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APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2016

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APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2016 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

WELCOME TO HOT DOCS 2016 PHOTO: CHRISTIAN Peña

FIND YOUR FILMS CHOOSE YOUR TICKETS OR PASS Browse films by program or use the title index to find films. More detailed SINGLE TICKETS: $17 film descriptions and a subject index are available at www.hotdocs.ca. SPECIAL Events: $22 BUY YOUR TICKETS Ticket Packages Advance Tickets Perfect for sharing with your friends and family, you can use as many tickets as you like per screening and can redeem them in advance. www.hotdocs.ca Tickets not valid for special events. 416.637.5150 6-PACK: $93  CraveTV Box Office at Hot Docs House 10-PACK: $149 610 Markham Street 20-PACK: $248 Hours  Monday–Friday: 11am–7pm Ticket package holders can redeem their tickets online at www.hotdocs.ca, Saturday–Sunday: 11am–5pm by phone or in person at the CraveTV Box Office at Hot Docs House. Thursday, April 28–Sunday, May 8: 10am–9pm Passes SAME DAY Tickets New! Same day tickets are available online, by phone and at the CraveTV Access screenings without having to select films or book tickets Box Office at Hot Docs House until one hour before screening time. in advance. Simply show your pass at the screening venue to obtain your ticket. Passes are non-transferrable. Additionally, each venue opens its box office one hour before its first screening of the day (see schedule on page 31) and sells same day tickets PREMIUM PASS: $343 for screenings at that venue. • One ticket to every Festival screening

Screening venue box offices accept cash only. BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA ALL-ACCESS: $150 • Access to all Festival screenings at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, RUSH Tickets plus two large popcorns

If a screening’s advance ticket block is sold out, a limited number of rush Passholders can visit the screening venue’s box office on the day. A block tickets may be available at the screening venue’s box office 10 minutes of tickets will be held for passholders, subject to availability. before the film begins. Line-ups for rush tickets form roughly one hour * All prices include HST. All prices exclude online service fees. before the start time. No refunds or exchanges. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Members receive a discount of up to 20%. See www.bloorcinema.com for details. FREE Daytime Screenings ds Seniors (60+) and students with valid ID can take advantage of free admission Accessible Screenings to films that start before 5pm. Pick up your tickets at the screening venue’s The above icons indicate feature film screenings at the TIFF Bell box office on the day of the screening, subject to availability. Lightbox and Scotiabank Theatre that offer closed captioning or Courtesy of CBC Docs. described sound (audio description), subject to equipment availability. Accessible screenings are presented by Accessible Media Inc. with additional support by The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation. Hot Docs was established in 1993 as an initiative of the Documentary organization of Canada/Documentaristes du Canada, and was separately incorporated as an independent, charitable organization in 1996. 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca : 3 SHOT PEDOCS CANADIANCIA INTERNATIONALL EVEN DOCUMENTARYTS FESTIVAL : APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2016 Funded in part by the Donner Canadian Foundation, FACTOR, the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.

Opening Night Screening

League of Exotique Dancers Enjoy the world premiere screening of our opening night film, League of Exotique Dancers (p. 6), including an exclusive Q&A with director Rama Rau and special guests from the film.

Thu, Apr 28 9:45 PM BLOOR Tickets: $22

Free Events Opening Weekend at The Mill Street Hub Through the

Saturday, April 30 Lens of a Female “Cameraperson” 10am–5pm Join us for food, concerts and conversation with fellow Discuss gender representation documentary lovers. in the documentary industry in this one-hour talk with acclaimed 9pm–11pm director and cinematographer Live music in partnership with Canadian Music Week. Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson, Sunday, May 1—Family Day p. 23) and other special guests. Co-presented by Film Fatales. 10am–2:30pm Fun at the tent continues with the addition of free games, TUE, MAY 3 5:00 PM TBLB crafts and special guests for children of all ages. Free tickets available on the day at 9pm–11pm TIFF Bell Lightbox box office. Live music in partnership with Canadian Music Week. Free Family Day Shorts Families can also catch a selection of free documentary shorts. For children aged 8+. Turning Tables: Creative Change Turning Tables empowers youth in some of the world’s most troubled regions to tell their stories through music and film. Meet the founders and embark on an 80 minute rollercoaster ride through lost Arab revolutions, activism in Southeast Asia and cries for change from slums in East Africa.

Wed, May 4 6:00 PM TBLB Dancing for You* D: Erlend E. Mo | Norway | 29 min Free tickets available on the day at TIFF Bell Lightbox box office. Handsome and Majestic D: Nathan Drillot, Jeff Petry | Canada | 12 min Joe’s Violin Docs at Dusk D: Kahane Cooperman | USA | 24 min Come join us for an outdoor * A live reader will translate this film for young audiences screening of Hip-Hop Evolution (p. 7) outside the Innis building. Sun, May 1 10:30 AM BADER The evening starts at 8pm with live music followed by a fantastic Free tickets available on the day at Isabel Bader Theatre box office. film. Weather permitting. See WWW.HOTDOCS.CA for more details. THU, MAY 5 9:00 PM INNIS

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The Scotiabank Big Ideas Series Additional support from the Government of Canada.

O.J. Simpson: Made in America Featuring former New York Times sports columnist and former ESPN Ombudsman Robert Lipsyte, director Ezra Edelman and a special guest Dig into unseen aspects of the “trial of the century” with sports journalist Robert Lipsyte who was very close to the case, director Ezra Edelman and a special guest, in conjunction with O.J. Simpson: Made in America (p. 7).

Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM BLOOR

The Apology Featuring Gil Won-Ok (Grandma Gil), Director of Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Slavery Meehyang Yoon and director Tiffany Hsiung Expose the prevalence of sexual violence as a weapon of war in this conversation with three dedicated women from The Apology (p. 10) who are forcefully fighting Japan’s government for recognition of its enslavement of women in WWII.

Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM BLOOR

The Happy Film Featuring Stefan Sagmeister, psychotherapist Sheenah Hankin and co-director Ben Nabors Take part in a live and interactive group therapy session with renowned graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, who will share advice based on his self-improvement quest in The Happy Film (p. 25).

Sun, May 1 6:30 PM BLOOR

What Tomorrow Brings Featuring Zabuli Education Center founder Razia Jan and director Beth Murphy Meet the inspirational Razia Jan as she shares her incredible story of opening and running the first school for girls in a small Afghanistan village, as chronicled in What Tomorrow Brings (p. 9), with director Beth Murphy.

Tue, May 3 6:30 PM BLOOR

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Featuring the San Antonio Four: Elizabeth Ramirez, Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera and Kristie Mayhugh; Mike Ware, Director of the Innocence Project of Texas; producer Sam Tabet and director Deborah S. Esquenazi Join four heroic women who were wrongfully sentenced to 15–37.5 years in prison and their indefatigable lawyer, subjects of Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (p. 8), as they discuss a justice system in crisis.

Wed, May 4 6:30 PM BLOOR

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru Featuring Tony Robbins and director Joe Berlinger Get inspired by best-selling self-help author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins and director Joe Berlinger as they discuss Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (p. 9) and the science of helping people “unleash the power within.”

Sun, May 8 6:00 PM BLOOR

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Sponsored by CBC Docs LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD

OPENING NIGHT FILM—WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE DE PALMA LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS AUDRIE & DAISY D: Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow | USA | 107 min D: Rama Rau | Canada | 90 min D: Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen | USA | 95 min From Carrie to Mission: Impossible to Scarface A dazzling cast of vintage burlesque dancers share Two teenage girls suffer major trauma as and beyond, Brian de Palma has created some candid and sometimes outrageous stories about victims of devastating and callously filmed sexual of cinema’s most iconic work. In this career- their lives on stage and off in the heyday of the assaults. As their heartrending stories unfurl, spanning, funny and candid conversation, he art, as they prepare for a rare performance for the dark intersections of social media, bullying, reveals his unique perspective on life, work the Legends of Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend. critical misunderstandings surrounding consent and the past 50 years in film. and a rigid justice system reveal themselves. Thu, Apr 28 9:45 PM BLOOR* Mon, May 2 6:15 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 6:45 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 10:00 AM BADER *Opening Night screening, p. 4 Wed, May 4 10:00 AM TBLB Fri, May 6 9:30 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 1:30 PM TBLB ds Sun, May 8 3:30 PM TBLB GARY NUMAN: ANDROID IN WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE LA LA LAND THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS D: Steve Read, Rob Alexander | UK | 85 min D: Brendan Byrne | Ireland, UK | 105 min D: Jared P. Scott | USA | 78 min Eighties electro-pop pioneer Gary Numan has Sounding an alarm over the critical and This riveting account of a turning point in Northern re-emerged from the wilderness—anxiety, disturbing effects of societal inaction, this Ireland’s bloody conflict draws directly from the depression and creative block in check—with revealing film highlights the irreversible impacts hunger strike diary of Bobby Sands, which recorded a renewed love of performing; but is his new of climate change—resource scarcity, mass the climax of a five-year protest by imprisoned hometown of Hollywood ready for this singular migration and conflict—through the lens of Irish Republicans. British rock star? global stability and national security. Tue, May 3 9:00 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 9:15 PM BADER Sun, May 1 6:45 PM TBLB Thu, May 5 6:30 PM BLOOR Tue, May 3 12:45 PM TBLB Wed, May 4 3:45 PM HART Sat, May 7 7:00 PM HART Sun, May 8 8:30 PM ROYAL Sat, May 7 1:00 PM REVUE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CINEMA EYE LEGACY AWARD SCREENING CONTEMPORARY COLOR GLEASON AMERICAN MOVIE D: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | USA | 96 min D: Clay Tweel | USA | 110 min D: Chris Smith | USA | 1999 | 107 min An extraordinary lineup of top music stars including At age 34, former NFL defensive back and New In this beloved cult classic, an aspiring filmmaker event mastermind David Byrne of The Talking Orleans hero Steve Gleason was diagnosed with struggles to complete a hilariously lo-fi horror Heads, Nelly Furtado, St. Vincent and more perform ALS. With limited time left to live, he purposefully film, only to be derailed by personal demons and live with 10 “colour guard” teams—perfectly records his spirited and inspiring life—a heartfelt the staggering ineptitude of his production team. synchronized students in pep-rally choreography— time capsule for his newborn son. in this one-of-a-kind, kaleidoscopic event. Sun, May 8 9:00 Pm tBLB Sat, Apr 30 3:30 PM BADER Mon, May 2 6:30 PM BLOOR Sun, May 1 3:00 PM HART Wed, May 4 4:15 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 9:00 PM BLOOR ANTS ON A SHRIMP Sun, May 8 1:00 PM BLOOR D: Maurice Dekkers | Netherlands | 88 min Foodies rejoice! When celebrity chef René Redzepi of “The World’s Best Restaurant” Noma heads to Tokyo for a five-week pop-up, he pushes his culinary creativity, exacting business MEMBERSHIPS model and the very boundaries of food to an outrageously delicious boiling point.

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WORLD PREMIERE THE LEGACY OF FRIDA KAHLO MR. GAGA HIP-HOP EVOLUTION D: Tadasuke Kotani | Japan | 89 min D: Tomer Heymann | Israel, Sweden, Netherlands, D: Darby Wheeler | Co-D: Scot McFadyen, Sam A renowned Japanese photographer inventories Germany | 100 min Dunn | Canada | 90 min iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and Stunning performances and rehearsal footage Acclaimed Canadian rapper Shad travels to personal belongings, recently discovered 58 years create a feast for the senses, immersing viewers in the Bronx and Harlem to talk with hip-hop’s after her death, lending deserved importance the creative process of Ohad Naharin, the Israeli originators and biggest stars—Kool Herc, Afrika to fashion and “women’s work,” while resurrecting choreographer and cultural maverick whose joyous Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash among the dead through clothing and talismans. approach has redefined the language of dance. others—tracing its evolution from underground culture to global phenomenon. Thu, Apr 28 7:00 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 6:15 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 1:00 PM BADER Mon, May 2 12:45 PM TBLB Parts one and two of a four-part series. Fri, May 6 7:00 PM FOX INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Fri, Apr 29 7:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Thu, May 5 9:00 PM INNIS* NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER Fri, May 6 9:15 PM BLOOR LIFE, ANIMATED VERSION OF YOU D: Roger Ross Williams | USA | 91 min D: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing | USA | 91 min *Free outdoor screening with live music, p. 4 Disney animations play a key role in helping a Still feisty in his 90s, Norman Lear transformed young autistic boy communicate and understand television with such groundbreaking sitcoms as I AM THE BLUES the world around him in this moving testament All In the Family, Maude and Good Times, which D: Daniel Cross | Canada | 106 min to coming of age through fantasy, from brilliantly injected hot button issues of race, class From smoky juke joints to spirited church halls, this Academy Award–winning director Roger Ross and feminism into America’s living rooms. musical travelogue immerses us in the heart of the Williams. American South in search of wisdom and rhythm Sat, Apr 30 6:15 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 9:15 PM BADER Sun, May 1 10:30 AM BLOOR from the last of the original blues legends, including Thu, May 5 12:30 PM HART Fri, May 6 6:45 PM TBLB Bobby Rush, Lazy Lester and Barbara Lynn. Sat, May 7 1:00 PM FOX Sat, May 7 3:15 PM REVUE

Mon, May 2 4:00 PM TBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Wed, May 4 10:45 AM TBLB ds LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE Sat, May 7 3:45 PM TBLB CONNECTED WORLD O.J. SIMPSON: MADE IN AMERICA D: Werner Herzog | USA | 98 min D: Ezra Edelman | USA | 464 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE “Does the Internet dream of itself?” Werner Herzog Part riveting biopic, part legal thriller, this THE LAST LAUGH deep dives into the murky morass that is the five-episode series from the makers of ESPN’s D: Ferne Pearlstein | USA | 85 min Internet today—from hacking to cyberbullying, legendary 30 for 30 program brings new Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Carl Reiner, a 90- robot sentience to scientific breakthroughs, perspectives and unprecedented access to the year-old Auschwitz survivor and others uproariously no bits or bytes are left unturned in this thought- complex story of America’s most famous debate and test the limits of comedy’s ultimate provoking, brain-tickling reverie. murder trial. taboo: how to joke about the Holocaust, or if it’s Screening with EP 1 | 90 min even ethical to try. The Dog Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM BLOOR* Sun, May 1 1:15 PM BLOOR D: Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari | USA | 8 min * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 Mon, May 2 9:00 PM BADER Thu, Apr 28 9:45 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 10:30 AM BADER Fri, Apr 29 1:00 PM BLOOR EP 1 | 90 min Sat, Apr 30 12:30 PM TBLB** EP 2–3 | 190 min Sat, Apr 30 2:40 PM TBLB** EP 4–5 | 190 min Sat, Apr 30 6:20 PM TBLB**

** See all five episodes for $22

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OBIT SONITA

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SONITA WORLD PREMIERE OBIT D: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami | Iran, Germany, SPACESHIP EARTH D: Vanessa Gould | USA | 93 min Switzerland | 90 min D: Kevin McMahon | Canada | 122 min How do you distill a rich life into a mere 500 After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, Illuminating Marshall McLuhan’s sentiment that words? This engrossing encounter with New York a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her we are all crew on spaceship earth, magnificent Times obituary writers reveals the unexpected frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. images of our planet taken from space inspire joys and existential angst of chronicling lives on Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the prominent thinkers, from astronauts to activists, the front lines of history. face of oppressive traditions. to make an urgent call to solve the problems we’ve created before it’s too late. Mon, May 2 9:15 PM BLOOR Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM BADER Tue, May 3 3:45 PM BADER Sun, May 1 4:00 PM TBLB Sat, Apr 30 9:15 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 9:15 PM BADER Fri, May 6 3:45 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 12:30 PM BADER Sun, May 8 1:00 PM REGENT Sat, May 7 10:00 AM BLOOR WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SOUR GRAPES STRIKE A POSE THE PEACEMAKER D: Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas | USA, France, UK D: Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan | Netherlands, Belgium D: James Demo | USA | 88 min | 84 min | 83 min From Northern Ireland to Iraq, untrained Controversy erupts when an unassuming young The scene-stealing dancers from Madonna’s mediator Padraig O’Malley has brokered peace man floods the American wine market with fake wildly popular concert doc Truth or Dare (p. 28) agreements in the world’s most intractable vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the open up 25 years later about life after suddenly conflicts through dogged determination and wine world elite in this humorous and suspenseful becoming gay icons at a young and, for some, unorthodox methods; but can this former tale of an ingenious con on the eve of the 2008 unready age. addict find salvation for himself? financial crisis. Fri, Apr 29 7:00 PM HART Fri, Apr 29 9:45 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 9:45 PM BLOOR Sat, Apr 30 1:45 PM TBLB Sat, Apr 30 10:00 AM TBLB Thu, May 5 6:30 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 6:30 PM BLOOR Sat, May 7 1:15 PM BLOOR Sat, May 7 3:45 PM FOX INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THANK YOU DEL: THE STORY OF THE SOUTHWEST OF SALEM: THE STORY DEL CLOSE MARATHON OF THE SAN ANTONIO FOUR D: Todd Bieber | USA | 84 min D: Deborah S. Esquenazi | USA | 89 min An inspiration to iconic improv group Upright The nightmarish persecution of four Latina lesbians Citizens Brigade, under-appreciated comedy wrongfully convicted of molestation is exposed giant Del Close is given an uproarious tribute as in this startling investigation that reveals the his students—from Amy Poehler to Bill Murray 2016–17 DOC SOUP sinister interplay of homophobia and prosecutorial —recount stories of the pioneering mad genius SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW fervour that led to a modern-day witch hunt. at work.

AVAILABLE AT SPECIAL Wed, May 4 6:30 PM BLOOR* Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM BADER * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 Sat, Apr 30 12:45 PM TBLB FESTIVAL RATES. Sun, May 8 12:30 PM HART

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT UNDER THE GUN WEINER YOUR GURU D: Stephanie Soechtig | USA | 110 min D: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg | USA | 100 min D: Joe Berlinger | USA | 115 min With razor-sharp arguments and insight, This Sundance Award winner captures up This immersive tour de force plunges deep into a Stephanie Soechtig and Katie Couric (the team close the epic—and utterly riveting—political mega self-help seminar with famed motivational behind Fed Up) craft a gripping indictment of meltdown of the titular disgraced ex-congressman speaker Tony Robbins, revealing how attendees American gun culture, meeting communities as his surprise comeback campaign in the New are pushed to the brink of their emotional limits shattered by shootings and exposing the politics York mayoral race crashes and burns amidst new in their zealous pursuit of success. that allow the epidemic of violence to persist. sexting allegations.

Sun, May 8 6:00 PM BLOOR* Tue, May 3 3:15 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 3:30 PM BADER Sun, May 8 9:30 PM BLOOR Thu, May 5 9:30 PM BLOOR Sat, Apr 30 1:00 PM BLOOR Sun, May 8 9:30 PM REGENT Fri, May 6 6:30 PM BLOOR * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 UNLOCKING THE CAGE WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker | USA | 92 min WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS TRAPPED D: Beth Murphy | USA | 89 min Legendary duo Hegedus and Pennebaker focus D: Dawn Porter | USA | 80 min their lens on a devoted and savvy lawyer in the Optimism and excitement fill a remote Afghanistan American women’s right to abortion is no midst of a ground-breaking case that seeks village’s first school to accept female students longer clear, as 288 dubious laws slyly crafted legal protection for chimpanzees and, ultimately, —an all-girls institution founded by an inspiring by conservatives have decimated access. equality for all creatures under the law. local woman. As U.S. troops depart, the next While a watershed Supreme Court battle looms, generation of Afghans study their past and dream witness the human stakes of the right to choose. Mon, May 2 3:30 PM TBLB of their future. Tue, May 3 9:30 PM TBLB ds Screening with Sun, May 8 10:00 AM TBLB Tue, May 3 6:30 PM BLOOR* The Black Belt Thu, May 5 9:45 PM HART D: Margaret Brown | USA | 10 min Fri, May 6 9:30 PM FOX Wed, May 4 3:45 PM BADER * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 Fri, May 6 9:45 PM HART Sun, May 8 3:00 PM HART

WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS

UNDER THE GUN THANK YOU DEL: THE STORY OF THE DEL CLOSE MARATHON

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CANADIAN SPECTRUM FILMS IN JURIED COMPETITION Sponsored by TVO KONELĪNE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL

AFTER CIRCUS WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE D: Viveka Melki | Canada | 78 min THE APOLOGY CHEER UP Run away and join the circus performers— D: Tiffany Hsiung | Canada | 105 min D: Christy Garland | Finland, Canada | 72 min acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns and even In this profoundly moving and transformative Sick of losing, the coach of Finland’s worst horses—who’ve retired to Sarasota, forming call for peace and justice, three former “comfort cheerleading team is inspired to push a close-knit community of larger-than-life women” break the silence about their sexual her team to victory after visiting the world personalities that continue to defy gravity long slavery during WWII, demanding a formal champions in Texas, but soon discovers after the thrills of the Big Top have ended. apology from a reluctant Japanese government. that adolescence has more pressing priorities for her troubled students. Screening with Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM BLOOR* TERRANOVA MATADORA Sun, May 1 10:30 AM TBLB Sun, May 1 7:00 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 12:45 PM BADER D: Rhonda Buckley | Canada | 14 min Thu, May 5 7:00 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 6:30 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 9:15 PM TBLB * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 Sun, May 1 1:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 1:00 PM SCOTIA A DOG’S LIFE CALLSHOP ISTANBUL D: Hélène Choquette | Canada | 67 min WORLD PREMIERE D: Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer | Canada | 96 min A lifeline for the homeless, dogs are loyal AIM FOR THE ROSES In Istanbul, “callshops” are lifelines home for companions who offer unconditional love, D: John Bolton | Canada | 102 min refugees from around the world. Discover stability and a warm body on cold nights—but What do a daredevil jump in a rocket-powered the conversations, confidences and emotionally few shelters accept them. Homeless people in car, a classical double bass album and an charged moments that take place in these Toronto and Montreal take us into their lives to outrageous documentary musical have in telephone booth businesses at the crossroads share the joys and tribulations of life with their common? Not much, except insane artistic risk of today’s migratory routes. best friends. that either ends in brilliance or utter disaster. Sun, May 1 9:30 PM SCOTIA Screening with You be the judge. Wed, May 4 4:00 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 10:30 AM TBLB JUST A DOG Sun, May 1 7:15 PM SCOTIA D: Andrea Scott | USA | 15 min Mon, May 2 1:15 PM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE Wed, May 4 6:45 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 1:00 PM SCOTIA Thu, May 5 10:15 AM BADER A CENTRE-SUD TALE Sat, May 7 1:30 PM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE D: Danic Champoux | Canada | 52 min ANGRY INUK An urban fairy tale of generosity, creativity WORLD PREMIERE D: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Canada | 85 min and love in Montreal’s poorest neighbourhood GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES With “sealfies” and social media, a new tech- is shown through the lens of a lifelong resident D: Zaynê Akyol | Canada | 84 min who calls it home. Focusing on his mother savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world Death by a woman’s hand means a Daesh (aka and children, their family finds virtue in their of activism, using humour and reason to confront ISIS) fighter will never reach paradise, which forced frugality. aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their makes this highly skilled all-female Kurdish traditional hunting practices. Screening with brigade all the more fearsome. Their fight for SLEEPING WITH FAMILY liberation from war and men is thoughtfully Mon, May 2 7:00 PM TBLB captured in this beautiful portrait. Wed, May 4 1:00 PM BADER D: Nicole Bazuin, Darren O’Donnell | Canada | 10 min Sat, May 7 6:45 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 6:45 PM SCOTIA Tue, May 3 9:30 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 4:30 PM INNIS Wed, May 4 3:45 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 4:15 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 10:00 PM SCOTIA

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WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE GUN RUNNERS LIVING WITH GIANTS OFF THE RAILS D: Anjali Nayar | Canada | 90 min D: Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque | Canada D: Adam Irving | Canada, USA | 87 min Two of the most notorious warriors in Kenya’s | 78 min Unravel the remarkable story of Darius magnificent Great Rift Valley trade in their Deeply-rooted legends, ancestral spirits and the McCollum, a man with Asperger’s syndrome AK-47s for sneakers and a chance to make their harsh realities of Arctic life surround a caring whose overwhelming love of transit has landed living as professional marathon runners in this young Inuk hunter in remote Inukjuak. When him in jail 32 times for impersonating New York powerful story of friendship, rivalry and sport. violence erupts after a school graduation party, City bus drivers and subway conductors while he the community unites to heal in this poetic and drove their routes. Mon, May 2 9:30 PM TBLB powerful film. Tue, May 3 3:30 PM SCOTIA Screening with Fri, May 6 4:15 PM TBLB Screening with TINY TRACKS THE GRANDFATHER DRUM D: Naomi Hocura | Canada | 10 min WORLD PREMIERE D: Michelle Derosier | Canada | 13 min Wed, May 4 9:15 PM SCOTIA HOW TO PREPARE FOR PRISON Sun, May 1 7:00 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 1:00 PM TBLB D: Matt Gallagher | Canada | 90 min Mon, May 2 4:30 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 7:15 PM INNIS Regret, defiance and stark fear dominate the lives Sat, May 7 3:15 PM TBLB and families of three people charged with a THE PRISON IN crime and facing prison for the first time. Guilty WORLD PREMIERE TWELVE LANDSCAPES or innocent, they find themselves forever changed. MIGRANT DREAMS D: Brett Story | Canada, USA | 87 min D: Min Sook Lee | Canada | 88 min The towering reach of America’s prison industrial Fri, Apr 29 6:00 PM SCOTIA Deceptive brokers and systemic exploitation Sat, Apr 30 10:15 AM BADER complex is exposed in evocative vignettes of Sun, May 8 3:30 PM BADER are starkly exposed in this stirring story of lives that cannot escape its shadow—from a two courageous Indonesian women caught in chess club of ex-convicts restricted from the Canada’s migrant worker program, fighting for KONELĪNE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL job market to the niche business of mail-order basic rights in the face of debt bondage and low inmate care packages. D: Nettie Wild | Canada | 96 min paying work. The world’s largest helicopter flies huge Screening with transmission towers into the Tahltan First Nations Screening with BETWEEN YOU AND ME Territory in BC—an ominous but awe-inspiring SEEDING FEAR D: Chase Joynt | Canada | 10 min symbol of mining interests and increased D: Craig Jackson | Canada | 11 min Tue, May 3 6:15 PM SCOTIA conflict—in this poem to the land and its people, Sun, May 1 9:00 PM TBLB Thu, May 5 2:45 PM TBLB captured in breathtaking CinemaScope. Tue, May 3 1:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 1:30 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 1:00 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 12:45 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 3:15 PM HART

LIVING WITH GIANTS

AIM FOR THE ROSES OFF THE RAILS

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CANADIAN SPECTRUM

WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE QUEBEC MY COUNTRY MON PAYS RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY WIZARD MODE D: John Walker | Canada | 89 min D: Ali Kazimi | Canada | 77 min D: Nathan Drillot, Jeff Petry | Canada | 82 min Having grown up as an Anglophone in post–Quiet The revelatory and delightful memoir of a Combo! Meet one of the world’s top pinball Revolution Quebec, documentarian John Walker Chinese-American family in Chicago, from the players, an earnest and well-liked young speaks with everyone from poets to politicians to Great Depression through the post-war era, man whose single-minded skill is a function reflect on the violent upheaval and subsequent is uncovered through rescued home movies which of autism—both limiting and expanding his exodus of 500,000 English-speaking Quebecers. were saved by a dedicated collector in search ability to interact in the world as he rises in of their creator’s descendants. international rankings. Sat, Apr 30 6:45 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 12:30 PM TBLB Screening with Mon, May 2 7:15 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 3:45 PM SCOTIA NO CULTURAL VALUE Wed, May 4 1:00 PM HART Sat, May 7 6:15 PM SCOTIA D: Mike Maryniuk | Canada | 19 min Mon, May 2 9:00 PM TBLB Thu, May 5 1:30 PM TBLB Sun, May 8 4:30 PM INNIS

FOCUS ON ROSIE DRANSFELD Presented by Alberta Film

THE DOGWALKER D: Rosvita Dransfeld | Canada | 2007 | 76 min After suffering a brain injury as a child, intellectual limitations and years of neglect made life hard for Michael Borowski. But today, everyone on Edmonton’s White Avenue knows him—the dog walker, a sensitive and insightful man who has quietly overcome.

Thu, May 5 8:30 Pm tBLB

WHO CARES ANTI-SOCIAL LIMITED D: Rosvita Dransfeld | Canada | 2012 | 80 min ANTI-SOCIAL LIMITED BROKE. Discover the gritty and dangerous world of D: Rosvita Dransfeld | Canada | 2014 | 58 min D: Rosvita Dransfeld | Canada | 2009 | 77 min Edmonton’s sex workers. In the post-Pickton era, where the unthinkable is now a gruesome A compelling and charismatic ex-drug dealer Where do you borrow money if you’re poor, reality, women voluntarily provide police with and self-declared psychopath attempts to put addicted or just down on your luck? Visit a crusty DNA samples for future identification. his life on track, starting an all-Indigenous pawnshop owner and his sweet-but-sociopathic construction business and sorting through a assistant (also the subject of Dransfeld’s Fri, Apr 29 4:00 Pm tBLB history of abuse and abandonment that still Anti-Social Limited), lenders of last resort in this haunts him. uncompromising vérité masterpiece.

Fri, May 6 2:00 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 4:00 PM SCOTIA

BEAVERMAN D: Rosvita Dransfeld | Canada | 2002 | 51 min One Edmonton man has a haunting obsession that he can’t shake: beavers. Join this eccentric, educational and very Canadian quest to be liberated from a buck-toothed animal spirit through Roman wisdom, biological curiosities and a vision quest.

Sat, Apr 30 2:30 PM SCOTIA

BEAVERMAN

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CAINTNEADRNIATANI ONAL SSPEPECTRCTRUMUM FILMS IN JURIED COMPETITION Sponsored by the Canada Media Fund DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE BROTHERS DON JUAN HOTEL COOLGARDIE D: Aslaug Holm | Norway | 102 min D: Jerzy Sladkowski | Sweden, Finland | 92 min D: Pete Gleeson | Australia | 82 min Beautifully shot over eight years by their An autistic Russian man with a gentle soul Between the world’s most isolated city and filmmaker mother, two boys grow from toddlers craves love and approval—from his fiery mother, Australia’s largest gold pit lies Coolgardie, to teenagers on camera. Milestones great his baffling therapist, the gorgeous girl in his a town that feminism forgot. When two Finnish and small are lovingly explored, as time itself acting class—but the strict definition of a “real women start work at the only local bar, becomes the lead character in this lyrical study man” doesn’t fit his kind nature. residents see “fresh meat” and pounce in this of family life. raw fly-on-the-wall account. Sat, Apr 30 4:00 PM SCOTIA Fri, Apr 29 6:45 PM TBLB Mon, May 2 1:00 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 1 7:15 PM TBLB Sat, Apr 30 1:00 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 1:15 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 2:00 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 4:00 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 9:45 PM SCOTIA WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE GOD KNOWS WHERE I AM WORLD PREMIERE DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS D: Todd Wider, Jedd Wider | USA | 99 min THE INFINITE FLIGHT OF DAYS D: Juan Mejia Botero, Jake Kheel | USA, Dominican An intimate and deeply troubling account of D: Catalina Mesa | France, Colombia | 77 min Republic | 73 min mental illness is eloquently unveiled through With laughter, tears and an unbridled passion The vicious murder of a park ranger sparks an the poignant diary entries of a woman whose for life, eight women of different ages and investigation into the illicit charcoal trade causing starved body was found in an abandoned New backgrounds in a small Colombian village deforestation of the island shared by Haiti and the Hampshire farmhouse. celebrate their rich cultural heritage and stories Dominican Republic. As trees fall, national tensions of love, loss and the wisdom of womanhood. rise in this gripping survival story. Sat, Apr 30 9:15 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 12:15 PM TBLB Screening with Screening with Sat, May 7 9:30 PM SCOTIA Strudel Sisters The Meadow D: Peter Hegedus, Jaina Kalifa | Australia | 7 min D: Jela Hasler | Switzerland | 9 min Mon, May 2 6:00 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 6:15 PM TBLB Wed, May 4 1:30 PM SCOTIA Wed, May 4 4:00 PM TBLB Sun, May 8 4:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 12:30 PM TBLB

BROTHERS LOVETRUE

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INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM

WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES NO MAN IS AN ISLAND RAVING IRAN D: Mike Day | UK, Denmark | 82 min D: Tim De Keersmaecker | Belgium | 70 min D: Susanne Regina Meures | Switzerland | 85 min In the remote Faroe Islands, locals have long When two young African migrants are adopted In a country where the routine “eat, sleep, rave, hunted pilot whales for subsistence. But when a into families on a rural southern Italian island, they repeat” is an act of political dissidence, two doctor discovers that marine pollution has made find their newfound freedom comes at a cost, passionately driven DJs at the heart of Iran’s the controversial meat toxic, their ancient way of and their refuge can sometimes feel like a prison. illegal techno scene peddle their beats on life is unexpectedly stamped with an expiry date. the black market and furtively throw desert Screening with dance parties, all while evading police. Screening with We all love the seaside Last Season D: Keina Espiñeira | Spain | 17 min Sun, May 1 4:15 PM SCOTIA D: Sławomir Witek | Poland | 13 min Sun, May 1 9:30 PM HART Tue, May 3 3:15 Pm tBLB Sat, May 7 7:00 Pm tBLB Fri, Apr 29 6:15 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 4:00 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 11:00 AM TBLB Sat, May 7 1:00 PM BADER Fri, May 6 10:15 AM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE PEARL OF AFRICA LOVETRUE D: Jonny von Wallström | Sweden | 90 min D: Alma Har’el | USA | 80 min Love is a matter of life and death for a In this hypnotic fusion of documentary and transgender woman in Uganda who must fantasy, three unique love stories are explored navigate bigoted laws, public attacks and forced with actors playing the couples’ past and future separation from her boyfriend. Under these selves to consider the meaning of true love. dire circumstances, can love really conquer all?

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RAVING IRAN

THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES THE PEARL OF AFRICA

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WORLD SHOWCASE OVARIAN PSYCOS

WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CITY 40 AIDA’S SECRETS BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS D: Samira Goetschel | USA | 73 min D: Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz | Israel, USA, D: Garrett Zevgetis | USA | 91 min Barbed wire and armed guards surround the Germany, Canada | 90 min Michelle Smith is not your ordinary young residents of a secret Soviet-era city deep within Jaw-dropping revelations, reunions and rekindled outcast. Blind and autistic, yet defiantly Russia. Told they are the world’s saviours and passions unspool in this historical investigation optimistic, she boldly seeks love and finds that outsiders are their enemies, a smuggled-in that wends through Germany, Poland, Israel and empowerment through an online fetish camera crew reveals the shocking truth. finally Canada to create a timely and dramatic community, embracing all her kinks and looking lesson in tolerance for, and the resilience of, to tackle the real world. Screening with displaced persons. THE DIVER Wed, May 4 8:45 PM SCOTIA D: Esteban Arrangoiz | Mexico | 16 min Fri, May 6 7:00 PM TBLB ds Screening with Thu, Apr 28 8:45 Pm tBLB Sat, May 7 10:00 AM TBLB AT MIDNIGHT Fri, Apr 29 3:45 PM SCOTIA D: Amber McBride | Australia | 5 min Fri, May 6 6:30 Pm inniS NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Tue, May 3 7:00 PM HART Thu, May 5 1:00 PM SCOTIA BROTHERS NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Sat, May 7 10:45 AM TBLB D: Wojciech Staron | Poland | 69 min THE CROSSING Two extraordinary brothers who in their youth fled D: George Kurian | Norway | 55 min ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS a Soviet gulag for Poland are unable to escape In this vivid chronicle of a humanitarian crisis, D: Michal Marczak | Poland | 90 min each other in old age; though polar opposites, cameras accompany a group of remarkably Roaming Warsaw’s summer streets from public they share an intense relationship that’s spanned optimistic middle-class Syrian families forced squares to makeshift clubs, two adventurous adventure-filled decades and keeps them going. into extraordinary choices as they risk smugglers, young friends explore the boundaries of childhood death and indifference in a desperate bid Screening with and adulthood while pushing life to the limit, for freedom. I’M NOT FROM HERE their unfettered vitality bursting through a city D: Maite Alberdi, Giedr Žickyt | Chile, Lithuania, still emerging from its traumatic past. ė ė Screening with Denmark | 26 min COSMOPOLITANISM Wed, May 4 6:30 PM TBLB Thu, May 5 6:30 PM SCOTIA D: Erik Gandini | Sweden | 17 min Fri, May 6 4:00 PM INNIS Thu, May 5 4:15 PM SCOTIA Wed, May 4 6:15 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 6:45 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 4:00 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 3:15 Pm tBLB

THE BAD KIDS INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Lou Pepe, Keith Fulton | USA | 101 min CHECK IT D: Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor | USA | 91 min Students in a remote desert community bravely confront the challenges of unplanned parenthood, Under constant threat of assault, black LGBT poverty and abuse at an inspiring alternative youth in a rough Washington, D.C. neighbourhood school that offers hope in this raw and engrossing fight back, forming a feared gang. But they can’t Sundance Award winner. shield themselves from the dangers of poverty and exploitation, leading four members to seek Wed, May 4 9:45 PM HART another way out. Thu, May 5 6:15 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 12:30 PM HART Sat, Apr 30 7:00 Pm hart Sun, May 1 12:15 Pm hart Fri, May 6 6:00 PM SCOTIA

CHECK IT

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DAMIANA KRYYGI INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE D: Alejandro Fernandez Moujan | Argentina | 96 min DO NOT RESIST FUTURE BABY Paraguay, 1896. An Indigenous three-year-old D: Craig Atkinson | USA | 70 min D: Maria Arlamovsky | Austria | 91 min girl survives her family’s vicious massacre only In this sweeping investigation of the alarming Will natural reproduction grow passé? This to be captured and kept as a scientific curiosity militarization of American policing, we witness compelling film brings together visionaries and for her brief life. Her sad story is carefully the same tools of war used in foreign conflicts— experts on both sides of the in vitro fertilization reconstructed as her community attempts to lay high tech weaponry, armoured vehicles and even debate, exploring the controversial hand of her to rest. strategy—being deployed on the home front, science in the art of baby making. overwhelmingly against black Americans. Tue, May 3 8:45 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 6:45 PM SCOTIA Thu, May 5 9:30 Pm tBLB Screening with Mon, May 2 1:00 Pm tBLB FRAME 394 Sun, May 8 10:15 AM BADER NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Rich Williamson | Canada | 29 min WORLD PREMIERE DIVING INTO THE UNKNOWN Tue, May 3 6:30 PM BADER D: Juan Reina | Finland, Norway | 85 min Thu, May 5 7:00 Pm hart THE GATEKEEPER Sat, May 7 6:30 PM BADER D: Yung Chang | Canada | 40 min After a tragic accident forces a group of Finnish divers to abandon two friends, the team Patrolling a popular tourist destination of steep cliffs NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE that plummet into the Sea of Japan, a retired police reassembles for a terrifying, covert operation to THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE recover their bodies from the treacherous deep- officer vigilantly intercepts troubled souls looking to water cave that claimed their lives. HOLY JIHAD jump, his count of lives saved now over 500. D: Stéphane Malterre | France | 120 min Screening with Sun, May 1 3:30 Pm tBLB Blood ties, patriotism and religion shape Tue, May 3 1:15 Pm tBLB MOVING TARGET the fateful decision of a father and son who Sun, May 8 10:30 am tBLB D: Tanja Wol Sorensen | Denmark | 29 min abandon their home in France to fight for the revolution in their native Syria, becoming Sat, Apr 30 7:30 PM SCOTIA WORLD PREMIERE Sun, May 1 2:00 Pm tBLB DIY COUNTRY both liberators and jihadists. Sun, May 8 11:00 AM SCOTIA D: Antony Butts | France | 87 min Tue, May 3 9:00 PM SCOTIA INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE This explosive on-the-ground look at one of the Thu, May 5 10:15 am tBLB Fri, May 6 9:00 PM SCOTIA HALF-LIFE IN FUKUSHIMA deadliest wars in modern Europe follows pro- D: Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi | Switzerland, Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine: a network NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE France | 61 min composed of idealists, opportunists and work-a- day rebels all struggling to grasp a piece of power. FIREFLIES IN THE ABYSS In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear D: Chandrasekhar Reddy | Netherlands, Canada, UK, disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a Screening with India | 88 min solitary existence within the radiation red IN DEFENSE OF THE ROCKET The dangerous lives of labourers making their zone. Wandering through this otherworldly D: Martin Ginestie | UK | 6 min living in an Indian coal mining boomtown are landscape, he encounters wonders, sorrows Tue, May 3 6:45 PM SCOTIA brought into focus through the indomitable spirit and fragments of the past. Thu, May 5 10:30 am tBLB of an 11-year-old boy determined to escape the Sat, May 7 3:45 PM BADER Screening with dark abyss and return to school. ABSENCES Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM SCOTIA D: Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, El Salvador | 28 min Sat, Apr 30 4:30 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 9:45 PM SCOTIA Wed, May 4 10:30 am tBLB Sun, May 8 10:15 am tBLB

DIY COUNTRY HALF-LIFE IN FUKUSHIMA

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HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED HOLY COW KAISA’S ENCHANTED FOREST D: Pieter-Jan De Pue | Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, D: Imam Hasanov | Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, D: Katja Gauriloff | Finland | 84 min Germany | 87 min Qatar | 75 min In 1935, feverish dreams magically beckon a As U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, gangs of Direct from Europe, a sweet-natured cow Swiss writer to Finland’s enchanted forests, where organized, savvy and armed young boys take their named Madona is the unlikely focal point of an he discovers a spiritual kinship with a remote place. From over seven years of evocative and Azerbaijani town’s conservative furor, as they Indigenous community. Forging friendships and haunting 16mm footage, this ravishing study of perceive a cultural threat from the West in one embracing traditions, he finds himself an ardent the next Afghan generation awes and shocks. man’s earnest pursuit of his dream cow. advocate for the rights of Sámi people. Mon, May 2 3:45 Pm tBLB Screening with Screening with Wed, May 4 12:30 Pm tBLB PICKLE HISTORY OF ABRAIM Fri, May 6 9:15 Pm tBLB D: Amy Nicholson | USA | 15 min D: Otavio Cury | Brazil | 12 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Mon, May 2 3:30 PM SCOTIA Tue, May 3 7:00 Pm tBLB Wed, May 4 3:30 PM SCOTIA Thu, May 5 4:15 Pm tBLB LOOK LOVE Fri, May 6 6:30 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 5:45 Pm tBLB D: Yun Ye | China | 146 min Two Chinese children from vastly different INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE economic classes rebelliously confront feelings HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD LA LAGUNA of confusion and abandonment when they AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS D: Aaron Schock | USA, Mexico | 40 min are separated from family and sent to remote CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE Deep in the rainforests of southern Mexico, two schools in an attempt to secure better futures. D: Josh Fox | USA | 125 min Mayan brothers run free among the relics of Fresh off his hometown fracking exposé their ancient civilization, but as one prepares to Sat, Apr 30 3:00 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 1 9:15 PM SCOTIA Gasland, Oscar nominee Josh Fox applies leave the village school, the future of his family Sun, May 8 6:15 PM SCOTIA his personal investigative style (and banjo and community hangs in the balance. playing) to climate crises around the world, NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Screening with encountering unexpected hopefulness and MALLORY inspiration along the highly entertaining way. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WHAT REMAINS IS MERMANAT D: Helena Treštíková | Czech Republic | 101 min Mon, May 2 9:15 Pm tBLB D: Zeynep Gülru Keçeciler | Turkey | 46 min After the birth of her son, a down-and-out but Wed, May 4 12:45 Pm tBLB determined Czech woman finds herself living Sat, May 7 9:15 Pm tBLB High in the mountains of Turkey, the only two children in a small village transform their in a car and desperately trying to kick homestead into a magical playground, but drugs. Over the course of 13 years, we see her their youthful exuberance collides with harsh courageous drive to turn her life around. reality in this visually breathtaking glimpse Wed, May 4 4:15 PM SCOTIA at a declining community. Fri, May 6 1:15 Pm tBLB

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WORLD SHOWCASE

MULLY

A REVOLUTION IN FOUR SEASONS A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR WITH EGO

MULLY WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE D: Scott Haze | USA, Kenya | 81 min OVERRULED A REVOLUTION IN FOUR SEASONS From poverty-struck orphan in rural Kenya to D: Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian D: Jessie Deeter | USA | 90 min affluent entrepreneur, the inspiring story of | Canada | 58 min Two young female leaders from opposing political Charles Mully is made even more poignant and Under threat of detention and deportation, four sides play pivotal roles in shaping Tunisia’s impressive when he surrenders his wealth young Afghan refugees hustle as ball boys in emerging democracy, but find themselves making to help save his country’s abandoned children. Tehran’s tennis clubs, their outsider status barring difficult compromises in life and politics as they them from competing. Frustrated, they weigh attempt to put their rival ideologies into practice. Screening with risking it all for an unknown fate in the West. NASCENT Sun, May 1 7:00 Pm hart D: Lindsay Branham, Jon Kasbe | USA | 7 min Screening with Mon, May 2 10:30 AM BADER Sat, May 7 6:30 PM FOX Thu, May 5 6:00 Pm tBLB FAMOUS IN AHMEDABAD Fri, May 6 9:45 PM BADER D: Hardik Mehta | India | 29 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Tue, May 3 9:45 Pm tBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Wed, May 4 8:45 Pm inniS THE REVOLUTION WON’T OVARIAN PSYCOS Sun, May 8 1:15 Pm tBLB BE TELEVISED D: Kate Trumbull-LaValle, Joanna Sokolowski | USA D: Rama Thiaw | Senegal, France | 110 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | 72 min Merging artistry and activism, two celebrated RABIN IN HIS OWN WORDS By the light of the full moon rides the Ovarian hip-hop artists mobilize Senegal’s frustrated D: Erez Laufer | Israel | 100 min Psycos Bicycle Brigade. As young womxn citizens into a popular movement during of colour with feminist ideals and Indigenous Twenty years after the assassination of Israeli the 2012 presidential campaign by challenging understanding, they defend the sisterhood as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin plunged the corruption and bolstering the voice of the they take back the streets of East Los Angeles. country and peace process into renewed turmoil, people with high energy and passion. this important and moving account of his Screening with dramatic life weaves together rare recordings, Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM SCOTIA THE WOMAN WHO SAW THE BEAR home movies, interviews, uncensored memoirs Sat, Apr 30 3:00 Pm hart Fri, May 6 3:00 PM SCOTIA D: Joannie Lafrenière | Canada | 17 min and letters. Sat, Apr 30 9:30 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 3:00 Pm tBLB Mon, May 2 9:00 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 9:30 PM SCOTIA Tue, May 3 12:45 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 12:45 Pm tBLB

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SALAMANCA TOWER A WALNUT TREE D: Aleksandra Kulak, Ruslan Fedotow | Russia | 41 min D: Keith Maitland | USA | 94 min D: Ammar Aziz | Pakistan | 81 min From the strict dress code to rigid gender Fascinating animation and archival footage The devastating trauma of displacement is starkly roles, the rules governing a Mexican Mennonite combine to reveal gripping, untold stories realized in this portrait of an elderly Pakistani community haven’t changed in 200 years. from survivors of America’s first mass school teacher who, from his refugee camp, nostalgically Be captivated by superbly composed scenes shooting 50 years ago, when a gunman longs for a home that may no longer exist, of family life in all its staunch rigour and ascended the University of Texas tower and destroyed in the ongoing conflict with the Taliban. sweet stolen moments. committed a horrifically violent assault. Screening with Screening with Sun, May 1 9:30 Pm tBLB OUR FILM IS BETTER EXTREMES Mon, May 2 1:00 PM BADER D: Ronahi Ezaddin | Iraq, Syria | 9 min Fri, May 6 3:15 Pm hart D: Juan Manuel Ferraro, Federico Molentino | Tue, May 3 6:00 PM SCOTIA Argentina | 26 min Thu, May 5 12:45 PM SCOTIA NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Sat, May 7 7:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM SCOTIA Mon, May 2 1:15 PM SCOTIA UKRAINIAN SHERIFFS Sat, May 7 7:00 PM SCOTIA D: Roman Bondarchuk | Ukraine, Latvia, Germany NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | 85 min WHEN THE EARTH SEEMS STARLESS DREAMS In a tiny village in Southern Ukraine, two TO BE LIGHT D: Mehrdad Oskouei | Iran | 76 min oddball sheriffs corral town drunks and the D: David Meshki, Salome Machaidze, Tamuna Karumidze | Georgia, Germany | 76 min Wise well beyond their years, young women occasional missing television. But when a incarcerated in a juvenile facility near Tehran national crisis hits, they safeguard democracy A charming group of misfit skateboarders share the desperate circumstances that itself in this unexpectedly inspiring, award- navigate the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, seeking compelled them to their crimes in this gentle winning tragicomedy. their place in the magical, dark and confining but powerful indictment of societal apathy. city that’s steeped in Soviet history and a Wed, May 4 6:45 PM SCOTIA conservative religion that’s completely at odds Thu, May 5 9:45 PM SCOTIA Screening with with their non-conformist outlook. OMNIA WORLD PREMIERE D: Amena Al Nowais | United Arab Emirates | 9 min Screening with URMILA: MY MEMORY Tue, May 3 6:00 Pm inniS NORTHBOUND Thu, May 5 1:15 Pm tBLB IS MY POWER D: Jørn Nyseth Ranum | Norway | 11 min Sun, May 8 2:00 PM SCOTIA D: Susan Gluth | Germany | 87 min Mon, May 2 9:30 PM SCOTIA An aspiring lawyer and passionate anti-slavery Wed, May 4 3:15 Pm tBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE activist, a young Nepalese woman struggles Sat, May 7 9:45 Pm tBLB A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR WITH EGO for self-determination. Having herself been D: Ester Gould | Netherlands | 91 min trafficked at the age of six, she now navigates WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE Having grown up in awe of her sister’s seemingly new challenges as the pressures of other D: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel | Peru | 100 min boundless confidence, the director explores our people’s expectations grow to dictate her life. Riots erupt and the backlash is fierce when a increasing obsession with the self, teasing out the well-known Indigenous leader, who has only ever subtle differences between narcissism and self- Fri, Apr 29 9:30 Pm hart peacefully protested environmental destruction, Sat, Apr 30 10:30 am tBLB assurance and exposing the unspoken pressures Sun, May 8 4:00 Pm tBLB faces 20 years in prison—accused of inciting the of becoming a superwoman. largest protest in Peru’s history.

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WHEN THE EARTH SEEMS TO BE LIGHT WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE

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DocX is an interdisciplinary section of the Festival celebrating documentary work that lives outside of the traditional format. Installations and experiences at Hot Docs House are free and open to the public DocX from Friday, April 29–Saturday, May 7, 11am–6pm. DocX is supported by the Donner Canadian Foundation, the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.

Screenings and Performances

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE BRENT GREEN AND SAM GREEN: LIVE CINEMA D: Brent Green, Sam Green | USA | 65 min Combining performance, cinema and rock and roll, this rare collaborative program presents a selection of short works from Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Sam Green and acclaimed artist Brent Green, creating a “live” documentary experience accompanied by a stellar band.

Thu, May 5 7:30 PM BADER Tickets: $22

WORLD PREMIERE Brothers in the Kitchen D: Cyrus Sundar Singh | Canada | 60 min This site-specific documentary-hybrid is performed live inside a fully operational restaurant, following the Tamil Sri Lankans who fled brutal civil war and sought refuge in Canada. The story unfolds in the present day, 30 years after 155 Tamils were rescued off the Newfoundland coast.

WED, MAY 4 8:00 PM CSI Tickets: $22

CANADIAN PREMIERE Operation Avalanche D: Matt Johnson | USA, Canada | 94 min From local filmmakers comes one of Sundance’s most talked-about films, an ingenious genre-blending fiction that combines surreptitiously shot footage of NASA facilities and archival material to bring a well-known conspiracy theory about the 1969 Moon landing to life.

Fri, Apr 29 9:45 PM BLOOR Tickets: $17

Interactive Installations Exhibition Free at Hot Docs House. Free at Hot Docs House.

The World in Ten Blocks D: Robinder Uppal, Marc Serpa Francouer The Bloorcourt village is one of Toronto’s most diverse neighbourhoods. Using an interactive web-based platform, “walk” through its streets and gain fascinating insights into the challenges and achievements of the immigrant experience.

Digital Me D: Sandra Gaudenzi, Mike Robbins | Interactive design: Helios Design Labs Zimbelism Are you who you say you are online, or does A collection of iconic photographs by George a digital mirror obscure your true reflection? Zimbel, subject of the documentary Zimbelism Using a webcam and your social media (p. 24), organized by Stephen Bulger Gallery. feeds, bring to life and say hello to your digital persona. Running March 22–May 8.

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Across the Line A History of Cuban Dance D: Nonny de la Peña, Jeff Fitzsimmons, Brad D: Lucy Walker Lichtenstein | 371 Productions, Custom Reality An exciting and visceral exploration of Cuba’s Services, Emblematic Group history through mambo, cha-cha, salsa and more. An empathetic exploration of the emotional impact of crossing anti-abortion picket lines to access reproductive health care. Running May 3–4 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in conjunction with the film Trapped (p. 9). Offshore VR D: Brenda Longfellow, Mike Robbins | Helios Design Labs Part mystery and part creepy horror-show, examine the potential and ramifications of deep water oil extraction. Inside the Box of Kurios Ⓒ Felix & Paul Studios Enter a spectacular Cirque du Soleil performance Surviving Solitary that’s been specifically tailored for virtual reality. The Globe and Mail ASCENT: EAGLE ISLAND Become immersed in experiences of solitary confinement in Canadian jails. Mobio Interactive | CFC Media Lab co-production Become an eagle in a virtual wilderness that responds to your physical reactions.

LOVR D: Aaron Bradbury An experimental trip through the brain activity TimeTraveller™ Guided that occurs in the moment you fall in love. Virtual Reality Tours IIF | CFC Media Lab co-production Cardboard Crash Artist Skawennati invites us to don a headset D: Vincent McCurley, NFB Digital Studio | NFB My Mother’s Wing to explore the sets and meet the stars of In this cleverly animated experiment, D: Gabo Arora, Ari Palitz | UN, Vrse.works her renowned machinima, TimeTraveller™. become a self-driving car on the verge of an Discover the challenges and heartbreak of living Experience an Aboriginally–determined unavoidable crash. in Gaza through the eyes of a Palestinian family. virtual world in Second Life.

The Exhumation Tiny Desk 360 D: Ryan Suffern | RYOT Films, Shoah Foundation RYOT Films, NPR An informative and moving immersion into the Join the largest audience NPR Music’s “Tiny human stories of Guatemala’s violent civil war. Desk” series has ever seen as Wilco performs a live set.

Nomads: Maasai Ⓒ Felix & Paul Studios A journey into the semi-nomadic Maasai people’s formidable heritage and culture in Eastern Africa. For My Son D: Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci | RYOT Films, UN Nomads: Sea Gypsies Waves of Grace OCHA, Salam Neighbor Ⓒ Felix & Paul Studios D: Gabo Arora, Chris Milk | UN Get a new perspective on the refugee Join the Bajau nomads in their synergy with A hopeful story of a young Ebola survivor in experience with a young Syrian restarting his the sea, living on boats and stilt houses in Liberia who nurses the currently infected. life in Jordan. Southeast Asia.

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MADE IN AUSTRALIA Presented by Screen Australia ZACH’S CEREMONY

ANOTHER COUNTRY WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Molly Reynolds | Australia | 75 min IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILL PUTUPARRI AND THE RAINMAKERS Famed Indigenous actor David Gulpilil narrates D: Dan Jackson | Australia | 97 min D: Nicole Ma | Australia | 91 min this searing, sensitive and often humorous In Brazil’s largest favela—where law enforcement Witness over 20 transformative years of one account of how the Australian government and itself is growing increasingly criminal—one man’s man’s battle to leave behind his dark past settlers, seeking to gain Yolngu land, eroded the disappearance galvanizes an inspiring movement and accept his position as future leader of his heart of a once strong and self-sufficient culture. to rally against the ruthless state oppression that nomadic Indigenous Australian people in this masquerades as pacification. emotional and richly cinematic film. Screening with Let’s Dance: Bowie Down Under Sun, May 1 4:30 Pm tBLB Sun, May 1 7:15 Pm inniS D: Rubika Shah | Australia, UK | 11 min Mon, May 2 8:45 Pm tBLB Tue, May 3 12:30 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 9:15 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 4:30 PM SCOTIA Fri, Apr 29 9:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 4:00 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 6:00 PM TBLB WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE OPPOSITION ZACH’S CEREMONY WORLD PREMIERE D: Hollie Fifer | Australia | 77 min D: Aaron Petersen | Australia | 92 min CHASING ASYLUM Amidst a seemingly unwinnable battle, a determined Caught between his Australian upbringing D: Eva Orner | Australia | 96 min community leader launches his own desperate and Aboriginal heritage, young Zach struggles For the first time, hidden cameras take us inside fight against a multinational corporation’s luxury with his father’s expectations and his own controversial detention facilities set up by development plans that threaten to forcibly experiences as we follow him over six critical the Australian government to house refugees, displace his Papua New Guinea village. years of rebellion and self-discovery leading revealing the despair and deprivation that drives to his ceremonial initiation into manhood. Screening with some detainees to increasingly desperate acts. Shadows of Displacement Mon, May 2 8:30 Pm inniS Screening with D: Perun Bonser | Australia | 5 min Wed, May 4 12:45 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 7:00 Pm inniS MISSY HIGGINS: OH CANADA Tue, May 3 8:45 Pm tBLB D: Natasha Pincus | Australia | 5 min Thu, May 5 7:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 3:30 PM SCOTIA Thu, Apr 28 6:30 Pm tBLB Fri, Apr 29 3:45 Pm tBLB ds Sun, May 8 9:45 PM SCOTIA

PUTUPARRI AND THE RAINMAKERS CHASING ASYLUM

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ARTSCAPES CREATIVE MINDS, ARTISTIC PURSUITS & INVENTIVE FILMMAKING

Sponsored by HMV NATURAL DISORDER

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CAMERAPERSON MAGICIANS: LIFE IN THE SEER D: Kirsten Johnson | USA | 102 min THE IMPOSSIBLE D: Laura Dunn | USA | 82 min Assembling footage she’s shot over 25 years, D: Marcie Hume, Christoph Baaden | USA | 85 min Filmed in the disappearing farming fields of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson Sleight of hand, heart-stopping stunts and acts of Kentucky over four seasons, this poetic look (Citizenfour, The Invisible War) searches to mental mind-bending amaze as four world-class at the rural landscape and values that inform reconcile her part in the thorny questions of magicians chase different forms of success. What prolific writer Wendell Berry’s environmentally- permission, power, creative ambition and human lies behind their magical obsession will steal minded work evokes connections between art obligation that come with filming the lives of others. hearts faster than you can say “abracadabra!” and agriculture.

Mon, May 2 6:15 PM SCOTIA Sat, Apr 30 4:15 PM TBLB Screening with Tue, May 3 2:45 PM TBLB Mon, May 2 3:45 PM BADER Barbarian Press Sat, May 7 6:15 PM TBLB Sun, May 8 4:00 PM REGENT D: Sarah Race | Canada | 17 min Wed, May 4 9:15 PM TBLB * Join Kirsten Johnson for a free talk, p. 4 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Thu, May 5 3:45 PM SCOTIA THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH Sun, May 8 8:45 PM TBLB HOTEL DALLAS D: Trisha Ziff | Mexico | 86 min D: Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang | Romania, USA Famed cult photographer Enrique Metinides looks THE SLIPPERS | 76 min back on a prodigious career of artfully capturing D: Morgan White | Canada | 90 min In the twilight of communist Romania, Dallas violent crime scenes and accidents across Mexico This fantastic story of Dorothy’s ruby slippers was the only American show to slip under the City in compelling images that evoke the fragility of from The Wizard of Oz is littered with Iron Curtain and onto television. Fact and fiction fate and our own macabre fascination with death. theft, embitterment, conspiracies and Debbie blend in an exquisitely experimental exploration Reynolds’ dream of a museum as it skips of the show’s incredible influence on a country Tue, May 3 3:30 PM HART down the yellow brick road of the golden age at a crossroads. Thu, May 5 9:45 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 12:45 PM HART of Hollywood costuming. Screening with Screening with Life at a Snail’s Pace NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Bootwmn D: Alexandra Gaulupeau | UK | 23 min NATURAL DISORDER D: Paige Gratland, Sam McWilliams | Canada | 11 min Sat, Apr 30 6:30 PM SCOTIA D: Christian Sønderby Jepsen | Denmark, Netherlands, Sat, Apr 30 3:15 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 2:00 PM SCOTIA Norway | 97 min Sun, May 1 1:15 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 8:45 Pm tBLB Brilliant and tenacious, Jacob Nossell puts Sun, May 8 6:45 PM REGENT his cerebral palsy centre stage as he crafts an INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE interactive play for the Royal Danish Theatre THE INCOMPARABLE that poses uncomfortable but essential questions ROSE HARTMAN about normality and ability in society. D: Otis Mass | USA | 70 min Known for capturing New York City’s Studio Fri, Apr 29 1:00 PM TBLB 54 and fashion demimondes, legendary Sun, May 1 10:00 AM TBLB ds Sat, May 7 10:30 AM TBLB photographer Rose Hartman is no shrinking violet. Unapologetically scrappy, she breaks balls as often as the boundaries between paparazzi, street art and portraiture in this must-see biopic. SUPPORT HOT DOCS! Screening with Circles DID YOU KNOW THAT HOT DOCS IS A REGISTERED CHARITY? D: Frida Kempff | Sweden | 14 min LEARN MORE WWW.HOTDOCS.CA/SUPPORT Wed, May 4 9:00 PM BADER Fri, May 6 11:00 AM BADER Sat, May 7 9:15 PM FOX

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ARTSCAPES

THE WONDERFUL KINGDOM OF PAPA ALAEV

THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH SPIRIT UNFORGETTABLE

WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE SPIRIT UNFORGETTABLE WHAT HE DID THE WONDERFUL KINGDOM D: Pete McCormack | Canada | 86 min D: Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark | 62 min OF PAPA ALAEV After a career as the captivating frontman for In 1988, a Danish playwright kills his lover, D: Tal Barda, Noam Pinchas | Israel, France | 74 min multi-platinum Canadian folk-rock band Spirit of a famous author, in a jealous fit. As a theatre Meet Tajikistan’s hilarious answer to the Jackson the West, John Mann now faces the challenges company mounts a controversial play about family. Ruling his celebrated folk music clan of early onset Alzheimer’s while preparing for the crime, the recluse opens up for the first time with an iron tambourine, the titular patriarch, what could be his final performance at Massey Hall. about his act, his love and forgiveness. an ex-wrestler and part-time drunk who micro-manages their fiery performances and Screening with Screening with even spicier showdowns, faces his toughest Andy Barrie: The Voice The Silent Form challenge—retirement. D: Lana Slezic | Canada | 14 min D: Simon Wood | South Africa | 21 min Sat, Apr 30 9:00 PM BADER Tue, May 3 8:30 PM INNIS Screening with Mon, May 2 3:00 PM HART Thu, May 5 4:30 PM SCOTIA Joe’s Violin Sun, May 8 12:30 PM ROYAL Sun, May 8 9:15 PM TBLB D: Kahane Cooperman | USA | 24 min Sun, May 1 3:45 PM BADER WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Wed, May 4 7:00 PM HART TEMPEST STORM WHERE IS ROCKY II? Sun, May 8 3:15 PM ROYAL D: Nimisha Mukerji | Canada, Germany, France | 83 min D: Pierre Bismuth | France, Germany, Belgium, Italy America’s oldest living sex icon at 87, Tempest | 93 min ZIMBELISM Storm reflects on an extraordinary life, from Bound to launch a thousand desert road trips, D: Matt Zimbel, Jean-François Gratton | Canada a rough childhood to international stage and this thoroughly original caper follows a crack | 90 min screen stardom, ill-fated affairs with Elvis team—including a detective and three famed At 86, the master behind countless instantly and JFK and career-crippling backlash for her Hollywood screenwriters—on the hunt for a recognizable photos of American icons, including interracial marriage. single fake rock hidden in the Mojave Desert by Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys, takes art star Ed Ruscha in 1979. us into his darkroom, telling marvelous stories Sat, Apr 30 7:00 PM TBLB and bemoaning new restrictions that have Tue, May 3 1:00 PM HART Sun, May 1 6:45 PM SCOTIA accompanied the age of “digital diarrhea.” Tue, May 3 12:00 PM TBLB Sun, May 8 6:30 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 9:00 PM TBLB Sat, Apr 30 1:00 PM BADER Fri, May 6 4:00 PM REVUE

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The Pursuit of Happiness WE’RE ALL SEEKING IT, SOME OF US JUST HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF FINDING IT HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE

WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CAFÉ DÉSIRS GIRLS DON’T FLY HIT IT HARD D: Raymonde Provencher | Canada | 52 min D: Monika Grassl | Germany, Austria | 89 min D: Gabe Spitzer, David Terry Fine | USA | 51 min Trapped between crushing sexual taboos and A flight school for young Ghanaian women Meet the hyper-talented and unpredictable “rock desire, three beautiful 20-something Algerian appears on its surface to offer escape from the star of golf” John Daly as he reflects on the men take us into the ancient streets of Constantine patriarchal structures of society; instead, this hard-earned life lessons of his incredible career: and the men-only world of cafés to eloquently unpredictable story reveals a confrontation with from winning two major tournaments despite talk about their lives and the dangers of same- chauvinism resulting in a powerful and resonant being only self-taught, to facing the destructive sex attraction. political awakening. lows of his addictions.

Screening with Mon, May 2 6:30 PM TBLB Screening with The Magic Hedge Wed, May 4 1:30 PM TBLB Following the Line: the History Sun, May 8 9:00 PM BADER D: Frédéric Moffet | Canada, USA | 9 min of Ricardo Prado Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM TBLB D: André Bomfim | Brazil | 26 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Sun, May 1 2:15 PM SCOTIA Thu, Apr 28 6:15 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 12:30 PM SCOTIA THE HAPPY FILM Fri, Apr 29 3:30 PM TBLB D: Hillman Curtis, Ben Nabors, Stefan Sagmeister Thu, May 5 10:00 PM SCOTIA WORLD PREMIERE | USA | 92 min WORLD PREMIERE FRAUD Art project meets self-improvement quest as D: Dean Fleischer-Camp | USA | 52 min graphic design guru Stefan Sagmeister strives HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE Witness the implosion of a working-class family to reshape himself into a happier, more fulfilled D: Jay Cheel | Canada | 82 min chasing the American Dream, sort of. Culled person through a dedicated mix of meditation, Inspired by H.G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, from over 100 hours of one family’s home movies therapy and drugs. two men—an animator and a physicist— on YouTube, this tour-de-force of storytelling pursue radically different approaches to time using found footage reveals the slippery nature Sun, May 1 6:30 PM BLOOR* travel, passionately seeking the elusive tools Mon, May 2 10:00 AM TBLB and knowledge to alter the events that shaped of what we see online. Tue, May 3 1:00 PM BADER Sat, May 7 3:45 PM BLOOR their lives. Screening with Fairy Tales * Scotiabank Big Ideas Series screening, p. 5 Mon, May 2 6:30 PM BADER D: Rongfei Guo | China | 29 min Tue, May 3 10:00 AM TBLB Sat, May 7 8:45 PM TBLB Sun, May 1 9:45 PM TBLB Tue, May 3 3:15 PM SCOTIA Fri, May 6 9:45 PM TBLB

GIRLS DON’T FLY THE HAPPY FILM

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

SUITED

THE SUCCESSOR THE PEARL

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE When You Awake INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE PEARL D: Jay Rosenblatt | USA | 11 min SUITED D: Jessica Dimmock, Christopher LaMarca | USA The Rock D: Jason Benjamin | USA | 74 min | 94 min D: Hamid Jafari | Iran | 26 min The clientele of Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn Embracing their authentic selves in midlife company that tailors bespoke suits for people MINING POEMS OR ODES or later, four transgender women in the across the gender spectrum, share their D: Callum Rice | UK | 10 min rural Pacific Northwest bravely begin their deeply personal stories of realizing their new Thu, Apr 28 7:15 PM TBLB transitions. With raw emotion, the burdensome Fri, Apr 29 12:45 PM TBLB identities, embracing difference and living secrets they once carried fall away as they now Fri, May 6 12:30 PM TBLB bravely in one’s own skin. grapple with new challenges. Screening with Tue, May 3 6:00 PM TBLB THE SUCCESSOR Handsome & Majestic D: Mattia Epifani | Italy | 52 min Thu, May 5 3:15 PM HART D: Nathan Drillot, Jeff Petry | Canada | 12 min Fri, May 6 4:00 PM FOX Once the heir to his family’s business, an Wed, May 4 7:00 PM TBLB unassuming Italian engineer relives an Thu, May 5 12:30 PM TBLB THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS unexpected existential crisis when, on a visit Fri, May 6 6:45 PM REVUE SHORTS PROGRAM to war-scarred Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Sun, May 8 10:30 AM BLOOR deplorable impact of anti-personnel landmines To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, we all have the NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE right to pursue happiness—but exactly how is made in his family’s factory becomes soul- shatteringly real. UP OR OUT left up to us. Six stories give us wildly different D: Jona Honer | Netherlands | 46 min versions of our greatest human endeavour. Screening with Two Dutch brothers set out to beat the stock INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE market with a golden algorithm that automates Gospel Mime trading decisions, but this jaw-dropping look at their D: Whitney Mallett | Canada, USA | 6 min DUGMA: THE BUTTON D: Paul Refsdal | Norway | 59 min ambitious start-up reveals that eliminating human Uzu drama from business is riskier than they think. Embedded with an al-Qaeda unit on the frontlines D: Gaspard Kuentz | Japan | 27 min of the Syrian Civil War, the filmmaker captures Screening with The Hanging the heart-stopping stories of two “martyrdom Johnny Physical Lives D: Geoffrey Feinberg | USA, Russia | 15 min seekers” about to embark on a suicide bombing. D: Joshua Neuman | USA, Canada | 22 min

Wed, May 4 8:30 PM TBLB and Thu, May 5 7:00 PM SCOTIA The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere Sun, May 8 7:00 PM SCOTIA D: Mickey Duzyj | USA | 18 min Wed, May 4 7:00 PM SCOTIA Thu, May 5 9:15 PM SCOTIA Sun, May 8 9:30 PM SCOTIA

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COMMAND + CONTROL TAKE COMMAND OR LOSE CONTROL UNDER THE SUN

AT HOME IN THE WORLD COMMAND + CONTROL NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE D: Andreas Koefoed | Denmark | 62 min SHORTS PROGRAM CREDIT FOR MURDER D: Vladi Antonevicz | Israel | 87 min The children at a Red Cross school in Denmark A collection of essential shorts that show people feel the strain of displacement and instability as bravely stepping into their power, standing After a gruesome video of murder by Russian their families await word on their asylum pleas, up for their choices and making bold moves in neo-Nazis goes viral and provokes scores offering an intimate, unforgettable perspective the face of misogyny, police authority, gender of copycat crimes, an Israeli filmmaker goes on the global refugee crisis. inequality and family. undercover and discovers disturbing complicity between fascists and local authorities in this Screening with Idac staggering conspiracy thriller. Dancing for You D: Casimir Nozkowski | USA | 6 min D: Erlend E. Mo | Norway | 29 min Fri, Apr 29 6:30 PM BADER Before the Dawn Sat, Apr 30 12:30 PM HART Sun, May 1 4:30 PM INNIS Sat, May 7 8:45 PM REVUE Mon, May 2 10:15 AM TBLB D: Łukasz Borowski | Poland | 27 min Fri, May 6 6:45 PM SCOTIA Awana INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Guilliermo Isa, William Silva Reddington | Peru, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE HOLY HELL USA | 11 min BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN D: Will Allen | USA | 105 min D: Irene Taylor Brodsky | USA | 115 min Kettle Camera in hand, an idealistic young filmmaker D: Lucius Dechausay | Canada | 15 min Fairy tale horror turns shockingly real when joins a spiritualist community—but 20 years a modern-day bogeyman, here lurking in the Who Killed Eloá? later when secrets are spilled and cracks form Internet’s shadows, compels two preteen D: Lívia Perez | Brazil | 24 min around their leader, his lens turns on himself and fellow cult members seeking answers. girls to commit a seemingly inexplicable act of What Happened to Her brutal violence against their unsuspecting friend. D: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan | USA | 15 min Sun, May 1 9:45 PM BLOOR Fri, Apr 29 4:00 PM SCOTIA Tue, May 3 10:00 AM TBLB Wed, May 4 9:30 PM TBLB Fri, May 6 7:00 PM HART Thu, May 5 9:15 PM TBLB ds Sun, May 1 10:00 PM SCOTIA Sat, May 7 12:45 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 9:00 PM TBLB HOOLIGAN SPARROW D: Nanfu Wang | USA, UK, China | 84 min Risking death and imprisonment to protest the abuse of girls and women by Chinese authorities, the stakes are alarmingly high for one courageous activist caught in a maelstrom of surveillance, suspicion and physical danger so visceral it consumes the viewer.

Thu, Apr 28 9:30 PM TBLB Fri, Apr 29 4:15 PM TBLB ds Fri, May 6 10:00 AM TBLB

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE MY LAND D: Jian Fan | China | 83 min On Beijing’s outskirts, a migrant family seeking a better life find themselves on the front lines of the city’s unrelenting expansion. When their home is threatened by redevelopment, they courageously choose the unthinkable: as neighbours leave, they defiantly remain.

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COMMAND + CONTROL

TICKLED UNDER THE SUN WORLD PREMIERE D: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve | New Zealand | 92 min D: Vitaly Mansky | Russia, Czech Republic, North WHOSE COUNTRY? A journalist pursues a story on “competitive Korea, Germany | 106 min USA, Egypt | 57 min endurance tickling” after seeing a bizarre Collaborating with the North Korean government Police brutality was a widely reported cause of video online, but his inquiries are met with to film a young girl’s initiation into the state Egypt’s 2011 revolution, but where do things stand such hostility that he doggedly digs deeper system, foreign filmmakers slyly keep shooting five years on? Get a rare, first-hand account of —uncovering something more shocking than between official takes, capturing the rigorous the endemic corruption and abuse that could still ever imagined. propaganda machine that dominates the country. undermine Egypt’s path forward if left unchecked.

Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM BLOOR Sat, Apr 30 7:00 Pm inniS Screening with Mon, May 2 10:30 AM TBLB Sun, May 1 4:00 Pm tBLB INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Sat, May 7 12:30 PM SCOTIA THE VALLEY OF SALT D: Christophe M. Saber | Switzerland | 52 min Visiting Cairo for the first time since the revolution, a young filmmaker witnesses death threats against his family for their work with local Christians. Shaken, they begin to question their sense of belonging in their country.

Mon, May 2 6:30 PM SCOTIA Thu, May 5 11:30 AM TBLB Sat, May 7 4:00 PM SCOTIA WHOSE COUNTRY? HOOLIGAN SPARROW REDUX Films that Deserve Another Outing ON THE BIG SCREEN

INCIDENT AT RESTIGOUCHE MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE SMOKES AND LOLLIES D: Alanis Obomsawin | Canada | 1984 | 46 min D: Alek Keshishian | USA | 1991 | 122 min D: Gillian Armstrong | Australia | 1976 | 25 min Justice and sovereignty are cross-examined Widely regarded as one of the best music In the first of what would become an after a small Mi’kmaq community is targeted documentaries ever made, Madonna ongoing story—similar to the Up series in the in an outrageous governmental attack. Those defies boundaries and dares us to look away UK—director Gillian Armstrong meets three responsible for the orders are challenged in some in this candid, compelling and unexpectedly 14-year-old girls from Adelaide in a hurry to of the most powerful interviews ever filmed. revealing journey around the world, behind grow up, get jobs and break free. the scenes of her Blond Ambition tour. Screening with Screening with Bastion Point Day 507 Fri, Apr 29 2:45 Pm hart 14’S GOOD, 18’S BETTER D: Merata Mita, Leon Narbey, Gerd Pohlmann D: Gillian Armstrong | Australia | 1981 | 47 min | New Zealand | 1980 | 26 min MEDIUM COOL In the second installment of this destined-to- Sun, May 8 2:15 PM SCOTIA D: Haskell Wexler | USA | 1969 | 144 min be-classic document of women coming of age Inventively embedding a fictional narrative in 1970s Australia, Armstrong reunites with INQUIRING NUNS inside the very real anti-war protests at the her three subjects at age 18 to reveal the trials D: Gordon Quinn, Gerald Temaner | USA | 1968 1968 Democratic National Convention, this and tribulations of becoming adults. | 66 min vivid and kinetic film captures a moment of THU, MAY 5 2:00 PM SCOTIA At the height of the civil rights movement and explosive cultural transformation while offering the Vietnam War, cameras followed two a stinging indictment of violence in the media. nuns around Chicago as they asked individuals: “Are you happy?” The resulting film is a Fri, Apr 29 12:30 Pm tBLB poignant x-ray of a culture at a crossroads. SHERMAN’S MARCH Screening with D: Ross McElwee | USA | 1986 | 155 min THE CHICAGO MATERNITY In this wryly hilarious road movie, director CENTER STORY Ross McElwee sets out to make a travelogue D: Jerry Blumenthal, Suzanne Davenport, Sharon Karp, about a famous Civil War campaign, but Gordon Quinn, Jenny Rohrer | USA | 1976 | 60 min his historical jaunt morphs into a revealing For over 75 years, one maternity care centre and deeply personal search for love. in Chicago’s inner city provided safe home deliveries for local mothers; follow its journey Sun, May 1 12:30 Pm tBLB in the mid-1970s as it fights for survival while welcoming new life.

Wed, May 4 5:30 Pm inniS SHERMAN’S MARCH

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE MICHAEL SHANNON MICHAEL THE SEX TEMPLE FEAR ITSELF SHANNON JOHN D: Johan Palmgren | Sweden | 81 min D: Charlie Lyne | UK | 88 min D: Chelsea McMullan | Canada | 80 min A straight swingers club partners with a Everything from recent horror hits to Having just learned of each other’s existence, four queer burlesque show in a bawdy business plan obscure cult classics lend scenes to this eerie half-siblings—two Michaels and two Shannons to revive a beautiful, centuries-old Swedish investigation into the cinema of supernatural —attempt to reconcile conflicting versions of theatre facing financial ruin. But confronted frights and subversive creepy crawlies. Is it their mysterious father, who died 12 years ago with a campaign decrying its “depravity,” can possible that horror movies know us better in a barrage of gunfire in the Philippines. the pansexual playground survive? than we know ourselves? Fri, Apr 29 9:45 PM SCOTIA Screening with Sun, May 1 10:00 PM TBLB Sat, Apr 30 1:15 PM TBLB Hattie Goes Cruising Sat, May 7 9:45 PM HART Tue, May 3 3:45 PM TBLB D: Konstantin Bock | USA, Germany, Canada | 17 min Wed, May 4 9:45 PM BLOOR Sat, Apr 30 9:45 PM HART NUTS! Sun, May 1 4:30 PM SCOTIA WORLD PREMIERE D: Penny Lane | USA | 79 min Sun, May 8 9:15 PM HART MATTRESS MEN This hilarious somewhat-true tale follows an D: Colm Quinn | Ireland | 80 min extraordinary Kansas man who in 1917 claimed Amidst Ireland’s crippling economic austerity, a surprising cure for impotence: goat testicle a serially unemployed father of three re-invents transplants. Lively animation pulls together himself as a social media guru by creating this Sundance Award–winning story of science, oddball video clips that transform a stodgy politics, miracles and fraud. mattress salesman into an Internet star. Screening with Tue, May 3 9:45 PM HART Conversations with a Dead Thu, May 5 3:45 PM TBLB Prime Minister Fri, May 6 9:15 PM REVUE D: Daniel Roher | Canada | 15 min Mon, May 2 9:45 PM HART Wed, May 4 1:00 PM TBLB Sat, May 7 6:00 PM REVUE NUTS!

Photo: Christian Peña VOLUNTEER IN CULTURE

Funding provided by Photo: Taku Kumabe

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OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RETROSPECTIVE HONOURING STEVE JAMES LIFE ITSELF

AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR THE INTERRUPTERS NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL D: Steve James, Peter Gilbert | USA | 2008 | 94 min D: Steve James | USA | 2011 | 125 min OF ALLEN IVERSON Witness the existential crisis of a reserved and Three unforgettable members of a grassroots D: Steve James | USA | 2010 | 82 min devoted chaplain who has ministered to 95 death peacekeeping team roam Chicago’s toughest In his hometown of Hampton, Virginia, Steve row inmates in their final hours, as he begins to neighbourhoods and do the impossible James revisits the racially charged trial and question the morality of—and lose faith in—the work of “interrupting” violence, using their conviction of high school basketball star Allen criminal justice system. troubled personal histories as a tool to forge Iverson, which brought bubbling rancor to the understanding in ways an outsider never could. surface and still haunts its residents. Sun, May 8 6:45 PM SCOTIA Fri, Apr 29 11:30 am hart Wed, May 4 1:45 PM SCOTIA HOOP DREAMS D: Steve James | USA | 1994 | 176 min LIFE ITSELF STEVIE This seminal and award-winning game changer D: Steve James | USA | 2014 | 118 min D: Steve James | USA | 2002 | 144 min tells the story of two Chicago inner-city The indomitable Roger Ebert was many things: a Reconnecting with a troubled young man to basketball prodigies struggling with institutions popularizer of film criticism, a screenplay writer, whom he had once been a Big Brother, Steve that hold up unreasonable expectations and a rabble-rouser, a philosopher. See the man like James chronicles his own struggle to make ignore the colossal burden carried on their young never before, through the lens of a filmmaker positive change while revealing one family’s shoulders. whose career he helped boost. tragic cycle of abuse with a compassionate and non-judgmental eye. Sat, May 7 2:00 Pm tBLB Thu, May 5 3:00 Pm tBLB Sun, May 8 11:30 am tBLB

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NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON THE INTERRUPTERS

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PHOTO: JEN SHORT LEGEND BADER Isabel Bader Theatre REGENT The Regent SPECIAL EVENTS THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BLOOR Bloor Hot Docs Cinema REVUE The Revue SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS COMMAND + CONTROL CANADIAN SPECTRUM FOCUS ON ROSIE DRANSFELD CSI Centre for Social Innovation ROYAL The Royal Cinema INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM REDUX FOX Fox Theatre SCOTIA Scotiabank Theatre Toronto WORLD SHOWCASE NIGHTVISION HART Hart House Theatre TBLB TIFF Bell Lightbox MADE IN AUSTRALIA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT HOUSE Hot Docs House TENTS The Mill Street Hub & The Nook AWARD RETROSPECTIVE ARTSCAPES DOCX INNIS Innis Town Hall

6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM THURSDAY, APRIL 28 9:45 PM—OPENING NIGHT League of Exotique DANCERS BLOOR p. 4 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB The Legacy of Frida Kahlo Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 1 p. 7 p. 7 6:30 PM 9:30 PM TBLB Chasing Asylum Hooligan Sparrow 2 ds p. 22 ds p. 27 6:15 PM 8:45 PM TBLB Hit it Hard City 40 3 p. 25 p. 15 7:15 PM 9:45 PM TBLB The Pursuit of HAPPINESS Shorts PROGRAM A Strange Love Affair With EGO 4 p. 26 p. 19 10 AM 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 FRIDAY, APRIL 29 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM The Legacy of Weiner Credit For Murder Thank You Del: The BADER Frida Kahlo p. 7 p. 9 p. 27 Story of the… p. 8 1:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM Lo and Behold: Big Ideas: O.J. Operation BLOOR Reveries of the… p. 7 Simpson: Made… p. 5 Avalanche p. 20 11:30 AM 2:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM The Interrupters Madonna: Truth or Dare Strike a Pose Urmila: My HART p. 30 p. 28 p. 8 Memory Is My… p. 19

DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21 HOUSE

3:15 PM 6:00 PM 9:15 PM SCOTIA A Strange Love How To Prepare Another 3 Affair With… p. 19 For Prison p. 11 Country p. 22 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM SCOTIA City 40 The Revolution Won’t Michael 4 p. 15 Be Televised p. 18 Shannon… p. 29 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:00 PM SCOTIA Command + Control A Centre- Fireflies in the 7 Shorts Program p. 27 Sud… p. 10 Abyss p. 16 1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB League of Exotique Hooligan Sparrow Hip-Hop Evolution The Peacemaker 1 … ds p. 6 ds p. 27 p. 7 p. 8 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM TBLB Natural Disorder Hit it Hard The Islands and Zimbelism 2 ds p. 23 p. 25 the Whales p. 14 p. 24 12:30 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM TBLB Medium Cool Chasing Asylum Konelīne: Our Land After Circus 3 p. 28 ds p. 22 Beautiful p. 11 p. 10 12:45 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM TBLB The Pursuit of… Who Cares Brothers La Laguna416.637.5150 + What : hotdocs.ca : 314 Shorts PRG p. 26 p. 12 p. 13 Remains… p. 17 10 AM 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 10:15 AM 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM BADER How To Prepare Zimbelism Gleason Sonita Spirit Unforgettable For Prison p. 11 p. 24 p. 6 p. 8 p. 24 1:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM BLOOR Weiner Big Ideas: The Apology Tickled p. 9 p. 5 p. 28 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM HART Credit For Murder The Revolution Won’t Check It p. 15 The Sex Temple SATURDAY, APRIL 30 APRIL SATURDAY, p. 27 Be Televised p. 18 p. 29

HOUSE DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21

4:30 PM 7:00 PM INNIS A Centre- Under the Sun Sud… p. 10 p. 28 SCOTIA 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 3 Brothers Don Juan Future Baby Ovarian Psycos p. 13 p. 13 p. 16 p. 18 SCOTIA 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM 4 La Laguna + What Look Love Hotel Dallas God Knows Where I Am Remains… p. 17 p. 17 p. 23 p. 13 SCOTIA 2:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:30 PM 9:45 PM 7 Beaverman Fireflies in the The Gatekeeper Salamanca p. 12 Abyss p. 16 p. 16 p. 19 TBLB 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:15 PM 6:15 PM 9:15 PM 1 The Peacemaker Thank You Del: The The Slippers Norman Lear: Just Spaceship Earth p. 8 Story of the … p. 8 p. 23 Another… p. 7 p. 8 TBLB 11:00 AM 1:45 PM 4:15 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 2 The Islands and Strike a Pose Magicians: Life Quebec My Country The Pearl Of the Whales p. 14 p. 8 in the… p. 23 Mon Pays p. 12 Africa p. 14 TBLB 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM 3 Urmila: My Memory Michael Another Country Tempest Storm Café Désirs Is My Power p. 19 Shannon… p. 29 p. 22 p. 24 p. 25 TBLB O.J. SimpSON: Made in America p. 7 12:30 PM 2:40 PM 6:20 PM 4 EPISODE 1 EPISODES 2–3 EPISODES 4–5 10:00 AM–5:00 PM 9:00 PM–11:00 PM TENTS OPENING WEEKEND ACTIVITIES p. 4 LIVE MUSIC p. 4

10 AM 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 10:30 AM 12:30 PM 3:45 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM BADER Free Family Spaceship Earth The Wonderful Ants on a Shrimp Gary Numan: Shorts p. 4 p. 8 Kingdom of Papa… p. 24 p. 6 Android In… p. 6 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM BLOOR Norman Lear: Just The Last Laugh Big Ideas: The Holy Hell Another… p. 7 p. 7 Happy Film p. 5 p. 27 SUNDAY, MAY 1 MAY SUNDAY, 12:15 PM 3:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM HART Check It Gleason A Revolution in No Man Is an Island p. 15 p. 6 Four Seasons p. 18 p. 14

HOUSE DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21

4:30 PM 7:15 PM INNIS At Home in the Putuparri and the World p. 27 Rainmakers p. 22 SCOTIA 1:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:15 PM 3 After Circus Cheer Up LOOK LOVE p. 10 p. 10 p. 17 SCOTIA 2:15 PM 4:15 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 4 Café Désirs Raving Iran p. 14 Where is Rocky II? Callshop Istanbul p. 25 p. 24 p. 10 SCOTIA 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 10:00 PM 7 Hotel Dallas The Sex Temple Aim For The Roses Command + Control p. 23 p. 29 p. 10 Shorts Program p. 27 TBLB 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 1 The Apology The Slippers Sonita The Age of Tower p. 10 p. 23 p. 8 Conseq… p. 6 p. 19 TBLB 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM 2 Natural Disorder Konelīne: Our Land Diving into the Mr. Gaga Migrant Dreams ds p. 23 Beautiful p. 11 Unknown p. 16 p. 7 p. 11 TBLB 11:30 AM 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 10:00 PM 3 The Pearl Of The Gatekeeper In the Shadow of Hotel Coolgardie Fear Itself Africa p. 14 p. 16 the Hill p. 22 p. 13 p. 29 TBLB 12:30 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM 4 Sherman’s March Under the Sun Living With Giants Fraud p. 28 p. 28 p. 11 p. 25 10:00 AM–2:30 PM 9:00 PM–11:00 PM TENTS OPENING WEEKEND ACTIVITIES —FAMILY DAY p. 4 LIVE MUSIC p. 4

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DOC X INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21 HOUSE

6:00 PM 8:30 PM My Land p. 27 Zach’s Ceremony INNIS p. 22 1:15 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM SCOTIA Salamanca Holy Cow Cameraperson Rabin In His Own 3 p. 19 p. 17 p. 23 Words p. 18 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM SCOTIA Hotel Living With Wizard Mode Half-Life in 4 Coolgardie p. 13 Giants p. 11 p. 12 Fukushima p. 16 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM SCOTIA Don Juan Broke. Whose Country? + The When the Earth 7 p. 13 p. 12 Valley of Salt p. 28 Seems to be… p. 19 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:15 PM TBLB The Happy Film Mr. Gaga Unlocking the De Palma How to Let Go of the 1 p. 25 p. 7 Cage ds p. 9 p. 6 World and Love All… p. 17 10:15 AM 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM TBLB At Home in the Future Baby I Am the Blues Angry Inuk Gun Runners 2 World p. 27 p. 16 ds p. 7 p. 10 p. 11 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM TBLB Tickled Aim For The Roses The Land of the Girls Don’t Fly Random Acts of 3 p. 28 p. 10 Enlightened p. 17 p. 25 Legacy p. 12 12:15 PM 3:00 PM 6:00 PM 8:45 PM TBLB God Knows Where I Am Ovarian Psycos The Infinite In the Shadow of 4 p. 13 p. 18 Flight of… p. 13 the Hill p. 22

10 AM 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 TUESDAY, MAY 3 10:00 AM 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM De Palma The Happy Film Obit Do Not Resist Life, Animated BADER p. 6 p. 25 p. 8 p. 16 p. 7 6:30 PM 9:45 PM Big Ideas: What Sour Grapes BLOOR Tomorrow… p. 5 p. 8 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM Tempest Storm The Man Who Saw Aida’s Secrets Mattress Men HART p. 24 Too Much p. 23 p. 15 p. 29

DOC X INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21 HOUSE

6:00 PM 8:30 PM Starless Dreams What He Did INNIS p. 19 p. 24 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM SCOTIA Migrant Dreams No Man Is an DIY Country Gulîstan, Land 3 p. 11 Island p. 14 p. 16 of Roses p. 10 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM SCOTIA Rabin In His Own Gun Runners The Prison in Twelve The Father, the Son and 4 Words p. 18 p. 11 Landscapes p. 11 the Holy Jihad p. 16 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 8:45 PM SCOTIA Putuparri and the Fraud A Walnut Tree Damiana Kryygi 7 Rainmakers p. 22 p. 25 p. 19 p. 16 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:15 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM TBLB Holy Hell Gary Numan: Under the Gun Audrie & Daisy Unlocking the 1 p. 27 Android In La… p. 6 p. 9 p. 6 Cage ds p. 9 10:00 AM 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 9:00 PM TBLB How to Build a Quebec My Country Raving Iran The Pearl Bobby Sands: 66 Days 2 Time… p. 25 Mon Pays p. 12 p. 14 p. 26 p. 6 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM TBLB Diving into the Fear Itself p. 29 Death by a… The Opposition 3 Unknown p. 16 p. 13 p. 22 12:00 PM 2:45 PM 5:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB Where is Rocky II? Cameraperson K. Johnson Kaisa’s Enchanted Overruled 4 p. 24 p. 23 Talk p. 4 Forest p. 17 p. 18

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4 M ay WEDNESDAY, CSI Brothers in the…p. 20 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM HART Wizard Mode The Age of The Wonderful The Bad Kids p. 12 Conseq… p. 6 Kingdom of Papa… p. 24 p. 15

HOUSE DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21

5:30 PM 8:45 PM INNIS Inquiring Nuns + The Overruled p. 18 Chicago Maternity… p. 28 SCOTIA 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM 3 The Infinite Callshop Istanbul Ukrainian Off the Rails Flight of… p. 13 p. 10 Sheriffs p. 19 p. 11 SCOTIA 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM 4 Zach’s Ceremony Holy Cow The Crossing Best and Most… p. 22 p. 17 p. 15 ds p. 15 SCOTIA 1:45 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM 7 No Crossover: Mallory Up or Out My Land The Trial… p. 30 p. 17 p. 26 p. 27 TBLB 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM 1 Audrie & Daisy How to Let Go of the Contemporary Suited Beware the Slenderman p. 6 World and Love All… p. 17 Color p. 6 p. 26 ds p. 27 TBLB 10:45 AM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM 2 I Am the Blues Girls Don’t Fly Death by a… A Dog’s Life The Seer ds p. 7 p. 25 p. 13 p. 10 p. 23 TBLB 10:30 AM 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 3 Half-Life in Fukushima Nuts! Gulîstan, Land All These Sleepless LoveTrue p. 16 p. 29 of Roses p. 10 Nights p. 15 p. 14 TBLB 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 4 The Land of the When the Earth Turning Tables The Successor + Dugma: Enlightened p. 17 Seems to be… p. 19 p. 4 The Button p. 26

10 AM 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 10:15 AM 7:30 PM BADER A Dog’s Life Brent Green p. 10 and Sam… p. 20 6:30 PM 9:30 PM BLOOR Bobby Sands: 66 Days Under the Gun p. 6 p. 9

5 M ay THURSDAY, 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM HART Life, Animated The Pearl Do Not Resist What Tomorrow p. 7 p. 26 p. 16 Brings p. 9

HOUSE DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21

9:00 PM FREE INNIS Outdoor Screening: Hip-Hop Evol… p. 4 SCOTIA 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM 7 Smokes and… + What He Did The Opposition Ukrainian Fourteen’s… p. 28 p. 24 p. 22 Sheriffs p. 19 SCOTIA 12:45 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 10:00 PM 13 A Walnut Tree All These Sleepless The Successor + Dugma: Hit it Hard p. 19 Nights p. 15 The Button p. 26 p. 25 SCOTIA 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM 14 Aida’s Secrets The Seer p. 23 Brothers p. 15 Up or Out p. 15 p. 26 TBLB 10:00 AM 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 6:15 PM 9:15 PM 1 Southwest of Suited Life Itself The Bad Kids Beware the Slenderman Salem:… ds p. 8 p. 26 p. 30 p. 15 ds p. 27 TBLB 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:45 PM 2 DIY Country Starless Mattress Men Sour Grapes p. 8 The Man Who p. 16 Dreams p. 19 p. 29 Saw Too… p. 23 TBLB 10:15 AM 1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM 3 The Father, the Son and Random Acts of Kaisa’s Enchanted Cheer Up Damiana Kryygi p. 16 the Holy Jihad p. 16 Legacy p. 12 Forest p. 17 p. 10 TBLB 11:30 AM 2:45 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 4 Whose Country? + The The Prison in Twelve Mully The Dogwalker Valley of Salt p. 28 Landscapes p. 11 p. 18 p. 12

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DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21 HOUSE

4:00 PM 6:30 PM Brothers City 40 INNIS p. 15 p. 15 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM Zimbelism Suited Mattress Men REVUE p. 24 p. 26 p. 29 2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM SCOTIA Anti-Social A Centre- Holy Cow In the Shadow of the 7 Limited p. 12 Sud… p. 10 p. 17 Hill p. 22 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM SCOTIA Aim For The Roses Brothers At Home in the Ovarian Psycos 13 p. 10 p. 13 World p. 27 p. 18 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 6:00 PM 9:00 PM SCOTIA Café Désirs The Revolution Won’t Check It The Father, the Son and 14 p. 25 Be Televised p. 18 p. 15 the Holy Jihad p. 16 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:45 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM TBLB Hooligan… Rabin In His Own Sonita Norman Lear: Just De Palma 1 ds p. 27 Words p. 18 p. 8 Another… p. 7 p. 6 10:15 AM 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM TBLB The Islands and Off the Rails LoveTrue When Two Worlds The Land of the 2 the Whales p. 14 p. 11 p. 14 Collide p. 19 Enlightened p. 17 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB Callshop Istanbul Mallory Gun Runners Best and Most… Fraud 3 p. 10 p. 17 p. 11 ds p. 15 p. 25 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 8:45 PM TBLB The Pursuit of… The Crossing Another Hotel Dallas 4 Shorts… p. 26 p. 15 Country p. 22 p. 23

10 AM 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 SATURDAY, MAY 7 10:30 AM 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM The Last Laugh No Man Is an DIY Country Do Not Resist Obit BADER p. 7 Island p. 14 p. 16 p. 16 p. 8 10:00 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM Spaceship Earth The Peacemaker The Happy Film Strike a Pose Gleason BLOOR p. 8 p. 8 p. 25 p. 8 p. 6 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM Life, Animated Sour Grapes A Revolution in The Incomparable Rose FOX p. 7 p. 8 Four Seasons p. 18 Hartman p. 23 12:45 PM 3:15 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM The Man Who Saw Konelīne: Our Land Bobby Sands: 66 Days Michael HART Too Much p. 23 Beautiful p. 11 p. 6 Shannon… p. 29

DOCX INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO p. 20–21 HOUSE

4:30 PM 7:00 PM My Land Zach’s Ceremony INNIS p. 27 p. 22 1:00 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 8:45 PM The Age of Norman Lear: Just Nuts! Credit For Murder REVUE Conseq… p. 6 Another… p. 7 p. 29 p. 27 1:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM SCOTIA The Prison in Twelve A Strange Love A Walnut Tree Hotel 7 Landscapes p. 11 Affair With… p. 19 p. 19 Coolgardie p. 13 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM SCOTIA After Circus Whose Country? + The Salamanca God Knows Where I Am 13 p. 10 Valley of Salt p. 28 p. 19 p. 13 12:30 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM SCOTIA Under the Sun The Opposition Wizard Mode 14 p. 28 p. 22 p. 12 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:45 PM 6:45 PM 9:15 PM TBLB Best and Most… Beware the Slenderman I Am the Blues Angry Inuk How to Let Go of the 1 ds p. 15 ds p. 27 ds p. 7 p. 10 World and Love All… p. 17 10:30 AM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM TBLB Natural Disorder A Dog’s Life All These Sleepless Cheer Up How to Build a 2 ds p. 23 p. 10 Nights p. 15 p. 10 Time… p. 25 10:45 AM 2:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:45 PM TBLB Aida’s Secrets Hoop Dreams Raving Iran When the Earth 3 p. 15 p. 30 p. 14 Seems to be… p. 19 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca :TBLB 35 Death by a… Living With Cameraperson Command + Control 4 p. 13 Giants p. 11 p. 23 Shorts Program p. 27 10 AM 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 10:15 AM 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 9:00 PM BADER Future Baby The Apology How To Prepare Girls Don’t Fly p. 16 p. 10 For Prison p. 11 p. 25 10:30 AM 1:00 PM 6:00 PM 9:30 PM BLOOR Suited Contemporary Big Ideas: Tony Robbins: Tony Robbins: I Am Not p. 26 Color p. 6 I Am Not Your Guru p. 5 Your Guru p. 9 8 M ay SUNDAY, 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 9:15 PM HART Thank You Del: Trapped The Sex Temple The Story… p. 8 p. 9 p. 29 4:30 PM 7:15 PM INNIS Random Acts of Off the Rails Legacy p. 12 p. 11 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM REGENT Obit Magicians: Life The Slippers Under the Gun p. 8 in the… p. 23 p. 23 p. 9 12:30 PM 3:15 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM ROYAL Spirit Unforgettable The Wonderful Ants on a Shrimp Gary Numan: p. 24 Kingdom of Papa… p. 24 p. 6 Android In… p. 6 SCOTIA 2:15 PM 4:15 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 7 Incident at… The Infinite At the Death House Up or Out p. 28 Flight of… p. 13 Door p. 30 p. 26 SCOTIA 2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 10:00 PM 13 Starless Putuparri and the The Successor + Dugma: Gulîstan, Land Dreams p. 19 Rainmakers p. 22 The Button p. 26 of Roses p. 10 SCOTIA 11:00 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM 9:45 PM 14 The Gatekeeper Don Juan Quebec My Country Look Love Chasing Asylum p. 16 p. 13 Mon Pays p. 12 p. 17 ds p. 22 TBLB 10:00 AM 12:45 PM 3:30 PM 9:00 PM 1 Unlocking the Southwest of Audrie & Daisy American Movie Cage ds p. 9 Salem… ds p. 8 p. 6 p. 6 TBLB 10:15 AM 1:00 PM 3:45 PM 6:45 PM 9:30 PM 2 Half-Life in Migrant Dreams LoveTrue Brothers La Laguna + What Fukushima p. 16 p. 11 p. 14 p. 15 Remains… p. 17 TBLB 10:30 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:15 PM 3 Diving into the Overruled Urmila: My Where is Rocky II? What He Did Unknown p. 16 p. 18 Memory Is My… p. 19 p. 24 p. 24 TBLB 11:30 AM 3:00 PM 5:45 PM 8:45 PM 4 Stevie The Pearl Of Kaisa’s Enchanted The Seer p. 30 Africa p. 14 Forest p. 17 p. 23

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1. HOUSE 9. SCOTIA RD AVENUE CUMBERLAND ST Hot Docs House and Scotiabank Theatre Toronto 4 CraveTV Box Office 259 Richmond Street West BLOOR ST W 610 Markham Street 10. TBLB 1 7 CHARLES ST SUSSEX AVE 2. TENTS TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 The Mill Street Hub Reitman Square 5 2 HOSKIN AVE & The Nook 350 King Street West  HARBORD ST 89 Charles Street West 6 (Behind Isabel Bader Theatre) Not Shown on Map HART HOUSE CIRCLE 3. BADER FOX REVUE PARLIAMENT ST PARLIAMENT JARVIS ST JARVIS QUEEN’S PARK CRES CRES PARK QUEEN’S BAY ST SHERBOURNE ST SHERBOURNE MARKHAM ST MARKHAM ST ST BATHURST ST GEORGE ST. Isabel Bader Theatre Fox Theatre ST YONGE 2236 Queen Street East 8 93 Charles Street West COLLEGE ST 4. BLOOR REGENT Bloor Hot Docs Cinema The Regent 506 Bloor Street West 555 Mount Pleasant Road BEVERLEY ST REVUE AVE SPADINA 5. CSI UNIVERSITY AVE CSI Annex The Revue DUNDAS ST W 720 Bathurst Street 400 Roncesvalles Avenue DUNDAS ST E

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Hart House Theatre ST YONGE FOX 7 Hart House Circle  Yonge-University- QUEEN ST W Spadina 7. INNIS RICHMOND ST W Innis Town Hall Bloor-Danforth 9 JOHN ST 2 Sussex Avenue ADELAIDE ST W 10 8. ROYAL KING ST W The Royal Cinema 608 College Street FRONT ST W

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14’S Good, 18’S Better 28 The Crossing 15 Hotel Dallas 23 Mr. Gaga 7 Spaceship Earth 8 Absences 16 Damiana Kryygi 16 How to Build a Time Machine 25 Mully 18 Spirit Unforgettable 24 After Circus 10 Dancing for You 4, 27 How to Let Go of the World My Land 27 Starless Dreams 19 The Age of Consequences 6 Death by a Thousand Cuts 13 and Love All the Things Climate Nascent 18 Stevie 30 Aida’s Secrets 15 De Palma 6 Can’t Change 17 Natural Disorder 23 A Strange Love Affair With Ego 19 Aim For The Roses 10 The Diver 15 How To Prepare For Prison 11 No Crossover: The Trial of Strike a Pose 8 All These Sleepless Nights 15 Diving into the Unknown 16 I’m Not From Here 15 Allen Iverson 30 Strudel Sisters 13 American Movie 6 DIY Country 16 I Am the Blues 7 No Cultural Value 12 The Successor 26 Andy Barrie: The Voice 24 DocX Interactive Installations 20 Idac 27 No Man Is an Island 14 Suited 26 Angry Inuk 10 DocX Virtual Reality and Incident at Restigouche 28 Norman Lear: Just Another Tempest Storm 24 Another Country 22 360˚ Video 21 The Incomparable Rose Hartman 23 Version of You 7 Terranova Matadora 10 Anti-Social Limited 12 The Dog 7 In Defense of the Rocket 16 Northbound 19 Thank You Del: The Story of the Ants on a Shrimp 6 A Dog’s Life 10 The Infinite Flight of Days 13 Nuts! 29 Del Close Marathon 8 The Apology 5, 10 The Dogwalker 12 Inquiring Nuns 28 O.J. Simpson: Made in America 5, 7 Through the Lens of a Female At Home in the World 27 Don Juan 13 The Interrupters 30 Obit 8 “Cameraperson” 4 At Midnight 15 Do Not Resist 16 In the Shadow of the Hill 22 Off the Rails 11 Tickled 28 At the Death House Door 30 Dugma: The Button 26 The Islands and the Whales 14 Omnia 19 Tiny Tracks 11 Audrie & Daisy 6 Extremes 19 Joe’s Violin 4, 24 Operation Avalanche 20 Tony Robbins: I Am Not Awana 27 Fairy Tales 25 Johnny Physical Lives 26 The Opposition 22 Your Guru 5, 9 The Bad Kids 15 Famous In Ahmedabad 18 Just A Dog 10 Our Film Is Better 19 Tower 19 Barbarian Press 23 The Father, the Son and the Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest 17 Ovarian Psycos 18 Trapped 9 Bastion Point Day 507 28 Holy Jihad 16 Kettle 27 Overruled 18 Turning Tables 4 Beaverman 12 Fear Itself 29 Konelīne: Our Land Beautiful 11 The Peacemaker 8 Ukrainian Sheriffs 19 Before the Dawn 27 Fireflies in the Abyss 16 La Laguna 17 The Pearl 26 Under the Gun 9 Best and Most Beautiful Things 15 Following the Line: The History of The Land of the Enlightened 17 The Pearl Of Africa 14 Under the Sun 28 Between You and Me 11 Ricardo Prado 25 The Last Laugh 7 Pickle 17 Unlocking the Cage 9 Beware the Slenderman 27 Frame 394 16 Last Season 14 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes 11 Up or Out 26 The Black Belt 9 Fraud 25 League of Exotique Dancers 4, 6 Urmila: My Memory Is My Power 19 Bobby Sands: 66 Days 6 Future Baby 16 The Legacy of Frida Kahlo 7 Putuparri and the Rainmakers 22 Uzu 26 Bootwmn 23 Gary Numan: Android Let’s Dance: Bowie Down Under 22 Quebec My Country Mon Pays 12 The Valley of Salt 28 Brent Green and Sam Green: In La La Land 6 Life, Animated 7 Rabin In His Own Words 18 A Walnut Tree 19 Live Cinema 20 The Gatekeeper 16 Life at a Snail’s Pace 23 Random Acts of Legacy 12 We All Love the Seaside 14 Broke. 12 Girls Don’t Fly 25 Life Itself 30 Raving Iran 14 Weiner 9 Brothers (Norway) 13 Gleason 6 Living With Giants 11 A Revolution in Four Seasons 18 What Happened to Her 27 Brothers (Poland) 15 God Knows Where I Am 13 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the The Revolution Won’t Be Televised 18 What He Did 24 Brothers in the Kitchen 20 Gospel Mime 26 Connected World 7 The Rock 26 What Remains is Mermanat 17 Café Désirs 25 The Grandfather Drum 11 Look Love 17 Salamanca 19 What Tomorrow Brings 5, 9 Callshop Istanbul 10 Gulîstan, Land of Roses 10 LoveTrue 14 Seeding Fear 11 When the Earth Seems Cameraperson 23 Gun Runners 11 Madonna: Truth or Dare 28 The Seer 23 to be Light 19 A Centre-Sud Tale 10 Half-Life in Fukushima 16 The Magic Hedge 25 The Sex Temple 29 When Two Worlds Collide 19 Chasing Asylum 22 Handsome & Majestic 4, 26 Magicians: Life in the Impossible 23 Shadows of Displacement 22 When You Awake 26 Check It 15 The Hanging 26 Mallory 17 Sherman’s March 28 Where is Rocky II? 24 Cheer Up 10 The Happy Film 5, 25 The Man Who Saw Too Much 23 The Shining Star of Losers Who Cares 12 The Chicago Maternity Hattie Goes Cruising 29 Mattress Men 29 Everywhere 26 Who Killed Eloá? 27 Center Story 28 Hip-Hop Evolution 4, 7 The Meadow 13 The Silent Form 24 Whose Country? 28 Circles 23 History of Abraim 17 Medium Cool 28 Sleeping with Family 10 Wizard Mode 12 City 40 15 Hit it Hard 25 Michael Shannon Michael The Slippers 23 The Woman Who Saw the Bear 18 Contemporary Color 6 Holy Cow 17 Shannon John 29 Smokes and Lollies 28 The Wonderful Kingdom of Conversations with a Dead Holy Hell 27 Migrant Dreams 11 Sonita 8 Papa Alaev 24 Prime Minister 29 Hooligan Sparrow 27 Mining Poems or Odes 26 Sour Grapes 8 Zach’s Ceremony 22 Cosmopolitanism 15 Hoop Dreams 30 Missy Higgins: Oh Canada 22 Southwest of Salem: The Story Zimbelism 24 Credit For Murder 27 Hotel Coolgardie 13 Moving Target 16 of the San Antonio Four 5, 8

Join us at Hot Docs House Sneak Peeks Filmmakers of some of this year’s most anticipated films offer a first glimpse As we count down to the festival, we invite you to the bustling Hot Docs and share their creative insights House at 610 Markham Street for a series of free events. SAT, APR 2 2:00 PM Matt Gallagher, How to Prepare for Prison (p. 11) The Inside Scoop SAT, APR 9 2:00 PM Nimisha Mukerji, Tempest Storm (p. 24) Hot Docs’ senior programmers drop by to help you plan your festival SAT, APR 16 2:00 PM Min Sook Lee, Migrant Dreams (p. 11) by sharing their top picks and valuable tips. Friends of the Festival SUN, APR 3 1:00 PM Senior Canadian Programmer Lynne Fernie Explore Toronto’s rich cultural landscape and get introduced to some highlights the best in Canadian documentary of the city’s great arts and cultural institutions SUN, APR 10 1:00 PM Associate Director of Programming Sarafina DiFelice discusses virtual reality, interactivity WED, APR 6 5:00 PM Bloor Street Culture Corridor and genre-bending work in DocX THU, APR 7 5:00 PM Inside Out (LGBT Film Festival) WED, APR 13 5:00 PM Jayu (Human Rights Film Festival) SUN, APR 17 1:00 PM Director of Programming Shane Smith THU, APR 14 5:00 PM The Royal Conservatory of Music shares his thoughts about the films destined WED, APR 20 5:00 PM Toronto Jewish Film Festival to become classics THU, APR 21 5:00 PM Toronto Fringe Festival

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