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Raw Opium is a feature length documentary (and two-part TV series) about a commodity that has tremendous power – both to ease pain and to destroy lives. The opium poppy is the raw material for heroin, fueling a vast criminal trade larger than the...
Directed by Peter Findlay
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Sisters In Arms (2010)
SISTERS IN ARMS is a one-hour documentary that tells the story of three remarkable women who have chosen the most difficult and dangerous military professions and are facing combat on the battle fronts of Afghanistan. Corporal Katie Hodges is a...
Directed by Beth Freeman
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Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta captures the intersecting storylines of a remarkable cast of characters eager to cash in on the oil boom in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Washington lobbyists, Newfie pipefitters, Chinese investors and Norwegian...
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When public education funding was slashed in the 1980s, America opened its doors to corporations' deep pockets. As Canadian schools faced budget shortfalls a decade later, most of the country followed suit.
As cash-strapped schools struggle to...
Directed by Jill Sharpe
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It's a Different World (2008)
It's a Different World follows the lives of three autistic children, Scott (11), Stephen (10), and Katie Turner (10) over the course of two years, documenting their changing perspective on what being autistic means to them.
Although Scott and...
Directed by Ramona Persaud
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Dean Wilson used to be an IBM salesman. Now he is possibly the most outspoken drug addict in Canada. As president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) he is a loud and articulate advocate for street addicts from Vancouver's Downtown...
Directed by Nettie Wild
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Sweet Talk (2010)
Told from the perspective of phone sex workers, Sweet Talk provides insight into the lived experiences of three women working within the North American sex industry.
Directed by Steven James May
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Sand For Now (2006)
SAND FOR NOW crisscrosses the globe documenting a group of nomadic artists, whose passion for sand sculpting drives them during the long hours battling with the elements. As the film unfolds it depicts the struggles and rewards of creating monumental yet...
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The Milk Act of 1938 made it illegal to sell raw (unpasteurized) milk in Canada. In November 2006, twenty-five armed officers staged a raid at Michael Schmidt’s farm, confiscating milk, equipment, computers and files. This film follows an activist farmer...
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You Know Harvey (2010)
Harvey is a Film Fest Addict and Volunteer who eats, breathes, sleeps film festivals. He does them all. Everyone knows Harvey. Do you know Harvey?
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The Devil`s Breath is a documentary which tells the story of Canada`s worst mine disaster. On the morning of June 19th of 1914, in the Crowsnest Pass in the Rocky Mountains of south western Alberta, a massive methane and coal dust explosion rocked the...
Directed by Steve Hanon
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FOUND (2009)
Using biographical text, animation, old photos, home videos, and narrated poetry this visually rich film meditates on the theme of reconnecting to one's past and trying to decipher its impact on the present. In 1978, Toronto-poet Souvankham...
Directed by Paramita Nath
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Shooting For Change (2007)
Plagued by a reputation of gun violence and drugs, a community fights back with an unusual weapon
The youth of Toronto’s infamous neighbourhood of Regent Park are used to being labeled and having others making decisions for them. But through a unique...
Directed by Lalita Krishna
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Spinsters (2001)
While the club scene grows, the number of female DJs does not. Through insightful interviews with DJs, producers and radio personalities, Spinsters delves into the ups and downs of being a woman in a scene that, while maintaining its underground position...
Directed by
Jackie Pelle |
A Generation of Orphans (2007)
A Generation of Orphans gives voice to six children who have been orphaned by AIDS across sub-Saharan Africa. Their personal and varied life stories are told with the help of the grassroots agencies that work valiantly on their behalf. This portraiture-...
Directed by Liz Marshall
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Carny (2008)
An intimate, gritty and poetic adventure following the lives of carnies, travelling fairground workers who have abandoned the security of the "real world" for the refuge and variety of the road. Deep pain is masked behind the huge grin of Hairy...
Directed by Alison Murray
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Cuban Song (2008)
Every image tells a story in this sensitively crafted mosaic that captures the soul of everyday life in Havana. An irresistible soundtrack drives and narrates the camera's sensitive observations of the mundane and the unexpected with lyrics of love...
Directed by Fernand Belanger, Louise Dugal, Yves Angrignon
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The Work of Art (2008)
An evocation of the power of art to enrich lives. Grammy and Juno Award winning pop star Nelly Furtado joins non-profit volunteer arts organization Artbound on their first assignment to build Free The Children's first all girls secondary school in...
Directed by Shayna Haddon
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Skate to Survive (2008)
This documentary follows the artistic life and struggle of figure skating coach and choreographer Ellen Burka from pre-war Amsterdam, to Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps, to Dutch national champion in 1946, bohemian Toronto in the 1950’s...
Directed by ASTRA BURKA
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A Day in Palestine (2008)
Deceptively beautiful, this Super-8 Kodachrome collection of vignettes of everyday life for Palestinians under occupation has a dreamlike quality, but the reality is anything but. A man picks olives against an azure sky. Grandmothers plead with...
Directed by Mary Ellen Davis, Jose Garcia-Lozano, Will Eizlini
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The Night Cook (2010)
Involved in an uprising against the Soviet invaders of (his homeland) Czechoslovakia in 1968, George Golias was forced to flee his country as a refugee. In doing so, he left behind a wife, a daughter, his parents and seven siblings. Thirty-seven years...
Directed by Jay Irving
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'Brooks - The City of 100 Hellos' is a documentary about how immigration changes and challenges a cowboy town. The film gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of many of the new immigrants, refugees and temporary foreign workers that have moved...
Directed by Brandy Yanchyk
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Jackpot (2009)
JACKPOT takes the viewer inside the sometimes strange, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and always compelling world of hardcore Bingo players. With their army of lucky charms at their side, their 20 cards laid out in front of them, and their...
Directed by Alan Black
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Roadsworth (2008)
ART IS ALWAYS A RISK; Over a period of three years, the stencil artist Peter Gibson, aka Roadsworth, made his mark on Montreal in the early hours of the morning by launching a self-described attack on the streets. Armed with spray paint and handmade...
Directed by Alan Kohl
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