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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
OPENING NIGHT FILM charming and candid Chaz bravely stands up International Premiere POM Wonderful to demystify the transgender experience. Buck Presents: The Greatest Fri, Apr 29 9:15 PM bloor D: Cindy Meehl | USA | 88 min Sun, May 1 4:00 PM tblb2 Movie Ever Sold Sun, May 8 6:45 PM tblb2 A real-life horse whisperer overcomes his dark childhood and emerges as kind of an equine-rooted D: Morgan Spurlock | USA | 90 min International Premiere philosopher, proving his own maxim: horses make Provocateur Morgan Spurlock sells out to bring Being Elmo: better people. Unforgettable, and deservedly the us a “doc-buster” financed entirely by product winner of an Audience Award at Sundance. placement, marketing and advertising. Smart, A Puppeteer’s Journey incisive and hilarious, it pulls the curtain Tue, May 3 6:30 PM bloor D: Constance Marks | USA | 76 min Thu, May 5 1:15 PM bader back on our deeply embedded, hyper-branded Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this Sundance Sun, May 8 4:15 PM bader entertainment landscape. Special Jury Prize winner sneaks us behind Thu, Apr 28 6:30 PM WINTER the scenes at Sesame Street to reveal International Premiere Fri, Apr 29 4:15 PM bader the inspirational story of Kevin Clash, shy The Bully Project puppeteer and creator of the everyone’s D: Lee Hirsch | USA | 94 min The Advocate for Fagdom favourite Muppet. Savage teasing, repeated threats, a gun is D: Angélique Bosio | France | 92 min Fri, May 6 7:15 PM bader pulled—and all this just on the bus ride to school. Sat, May 7 7:15 PM bader Romantic-Queercore-punk-zombie pornographer, Sun, May 8 4:30 PM tblb1 Filmmaker Lee Hirsch spends a shocking year on gleeful crusher of cliché, righteousness and the front lines of America’s bullying epidemic. repressive politics: Viva Bruce LaBruce! Wed, May 4 7:00 PM bader Scintillating film clips and fabulous interviews Blood in the Mobile Fri, May 6 4:15 PM bader with John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Gus D: Frank Piasecki Poulsen | Germany, Denmark Van Sant reveal Toronto’s gift to the world. | 82 min International Premiere Fri, May 6 9:00 PM bloor Are the minerals in your mobile phone contributing Carol Channing: Larger Sat, May 7 8:45 PM tblb2 to the violence in eastern Congo? Filmmaker Than Life Frank Poulsen documents one of the world’s International Premiere most notorious mines and exposes its links to D: Dori Berinstein | USA | 87 min Beats, Rhymes & Life: the bloodshed that plagues the region. Broadway powerhouse Carol Channing is as The Travels of a Tribe Wed, May 4 6:30 PM bloor vivacious at 90 as when she first captivated Fri, May 6 4:30 PM cuMB2 audiences in Hello, Dolly! nearly 50 years Called Quest ago. Iconic and incomparable, her expansive D: Michael Rapaport | USA | 98 min International Premiere career—and late-life romance with her junior Actor Michael Rapaport’s directorial debut hits the Bobby Fischer Against high sweetheart—is profiled. road with Q-Tip, Phife, Ali and Jarobi, charting the the World Mon, May 2 6:15 PM bloor band’s triumphant and turbulent 20-year career Thu, May 5 3:45 PM tblb2 D: Liz Garbus | USA | 93 min Sun, May 8 9:00 PM tblb2 as they reunite for a series of sold-out gigs. An authentic portrait of true hip-hop pioneers. Bobby Fischer was the rock star of the chess world, but underneath his brilliance lurked International Premiere Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM tblb1 a tormented soul. A gripping, impressively Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop researched look at how this American Cold International Premiere D: Rodman Flender | USA | 89 min War hero became a vilified, paranoid recluse. Becoming Chaz Dumped from The Tonight Show and banned SUN, MAY 1 1:30 PM bader from appearing on television, radio or the D: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | USA | 85 min TUE, MAY 3 7:00 PM tblb3 Internet for six months: what’s a firebrand A revealing look at Chaz (formerly Chastity) comic to do? Hit the stand-up road looking for Bono’s journey through gender reassignment. laughs…and revenge. Go, Coco! A reluctant public figure whose parents’ fame Sat, Apr 30 9:00 PM bloor thrusts him into the spotlight, the utterly Sun, May 1 11:45 PM bloor Mon, May 2 11:00 AM roM
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CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE FIGHTVILLE
DOLPHIN BOY Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey In Heaven, Underground. The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee
Doc It! SHOWCASE The Good Life International Premiere A showcase for teenage doc makers, Doc It! D: Eva Mulvad | Denmark | 84 min In Heaven, Underground. presents the brightest of these young voices, The Jewish Cemetery screening a selection of work from submissions Born with a silver spoon, headstrong daughter received from across the country and beyond. Annemette yearns for her affluent younger in Berlin-Weissensee Visit www.hotdocs.ca for a complete list of films. years. Fortune squandered, living together on one D: Britta Wauer | Germany | 90 min modest pension, she and her mother now struggle This Berlinale Audience Award winner is an Sat, May 7 11:00 AM roM to keep tempers in check and wine on the table. enchanting portrait of a 130-year-old Jewish Screening with World Premiere cemetery in the German capital. A delightful Dolphin Boy Surpriseville array of characters celebrates life and the D: Tim Travers Hawkins | UK | 10 min immortality of memories. D: Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir | Israel | 72 min Mon, May 2 9:00 PM tblb1 Sun, May 1 7:00 PM bader The unexplained wonders of dolphin-assisted Wed, May 4 10:45 AM bader Tue, May 3 3:45 PM bader therapy are captured on camera in this Sun, May 8 9:00 PM bader Sun, May 8 7:30 PM tblb1 inspiring tale of a boy who had lost touch with reality after a brutal beating, and the dolphins World Premiere International that helped heal his deep emotional scars. The Hollywood Complex DocUMENTARY Challenge Thu, May 5 9:00 PM bloor D: Dan Sturman, Dylan Nelson | USA | 85 min Sat, May 7 9:45 PM tblb3 Hot Docs is pleased to host the theatrical Every spring, thousands of hopeful child actors premieres of the finalists in the sixth annual International Premiere flock to Hollywood for television’s crushingly International Documentary Challenge, a timed Fightville competitive “pilot season.” Many stay with filmmaking competition where teams from their families at the Oakwood apartment around the world have five days to make a D: Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein | USA | 85 min complex, a place where dreams are chased at documentary. For a complete list of films Brutal. Bloody. Beautiful. Fightville throws us into surprising costs. please visit www.hotdocs.ca. the cage with Ultimate Fighting Championship Sun, May 1 9:45 PM bader Sun, May 1 9:30 PM innis competitors to reveal the raw power and focused Tue, May 3 3:45 PM tblb2 determination it takes to emerge a champion. Sun, May 8 1:00 PM cuMB2 Thu, Apr 28 9:30 PM WINTER Fri, Apr 29 1:45 PM bader Tue, May 3 3:45 PM cuMB2 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca : 05 HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL : APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011
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International Premiere Screening with Position Among the Stars The Power of Love Limelight D: Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands | 111 min (Celine Dion Fans in Kenya) D: Billy Corben | USA | 101 min Masterful camerawork and incredible access The Limelight was one of New York’s most D: Joyce Wong | Canada | 8 min elevate the daily struggles of a traditional famous nightclubs in the 1980s and 1990s, Sat, Apr 30 6:15 PM bloor grandmother and her urbanized family in but beneath its glitzy surface lay a dangerous Sun, May 1 6:30 PM tblb2 Jakarta’s slums to a deeply humanist portrait Sun, May 8 1:30 PM bader underworld. Billy Corben’s doc profiles of contemporary Indonesia. The stunning finale Limelight creator Peter Gatien and the to a trilogy twelve years in the making. My Barefoot Friend business of clubbing that nearly destroyed him. Mon, May 2 6:15 PM bader Thu, May 5 6:00 PM tblb1 D: Seong-gyou Lee | South Korea | 81 min Wed, May 4 1:15 PM bader Sun, May 8 6:15 PM tblb3 Sat, May 7 4:00 PM roM Ten thousand rickshaws are still pulled by hand in Kolkata. Running barefoot through the Love Shines chaotic streets, 55-year-old Shallim’s dreams Project Nim D: Douglas Arrowsmith | Canada | 87 min of escaping the desperate cycle of poverty D: James Marsh | USA, UK | 93 min fuel this poignant look at the pothole-filled James Marsh follows his hit doc Man on Love and music shine as Ron Sexsmith pairs ride of life. up with legendary hit-maker Bob Rock for a Wire with the year’s most engrossing and new CD. Part evocative biopic, this journey into Tue, May 3 9:45 PM roM heartbreaking biography, that of “Nim Thu, May 5 9:30 PM tblb3 the heart of songwriting also features Elvis Chimpsky,” a chimpanzee whose epic life Costello, Feist and Daniel Lanois. story unfolds against startling human error, My Reincarnation eccentricity and hubris. Fri, May 6 9:45 PM bader Sat, May 7 9:45 PM bader D: Jennifer Fox | USA, Finland, Germany, Nether- Thu, May 5 9:45 PM bader Sun, May 8 4:00 PM tblb2 lands, Switzerland | 100 min Fri, May 6 11:00 AM bader When your father is high Tibetan master Magic Trip Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and you’re the Senna D: Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney | USA | 90 min reincarnation of a famous spiritual teacher, D: Asif Kapadia | UK | 104 min it’s hard to escape the family business. In 1964, the Merry Pranksters—including Ken Brazilian racing superstar Ayrton Senna’s Italian-born Yeshi struggles against Dad, Kesey and Kerouac’s muse Neal Cassady— dramatic Formula One career, from his fierce destiny and the divine in this epic drama. embarked on an infamous LSD-fuelled road trip rivalry with nemesis Alain Prost to his eventual across America. Oscar-winner Alex Gibney and Sat, Apr 30 4:15 PM bader death behind the wheel, is the subject of this Sun, May 1 9:15 PM tblb3 Alison Ellwood craft original footage and audio sublime nail-biter of a biography. recordings into the year’s trippiest time capsule. WORLD PREMIERE Wed, May 4 6:15 PM tblb1 Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM bader Fri, May 6 9:00 PM tblb1 Mon, May 2 3:30 PM bader The National Parks Project D: Various | Canada | 127 min Vodka Factory Stunning and inspired, this ambitious omnibus Mama Africa D: Jerzy Sladkowski | Sweden | 90 min film barely fits the big screen. Fifty-two D: Mika Kaurismäki | Germany, South Africa, Fantasies of big-city stardom cushion a single Finland | 90 min filmmakers and musicians explore our country’s rugged wilderness, translating the landscape into mother labouring on an assembly line from the Veteran filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki beautifully cinematic form to mark Parks Canada’s centennial. brutal banalities of life in Russia’s backwoods illuminates the extraordinary life of South in this award-winning, intimately filmed story African singer and civil rights activist Sat, Apr 30 9:30 PM tblb1 of the high price of dreams. Miriam Makeba. Featuring rare footage and Mon, May 2 9:15 PM royal Wed, May 4 6:30 PM tblb2 extraordinary music, this film riveted audiences Thu, May 5 11:00 AM roM at the Berlinale. Sun, May 8 6:15 PM innis
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At Night, They Dance WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE D: Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault Eco Pirate: The Story The Guantanamo Trap | Canada | 80 min of Paul Watson D: Thomas Selim Wallner | Germany, Canada, Switzerland | 90 min Masters of direct cinema, these award-winning D: Trish Dolman | Canada | 110 min filmmakers sweep you into the chaotic and Follow four lives forever changed by the Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society dangerous whirl of a clan of belly dancers in infamous U.S. detention camp, and witness the and co-founder of Greenpeace, Paul Watson working-class Cairo whose art is in danger scars that remain as democratic values fade. has been on a crusade to save our oceans for of disappearing. Torture in its many insidious forms is described 40 years—and he’s not about to let corrupt or by perpetrators, whistleblowers, victims and Tue, May 3 10:00 PM tblb4 lily-livered governments stop him now. Fri, May 6 1:15 PM roM their defenders. Sun, May 1 6:00 PM tblb1 Tue, May 3 1:00 PM cuMB2 Fri, Apr 29 9:30 PM royal Mon, May 2 1:00 PM tblb3 Beauty Day Sat, May 7 9:30 PM reGENT D: Jay Cheel | Canada | 90 min Family Portrait Before Tom Green, Jackass or YouTube, Cap’n in Black and White WORLD PREMIERE Video (a.k.a. Ralph Zavadil) achieved minor D: Julia Ivanova | Canada | 92 min Highway Gospel celebrity with his zany cable-access television D: Jaret Belliveau | Canada | 97 min show. When one gag stands—and falls—above In a ramshackle house in Ukraine—a country the rest, the world’s attention is drawn to his of blue-eyed blonds and burgeoning racial No guts, no glory! B.C. renegades race mountain shocking stunts. tensions—Olga Nenya is raising 16 abandoned highways on customized longboards, while black children. Is she a crusading supermom, a middle-aged skateboarder fights to keep Screening with or a woman craving absolute control? his Ottawa skate park—and creaky knees— Fahrenheit 7-Eleven Screening with operational. These dudes make the X Games D: Walter Forsberg | Canada | 14 min look like child’s play. Hand to Toe: an exploration Fri, Apr 29 6:45 PM bader Screening with Wed, May 4 7:30 PM rooftop in the art of giving Sat, May 7 4:15 PM bader D: France Benoit | Canada | 8 min Nodin (Wind) D: Nodin Wawatie | Canada | 3 min Mon, May 2 6:45 PM cuMB2 WORLD PREMIERE Wed, May 4 4:30 PM tblb3 Sat, Apr 30 9:30 PM royal Sun, May 8 3:30 PM tblb3 Mon, May 2 9:30 PM roM The Chocolate Farmer Sat, May 7 11:45 PM bloor D: Rohan Fernando | Canada | 70 min WORLD PREMIERE With machete in hand, Eladio Pop cultivates Grinders WORLD PREMIERE his Belizean cocoa plantation, following in The Hilltops D: Matt Gallagher | Canada | 75 min the footsteps of his Mayan ancestors. But as D: Igal Hecht | Canada | 58 min progress undermines tradition, his children A colourful cast of professional poker players confront a modern world, charting their own lays their cards on the table in this high-stakes The West Bank settlements are a lightning path. Will any of them carry on his legacy? journey through their often bizarre world of rod of controversy. Witness their creation, destruction and resurrection, as destiny-driven Screening with Toronto’s underground clubs, online gambling sites and Vegas tournaments. Zionists passionately seek to settle hilltop Uprooted lands. An astute observation of the challenges Screening with D: Andrew Moir | Canada | 6 min to achieving Middle East peace. Chance Encounters Thu, May 5 7:00 PM tblb3 Screening with Sat, May 7 7:15 PM cuMB2 D: Justin Colautti | Canada | 10 min Susya Sun, May 8 1:15 PM roM Fri, Apr 29 9:45 PM bader Sat, May 7 9:30 PM tblb1 D: Dani Rosenberg, Yoav Gross | Israel, Sun, May 8 6:30 PM fox Occupied Palestinian Territories | 15 min Sun, May 1 4:30 PM roM Tue, May 3 9:45 PM cuMB2
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BEAUTY DAY INSIDE LARA ROXX
PEOPLE OF A FEATHER Family Portrait in Black and White
WORLD PREMIERE Mighty Jerome WORLD PREMIERE Inside Lara Roxx D: Charles Officer | Canada | 83 min The Pirate Tapes D: Mia Donovan | Canada | 81 min Race, national pride and tragic misfortune D: Matvei Zhivov, Roger Singh, Andrew Moniz, Rock Baijnauth | Canada | 72 min Dreaming of money and stardom, a naïve shape the story of 1960s track star Harry Montrealer strives to make her mark in L.A.’s Jerome, one of Canada’s finest and fastest In this riveting tale of danger, politics and notorious porn industry, but instead makes athletes. In Charles Officer’s feature doc international intrigue, a Somali-Canadian sensational headlines for contracting HIV while debut, fantastic soul music, rare footage and journalist risks his life to infiltrate a Somali on the job. After the hype ends, this raw and compelling reenactments illuminate Jerome’s pirate cell. His hidden camera footage is woven uncompromising story unfolds. remarkable career. with insights into the complex causes that turned ordinary fishermen into marauders. Screening with Fri, Apr 29 9:30 PM tblb3 Set Backs Sat, Apr 30 11:00 AM bader Screening with Sun, May 8 4:30 PM revue D: Délia Gunn | Canada | 3 min Only Sky & Water D: Tamara Scherbak | Canada | 4 min Thu, May 5 6:30 PM bloor WORLD PREMIERE Fri, May 6 9:45 PM cuMB2 Sun, May 1 9:15 PM bloor Sun, May 8 9:30 PM royal People of a Feather Sat, May 7 4:15 PM cuMB2 D: Joel Heath | Canada | 90 min Sun, May 8 9:00 PM fox For the Inuit of the Belcher Islands, survival during the harsh arctic winter depends on the 2011-12 Doc Soup Eider duck—a species now suffering mass die-offs. Striking time-lapse cinematography Subscriptions captures their struggle to adapt to a rapidly Now Available at Special Festival Rates changing environment. Thu, May 5 6:30 PM tblb2 Sat, May 7 1:30 PM bader Sun, May 8 9:00 PM innis
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A Simple Rhythm WORLD PREMIERE Wiebo’s War D: Tess Girard | Canada | 52 min St-Henri, the 26th D: David York | Canada | 94 min Does a universal pulse keep us all in step? This of August The Alberta government and Big Oil brand visually immersive meditation on the beat that D: Shannon Walsh | Canada | 85 min convicted saboteur Wiebo Ludwig an eco- binds us draws on music, science, medicine On a September day in 1962, a group of terrorist; he calls himself a devout Christian and the cosmos to better understand nature’s emerging Quebec filmmakers focused their who is driven to defend his Trickle Creek irrepressible forces. lenses on the working class enclave of Saint- community from the deadly effects of sour Screening with Henri. Today, a new generation revisits the gas wells. You decide. 75 Watts storied neighborhood, capturing traces of its Screening with D: John Cullen | Canada | 13 min roots underlying a modern Montreal. Danger Fri, Apr 29 7:00 PM royal Tue, May 3 6:30 PM tblb2 D: Nemnemiss McKenzie, Langis Fortin Sat, May 7 6:30 PM cuMB3 Thu, May 5 12:30 PM cuMB2 | Canada | 4 min Sun, May 8 6:00 PM roM Sun, May 8 3:45 PM roM Sat, Apr 30 7:00 PM bader Tue, May 3 7:15 PM tblb4 Sat, May 7 7:00 PM reGENT
FOCUS ON Presented by the National Film Board of Canada Alan Zweig
ALAN ZWEIG: EARLY SHORTS VINYL Trip Sheet, The Boys, Stealing Images D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 2000 | 117 min D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 1976, 1977, 1989 | 9, 24, 28 min Zweig’s cult favourite mines the comedy and tragedy of obsessive The director as cab driver, best friend and fictional character… Alan record collecting. This smart and cranky confessional recognizes Zweig’s search to understand himself through others; his fascinations the record as an object beyond music, and collecting as a way of with connection, control and the outsider all find their origins in this searching the heart and mind. must-see collection of shorts. Thu, May 5 9:30 PM royal Sat, Apr 30 7:15 PM innis VINYL: THE ALTERNATE TAKE A HARD NAME D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 2006 | 96 min D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 2009 | 89 min Every great man has a library...of quadraphonic eight-tracks, K-Tel This Genie Award-winner and Hot Docs top-ten audience favourite compilations and mint jazz rarities. These unseen outtakes from follows seven ex-convicts as they navigate life on the outside, Vinyl focus on the joy of music, the thrill of the find and the tactile shedding light on society’s integral role in the creation of the criminal. pleasure of records.
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I, CURMUDGEON D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 2004 | 94 min To be negative or not to appear to be negative, that is the question. Seeing his life in three acts, Zweig tackles his second-act “bitter years” with a cast of fellow miserablist truth-tellers, including Fran Lebowitz, Harvey Pekar and Scott Thompson.
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LOVABLE D: Alan Zweig | Canada | 2007 | 94 min How long have you been alone? Why can’t you find love? Zweig explores the last shame frontier—being romantically unattached— with female singletons. Is being solo merely taboo, or is it proof that you’re unlovable?
Sun, May 1 7:00 PM innis I, CURMUDGEON
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International Premiere The Castle Cameras follow his eye-opening road trip to right wrongs and face truths. Abendland D: Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti | Italy | 90 min D: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | 88 min Wed, May 4 9:45 PM bader At Milan’s Malpensa Airport, rigorous Fri, May 6 1:45 PM bader Master visual essayist Nikolaus Geyrhalter observational filmmaking exposes the ennui (Our Daily Bread), returns to Hot Docs and heightened tensions of today’s border International Premiere with lucid observations of Europe at night, security. Routine drug busts and intrusive DRAGONSLAYER collecting images of those who work and play immigration interviews pass the time, along under the cover of darkness. with live lobster inspections and unexpected D: Tristan Patterson | USA | 74 min Mon, May 2 6:45 PM tblb2 discoveries in cargo holds. With only a backpack, a board and 20 pairs Thu, May 5 4:00 PM cuMB3 Mon, May 2 9:30 PM cuMB2 of shades, Californian skate-punk Skreech Wed, May 4 1:00 PM cuMB2 stretches out his adolescence by riding empty At the Edge of Russia pools, getting wasted and road-tripping. How The Collaborator long can you live in the moment before the D: Michal Marczak | Poland | 72 min past catches up with you? and his Family Hundreds of miles from the nearest human Sun, May 1 6:45 PM tblb3 settlement, a young recruit arrives at his Arctic D: Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash | Israel, USA, France, Mon, May 2 11:45 PM bloor post, charged with an absurd task: patrolling Canada | 84 min Wed, May 4 9:15 PM royal the nothingness. A riveting portrait of silence, This riveting and unflinching film follows a broken at times by vodka and sad song. Palestinian man—a long-time collaborator International Premiere Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM cuMB2 with Israel—and his family as they struggle Fly Tue, May 3 1:15 PM tblb2 to assimilate into Israeli society after they are D: Bulmaro Osornio | Mexico | 97 min Fri, May 6 7:00 PM cuMB2 branded traitors in their homeland. Only in the distant memory of his dead wife Thu, May 5 7:15 PM roM International Premiere does a young widower find the strength to raise Sat, May 7 9:30 PM roM BOY CHEERLEADERS his daughters while working the night shift as a taxi driver. A stirring story of unconditional love WORLD Premiere D: James Newton | UK | 59 min from the streets of Mexico City. Daughters of Malakeh On a tough South Leeds estate, all-boy Sat, Apr 30 4:30 PM tblb3 cheerleading team the DAZL Diamonds D: Jet Homoet, Sharog Heshmat Manesh Mon, May 2 9:45 PM cuMB3 rehearse for nationals. Led by their flamboyant | Netherlands | 85 min coach, these sensitive kids breakdance, break Maryam is getting married, a blushing bride International Premiere down and break free—Billy Elliot-style. at 45. With her family’s support, she navigates GRANDE HOTEL Screening with the public expectations of a traditional Sharia D: Lotte Stoops | Belgium | 70 min 5 Pictures of a Father marriage, but behind closed doors her doubts Nostalgia and allegory infuse this last look at D: Nadia Josefine El Said | Denmark | 21 min and questions abound. An intimate picture of family life in Iran. the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique. Once Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM cuMB2 a glorious monument to colonialism, its decay Sun, May 1 4:30 PM tblb3 Mon, May 2 7:15 PM tblb3 Sun, May 8 6:45 PM bader Wed, May 4 1:30 PM roM is hastened by the 2500 squatters forced to cannibalize what remains to survive. Despicable Dick Screening with & Righteous Richard Goodbye Mandima $5 Late Night Screenings D: Robert-Jan Lacombe | Switzerland | 11 min D: Joshua Neale | UK | 79 min See p. 3 Sat, Apr 30 7:30 PM tblb3 Recovering addict Dick Kuchera is a salty, Mon, May 2 1:30 PM cuMB3 first-class boor. After 20 years of botched attempts, the rascal takes one last stab at the “making amends” stage of his 12-step program.
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International Premiere International Premiere International Premiere HELL AND BACK AGAIN The Interrupters Melissa–mom and Me D: Danfung Dennis | UK, USA | 88 min D: Steve James | USA | 142 min D: Limor Pinhasov | Israel | 52 min With supremely accomplished filmmaking, This inspirational film by director Steve Camcorder footage captures two gorgeous Dennis’ visually arresting and intimately James—the man behind seminal 1994 girls, one Israeli and one American, in corsets powerful story of soldiers in Afghanistan and documentary Hoop Dreams—follows and bunny-ears, high on coke backstage at a at home does the impossible: it shakes our three brave and compassionate “violence Tokyo strip club. Seven years later, they reunite shell-shocked senses with the realities of war. interrupters” working to put an end to gang to discover the heartbreakingly divergent Tue, May 3 7:30 PM tblb1 warfare in their Chicago neighbourhood. paths their lives have taken. Thu, May 5 4:00 PM bader Thu, May 5 6:00 PM cuMB2 Screening with Sat, May 7 5:45 PM tblb1 Poster Girl International Premiere D: Sara Nesson | USA | 38 min How to Die in Oregon Love Always, Carolyn— Sara Nesson’s Oscar-nominated debut follows D: Peter D. Richardson | USA | 108 min A film about Kerouac, Iraq War veteran Robynn Murray’s harrowing In this immensely moving Sundance Grand Cassady and Me battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jury Prize winner, terminally ill patients A one-time poster girl for young women in D: Maria Ramström, Malin Korkeasalo courageously seize control of their lives and | Sweden | 70 min combat, Murray’s raw emotion devastates and deaths in Oregon, the first U.S. state to legalize inspires in this impassioned journey towards Widow of Beat icon Neal Cassady, lover of Jack physician-assisted suicide. healing and self-discovery. Kerouac, determined nonconformist; Carolyn Thu, May 5 6:45 PM bader Cassady is a reluctant celebrity. With insight Wed, May 4 6:30 PM roM Sat, May 7 10:45 AM bader Fri, May 6 10:30 AM roM Sun, May 8 5:45 PM cuMB3 and cigarette smoke, she shines a revealing light on the men beneath the myths. International Premiere Screening with Memoirs of a Plague Imagining Emanuel Endless Love D: Robert Nugent | Australia | 77 min D: Åsa Blanck, Johan Palmgren | Sweden | 14 min D: Thomas A Østbye | Norway | 52 min Man and insect are pit in epic battle in this Tue, May 3 7:00 PM bader visually stunning eco-horror tale charting the A refugee claimant in Norway, Emanuel finds Thu, May 5 12:45 PM tblb2 locust plague of 2010. A gripping examination himself at the centre of an embarrassing Sun, May 8 9:00 PM cuMB3 of predator and prey—at stake, the total bureaucratic scandal as he fails to convince annihilation of Australia’s crops. anyone of his life story. This engrossing look at WORLD Premiere identity poses uncomfortable questions about Wed, May 4 9:45 PM tblb1 Love Crimes of kabul Fri, May 6 4:00 PM cuMB3 the nature of truth. D: Tanaz Eshaghian | USA | 72 min Screening with New Castle The Day We Danced On The Moon In Afghanistan’s Badam Bagh women’s prison, nearly half the inmates are considered grave D: Guo Hengqi | China | 112 min D: Tristan Daws | Germany | 11 min threats to the fabric of society. Their crimes? Winner for best documentary at the Pusan Wed, May 4 9:15 PM tblb4 Premarital sex, adultery, and fleeing for their Fri, May 6 1:30 PM cuMB2 International Film Festival, this is a stark yet searing lives from abusive families. portrait of a rural Chinese mining community on the Wed, May 4 7:00 PM cuMB2 cusp of being relocated from their traditional homes Fri, May 6 3:30 PM tblb3 into newly built “luxury” housing. Fri, Apr 29 6:15 PM tblb3 Sun, May 1 1:30 PM tblb3
At the Edge of Russia BOY CHEERLEADERS DAUGHTERS OF MALAKEH
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INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM
THE CASTLE HELL AND BACK AGAIN
A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument
Our Newspaper Screening with This is My Picture when Shibuya—Tokyo D: Eline Flipse | Netherlands | 58 min I was Dead D: Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan | 10 min In a remote Russian village, a disgruntled D: Mahmoud Al Massad | Netherlands | 75 min Wed, May 4 7:15 PM tblb4 journalist quits The Leninist and starts Our Fri, May 6 4:00 PM tblb4 Bashir Mraish narrowly escaped the attack that Newspaper. But when real stories from his killed his father, a top PLO lieutenant. Twenty- community steal headlines from irrelevant Phnom Penh Lullaby five years on, he recounts his unlikely survival in reports from Moscow, unhappy authorities this vivid and nuanced account of the ongoing threaten to shut him down. D: Pawel Kloc | Poland | 103 min struggle for a Palestinian right of return. Screening with Pushing the boundaries of documentary, this Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM cuMB2 The Naked of Saint Petersburg disturbing, highly compelling drama follows an Sun, May 1 4:15 PM cuMB2 D: Ada Bligaard Søby | Denmark | 22 min Israeli man now living in Cambodia with his Khmer girlfriend and their two young daughters. Thu, May 5 9:45 PM cuMB3 Sat, May 7 1:30 PM roM A story from the fringes conveyed with an edge. Mon, May 2 9:45 PM tblb3 DOC TALKS Wed, May 4 4:00 PM cuMB2 Our Persian Rug Sun, May 8 5:45 PM tblb4 Doc Talks is a new special series of hour- D: Massoud Bakhshi | Iran | 50 min World Premiere long conversations, aimed at bringing A Persian rug woven by the director’s grandmother you access to seminal filmmakers and key becomes a tapestry for his troubled family history A Rubberband Is subjects discussing the following: —a murdered father, an uncle’s betrayal—and An Unlikely Instrument the tumultuous history of Iran itself. D: Matt Boyd | USA | 135 min DOCS MAKING A DIFFERENCE Screening with An unlikely instrument produces surprising Can one film REALLY change the world? That’s Life sounds. This astute doc captures Walter Baker, TUE, MAY 3 5:30 PM tblb4 D: Daniel Zielinski | Poland | 27 min a struggling Brooklyn musician and occasional Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM tblb4 rubber-band busker, at an existential crossroad Sun, May 1 1:00 PM cuMB3 as he attempts to strike balance between his DOCS—MODIFYING MINDS? art, his family, his debt and his happiness. Are docs transforming the WAY we SEE our world? People I Could Have Been Wed, May 4 9:30 PM cuMB2 And Maybe Am Fri, May 6 8:45 PM tblb4 WED, MAY 4 5:30 PM tblb4 D: Boris Gerrets | Netherlands | 53 min What would it be like to enter the life of a The Samba Within Me DOCS FUELLING DEBATE complete stranger? After sparking chance D: Georgia Guerra-Peixe | Brazil, Portugal | 72 min Docs: Igniting DISPUTE or DIALOGUE? encounters on London streets, the director In a poetic and visually stunning photographic THU, MAY 5 5:30 PM tblb4 captures with his cell phone his evolving essay, Guerra-Peixe climbs Rio’s Mangueira Hill involvement in his subjects’ lives, blurring fact in the days before Carnival. Her gliding camera Tickets for all Doc Talks and fiction, real and imagined perceptions. elicits the hidden stories of the people, history are free at the door and soul that lay beneath the Samba’s rhythms. Presenting Partner In Collaboration with Wed, May 4 7:30 PM tblb3 Fri, May 6 1:00 PM cuMB3
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6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM THURSDAY, APRIL 28
OPENING NIGHT FILM
6:30 PM Winter POM WONDERFUL 9:30 PM PRESENTS: THE GREATEST FIGHTVILLE Garden MOVIE EVER SOLD p. 5 p. 4
11 AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM FRIDAY, APRIL 29 11:15 PM 1:45 PM 4:15 PM 6:45 PM 9:45 PM A HARD NAME p. 9 FIGHTVILLE p. 5 POM WONDERFUL BEAUTY DAY p. 7 GRINDERS p. 7 Bader PRESENTS… p. 4
6:30 PM 9:15 PM 11:45 PM BLACK POWER MIXTAPE… BECOMING WISCONSIN Bloor p. 17 CHAZ p. 4 DEATH TRIP p. 24
6:30 PM 9:00 PM THIS IS MY BOY Cumb 2 PICTURE… p. 12 CHEERLEADERS p. 10
7:00 PM 9:45 PM PIT NO. 8 p. 21 FAMILY Cumb 3 LEGEND INSTINCT p. 17
Bader Isabel Bader Theatre 6:00 PM 9:30 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS EARS, OPEN. EYEBALLS, CLICK. p. 24 LIFE IN LOOPS Innis p. 24 CANADIAN SPECTRUM Bloor Bloor Cinema
INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM Cumb Cumberland Four 6:15 PM 9:00 PM KOUNDI AND THE MOTHERS OF BEDFORD ROM WORLD SHOWCASE Fox Fox Theatre NATIONAL THURSDAY p. 18 p. 21 MADE IN ITALY Innis Innis Town Hall 7:00 PM 9:30 PM NEXT Regent The Regent SIMPLE GUANTANAMO Royal WORKERS OF THE WORLD! Revue The Revue RHYTHM p. 9 TRAP p. 7 DOC TALKS Rooftop London Tap House 6:30 PM 9:15 PM KUMARÉ p. 18 BENGALI DETECTIVE p. 17 TBLB 1 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Royal The Royal Cinema FOCUS ON ALAN ZWEIG ROM ROM Theatre 6:00 PM 8:45 PM RIPPING REALITY—THE B-SIDES HOW TO MAKE A EL BULLI—COOKING IN TBLB 2 TBLB TIFF Bell Lightbox BOOK… p. 22 PROGRESS p. 17
Winter Garden Winter Garden Theatre 6:15 PM 9:30 PM NEW CASTLE p. 11 MIGHTY JEROME p. 8 TBLB 3
7:00 PM 9:00 PM PINTER OUR PERSIAN TBLB 4 PEOPLE p. 23 RUG p. 12
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6:15 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM Bloor MAMA AFRICA p. 6 CONAN O’BRIEN EMPIRE CAN’T STOP p. 4 NORTH p. 22
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 30 APRIL SATURDAY, Cumb 2 EL BULLI—COOKING HOW TO MAKE A AT THE EDGE BATTLE FOR BARKING IN PROGRESS p. 17 BOOK… p. 22 OF RUSSIA p. 10 p. 17
4:30 PM 6:45 PM 9:00 PM Cumb 3 FAMILY LOVE ARRANGED EMBRACE OF THE INSTINCT p. 18 RIVER p. 17 p. 17
7:15 PM 9:15 PM Innis ALAN ZWEIG: BECAUSE WE EARLY… p. 9 WERE BORN p. 24
11:00 AM 1:30 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM ROM 45365 p. 24 KOUNDI AND THE… NO ENTRY NO EXIT VALLEY OF THE BECOMING SANTA p. 21 p. 18 FORGOTTEN p. 19 p. 21
7:00 PM 9:30 PM Royal SIRA —SONGS HIGHWAY GOSPEL p. 7 OF… p. 23
6:30 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 1 BEATS, RHYMES NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT p. 6 & LIFE… p. 4
3:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB 2 MOTHERS OF BEDFORD BATTLE FOR REDEMPTION OF p. 18 BROOKLYN p. 17 GENERAL… p. 19
4:30 PM 7:30 PM 10:00 PM TBLB 3 FLY p. 10 GRANDE HOTEL EXTRAORDINARY p. 10 ORDINARY… p. 22
6:30 PM 9:00 PM TBLB 4 INVISIBLE MAIDS & BOSSES p. 21 STRINGS… p. 23
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11:00 AM 1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM Bader JIG p. 18 BOBBY FISCHER GNARR p. 18 IN HEAVEN, HOLLYWOOD AGAINST… p. 4 UNDERGROUND… p. 5 COMPLEX p. 5
6:30 PM 9:15 PM 11:45 PM Bloor DRAQUILA—ITALY PIRATE TAPES p. 8 CONAN O’BRIEN
SUNDAY, MAY 1 MAY SUNDAY, TREMBLES p. 20 CAN’T STOP p. 4
1:30 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM Cumb 2 BATTLE FOR THIS IS MY SOMEWHERE I AM JESUS p. 20 BROOKLYN p. 17 PICTURE … p. 12 BETWEEN p. 19
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM Cumb 3 OUR PERSIAN PIT NO. 8 p. 21 BURY THE HATCHET DUST. A RUG p. 12 p. 17 SCULPTOR’S… p. 22
7:00 PM 9:30 PM Innis LOVABLE p. 9 DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE p. 5
11:30 AM 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM ROM HEART- KUMARÉ p. 18 HILLTOPS p. 7 HOW ARE YOU LUMBERFROS p. 21 QUAKE p. 22 p. 20
7:00 PM 9:30 PM Royal TEAM p. 19 CHEONGGYECHEON MEDLEY… p. 22
6:00 PM 9:00 PM TBLB 1 ECO PIRATE: THE STORY WHEN THE DRUM IS OF PAUL WATSON p. 7 BEATING p. 23
4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 2 BECOMING CHAZ p. 4 MAMA AFRICA p. 6 HOW ARE YOU DOING, RUDOLF MING? p. 18
1:30 PM 4:30 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM TBLB 3 NEW CASTLE p. 11 BOY CHEERLEADERS DRAGONSLAYER MY REINCARNATION p. 6 p. 10 p. 10
7:15 PM 9:45 PM TBLB 4 NO ENTRY NO EXIT PEOPLE IN WHITE p. 18 p. 19
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6:15 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM Bloor CAROL CHANNING: SUPERHEROES p. 19 DRAGONSLAYER LARGER… p. 4 p. 10 MONDAY, MAY 2 MAY MONDAY, 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM Cumb 2 BLACK POWER REDEMPTION OF FAMILY PORTRAIT CASTLE p. 10 MIXTAPE… p. 17 GENERAL BUTT… p. 19 IN BLACK… p. 7
1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:15 PM 9:45 PM Cumb 3 GRANDE HOTEL p. 10 SIRA—SONGS EL SICARIO, FLY p. 10 OF THE… p. 23 ROOM 164 p. 20
6:45 PM 9:30 PM Innis PIT NO. 8 p. 21 WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP p. 24
11:00 AM 1:45 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM ROM CONAN O’BRIEN… p. 4 MAIDS & BATTLE FOR BARKING MARIJA’S HIGHWAY GOSPEL p. 7 BOSSES p. 21 p. 17 OWN p. 23
7:00 PM 9:15 PM Royal EXTRAORDINARY NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT p. 6 ORDINARY… p. 22
6:00 PM 9:00 PM TBLB 1 BETTER THIS WORLD GOOD LIFE p. 5 p. 17
1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 2 LOVE ARRANGED VALLEY OF THE ABENDLAND p. 10 GNARR p. 18 p. 18 FORGOTTEN p. 19
1:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM TBLB 3 GUANTANAMO BECOMING SANTA DAUGHTERS OF MALAKEH PHNOM PENH LULLABY TRAP p. 7 p. 21 p. 10 p. 12
6:15 PM 9:15 PM TBLB 4 WADAN´S WORLD p. 21 EMPIRE NORTH p. 22
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11:00 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM Bader FAMILY WHEN THE DRUM IS IN HEAVEN, LOVE ALWAYS, KORAN BY HEART INSTINCT BEATING p. 23 UNDERGROUND… p. 5 CAROLYN… p. 11 p. 18 p. 17
6:30 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM Bloor BUCK p. 4 YOU’VE BEEN MARIJA’S TUESDAY, MAY 3 MAY TUESDAY, TRUMPED p. 19 OWN p. 23
1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM Cumb 2 ECO PIRATE: THE STORY OF FIGHTVILLE p. 5 HOUSING p. 20 HILLTOPS p. 7 PAUL WATSON p. 7
1:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM Cumb 3 PEOPLE IN BURY THE HATCHET IF A TREE FALLS… p. 18 OPEN SECRET p. 19 WHITE p. 19 p. 17
6:45 PM 9:30 PM Innis I, CURMUDGEON p. 9 MATCHMAKING MAYOR p. 18
10:30 AM 1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM ROM SOMEWHERE LUMBERFROS p. 21 HOW ARE YOU DOING, ZELAL p. 19 MY BAREFOOT BETWEEN RUDOLF MING? p. 18 FRIEND p. 6 p. 19
7:00 PM 9:45 PM Royal HOT COFFEE p. 18 HEART- QUAKE p. 20
7:30 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 1 HELL AND BACK WE WERE HERE p. 19 AGAIN p. 10
1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM TBLB 2 AT THE EDGE HOLLYWOOD ST-HENRI, THE 26TH RESURRECT DEAD… OF RUSSIA p. 10 COMPLEX p. 5 OF AUGUST p. 9 p. 23
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM DRAQUILA—ITALY I AM JESUS p. 20 BOBBY FISCHER ALL FOR TBLB 3 TREMBLES p. 20 AGAINST THE WORLD THE p. 4 GOOD… p. 21
2:00 PM 5:30 PM 7:15 PM 10:00 PM TBLB 4 CHEONGGYECHEON DOC TALKS WIEBO’S WAR p. 9 AT NIGHT, THEY MEDLEY… p. 22 p. 12 DANCE p. 7 AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 10:45 AM 1:15 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM GOOD LIFE POSITION AMONG JIG p. 18 BULLY PROJECT p. 4 DESPICABLE DICK… Bader p. 5 THE STARS p. 6 p. 10
6:30 PM 9:30 PM 11:45 PM BLOOD IN BALLAD OF RESURRECT Bloor THE MOBILE p. 4 GENESIS… p. 22 DEAD… p. 23
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM CASTLE p. 10 PHNOM PENH LULLABY LOVE CRIMES OF RUBBERBAND IS AN Cumb 2 p. 12 KABUL p. 11 UNLIKELY INSTRUMENT p. 12
1:15 PM 4:15 PM 7:30 PM 9:45 PM WADAN´S WORLD p. 21 BETTER THIS WORLD GRAVITY WAS… KNUCKLE p. 18 Cumb 3 p. 17 p. 22
6:45 PM 9:30 PM A CANDID EYE p. 23 BLOCK p. 24 Innis
11:00 AM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM EL SICARIO, DAUGHTERS OF HOW ARE YOU MELISSA-MOM… with COSMIC ENERGY ROM ROOM 164 p. 20 MALAKEH p. 10 p. 22 POSTERGIRL p. 11 INC. p. 20
7:30 PM BEAUTY DAY p. 7 Rooftop
7:00 PM 9:15 PM WHO TOOK DRAGONSLAYER Royal THE BOMP? p. 23 p. 10
6:15 PM 9:45 PM SENNA p. 6 MEMOIRS OF A PLAGUE TBLB 1 p. 11
1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM UNRAVELED p. 19 SUPERHEROES VODKA FACTORY p. 6 BOB AND TBLB 2 p. 19 THE MONSTER p. 22
1:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:30 PM 9:30 PM DUST. A FAMILY PORTRAIT IN SAMBA WITHIN GIVE UP TOMORROW TBLB 3 SCULP… p. 22 BLACK … p. 7 ME p. 12 p. 18
2:00 PM 5:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:15 PM MATCHMAKING DOC TALKS PEOPLE I IMAGINING TBLB 4 MAYOR p. 18 p. 12 COULD… p. 12 EMANUEL p. 11
11 AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM THURSDAY, MAY 5 11:00 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:45 PM OPEN SECRET BUCK p. 4 HELL AND BACK HOW TO DIE IN OREGON PROJECT NIM p. 6 Bader p. 19 AGAIN p. 10 p. 11
6:30 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM INSIDE LARA ROXX DOLPHIN BOY p. 5 WHO TOOK THE Bloor p. 8 BOMP p. 23
12:30 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM 9:30 PM ST-HENRI, THE 26TH KORAN BY HEART p. 18 INTERRUPTERS p. 11 LIVING SKIN Cumb 2 OF AUGUST p. 9 p. 21
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM YOU’VE BEEN ABENDLAND p. 10 SOMEWHERE TO OUR NEWSPAPER p. 12 Cumb 3 TRUMPED p. 19 DISAPPEAR p. 23
6:45 PM 9:30 PM TIMOTHY FINDLEY: INVISIBLE Innis ANATOMY OF A… p. 23 GIRLFRIEND p. 24
11:00 AM 1:45 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM VODKA FACTORY p. 6 WE WERE HERE p. 19 HOUSING p. 20 COLLABORATOR RECESSION- ROM AND HIS FAMILY p. 10 IZE!… p. 21
7:30 PM WHEN THE DRUM Rooftop IS BEATING p. 23
7:00 PM 9:30 PM ALL FOR THE GOOD… VINYL p. 9 Royal p. 21
6:00 PM 9:00 PM LIMELIGHT p. 6 FUTURE IS NOW! p. 22 TBLB 1
12:45 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM LOVE ALWAYS, CAROL CHANNING: PEOPLE OF A FEATHER OLA SVENS… TBLB 2 CAROLYN p. 11 LARGER… p. 4 p. 8 p. 23
1:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM HOT COFFEE p. 18 IF A TREE FALLS… p. 18 CHOCOLATE MY BAREFOOT TBLB 3 FARMER p. 7 FRIEND p. 6
2:00 PM 5:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM KNUCKLE p. 18 DOC TALKS FOREIGN PARTS p. 21 VALLEY OF THE TBLB 4 p. 12 MOON p. 20
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6:15 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM Bloor WILD HORSE, ADVOCATE FOR BALLAD OF
FRIDAY, MAY 6 MAY FRIDAY, WILD RIDE p. 19 FAGDOM p. 4 GENESIS… p. 22
1:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM Cumb 2 IMAGINING BLOOD IN THE AT THE EDGE INSIDE LARA ROXX EMANUEL MOBILE p. 4 OF RUSSIA p. 10 p. 8 p. 11
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM Cumb 3 SAMBA WITHIN MEMOIRS OF A AFTER THE BOB AND ME p. 12 PLAGUE p. 11 APOCALYPSE p. 17 THE MONSTER p. 22
7:00 PM 9:45 PM Innis BEETLE QUEEN AMERICAN CONQUERS… p. 24 LOSERS p. 24
10:30 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM ROM MELISSA-MOM… AT NIGHT, ZELAL p. 19 GIVE UP TOMORROW FORGOTTEN SPACE p. 21 with POSTER THEY DANCE p. 7 p. 18 GIRL p. 11
7:30 PM Rooftop OLA SVENS… p. 23
7:00 PM 9:30 PM Royal COSMIC ENERGY VINYL: THE INC. p. 20 ALTERNATE TAKE p. 9
6:30 PM 9:00 PM TBLB 1 LITTLE VOICES SENNA p. 6 p. 18
3:30 PM 6:00 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 3 LOVE CRIMES CINEMA KOMUNISTO p. 22 WHO TOOK OF KABUL p. 11 THE BOMP? p. 23
4:00 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM TBLB 4 PEOPLE I COULD GRAVITY WAS RUBBERBAND IS AN HAVE BEEN… p. 12 EVERYWHERE… p. 22 UNLIKELY INSTRUMENT p. 12
AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM
10:45 AM 1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM Bader HOW TO DIE PEOPLE OF A FEATHER BEAUTY DAY p. 7 BEING ELMO: A LOVE SHINES p. 6 IN OREGON p. 11 p. 8 PUPPETEER’S… p. 4
6:00 PM 9:00 PM 11:45 PM Bloor WILD HORSE, WILD BLACK POWER HIGHWAY GOSPEL RIDE p. 19 MIXTAPE… p. 17 p. 7 SATURDAY, MAY 7 MAY SATURDAY, 1:15 PM 4:15 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM Cumb 2 SOMEWHERE TO PIRATE TAPES p. 8 CHOCOLATE FARMER REDEMPTION OF DISAPPEAR p. 23 p. 7 GENERAL BUTT… p. 19
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM Cumb 3 FUTURE IS NOW! p. 22 OLA SVEN… SIMPLE RESURRECT DEAD p. 23 p. 23 RHYTHM p. 9
7:00 PM 9:15 PM Innis AFTER THE MARIJA’S APOCALYPSE p. 17 OWN p. 23
7:00 PM 9:30 PM Regent WIEBO’S WAR p. 9 GUANTANAMO TRAP p. 7
11:00 AM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM ROM DOC IT!… p. 5 OUR NEWSPAPER p. 12 LIMELIGHT p. 6 TEAM p. 19 COLLABORATOR AND HIS FAMILY p. 10
7:00 PM 9:45 PM Royal RUNNING STUMBLED VALLEY OF p. 24 THE MOON p. 20
5:45 PM 9:30 PM TBLB 1 INTERRUPTERS p. 11 GRINDERS p. 7
3:45 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM TBLB 2 LITTLE VOICES RECESSION- ADVOCATE FOR p. 18 IZE!… p. 21 FAGDOM p. 4
4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB 3 CINEMA KOMUNISTO p. 22 FOREIGN PARTS p. 21 DOLPHIN BOY p. 5
6:00 PM 8:15 PM TBLB 4 LIVING SKIN p. 21 FORGOTTEN SPACE p. 21
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1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM 9:15 PM HOLLYWOOD KUMARÉ p. 18 GNARR p. 18 KNUCKLE p. 18 Cumb 2 COMPLEX p. 5
12:30 PM 3:00 PM 5:45 PM 9:00 PM YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED EL BULLI—COOKING HOW TO DIE IN OREGON p. 11 LOVE ALWAYS, Cumb 3 p. 19 IN PROGRESS p. 17 CAROLYN p. 11
6:30 PM 9:00 PM GRINDERS p. 7 PIRATE TAPES p. 8 Fox
6:15 PM 9:00 PM VODKA FACTORY p. 6 PEOPLE OF A FEATHER Innis p. 8
4:30 PM 7:00 PM MIGHTY JEROME p. 8 TEAM p. 19 Revue
11:00 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:00 PM 8:45 PM TBA—AWARD CHOCOLATE FARMER SIMPLE RHYTHM ST-HENRI, THE 26TH BALLAD OF ROM WINNER 2 p. 7 p. 9 OF AUGUST p. 9 GENESIS… p. 22
7:00 PM 9:30 PM SUPERHEROES p. 19 INSIDE LARA ROXX Royal p. 8
4:30 PM 7:30 PM BEING ELMO: A IN HEAVEN, TBLB 1 PUPPETEER’S… p. 4 UNDERGROUND… p. 5
4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:00 PM LOVE SHINES p. 6 BECOMING CHAZ p. 4 CAROL CHANNING: TBLB 2 LARGER… p. 4
3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:15 PM FAMILY PORTRAIT POSITION AMONG BECOMING SANTA TBLB 3 IN BLACK… p. 7 THE STARS p. 6 p. 21
5:45 PM 8:45 PM PHNOM PENH LULLABY HOW ARE YOU DOING, TBLB 4 p. 12 RUDOLF MING? p. 18
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WORLD SHOWCASE
SPONSORED BY documentary THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967–1975
International Premiere International Premiere El Bulli—Cooking After the Apocalypse Better this World in Progress D: Antony Butts | UK | 65 min D: Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega D: Gereon Wetzel | Germany | 108 min | USA, UK | 95 min One in 20 children born to women living near Observe three-Michelin-starred chef Ferran Adrià, In this provocative study of post 9/11 paranoia, a Russian nuclear-weapon testing site in widely considered the best, most innovative and two earnest childhood friends seek to impress Kazakhstan has birth defects. As a prominent craziest chef in the world. In his kitchen, that a revolutionary-activist-turned-FBI-informant. doctor plans to introduce “genetic passports,” which was once familiar disintegrates. Anything Homemade bombs lead to domestic terrorism two mothers fight for the right to keep their goes—except copying oneself. unborn children. charges, culminating in a controversial entrapment defense. Fri, Apr 29 8:45 PM tblb2 Fri, May 6 7:15 PM cuMB3 Sat, Apr 30 1:00 PM cuMB2 Sat, May 7 7:00 PM innis Mon, May 2 6:00 PM tblb1 Sun, May 8 3:00 PM cuMB3 Wed, May 4 4:15 PM cuMB3 The Battle for Barking The Embrace Of the River The Black Power Mixtape D: Laura Fairrie | UK | 85 min D: Nicolas Rincon Gille | Belgium | 73 min 1967-1975 In a bare-knuckle election battle for London’s Locals along Columbia’s Magdelena River once multicultural East End, back-room access to both D: Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden | 93 min feared the underwater spirit Mohan. Now sides makes for gripping viewing as the far-right Forgotten footage shot by Swedish journalists they’re gripped by a greater monster, one British National Party unleashes racist captures the vital urgency of the 60’s Black that even the placid waters of their beloved scaremongering to oust the long-standing Power Movement in America. Featuring Stokely river cannot mask—the horrific paramilitary Labour MP. Carmichael, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis and violence of their unending civil war. Sat, Apr 30 9:30 PM cuMB2 Eldridge Cleaver, with commentary from Sonia Sat, Apr 30 9:00 PM cuMB3 Mon, May 2 4:30 PM roM Sanchez, Talib Kweli and Erykah Badu. Mon, May 2 11:00 AM bader Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM bloor World Premiere Mon, May 2 1:00 PM cuMB2 Family Instinct Battle for Brooklyn Sat, May 7 9:00 PM bloor D: Andris Gauja | Latvia | 58 min D: Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley | USA | 94 min International Premiere This voyeuristic portrait captures the bleak, Facing eviction under eminent domain law, Bury the Hatchet surreal existence of a young mother in rural reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein wages a seven- Latvia. Her incestuous brother incarcerated, D: Aaron Walker | USA | 86 min year battle against a greedy corporate Goliath, Zanda’s days are marred by poverty, alcohol, desperate to save his neighbourhood from being Each Mardi Gras, in a celebration rarely witnessed violence and her amorous neighbour’s drunken razed to make way for a New Jersey Nets arena. on Bourbon Street, descendants of runaway attentions. An absurdly dark tragi-comedy. Sat, Apr 30 7:00 PM tblb2 slaves honour the Native Americans who gave them refuge. Facing police crackdowns, violence Fri, Apr 29 9:45 PM cuMB3 Sun, May 1 1:30 PM cuMB2 Sat, Apr 30 4:30 PM cuMB3 and Katrina’s aftermath, the keepers of this Tue, May 3 11:00 AM bader The Bengali Detective endangered tradition struggle to keep it alive. Sun, May 1 7:00 PM cuMB3 D: Philip Cox | UK, USA, India | 95 min Tue, May 3 4:30 PM cuMB3 Adultery, fraud and murder are investigated by dance-obsessed private eye Rajesh Ji in a unique documentary that fuses conventions of observational realism with some Bangra numbers. The result is an absorbing tragi- comic look at life in contemporary India. Fri, Apr 29 9:15 PM tblb1 Sat, Apr 30 1:30 PM bader
FAMILY INSTINCT El Bulli—Cooking in Progress
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International Premiere If a Tree Falls: A Story of 3D Screening Give Up Tomorrow the Earth Liberation Front Little Voices D: Michael Collins | USA, UK | 95 min D: Marshall Curry | USA | 85 min D: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade | Colombia | 75 min Corruption, intrigue and murder meet in the After millions in arson damage, the FBI Paintings and drawings by the young victims of most notorious trial in Philippine history, but is names eco-activist group ELF its number- Colombia’s internal armed conflict come alive the man at its centre a cold-blooded killer or one domestic terrorist threat. Is the unlikely in this colourful and moving 3-D documentary an unfortunate fall guy? Sentenced to death at suspect a passionate environmentalist, or a about the harsh realities faced by children 19, a decade later Paco Larrañaga still fights dangerous fanatic? Oscar-nominated director growing up in a war-torn country. from prison to clear his name. Marshall Curry (Street Fight) uncovers the Wed, May 4 9:30 PM tblb3 characters behind the blazing headlines. Fri, May 6 6:30 PM tblb1 Fri, May 6 6:45 PM roM Sat, May 7 3:45 PM tblb2 Tue, May 3 7:00 PM cuMB3 Thu, May 5 4:30 PM tblb3 Gnarr Love Arranged International Premiere D: Gaukur Úlfarsson | Iceland | 96 min D: Soniya Kirpalani | India, United Arab Emirates Jig | 60 min In the wake of Iceland’s 2010 economic collapse, outspoken comedian Jón Gnarr D: Sue Bourne | Scotland, UK | 93 min Two smart, beautiful Indian women ditch the dating scene to try their luck with arranged founded The Best Party. Running a satirical Dedicated young dancers from around the marriages instead. A funny, insightful and mayoral election campaign, promising “all kinds world prepare for the Irish Dancing World ultimately humbling journey to find “a suitable of things for weaklings,” the momentum of this Championships in Glasgow. Precision, boy” in the Internet age. political renegade is unstoppable. endurance, skill and passion all make a Sun, May 1 4:15 PM bader champion—but wigs, makeup, diamantes Sat, Apr 30 6:45 PM cuMB3 Mon, May 2 9:30 PM tblb2 and a fake tan can help too. Mon, May 2 1:30 PM tblb2 Sun, May 8 6:00 PM cuMB2 Sun, May 1 11:00 AM bader Wed, May 4 4:15 PM bader Matchmaking Mayor International Premiere Hot Coffee D: Erika Hnikova | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 72 min Knuckle A small Slovakian village is overrun by singles D: Susan Saladoff | USA | 92 min D: Ian Palmer | Ireland, UK | 97 min while its aged inhabitants are dying out. How does a heroic act of civil service Impatient with the slow course of courtship, Ian Palmer’s intriguing documentary pries become a punch line on Seinfeld? This jaw- its do-it-yourself mayor makes population open the tightly closed world of Travellers, a dropping account of the infamous McDonald’s growth his top priority and starts forging love nomadic tribe that roams the UK and Ireland, scalding-coffee case exposes the corporate connections—himself. settling their conflicts with bare-knuckle media campaign that distorted one citizen’s brawls. Stranger than fiction, these true stories Screening with complaint, and the disastrous U.S. civil justice have inspired a future HBO series. Two’s a Crowd reforms that followed. Wed, May 4 9:45 PM cuMB3 D: Jim Isler, Tom Isler | USA | 19 min Tue, May 3 7:00 PM royal Thu, May 5 2:00 PM tblb4 Thu, May 5 1:30 PM tblb3 Tue, May 3 9:30 PM innis Sun, May 8 9:15 PM cuMB2 Wed, May 4 2:00 PM tblb4
International Premiere International Premiere How are You Doing, World Premiere Koran by Heart Mothers of Bedford Rudolf Ming? D: Greg Barker | USA | 77 min D: Jenifer McShane | USA | 93 min D: Roberts Rubins | Latvia | 60 min One hundred of the brightest kids from across Can you be a good mother from behind Twelve-years-old and misunderstood, Ming the Islamic world arrive in Cairo for the world’s bars? Follow five inmates at New York’s only creates ultra-violent movies from drawings oldest Koran-reciting contest. Facing opponents maximum security women’s prison as they on long strips of paper, his creativity as nearly twice their age, three 10-year-old prodigies strive to turn their lives around and become undeniable as his passion for gore. What fight for their only shot at a brighter future. strong role models for their children. happens when a concerned priest in his Tue, May 3 9:30 PM bader Latvian village commissions a film for a Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM roM Thu, May 5 3:30 PM cuMB2 Sat, Apr 30 3:45 PM tblb2 special church screening?
Screening with International Premiere International Premiere Flying Anne Kumaré No Entry No Exit D: Catherine van Campen | Netherlands | 21 min D: Vikram Gandhi | USA | 84 min D: Mareille Klein, Julie Kreuzer | Germany | 82 min Sun, May 1 9:30 PM tblb2 In this sharp and humorous postmodern When a convicted child sex offender returns Tue, May 3 4:15 PM roM analysis of New Age culture, a religious skeptic Sun, May 8 8:45 PM tblb4 to live with his family, irate neighbours picket masquerades as a Guru to teach his unwitting their house. But the moral high ground is soon followers a lesson in spiritual guidance. Can his obscured by mob mentality in this riveting pile- deception pave the way to true enlightenment? up of ethical dilemmas. Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM tblb1 Sat, Apr 30 3:45 PM roM Sun, May 1 2:00 PM roM Sun, May 1 7:15 PM tblb4 Sun, May 8 3:30 PM cuMB2
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World Premiere If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Matchmaking Mayor Open Secret D: Steve Lickteig | USA | 70 min What if everything you knew about yourself and your parents was a lie—and everyone in your hometown knew the truth except you? Kansas filmmaker Steve Lickteig uncovers his real life story in this shocking family memoir. Screening with Something to Tell You D: Pete Gleeson | Australia | 8 min Tue, May 3 9:30 PM cuMB3 Thu, May 5 11:00 AM bader
International Premiere People in White D: Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen | Netherlands | 64 min The Team International Premiere The complex dynamics of the psychiatric D: Patrick Reed | Canada | 80 min Wild Horse, Wild Ride doctor-patient relationship are turned upside Can a soap opera save a country? Kenyans D: Alex Dawson, Greg Gricus | USA | 106 min down and sideways in this collaboration by the scramble to produce a taboo-breaking TV Every year, Forth Worth, Texas, hosts the artist/filmmakers behind Complaints Choir and series about an ethnically diverse soccer team, Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge, in ex-patients who inventively re-enact significant hoping to capture an audience and unite a which 100 trainers have 100 days to train 100 memories of their treatment. nation teetering on the brink of conflict. wild mustangs. An inspiring film about horses Sun, May 1 9:45 PM tblb4 and the people who love them. Tue, May 3 1:30 PM cuMB3 Sun, May 1 7:00 PM royal Sat, May 7 6:45 PM roM Fri, May 6 6:15 PM bloor Sun, May 8 7:00 PM revue Sat, May 7 6:00 PM bloor The Redemption of General Butt Naked World Premiere World Premiere Unraveled D: Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion | USA | 83 min You’ve Been Trumped D: Marc H. Simon | USA | 80 min During Liberia’s civil war, Joshua Milton Blahyi, D: Anthony Baxter | UK | 95 min a.k.a. General Butt Naked, murdered thousands; Just days before Bernie Madoff hit the When Donald Trump sets out to build the world’s today, he’s a Christian evangelist. This Sundance headlines, Manhattan attorney Marc Dreier most luxurious golf resort in the bonniest village winner captures his surprising door-to-door was arrested for masterminding his own brazen in Scotland, residents chafe at his particular campaign for reconciliation with his surviving fraud. Confined to his penthouse while awaiting brand of American know-how. David meets victims, and redemption from the world. sentencing, cameras grab unprecedented access coiffed Goliath in this scrappy exposé. to this trickster’s deceptions and downfall. Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM tblb2 Tue, May 3 9:00 PM bloor Mon, May 2 3:45 PM cuMB2 Mon, May 2 9:15 PM bader Thu, May 5 1:00 PM cuMB3 Sat, May 7 9:45 PM cuMB2 Wed, May 4 1:30 PM tblb2 Sun, May 8 12:30 PM cuMB3
World Premiere International Premiere Zelal Somewhere Between The Valley of the Forgotten D: Marianne Khoury, Mustapha Hasnaoui D: Linda Goldstein Knowlton | USA | 94 min D: Maria Raduan | Brazil | 72 min | Egypt | 90 min After adopting her own daughter from Deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, it’s survival As the infrastructure around them crumbles, China, Linda Goldstein Knowlton follows four of the fittest as natives, ranchers, squatters the marginalized and tormented souls in remarkable Chinese-born adoptees as they come and the government clash in a bloody land Cairo’s mental hospitals are left to fend for of age between two cultures. Each girl seeks her dispute. Shocking scenes and candid access to themselves. Tough, compassionate direct roots and her own future in inspiring ways. all camps mark this bold exposé. cinema exposes the haunting underbelly of a Sun, May 1 6:30 PM cuMB2 Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM roM country stretched beyond endurance. Tue, May 3 10:30 AM roM Mon, May 2 4:00 PM tblb2 Tue, May 3 7:00 PM roM Fri, May 6 4:00 PM roM International Premiere We Were Here Superheroes D: David Weissman | USA | 90 min D: Michael Barnett | USA | 82 min Five people share intensely personal, deeply Costumed vigilante justice! These RLSH (Real moving stories from the front lines of the early Rooftop Docs Returns Life Superheroes) want to clean up the streets, days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, but without super powers, super villains or illuminating how grief and fear galvanized See p. 24 even police support, what good are caped individuals and an entire community to crusaders in the real world, anyway? inspirational change. Mon, May 2 9:00 PM bloor Tue, May 3 9:30 PM tblb1 Wed, May 4 4:00 PM tblb2 Thu, May 5 1:45 PM roM Sun, May 8 7:00 PM royal 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca : 19 HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL : APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011
MADE IN ITALY
Draquila—Italy Trembles
World Premiere Mexican assassin returns to the scene of one I am Jesus COSMIC ENERGY Inc. of his crimes and confesses the secrets of his lethal 20-year career. D: Valerie Gudenus, Heloisa Sartorato | Italy | 75 min D: Giuseppe Schillaci | Italy, Spain | 52 min Attention, Christians—Jesus is here! Just one Mon, May 2 6:15 PM cuMB3 Convinced that space, nature and all human Wed, May 4 11:00 AM roM problem: there are three of Him. Who’s the beings share the same cosmic energy, three real Saviour: Vissarion from Siberia, Brazilian enterprising Italians found an alternative, International Premiere YouTube sensation INRI Cristo, or British ex- eco-friendly agri-business. Groovy dreamers Heart-Quake secret serviceman David Shayler? A first-hand or geniuses, can the power of pyramids and look at the Second Coming. D: Mark Olexa | Italy | 52 min positive thinking really change the world? Sun, May 1 9:00 PM cuMB2 Screening with A poor mother in Kosovo rejoices when a Milanese Tue, May 3 4:00 PM tblb3 The Garden of Hope charity offers her baby boy life-saving surgery. But once in Italy, a series of bizarre phone calls from International Premiere D: Antonello Faretta | Italy | 23 min her husband drastically changes everything and The Valley of the Moon Wed, May 4 9:15 PM roM everyone in this heart-stopping family drama. Fri, May 6 7:00 PM royal D: Giovanni Buccomino | Italy | 66 min Screening with A secluded Sardinian beach is home to a Out of Reach Draquila—Italy Trembles stunningly blue sea, gorgeous rocky grottos, D: Jakub Stozek | Poland | 29 min D: Sabina Guzzanti | Italy | 97 min and, of course, a pair of loveable hippie Sun, May 1 11:30 AM roM squatters. But when summer touristas and Actor and political satirist Sabina Guzzanti’s Tue, May 3 9:45 PM royal police arrive, their secret paradise may be biting critique of government ineptitude, headed for a total bummer. corruption and exploitation following the tragic HOUSING 2009 earthquake that devastated L’Aquila has Thu, May 5 9:45 PM tblb4 already been immensely controversial in Italy. D: Federica Di Giacomo | Italy | 90 min Sat, May 7 9:45 PM royal
Guess who’s the main target? In the southern Italian city of Bari, over 3000 Also see The Castle, screening families are waiting for a Council house. As Sun, May 1 6:30 PM bloor in International Spectrum, p. 10 Tue, May 3 1:00 PM tblb3 demand swells into desperation, residents take drastic—and often downright comical— el sicario, ROOM 164 measures to keep roofs over their heads in this fascinating look at “anti-social” housing. D: Gianfranco Rosi | France, Italy | 90 min Tue, May 3 6:30 PM cuMB2 A sicario, or hitman, kills, tortures and disappears Thu, May 5 4:30 PM roM people for a living. Disguised, a notorious
HEART-QUAKE I AM JESUS COSMIC ENERGY INC.
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WORKERS OF THE WORLD! THE FORGOTTEN SPACE
All for the Good of the Koundi and the Screening with World and Nosovice National Thursday Three Walls D: Zaheed Mawani | Canada | 26 min D: Vít Klusák | Czech Republic | 82 min D: Ariane Astrid Atodji | Cameroon | 86 min Sat, Apr 30 9:00 PM tblb4 A giant Hyundai plant lands smack in the Responding to the demands of globalization Mon, May 2 1:45 PM roM middle of a Czech farming village, much to the with uniquely African solutions and wry humour, locals’ dismay. Despite their resistance, big Cameroonian villagers navigate life’s rhythms while Pit no. 8 industry wins out and the fields sprout cars in working collectively, offering a nuanced portrait this humorous, politically charged film. of a functioning economy and true democracy. D: Marianna Kaat | Estonia | 95 min Tue, May 3 9:45 PM tblb3 Fri, Apr 29 6:15 PM roM Fifteen-year-old Yura puts his dreams on hold Thu, May 5 7:00 PM royal Sat, Apr 30 1:30 PM roM in an emotionally riveting struggle to provide for his sisters the only way possible: illegally, International Premiere Living Skin and perilously, mining the remaining scraps in a Becoming Santa once-thriving Ukrainian coal town. D: Fawzi Saleh | Egypt | 48 min D: Jeff Myers | USA | 90 min Fri, Apr 29 7:00 PM cuMB3 Spend a week with five boys working in the Sun, May 1 4:00 PM cuMB3 Jack becomes Santa Claus in order to recapture tanneries of old Cairo. Funny, engaging and Mon, May 2 6:45 PM innis his Christmas spirit. He endures beard-bleaching, wise beyond their years, they speak plainly graduates from Santa school and learns hands-on about a life they know is among the worst in Recessionize! For Fun how much responsibility and chaos surrounds the working world. and Profit! Santa, a rock star to children all over the world. Screening with D: Jamie Kastner | Canada | 56 min Sat, Apr 30 9:00 PM roM Guañape Sur Mon, May 2 4:30 PM tblb3 Berlin prostitutes offer eco-discounts; a French D: János Richter | Italy | 23 min Sun, May 8 9:15 PM tblb3 hotel promises a “hamster experience”; and Thu, May 5 9:30 PM cuMB2 Camp Millionaire opens for kids: when times Sat, May 7 6:00 PM tblb4 Foreign Parts get tough, businesspeople get inventive in this D: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki | USA | 82 min humorous ride exposing the entrepreneurial The Lumberfros spirit rising out of the rubble of recession. Behind the New York Mets’ stadium lies a D: Stéphanie Lanthier | Canada | 71 min Screening with hidden enclave of junkyards and salvage shops, where cars get stripped, sorted and sold. There’s a new breed of lumberjack in Quebec’s Incident by a Bank Uncover the characters who piece together their boreal forest: latter-day Paul Bunyans who hail D: Ruben östlund | Sweden | 12 min livelihoods from these wrecks, while struggling from Romania, Mali and Asia. For six months Thu, May 5 9:45 PM roM against another urban staple—gentrification. they cut brush, camp it up and slog alongside Sat, May 7 6:30 PM tblb2 old-school Quebecois woodsmen. Thu, May 5 7:15 PM tblb4 Sat, May 7 7:00 PM tblb3 Screening with International Premiere Waidmannsheil ‘Hail to the Wadan´s World The Forgotten Space good shooter’ D: Dieter Schumann | Germany | 100 min D: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch | Netherlands, D: Klaas Boelen | Belgium | 26 min As the financial crisis sends shockwaves through Austria | 113 min Sun, May 1 9:30 PM roM European industry, more than 5000 shipyard jobs Tue, May 3 1:30 PM roM As they trail cargo aboard ships, trains and in a small German town are threatened. Workers trucks, author Noël Burch and photographer and employers spiral through a climate of sadness Allan Sekula capture firsthand workers’ stories Maids & Bosses and malevolence, before ultimately grasping hope. of the world’s collapsing freight-transport D: Abner Benaim | Panama | 64 min Mon, May 2 6:15 PM tblb4 industries. A moving panorama of the Wed, May 4 1:15 PM cuMB3 Abuse. No pay. Inability to properly set a table. economic casualties of globalization. Rich Panamanian employers and their long- Fri, May 6 9:30 PM roM suffering domestic workers take turns describing Sat, May 7 8:15 PM tblb4 their shared tensions and conflicts. They may live together, but their realities are worlds apart.
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NEXT THE Arts, creativity, and pop culture
the ballad of genesis and lady jaYe
The Ballad of Genesis World Premiere Gravity Was Everywhere and Lady Jaye Dust. A sculptor’s Journey Back Then D: Marie Losier | USA | 72 min D: Jeanne Pope | Canada | 50 min D: Brent Green | USA | 72 min Witness the incredible love story—and When he wasn’t hanging out with animator A Louisville man builds his home into a kind of “pandrogyne” art project—of Genesis P-Orridge Ryan Larkin, Stanley Lewis was sculpting healing machine to try to save his wife; years later, and Lady Jaye. Inspired by Brion Gysin’s cut- beautiful statues in a dusty room on Montreal’s a filmmaker reconstructs the house and its deeply ups, the film re-members the devoted couple’s boulevard Saint-Laurent. But will his artistic romantic story with striking creativity and passion. legacy rise beyond his cluttered studio and transformation: a series of cosmetic surgeries Screening with eccentric, vagabond lifestyle? undergone to more closely resemble each other. Tuned In Screening with Wed, May 4 9:30 PM bloor D: Kevin Gordon | USA | 5 min Fri, May 6 11:45 PM bloor The Magus Sun, May 8 8:45 PM roM Wed, May 4 7:30 PM cuMB3 D: Jaimz Asmundson | Canada | 12 min Fri, May 6 6:15 PM tblb4 Sun, May 1 9:30 PM cuMB3 International Premiere Wed, May 4 1:00 PM tblb3 Bob and The Monster HOW ARE YOU D: Keirda Bahruth | USA | 86 min Empire North D: Jannik Splidsboel | Denmark | 70 min Bob Forrest, cool-headed counsellor on Celebrity D: Jakob Boeskov | Denmark | 58 min As Scandinavian conceptual artists Elmgreen Rehab, revisits his heyday as the charismatic & Dragset prepare for the 2009 Venice A genre-crushing work in which the filmmaker, frontman for indie band Thelonious Monster, Biennale, we look back on their early days of playing a graphic artist, assumes a cynical and his struggle with the ultimate rock love and collaboration, when their bold social neo-liberal alter ego and embarks on a accoutrement: heroin addiction. Featuring L.A. commentary and queer advocacy made a controversial art project that aims to dissolve fixtures Courtney Love, Anthony Kiedis and Flea. splash in the international art scene. the boundary between art and life. Wed, May 4 9:00 PM tblb2 Sun, May 1 7:00 PM roM Sat, Apr 30 11:45 PM bloor Fri, May 6 9:30 PM cuMB3 Wed, May 4 4:00 PM roM Mon, May 2 9:15 PM tblb4 How to Make a Book CHEONGGYECHEON MEDLEY: The Extraordinary Ordinary With Steidl A DREAM OF IRON Life Of José González D: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park | South Korea | 79 min D: Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel | Germany | 90 min D: Mikel Cee Karlsson, Fredrik Egerstrand In a tribute to his grandfather, the director | Sweden | 74 min In goes the idea. Out comes bound perfection. A glimpse into the private spaces and inspired revisits the now derelict South Korean Most widely known for minimal acoustic collaborations between the world’s most metal workshops that haunt his dreams. covers of electro-pop songs, José González’s brilliant art book publisher and such artists as Experimenting with archival footage and original music reigns in this melodic and Robert Frank, Karl Lagerfeld and Jeff Wall. contemporary images, he reflects on modernity, intimate portrait of a humble artist. Peer into history, and the obsolete techniques that endure. the solitary creative process and esoteric Fri, Apr 29 6:00 PM tblb2 Sat, Apr 30 4:00 PM cuMB2 Sun, May 1 9:30 PM royal musings behind his wistful sound. Tue, May 3 2:00 PM tblb4 Sat, Apr 30 10:00 PM tblb3 International Premiere Mon, May 2 7:00 PM royal Cinema Komunisto Invisible Strings: The Talented Pusker Sisters D: Mila Turajlic | Serbia | 101 min The Future is Now! D: Ágnes Sós | Hungary | 70 min Can cinema forge a country? This quirky D: Gary Burns, Jim Brown | Canada | 92 min doc cracks open the vaults at Avala Film Award-winning filmmakers Gary Burns and Jim The Hungarian Pusker sisters are both violin Studios, the deserted state-owned facility that Brown (Radiant City) tackle the future in this prodigies—Agi is good, but the younger Juli is once churned out star-studded propaganda documentary-drama hybrid in which a young better. Their delicate relationship, rife with love fostering the myths behind the rise—and journalist leads Everyman on a quest for knowledge and jealousy, is complicated by a tragic family eventual collapse—of Yugoslavia. from experts in art, science and philosophy. secret in this mystical and lyrical film. Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM tblb4 Fri, May 6 6:00 PM tblb3 Thu, May 5 9:00 PM tblb1 Mon, May 2 1:00 PM bader Sat, May 7 4:00 PM tblb3 Sat, May 7 1:00 PM cuMB3 22 : 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
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World Premiere Screening with International Premiere Marija’s Own PS Your Mystery Sender When the Drum is Beating D: Željka Suková | Croatia | 61 min D: Benjamin Wigley | UK | 9 min D: Whitney Dow | USA | 85 min Three sisters perform a sublime tribute to Tue, May 3 9:00 PM tblb2 This engrossing doc explores Haiti’s complex Wed, May 4 11:45 PM bloor their deceased grandmother: a vibrant requiem Sat, May 7 9:15 PM cuMB3 past and challenging present through the scored live by Czech electro-clash trio Midi music of its most beloved band, Orchestre Lidi. Neighbours and family gather in the late Septentrional. A rotating mix of Haiti’s finest Marija’s apartment to eat, drink, dance and Sira—Songs of the musicians, the group has worked for six celebrate in this funereal musical-comedy. Crescent Moon decades to preserve their national culture. Mon, May 2 7:00 PM roM D: Sandra Gysi, Ahmed Abdel Mohsen Sun, May 1 9:00 PM tblb1 Tue, May 3 11:45 PM bloor | Switzerland | 77 min Tue, May 3 1:15 PM bader Sat, May 7 9:15 PM innis Thu, May 5 7:30 PM rooftop The Sira Al-Hilaliya is the monumental musical epic of the Arab world. We follow the last International Premiere Ola Svensson Superstar major Sira interpreter as he performs these Who Took The Bomp? D: Stefan Berg | Sweden | 58 min beautiful verses throughout Egypt, hoping to pass the tradition to his grandson. Le Tigre On Tour Ola Salo, beloved frontman for Swedish glam-rock band the Ark, decides to take a Sat, Apr 30 7:00 PM royal D: Kerthy Fix | USA | 72 min Mon, May 2 4:00 PM cuMB3 year off. Swapping his trademark gold lamé “Electro feminist performance artists” Le and rock-god image for a run as the lead in Tigre rocked the world with their pop-punk World Premiere Jesus Christ Superstar, Ola re-invents his life sound and politically charged lyrics. Go and career. Somewhere to Disappear behind the scenes of their final tour; spandex, Thu, May 5 9:45 PM tblb2 D: Laure Flammarion, Arnaud Uyttenhove choreography and three outspoken women Fri, May 6 7:30 PM rooftop | France, Belgium | 57 min who helped define a generation. Dancing in Sat, May 7 4:00 PM cuMB3 Take a road trip adventure across America the aisles encouraged. with renowned photographer Alec Soth, to Wed, May 4 7:00 PM royal Resurrect Dead: The Mystery hidden desert caves and secluded mountain Thu, May 5 11:45 PM bloor of the Toynbee Tiles cabins, where survivalists, hermits and Fri, May 6 9:30 PM tblb3 runaways go to escape from society. D: Jon Foy | USA | 88 min Screening with When mysterious tiles carrying a cryptic message about reincarnation appear outside Justin Duerr’s Minka Philadelphia home, he becomes obsessed with D: Davina Pardo | USA, Canada | 16 min finding their maker. His surreal decade-long Thu, May 5 7:00 PM cuMB3 search uncovers an increasingly bizarre string Sat, May 7 1:15 PM cuMB2 of clues and an extraordinary culprit.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Retrospective Honouring TERENCE MACARTNEY-FILGATE
A Candid eye TIMOTHY FINDLEY: ANATOMY OF A WRITER The Back-breaking Leaf, Blood and Fire, D: Terence Macartney-Filgate | Canada | 1995 | 58 min The Days Before Christmas In this wryly intimate film, Findley, an actor who became one of Canada’s D: Terence Macartney-Filgate, Wolf Koenig, Stanley Jackson | Canada finest novelists, performs for the camera his multiple roles and selves— | 1958 | 29, 29, 29 min ex-alcoholic, nature lover, failed dancer, homosexual, friend, child, creator. In the late-1950s, Macartney-Filgate directed seven of the NFB’s Screening with thirteen groundbreaking Candid Eye documentaries. Emphasizing UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM ordinary events and ordinary people, these three shorts follow D: Terence Macartney-Filgate | Canada | 1969 | 20 min tobacco harvesters in southern Ontario, Salvation Army workers and Thu, May 5 6:45 PM innis Montrealers preparing for Christmas. Wed, May 4 6:45 PM innis Pinter People D: Gerald Potterton | Canada | 1969 | 50 min Five Harold Pinter sketches are brought to life by animation, while the playwright himself provides the commentary as we tour around his characters’ colourful London hangouts. Macartney-Filgate was charged with cinematography on this NBC Experiment in Television. THE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS TIMOTHY FINDLEY: ANATOMY OF A WRITER Fri, Apr 29 7:00 PM tblb4 Presented by the National Film Board of Canada
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RIPPING REALITY- The B-SIDES Overlooked and underappreciated works from the documentary new wave Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
45365 Beetle Queen Invisible Girlfriend D: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | USA | 2009 | 90 min Conquers Tokyo D: David Redmon | USA | 2008 | 74 min This achingly beautiful film explores the D: Jessica Oreck | USA | 2009 | 90 min Charles rides his bike from Monroe to New congruities of daily life in an American town. Working backwards through history, this Orleans, meeting a witch, a tin man, and Brothers Bill and Turner Ross grew up in spellbinding doc explores Japan’s love of bugs, other “characters” along the way. Intense Sidney, Ohio—the zip code of the title—and uncovering philosophies that will shift our and beautiful, Invisible Girlfriend transcends returned for seven months to capture its Western perspectives on nature, beauty, life, literal interpretations to find humour in this people and their stories. and even the seemingly mundane realities of desperate search for love. Sat, Apr 30 11:00 AM roM our day-to-day routine. Thu, May 5 9:30 PM innis Fri, May 6 7:00 PM innis American Losers Life in Loops D: Ada Bligaard Søby | Denmark | 2006 | 59 min THE BLOCK D: Timo Novotny | Austria | 2006 | 79 min Kimberle is an aspiring rockstar from the D: Stefan Kolbe, Chris Wright | Germany | 2006 | 75 min Timo Novotny remixes Michael Glawogger’s Bible Belt. Kevin is a reclusive writer, living in Four residents of a Communist-era dwelling 1997 film Megacities, looping images of Mexico the woods outside New York. Are they losers, express the unique realities of the ex-East City, Mumbai and Tokyo, and adding the music destined to fail, or heroes who dare to live German condition; the sky above serves as of the Sofa Surfers. The result is a totally outside the box? background for their intimate revelations and a new composition and arguably a new form; Fri, May 6 9:45 PM innis leitmotif for truths that remain inexpressible. experimental musical documentary. Wed, May 4 9:30 PM innis Fri, Apr 29 9:30 PM innis Because We Were Born D: Jean-Pierre Duret, Andrea Santana | France, Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. Running Stumbled Brazil | 2008 | 90 min D: Canaan Brumley | USA | 2006 | 155 min D: John Maringouin | USA | 2006 | 85 min The world for Cocada and Nego is an arid An unfiltered look at boot camp. Are these young Maringouin’s apocalyptic debut stars his estranged landscape, a long road and a huge service men trained models of discipline or dehumanized family members as themselves—a small-town station. As they watch the movement of trucks killing machines? Defiantly objective, the film Dadaist painter, a prescription drug addict, and travellers, they dream of the immense dares viewers to form their own opinions. a pimp and an accused murderer. The chaos country out there, beyond their reach. starts when the director makes a surprise visit Fri, Apr 29 6:00 PM innis Sat, Apr 30 9:15 PM innis home after a 25-year absence. Sat, May 7 7:00 PM royal
Wisconsin Death Trip ROOFTOP DOCS D: James Marsh | UK, USA | 1999 | 76 min In 1890, the news in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was a shocking catalogue of bizarre crimes. Hot Docs’ open-air screening program returns! Starting with archival photographs and Join us on the rooftop of the London Tap When the Drum Is Beating applying many artful techniques, director House, 250 Adelaide Street West, for music, See p. 23 James Marsh brings these stories to life in drinks and fantastic films. Doors open at THU, May 5 7:30 PM doors rooftop this haunting and beautiful documentary. 7:30 pm and screenings start at sunset. Fri, Apr 29 11:45 PM bloor Mon, May 2 9:30 PM innis Beauty Day Ola Svensson Superstar Screening wih See p. 23 Also see Vinyl, screening fahrenheit 7-eleven See p. 7 FRI, May 6 7:30 PM doors rooftop in Focus On Alan Zweig, p. 9 WED, MAY 4 7:30 PM doors rooftop
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SUBJECT INDEX Activism & Activists Family Portrait in Black Life in Loops (Japan) p. 24 GLBT Samba within Me, The (Brazil) p. 12 Battle for Brooklyn p. 17 and White (Ukraine) p. 7 My Reincarnation (Tibet) p. 6 See Also: Gender & Sexuality Senna (Brazil) p. 6 Better This World p. 17 Heart-Quake (Kosovo) p. 20 New Castle (China) p. 11 Advocate for Fagdom, The p. 4 Valley of the Forgotten, The (Brazil) p. 19 Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The p. 17 How Are You Doing, Somewhere Between (China) p. 19 Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, The p. 22 Love & Relationships Rudolf Ming? (Latvia) p. 18 Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson p. 7 Ecology & The Environment Becoming Chaz p. 4 American Losers p. 24 I Am Jesus (Russia) p. 20 If a Tree Falls: A Story After the Apocalypse p. 17 Carol Channing: Larger Than Life p. 4 Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, The p. 22 In Heaven, Underground. of the Earth Liberation Front p. 18 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo p. 24 How Are You p. 22 Daughters of Malakeh p. 10 The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin- Interrupters, The p. 11 Limelight p. 6 Weissensee (Germany) p. 5 Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then p. 22 Mama Africa p. 6 Timothy Findley: Invisible Strings: The Talented Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson p. 7 How Are You p. 22 Superheroes p. 19 Anatomy of a Writer p. 23 Pusker Sisters (Hungary) p. 23 If a Tree Falls: A Story Invisible Girlfriend p. 24 We Were Here p. 19 We Were Here p. 19 Marija’s Own (Czech Republic) p. 23 of the Earth Liberation Front p. 18 Lovable p. 9 Wiebo’s War p. 9 Who Took the Bomp? Matchmaking Mayor (Slovakia) p. 18 Lumberfros, The p. 21 Love Always, Carolyn–A Film about Le Tigre on Tour p. 23 African Cultures & Issues No Entry No Exit (Germany) p. 18 Memoirs of a Plague p. 11 Kerouac, Cassady and Me p. 11 Blood in the Mobile (DRC) p. 4 Our Newspaper (Russia) p. 12 National Parks Project, The p. 6 Health & Mental Health Love Arranged p. 18 Grande Hotel (Mozambique) p. 10 Pit No. 8 (Ukraine) p. 21 People of a Feather p. 8 After the Apocalypse p. 17 Matchmaking Mayor p. 18 Imagining Emanuel (Ghana, Liberia) p. 11 Vodka Factory (Russia) p. 6 Pirate Tapes, The p. 8 Bobby Fischer against the World p. 4 Phnom Penh Lullaby p. 12 Koundi and the National Wadan’s World (Germany) p. 21 Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 Dolphin Boy p. 5 Middle Eastern Cultures Thursday (Cameroon) p. 21 Valley of the Moon, The p. 20 Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then p. 22 & Issues Central and South Asian Mama Africa (South Africa) p. 6 Wiebo’s War p. 9 Guantanamo Trap, The p. 7 Cultures & Issues At Night, They Dance (Egypt) p. 7 Pirate Tapes, The (Somalia) p. 8 Hell and Back Again p. 10 After the Apocalypse (Kazakhstan) p. 17 Education Collaborator and His Family, Redemption of General How to Die in Oregon p. 11 The (Israel, Palestinian Territory) p. 10 Bengali Detective, The (India) p. 17 Bully Project, The p. 4 Butt Naked, The (Liberia) p. 19 Inside Lara Roxx p. 8 Daughters of Malakeh (Iran) p. 10 Life in Loops (India) p. 24 Koran by Heart p. 18 Team, The (Kenya) p. 19 People in White p. 19 Hilltops, The (Israel, Love Arranged (India) p. 18 Fame & Celebrity Aging & the Elderly Poster Girl p. 11 Palestinian Territory) p. 7 Love Crimes of Kabul (Afghanistan) p. 11 American Losers p. 24 Carol Channing: Larger Than Life p. 4 Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Koran by Heart (Egypt) p. 18 My Barefoot Friend (India) p. 6 Beauty Day p. 7 Dust. A Sculptor’s Journey p. 22 of the Toynbee Tiles p. 23 Living Skin (Egypt) p. 21 Becoming Chaz p. 4 How to Die in Oregon p. 11 Children & Youth We Were Here p. 19 Our Persian Rug (Iran) p. 12 Hollywood Complex, The p. 5 Position Among the Stars p. 6 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey p. 4 Zelal p. 19 Sira–Songs of the Boy Cheerleaders p. 10 Inside Lara Roxx p. 8 Crescent Moon (Egypt) p. 23 Animals & Wildlife Indigenous Cultures & Issues Bully Project, The p. 4 Love Always, Carolyn–A Film about This Is My Picture When I Buck p. 4 Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 Dolphin Boy p. 5 Kerouac, Cassady and Me p. 11 Was Dead (Palestinian Territory) p. 12 Dolphin Boy p. 5 Embrace of the River, The p. 17 Dragonslayer p. 10 Ola Svensson Superstar p. 23 Zelal (Egypt) p. 19 People of a Feather p. 8 People of a Feather p. 8 Family Portrait in Black and White p. 7 Families & Family Mortality Project Nim p. 6 Relationships Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 Hollywood Complex, The p. 5 Dust. A Sculptor’s Journey p. 22 Wild Horse, Wild Ride p. 19 At Night, They Dance p. 7 Italian Culture & Issues How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? p. 18 Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then p. 22 Art & Artists Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 Castle, The p. 10 Interrupters, The p. 11 How to Die in Oregon p. 11 See Also: Film & Filmmakers, Collaborator and His Family, The p. 10 Draquila–Italy Trembles p. 20 Koran by Heart p. 18 In Heaven, Underground. The Jewish Music & Musicians, Performers Daughters of Malakeh p. 10 Heart-Quake p. 20 & Performance, Writers Little Voices 3D p. 18 Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee p. 5 Living Skin p. 21 Despicable Dick & Righteous Richard p. 10 Housing p. 20 Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, The p. 22 Multiculturalism & Race Pit No. 8 p. 21 Family Instinct p. 17 Valley of the Moon, The p. 20 Dust. A Sculptor’s Journey p. 22 Battle for Barking, The p. 17 Somewhere Between p. 19 Family Portrait in Black and White p. 7 Jewish Interest Empire North p. 22 Fly p. 10 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Crime & Punishment Collaborator and His Family, The p. 10 of A Tribe Called Quest p. 4 Future is Now!, The p. 22 Good Life, The p. 5 Bengali Detective, The p. 17 Dolphin Boy p. 5 Black Power Mixtape How Are You p. 22 Heart-Quake p. 20 Better this World p. 17 Dust. A Sculptor’s Journey p. 22 1967-1975, The p. 17 How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? p. 18 Invisible Strings: El Sicario, Room 164 p. 20 Hilltops, The p. 7 Bury the Hatchet p. 17 How to Make a Book With Steidl p. 22 The Talented Pusker Sisters p. 23 Give Up Tomorrow p. 18 In Heaven, Underground. The Jewish Collaborator and His Family, The p. 10 People in White p. 19 Marija’s Own p. 23 Hard Name, A p. 9 Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee p. 5 Family Portrait in Black and White p. 7 Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Melissa–mom and Me p. 11 If a Tree Falls: A Story Journalism & The Media Imagining Emanuel p. 11 of the Toynbee Tiles p. 23 My Reincarnation p. 6 of the Earth Liberation Front p. 18 Hot Coffee p. 18 Knuckle p. 18 Running Stumbled p. 24 No Entry No Exit p. 18 Interrupters, The p. 11 Mighty Jerome p. 8 Lumberfros, The p. 21 Somewhere to Disappear p. 23 Pit No. 8 p. 21 Love Crimes of Kabul p. 11 Our Newspaper p. 12 Mama Africa p. 6 Big Business & Capitalism Position among the Stars p. 6 Mothers of Bedford p. 18 Pirate Tapes, The p. 8 Mighty Jerome p. 8 All for the Good of the Sira–Songs of the Crescent Moon p. 23 No Entry No Exit p. 18 Somewhere Between p. 19 World and Nosovice p. 21 Somewhere Between p. 19 Labour & Working People Pirate Tapes, The p. 8 Team, The p. 19 Battle for Brooklyn p. 17 Vodka Factory p. 6 All for the Good of the World Blood in the Mobile p. 4 Redemption of General and Nosovice p. 21 Music & Musicians Butt Naked, The p. 19 Film & Filmmakers Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 Becoming Santa p. 21 See Also: Art & Artists, Film & Filmmakers, Running Stumbled p. 24 See Also: Art & Artists, Music & Musicians, Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson p. 7 Castle, The p. 10 Performers & Performance, Writers Superheroes p. 19 Performers & Performance, Writers Forgotten Space, The p. 21 Cheonggyecheon Medley: American Losers p. 24 Unraveled p. 19 Advocate for Fagdom, The p. 4 A Dream of Iron p. 22 Hot Coffee p. 18 Cinema Komunisto p. 22 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Wiebo’s War p. 9 Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 of A Tribe Called Quest p. 4 POM Wonderful Presents: Empire North p. 22 Wisconsin Death Trip p. 24 Fly p. 10 Bob and the Monster p. 22 The Greatest Movie Ever Sold p. 4 Life in Loops p. 24 Drugs & Addiction Foreign Parts p. 21 Bury the Hatchet p. 17 Recessionize! For Fun and Profit! p. 21 POM Wonderful Presents: At Night, They Dance p. 7 Forgotten Space, The p. 21 Unraveled p. 19 The Greatest Movie Ever Sold p. 4 Extraordinary Ordinary Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 Bob and the Monster p. 22 Koundi and the National Thursday p. 21 Life of José González, The p. 22 Food & Agriculture Wiebo’s War p. 9 Despicable Dick & Righteous Richard p. 10 Living Skin p. 21 Invisible Strings: Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 You’ve Been Trumped p. 19 Dragonslayer p. 10 Lumberfros, The p. 21 The Talented Pusker Sisters p. 23 Cosmic Energy Inc. p. 20 Maids & Bosses p. 21 Love Shines p. 6 Central American and Family Instinct p. 17 El Bulli–Cooking in Progress p. 17 Mama Africa p. 6 Caribbean Cultures & Issues Grinders p. 7 New Castle p. 11 Memoirs of a Plague p. 11 Marija’s Own p. 23 Chocolate Farmer, The (Belize) p. 7 Inside Lara Roxx p. 8 Pit No. 8 p. 21 Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 National Parks Project, The p. 6 Maids & Bosses (Panama) p. 21 Limelight p. 6 Recessionize! For Fun and Profit! p. 21 Wiebo’s War p. 9 Ola Svensson Superstar p. 23 When the Drum Is Beating (Haiti) p. 23 Magic Trip p. 6 St-Henri, The 26th of August p. 9 Melissa–mom and Me p. 11 Gender & Sexuality Vodka Factory p. 6 Rubberband Is an Unlikely Central and Eastern European Phnom Penh Lullaby p. 12 See Also: GLBT Wadan’s World p. 21 Instrument, A p. 12 Cultures & Issues Running Stumbled p. 24 Samba Within Me, The p. 12 All for the Good of the World Advocate for Fagdom, The p. 4 Latin American Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer p. 23 Ballad of Genesis and Cultures & Issues Simple Rhythm, A p. 9 and Nosovice (Czech Republic) p. 21 Sira–Songs of the Crescent Moon p. 23 East Asian Cultures & Issues Lady Jaye, The p. 22 El Sicario, Room 164 (Mexico) p. 20 At the Edge of Russia (Russia) p. 10 Vinyl p. 9 Block, The (Germany) p. 24 Beetle Queen Conquers Becoming Chaz p. 4 Embrace of the River, The (Colombia) p. 17 Tokyo (Japan) p. 24 Boy Cheerleaders p. 10 Fly (Mexico) p. 10 Vinyl: The Alternate Take p. 9 Cinema Komunisto When the Drum is Beating p. 23 (former Yugoslavia) p. 22 Cheonggyecheon Medley: Inside Lara Roxx p. 8 I Am Jesus (Brazil) p. 20 Who Took the Bomp? 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SUBJECT INDEX (continued) Performers & Performance Our Newspaper p. 12 How to Die in Oregon p. 11 Grinders p. 7 Hilltops, The p. 7 See Also: Art & Artists, Film & Filmmakers, Pirate Tapes, The p. 8 I Am Jesus p. 20 Highway Gospel p. 7 Little Voices 3D p. 18 Music & Musicians, Writers This Is My Picture When I Was Dead p. 12 Koran by Heart p. 18 Jig p. 18 Pirate Tapes, The p. 8 At Night, They Dance p. 7 Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 Kumaré p. 18 Mighty Jerome p. 8 Poster Girl p. 11 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey p. 4 Wiebo’s War p. 9 My Reincarnation p. 6 Senna p. 6 Redemption of General Carol Channing: Larger Than Life p. 4 Popular Culture Position among the Stars p. 6 Team, The p. 19 Butt Naked, The p. 19 Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop p. 4 Beauty Day p. 7 Redemption of General Wild Horse, Wild Ride p. 19 This Is My Picture When I Was Dead p. 12 Gnarr p. 18 Becoming Santa p. 21 Butt Naked, The p. 19 Terrorism & The War Valley of the Forgotten, The p. 19 I, Curmudgeon p. 9 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey p. 4 Resurrect Dead: The Mystery on Terror Women & Women’s Issues of the Toynbee Tiles p. 23 Jig p. 18 Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop p. 4 See Also: WAR & CONFLICT After the Apocalypse p. 17 Simple Rhythm, A p. 9 Personal Histories Fightville p. 5 Better this World p. 17 At Night, They Dance p. 7 Cheonggyecheon Medley: Highway Gospel p. 7 Road Trip Adventures Castle, The p. 10 Daughters of Malakeh p. 10 A Dream of Iron p. 22 I Am Jesus p. 20 Despicable Dick & Righteous Richard p. 10 Guantanamo Trap, The p. 7 Family Portrait in Black and White p. 7 Grinders p. 7 Magic Trip p. 6 Invisible Girlfriend p. 24 Hell and Back Again p. 10 Good Life, The p. 5 Open Secret p. 19 Superheroes p. 19 Magic Trip p. 6 If a Tree Falls: A Story Heart-Quake p. 20 Our Persian Rug p. 12 Vinyl p. 9 Somewhere to Disappear p. 23 of the Earth Liberation Front p. 18 Inside Lara Roxx p. 8 People I Could Have Been Vinyl: The Alternate Take p. 9 Science & Medicine Wiebo’s War p. 9 Koundi and the National Thursday p. 21 and Maybe Am p. 12 You’ve Been Trumped p. 19 After the Apocalypse p. 17 Urban Cultures & Issues Love Arranged p. 18 Running Stumbled p. 24 Poverty Cosmic Energy Inc. p. 20 Abendland p. 10 Love Crimes of Kabul p. 11 Politics & Political Intrigue Family Instinct p. 17 Future is Now!, The p. 22 Battle for Brooklyn p. 17 Maids & Bosses p. 21 Battle for Barking, The p. 17 Grande Hotel p. 10 People in White p. 19 Foreign Parts p. 21 Melissa–mom and Me p. 11 Bobby Fischer against the World p. 4 Heart-Quake p. 20 Project Nim p. 6 Interrupters, The p. 11 Mothers of Bedford p. 18 Cinema Komunisto p. 22 Housing p. 20 Simple Rhythm, A p. 9 Limelight p. 6 Open Secret p. 19 Poster Girl p. 11 Draquila–Italy Trembles p. 20 Koundi and the National Thursday p. 21 South East Asian Cultures & St-Henri, The 26th of August p. 9 Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson p. 7 My Barefoot Friend p. 6 Issues You’ve Been Trumped p. 19 Vodka Factory p. 6 Give Up Tomorrow p. 18 Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour p. 23 Pit No. 8 p. 21 Give Up Tomorrow (Philippines) p. 18 War & Conflict Gnarr p. 18 Position among the Stars p. 6 Phnom Penh Lullaby (Cambodia) p. 12 See Also: Terrorism & The War On Terror Writers Guantanamo Trap, The p. 7 Samba within Me, The p. 12 Position among the Stars (Indonesia) p. 6 American Losers p. 24 Hilltops, The p. 7 Blood in the Mobile p. 4 When the Drum is Beating p. 23 Sports & Competition I, Curmudgeon p. 9 Hot Coffee p. 18 Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. p. 24 Religion & Spirituality Bobby Fischer against the World p. 4 Love Always, Carolyn–A Film Housing p. 20 Embrace of the River, The p. 17 about Kerouac, Cassady and Me p. 11 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo p. 24 Boy Cheerleaders p. 10 Imagining Emanuel p. 11 Guantanamo Trap, The p. 7 Magic Trip p. 6 Hilltops, The p. 7 Fightville p. 5 Matchmaking Mayor p. 18 Hell and Back Again p. 10 Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer p. 23
TITLE INDEX 45365 p. 24 Chocolate Farmer, The p. 7 Hand to Toe: An Exploration Magus, The p. 22 Rubberband Is an 5 Pictures of a Father p .10 Cinema Komunisto p. 22 in the Art of Giving p. 7 Maids & Bosses p. 21 Unlikely Instrument, A p. 12 75 Watts p. 9 Collaborator and His Family, The p. 10 Hard Name, A p. 9 Mama Africa p. 6 Running Stumbled p. 24 Abendland p. 10 Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop p. 4 Heart-Quake p. 20 Marija’s Own p. 23 Samba within Me, The p. 12 Advocate for Fagdom, The p. 4 Cosmic Energy Inc. p. 20 Hell and Back Again p. 10 Matchmaking Mayor p. 18 Senna p. 6 After the Apocalypse p. 17 Danger p. 9 Highway Gospel p. 7 Melissa–mom and Me p. 11 Set Backs p. 8 Alan Zweig: Early Shorts p. 9 Daughters of Malakeh p. 10 Hilltops, The p. 7 Memoirs of a Plague p. 11 Shibuya–Tokyo p. 12 All for the Good of the World Day We Danced on the Moon, The p. 11 Hollywood Complex, The p. 5 Mighty Jerome p. 8 Simple Rhythm, A p. 9 and Nosovice p. 21 Days Before Christmas, The p. 23 Hot Coffee p. 18 Minka p. 23 Sira–Songs of the Crescent Moon p. 23 American Losers p. 24 Despicable Dick & Righteous Richard p. 10 Housing p. 20 Mothers of Bedford p. 18 Something to Tell You p. 19 At Night, They Dance p. 7 Doc It! Showcase p. 5 How Are You p. 22 My Barefoot Friend p. 6 Somewhere Between p. 19 At the Edge of Russia p. 10 Doc Talks p. 12 How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? p. 18 My Reincarnation p. 6 Somewhere to Disappear p. 23 Back Breaking Leaf, The p. 23 Dolphin Boy p. 5 How to Die in Oregon p. 11 Naked of Saint Petersburg, The p. 12 Stealing Images p. 9 Ballad of Genesis and Dragonslayer p. 10 How to Make a Book With Steidl p. 22 National Parks Project, The p. 6 St-Henri, The 26th of August p. 9 Lady Jaye, The p. 22 Draquila–Italy Trembles p. 20 I Am Jesus p. 20 New Castle p. 11 Superheroes p. 19 Battle for Barking, The p. 17 Dust. A Sculptor’s Journey p. 22 I, Curmudgeon p. 9 No Entry No Exit p. 18 Surpriseville p. 5 Battle for Brooklyn p. 17 Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. p. 24 If a Tree Falls: A Story Nodin (Wind) p. 7 Susya p. 7 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Eco Pirate: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front p. 18 Ola Svensson Superstar p. 23 Team, The p. 19 Travels of A Tribe Called Quest p. 4 of Paul Watson p. 7 Imagining Emanuel p. 11 Only Sky & Water p. 8 That’s Life p. 12 Beauty Day p. 7 El Bulli–Cooking in Progress p. 17 In Heaven, Underground. 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