada | 91 min D: Adam Rifkin | USA | 85 min show in their hometown of Sheffield after This surprising and comprehensive visual essay The ultimate independent filmmaker, Giuseppe years apart. This exhilarating look at fame on the modern teen movie genre explores over Andrews makes movies in his mobile home. Using and performance through the perspectives 200 films from The Craft to Mean Girls that the trailer park as a set, homeless friends as of both the audience and band makes stars celebrate prom queens, cafeteria cliques and the actors and a hand-written first draft, he sets out and “Common People” of us all. warm apple pies in between. to complete his 30th feature in just two days. SUN, APR 27 11:59 PM bloor TUE, APR 29 10:00 PM TBLB SAT, APR 26 7:00 PM sCOTIA MON, APR 28 4:00 PM TBLB THU, MAY 1 11:30 PM bloor MON, APR 28 11:15 PM bloor SUN, MAY 4 7:00 PM royAL SUN, MAY 4 12:30 PM TBLB SUN, MAY 4 6:00 PM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE THE WRITER WITH NO HANDS D: William Westaway | UK | 85 min When a propaganda expert becomes determined to solve the suspicious death of notable screenwriter Gary DeVore, he finds himself in the midst of a more sinister issue: the US military’s involvement in Hollywood.

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BEYOND CLUELESS

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SponsoredRetrospective by the CanadaHonouring Media AFunddam Curtis THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

ALL WATCHED OVER BY THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES THE WAY OF ALL FLESH MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE D: Adam Curtis | UK | 2004 | 180 min D: Adam Curtis | UK | 1997 | 54 min D: Adam Curtis | UK | 2011 | 180 min The myths and realities of the war on terror are In the 1950s, the cells of a young American An exploration of how ecosystems infiltrated held under the microscope as Curtis contrasts woman, Henrietta Lacks, were found to have technology to create an information age the rise of neoconservatism with radical Islam. unique properties and used for cancer research. at the same time as scientists tried to project How much of the post-9/11 culture of fear was The role of Lacks’s cells, which continue to cybernetic ideas onto nature. Our world as invented to serve the interests of the powerful? reproduce to this day, raises questions about the seen through the eyes of technology and why woman “who will never die.” we find this machine vision so beguiling. FRI, MAY 2 1:30 PM sCOTIA SAT, APR 26 2:00 PM sCOTIA SAT, MAY 3 1:30 PM sCOTIA THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM THE CENTURY OF THE SELF D: Adam Curtis | UK | 2007 | 180 min D: Adam Curtis | UK | 2002 | 240 min This exploration of the modern meaning of An investigation into how the powerful have used individual freedom draws on many examples, Freud’s theories to create a revolution in politics including game theory’s emergence during and society, Curtis shows how the manipulation of the Cold War, how medical diagnoses create our unconscious desires has paved the way for the a particular idea of “normal” and philosopher public relations industry, consumer culture, the rise Isaiah Berlin’s notions of liberty and coercion. of psychoanalysis and a very different presidency. THU, MAY 1 4:00 PM TBLB FRI, APR 25 12:30 PM TBLB

THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM

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Activism & Protest Fire-Followers 21 Wonder World of Ice (China) 18 Leave Them Laughing 12 The Life and Mind of Above All Else 15 The Malagasy Way 17 EASTERN EUROPEAN Vessel 18 Mark DeFriest 13 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 19 Mugshot 23 CULTURES & ISSUES IMMIGRATION, Out of Mind, Out of Sight 11 The Case Against 8 20 The Nose - Searching for Blamage 23 Everyday Rebellion (Ukraine) 6 MULTICULTURALISM & RACE Point and Shoot 8 Concerning Violence 6 Shield and Spear 23 Love Me (Ukraine) 20 The Beijing Ants 15 MIDDLE EASTERN A Dangerous Game 6 The Sower 12 Love Translated (Ukraine) 23 Bronx Obama 15 CULTURE & ISSUES Demonstration 6 Wonder World of Ice 18 Stream of Love (Romania) 21 Evaporating Borders 15 A Dress Rehearsal for an Divide in Concord 15 CAPITALISM & BIG BUSINESS The Theory of Happiness (Ukraine) 12 Everything Will Be 10 Execution (Iran) 10 Everyday Rebellion 6 Above All Else 15 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (Ukraine) 9 Fourteen Days in May 23 E-Team (Syria) 6 Harlan County U.S.A. 7 The Beijing Ants 15 The Vanquishing of the Witch I’ve Seen the Unicorn 10 Everyday Rebellion (Syria) 6 The Life and Mind of A Dangerous Game 6 Baba Yaga 21 Judgment in Hungary 16 Point and Shoot 8 Mark DeFriest 13 Earth’s Golden Playground 15 Velvet Terrorists (Czech Republic, My Place 17 Red Lines (Syria) 17 Mission Blue 8 Everyday Rebellion 6 Slovakia) 18 Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me 8 Return to Homs (Syria) 8 Red Lines 17 The Great Invisible 6 ECOLOGY & THE ENVIRONMENT The Secret Trial 5 11 We Are the Giant 9 Silenced 9 The Notorious Mr. Bout 8 Above All Else 15 Shield and Spear 23 Write Down, I Am an Arab The Starfish Throwers 17 CENTRAL EUROPEAN All Watched Over by Machines INDIGENOUS CULTURES (Palestine) 18 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel 9 CULTURES & ISSUES of Loving Grace 25 & ISSUES MUSIC & MUSICIANS Velvet Terrorists 18 Judgment in Hungary (Hungary) 16 Divide in Concord 15 The Darkside 21 American Interior 21 We Are the Giant 9 No Lullaby (Germany) 13 Focus on Infinity 16 Earth’s Golden Playground 15 Come Worry With Us! 22 Addiction Pipeline 17 The Great Invisible 6 Kalyug 21 I Love Kuduro 22 Giuseppe Makes a Movie 24 CHILDREN & YOUTH The Malagasy Way 17 The Malagasy Way 17 Keep On Keepin’ On 22 Ne Me Quitte Pas 8 The Backward Class 10 Mission Blue 8 Pine Ridge 19 Living Stars 13 Tough Love 17 Beyond Clueless 24 Pipeline 17 ThuleTuvalu 17 Mateo 22 African Cultures & Issues The Boy From Geita 10 The Sower 12 Walking Under Water 14 No Distance Left to Run 23 Bintou (Burkina Faso) 15 Children 404 6 ThuleTuvalu 17 LABOUR & WORKING PEOPLE Portrait of Jason 23 The Boy From Geita (Tanzania) 10 David & Me 10 Virunga 14 Demonstration 6 The Possibilities Are Endless 23 Concerning Violence 6 Four Letters Apart - Children in Walking Under Water 14 Earth’s Golden Playground 15 Pulp 24 E-Team (Libya) 6 the Age of ADHD 19 EDUCATION Harlan County U.S.A. 7 Que Caramba Es la Vida 23 I Love Kuduro (Angola) 22 Guidelines 10 The Backward Class 10 Joy of Man’s Desiring 10 Shield and Spear 23 I’ve Seen the Unicorn (Mauritius) 10 Happiness 7 Four Letters Apart - Children The Overnighters 8 Songs for Alexis 19 Life After Death (Rwanda) 17 The Homestretch 16 in the Age of ADHD 19 The Theory of Happiness 12 Super Duper Alice Cooper 9 The Malagasy Way (Madagascar) 17 Pine Ridge 19 Guidelines 10 Waiting for August 14 MYTHS AND LEGENDS Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me Rich Hill 8 The Homestretch 16 LATIN AMERICAN American Interior 21 (South Africa) 8 Songs for Alexis 19 I Am Big Bird: The CULTURES & ISSUES Bugarach 13 Point and Shoot (Libya) 8 Waiting for August 14 Caroll Spinney Story 7 The Engineer (El Salvador) 13 The Darkside 21 Shield and Spear (South Africa) 23 Where I’m From 18 FAMILIES & FAMILY Living Stars (Argentina) 13 Fire-Followers 21 Virunga (Eastern Congo) 14 CRIME & PUNISHMENT RELATIONSHIPS Mateo (Mexico) 22 Kalyug 21 Aging & the Elderly Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 19 Absences 15 Que Caramba Es la Vida (Mexico) 23 Love and Terror on the Howling Absences 15 Art and Craft 24 Actress 13 Plains of Nowhere 21 LGBT CULTURE & ISSUES Miraculous Tales 21 Advanced Style 22 Captivated: The Trials of The Beijing Ants 15 Before the Last Curtain Falls 10 Alfred and Jakobine 20 Pamela Smart 6 Bronx Obama 15 The Vanquishing of the Witch The Case Against 8 20 Baba Yaga 21 Divide in Concord 15 The Condemned 15 Come Worry With Us! 22 Children 404 6 Everything Will Be 10 David & Me 10 David & Me 10 I Love Kuduro 22 NORTHERN EUROPEAN The Immortalists 16 The Engineer 13 A Different Kind of Boy 19 Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story 7 CULTURES & ISSUES Keep On Keepin’ On 22 E-Team 6 Fed Up 6 Love Hotel 20 Fire-Followers (Norway) 21 Marinoni 11 Fourteen Days in May 23 Giuseppe Makes a Movie 24 Portrait of Jason 23 ThuleTuvalu (Greenland) 17 Miraculous Tales 21 Happy Valley 7 Meet the Patels 20 Songs for Alexis 19 Wonder World of Ice (Finland) 18 The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun 23 The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story My Place 17 To Be Takei 9 PERFORMERS & PERFORMANCE Penthouse North 17 of Aaron Swartz 6 No Lullaby 13 LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Actress 13 See No Evil 14 The Joe Show 16 Private Violence 8 112 Weddings 20 Before the Last Curtain Falls 10 Stream of Love 21 Judgment in Hungary 16 Tough Love 17 Actress 13 Bronx Obama 15 The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest 13 Velvet Terrorists 18 AMERICAN CULTURE & ISSUES Alfred and Jakobine 20 Harmontown 24 Love and Terror on the Howling Waiting for August 14 American Interior 21 Captivated: The Trials of An Honest Liar 16 Plains of Nowhere 21 Bronx Obama 15 FASHION & STYLE Pamela Smart 6 I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Mugshot 23 The Case Against 8 20 Advanced Style 22 The Case Against 8 20 Spinney Story 7 No Lullaby 13 Fourteen Days in May 23 Bintou 15 Domino Effect 20 Leave Them Laughing 12 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 11 Happy Valley 7 The Nose - Searching for Blamage 23 The Immortalists 16 To Be Takei 9 The Overnighters 8 Harlan County U.S.A. 7 Penthouse North 17 Kung Fu Elliot 11 Tomorrow We Disappear 14 In Country 16 Private Violence 8 FILM & FILMMAKERS Love & Engineering 20 The Joe Show 16 The Secret Trial 5 11 PERSONAL HISTORIES Beyond Clueless 24 Love Hotel 20 Khrushchev Does America 16 Watchers of the Sky 9 112 Weddings 20 The Creator of the Jungle 22 Love Me 20 Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story 7 Whitey: United States of America Absences 15 Doc of the Dead 24 Love Translated 23 Life After Death 17 v. James J. Bulger 9 The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest 13 From the Bottom of the Lake 22 Meet the Patels 20 Love and Terror on the Howling The Wild Horse Redemption 12 My Place 17 Giuseppe Makes a Movie 24 Ne Me Quitte Pas 8 Plains of Nowhere 21 The Writer With No Hands 24 PHOTOGRAPHY & Kung Fu Elliot 11 Private Violence 8 The Overnighters 8 PHOTOGRAPHERS DISABILITY & PEOPLE WITH The Writer With No Hands 24 Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo 12 Pine Ridge 19 DISABILITIES A Dress Rehearsal for an Execution 10 FOOD & AGRICULTURE Self (less) Portrait 11 Rich Hill 8 A Different Kind of Boy 19 Mugshot 23 Fed Up 6 Sleepless in New York 21 To Be Takei 9 Four Letters Apart - Children in POLITICS & POLITICAL INTRIGUE The Last Season 17 Songs for Alexis 19 Tough Love 17 the Age of ADHD 19 The Agreement 19 The Songs of Rice 14 The Special Need 21 Tour of Duty 14 Keep On Keepin’ On 22 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 19 The Sower 12 Stream of Love 21 Whitey: United States of America The Possibilities Are Endless 23 The Case Against 8 20 The Starfish Throwers 17 MEDIA v. James J. Bulger 9 The Special Need 21 Century of Self 25 GENDER & SEXUALITY Captivated: The Trials of ANIMALS EAST ASIAN CULTURES Children 404 6 Before the Last Curtain Falls 10 Pamela Smart 6 See No Evil 14 & ISSUES The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Hotline 16 The Joe Show 16 The Wild Horse Redemption 12 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case (China) 19 of Aaron Swartz 6 Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story 7 Mad as Hell 22 Virunga 14 The Basement Satellite The Joe Show 16 Songs for Alexis 19 Pulp 24 (South Korea) 22 Khrushchev Does America 16 ART & ARTISTS MENTAL HEALTH The Beijing Ants (China) 15 HEALTH The Notorious Mr. Bout 8 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 19 Four Letters Apart - Children Love Hotel (Japan) 20 Absences 15 The Power of Nightmares 25 Art and Craft 24 in the Age of ADHD 19 My Place (South Korea) 17 The Boy From Geita 10 The Secret Trial 5 11 The Basement Satellite 22 Hotline 16 A Dress Rehearsal for an Execution 10 Tour of Duty (South Korea) 14 Fed Up 6 Silenced 9

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The Writer With No Hands 24 Tough Love 17 SOUTH ASIAN CULTURES TRAVEL & ADVENTURE WOMEN & WOMEN’S ISSUES Ukraine Is Not a Brothel 9 Where I’m From 18 & ISSUES Earth’s Golden Playground 15 Actress 13 We Are the Giant 9 RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY The Backward Class (India) 10 Point and Shoot 8 Advanced Style 22 What Is Left? 18 The Darkside 21 Kalyug (India) 21 URBAN STORIES Bintou 15 Whitey: United States of America Focus on Infinity 16 Kings of the Wind & Electric Demonstration 6 Come Worry With Us! 22 v. James J. Bulger 9 Kalyug 21 Queens (India) 17 Everything Will Be 10 From the Bottom of the Lake 22 POPULAR CULTURE Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens 17 Meet the Patels (India) 20 Mugshot 23 Leave Them Laughing 12 Beyond Clueless 24 Life After Death 17 Tomorrow We Disappear (India) 14 Penthouse North 17 Mission Blue 8 Century of the Self 25 The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun 23 SOUTHEAST ASIAN Self (less) Portrait 11 My Place 17 Doc of the Dead 24 The Overnighters 8 CULTURES & ISSUES Slums: Cities of Tomorrow 12 No Lullaby 13 Harmontown 24 The Theory of Happiness 12 Happiness (Bhutan) 7 Tomorrow We Disappear 14 Olga - To My Friends 17 Penthouse North 17 I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Walking Under Water 14 The Songs of Rice (Thailand) 14 WAR & CONFLICT Spinney Story 7 Walking Under Water (Borneo) 14 Private Violence 8 RUSSIAN CULTURE & ISSUES The Agreement 19 Que Caramba Es la Vida 23 I Love Kuduro 22 Children 404 6 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN Concerning Violence 6 Kung Fu Elliot 11 Tour of Duty 14 The Condemned 15 CULTURES & ISSUES A Dress Rehearsal for an Execution 10 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel 9 Mad as Hell 22 Domino Effect 20 The Agreement (Serbia, Kosovo) 19 The Engineer 13 The Measure of All Things 5 Vessel 18 Khrushchev Does America 16 The Creator of the Jungle (Spain) 22 E-Team 6 Waiting for August 14 Pulp 24 Olga - To My Friends 17 A Dangerous Game (Croatia) 6 In Country 16 Self (less) Portrait 11 Pipeline 17 Demonstration (Spain) 6 The Last Season 17 WRITERS The Sheik 9 Write Down, I Am an Arab 18 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Evaporating Borders (Cyprus) 15 The Notorious Mr. Bout 8 Ski Bums 12 All Watched Over by Machines Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo Point and Shoot 8 Super Duper Alice Cooper 9 of Loving Grace 25 (Bosnia) 12 The Power of Nightmares 25 To Be Takei 9 The Basement Satellite 22 Sacro GRA (Italy) 9 Red Lines 17 The Writer With No Hands 24 Focus on Infinity 16 The Special Need (Italy) 21 Return to Homs 8 POVERTY Happiness 7 Waiting for August (Romania) 14 Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo 12 The Backward Class 10 Hotline 16 What Is Left? (Italy) 18 Tour of Duty 14 Giuseppe Makes a Movie 24 The Immortalists 16 SPORTS & LEISURE Watchers of the Sky 9 The Homestretch 16 The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Domino Effect 20 WESTERN EUROPEAN CULTURES Kalyug 21 of Aaron Swartz 6 Happy Valley 7 & ISSUES Life After Death 17 Love & Engineering 20 I’ve Seen the Unicorn 10 Bugarach (France) 13 Pine Ridge 19 Mad as Hell 22 Marinoni 11 Ne Me Quitte Pas (Belgium) 8 Slums: Cities of Tomorrow 12 The Way of All Flesh 25 The Sheik 9 The Starfish Throwers 17 Ski Bums 12

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112 Weddings 20 Divide in Concord 15 The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story No Distance Left to Run 23 Sunday, We’ll See 15 3 Acres in Detroit 17 Doc of the Dead 24 of Aaron Swartz 4, 6 No Lullaby 13 Super Duper Alice Cooper 5, 9 Above All Else 15 Docs at Dusk 5 An Iranian Ninja 19 The Nose - Searching for Blamage 23 The Supreme 18 Absences 15 Domino Effect 20 The Joe Show 16 The Notorious Mr. Bout 8 The Theory of Happiness 12 Actress 13 A Dress Rehearsal for an Execution 10 Joy of Man’s Desiring 10 Olga - To My Friends 17 Things Change 22 Adrift 15 Earth’s Golden Playground 15 Judgment in Hungary 16 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 11 Through the Fire 17 Advanced Style 22 The Engineer 13 Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story 11 The Overnighters 8 ThuleTuvalu 17 The Agreement 19 E-Team 6 Jutra 10 Penthouse North 17 To Be Takei 4, 9 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 19 Evaporating Borders 15 Kalyug 21 Pine Ridge 19 Tomorrow We Disappear 14 Alfred and Jakobine 20 Everyday Rebellion 6 Keep On Keepin’ On 22 The Pink Helmet Posse 19 Tough Love 17 All Watched Over by Machines Everything Will Be 10 Khrushchev Does America 16 The Pioneer 22 Tour of Duty 14 of Loving Grace 25 Fed Up 6 Kings of the Wind & Pipeline 17 The Trap: What Happened to American Interior 21 Fire-Followers 21 Electric Queens 17 Point and Shoot 8 Our Dream of Freedom 25 The Apothecary 21 The Fish Tamer 23 Kung Fu Elliot 11 Portrait of Jason 23 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel 9 Art and Craft 24 Flor de Toloache 10 Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story 7 The Possibilities Are Endless 23 The Vanquishing of the Witch Avatar Secrets 5 Flotsam & Jetsam 17 The Last Season 17 The Power of Nightmares 25 Baba Yaga 21 The Backward Class 10 Focus on Infinity 16 Leave Them Laughing 12 Private Violence 8 Velvet Terrorists 18 The Basement Satellite 22 Four Letters Apart - Children Life After Death 17 Pulp 24 Vessel 18 Beach Boy 21 in the Age of ADHD 19 The Life and Mind of Que Caramba Es la Vida 23 Virunga 14 Before the Last Curtain Falls 10 Fourteen Days in May 23 Mark DeFriest 13 Red Lines 17 Waiting for August 14 The Beijing Ants 15 From the Bottom of the Lake 22 Living Stars 13 Rehearsal 16 Walking Under Water 14 Beyond Clueless 24 Ghost Train 20 Louis the Ferris Wheel Kid 19 Return to Homs 8 Watchers of the Sky 9 Big Ideas Series 4 Giuseppe Makes a Movie 24 Love & Engineering 20 Rich Hill 8 The Way of All Flesh 25 Bintou 15 The Great Invisible 6 Love and Terror on the Howling Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo 12 We Are the Giant 9 The Boy From Geita 10 Guidelines 10 Plains of Nowhere 21 Sacro GRA 9 What Is Left? 18 Bronx Obama 15 Gun Porn 10 Love Hotel 20 The Secret Trial 5 11 Where I’m From 18 Bugarach 13 Happiness 7 Love in Time of Fires 21 See No Evil 14 Whitey: United States of America Captivated: The Trials of Happy Valley 7 Love Me 20 Self (less) Portrait 11 v. James J. Bulger 9 Pamela Smart 6 Harlan County U.S.A. 7 Love Translated 23 The Sheik 9 Wild Boar 21 The Case Against 8 4, 20 Harmontown 24 Love Ya 23 Shield and Spear 23 The Wild Horse Redemption 12 The Century of the Self 25 Hart 11 Mad As Hell 22 Silenced 9 Will the Real Dave Barber Chevette 83 17 The Homestretch 16 The Malagasy Way 17 Ski Bums 12 Please Stand Up? 11 Children 404 6 An Honest Liar 16 Marinoni 11 Sleepless in New York 21 Wonder World of Ice 18 The Chilean Elvis 22 Hot Docs Live! 5 Mateo 22 Slums: Cities of Tomorrow 12 The World of Adrien 15 Christmas With Don Cherry 18 Hot Docs Talk 5 The Measure of All Things 5 Smile, and the World Will Write Down, I Am an Arab 18 Come Worry With Us! 22 Hotline 16 Meet the Patels 20 Smile Back 18 The Writer With No Hands 24 Concerning Violence 6 How I Live, as You Wanted Miraculous Tales 21 Solitary Plains 19 You Won’t Regret That Tattoo 22 The Condemned 15 to Know 17 Mission Blue 4, 8 Songs for Alexis 19 米花糕 (or the Chinese Controversies 16 I’ve Seen the Unicorn 10 Mom 17 The Songs of Rice 14 Rice Krispies Square) 11 The Creator of the Jungle 22 I Am Big Bird: The Caroll The Monastery: Mr. Vig and The Sower 12 A Dangerous Game 6 Spinney Story 4, 7 the Nun 23 The Special Need 21 The Darkside 21 I Love Kuduro 22 Mugshot 23 The Starfish Throwers 17 David & Me 10 The Immortalists 16 My Place 17 Steve 16 Demonstration 6 In Country 16 Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me 8 Still Life 22 A Different Kind of Boy 19 International Doc Challenge 7 Ne Me Quitte Pas 8 Stream of Love 21

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