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Return to Kandahar (2003)
Nelofer Pazira, the star of the movie "Kandahar", returns to her native Afghanistan. In the hope of tracking down her childhood friend Dyana -- whose story inspired the feature film -- Nelofer travels to the city of Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-...
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Jelena's Song (2010)
A descent into the labyrinths of memory: Jelena and her recollections, happy or not, of childhood. Memories of when she lived in Croatia, and of when she lived in Canada. Her mother at the beach. Her father horsing around in the grocery store. The man...
Directed by Pablo Alvarez Mesa
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Song of the Lodz Ghetto (2010)
Song of the Lodz Ghetto, the new feature-length documentary by David Kaufman, is a comprehensive historical account of Poland’s “first and last” Jewish ghetto, established by the Nazis during the Second World War in Lodz, Poland’s leading industrial...
Directed by David Kaufman
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Long Haul Big Hearts (2007)
A story about the power of one! A Canadian trucker and his blind dog set out on an adventure in an 18-wheeler on a relief mission to the Katrina-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast, to do what the government says ‘can’t be done’. Immediately after Hurricane...
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At the peak of the summer season, Montreal’s renowned Coleman Lemieux Dance Company descends upon a quiet village in Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park with an artistic team of Canada’s finest solo dance artists to create a site specific work....
Directed by Anne Troake
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Chichester's Choice (2007)
First-time filmmaker Simonee Chichester's father, Edgar, left her when she was just six years old. Since then, her only parent has been her overbearing and fiercely loving mother. Twenty-three years later, her father's alcoholism and depression...
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In 2000, developers purchase the crumbling, century-old Gladstone hotel to turn it from skid row
flophouse to arts and music hotspot. They think it’s empty... until they meet Marilyn, the chambermaid with a heart of gold; Shirley Ann, the cynical front...
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Arktika traces the ambitious and disasterous Soviet attempt to conquer a vast arctic region spanning half of the top of the world. Shouldering aside native hunters and herders, the Soviets built an industrial empire and moved two million people and a...
Directed by Gary Marcuse
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Aftermath: The Remnants of War is a feature length documentary that takes us to France, Russia, Vietnam and Bosnia to reveal a dark past that still haunts us. With a mix of never before seen footage, stock images, narration and original score, Aftermath...
Directed by Daniel Sekulich
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Long Road North (2008)
Seen from the handlebars of a bicycle, the world is a lot smaller than he ever thought. Leaving behind his office with no windows, a young Canadian dreams up an adventure to travel halfway across the planet at a human pace and experience the story of the...
Directed by Ian Hinkle
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The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds (2004)
This action-packed period documentary tells the true story of a 19th-century Canadian girl who, disguising herself as a man, runs away from home to escape a pre-arranged marriage. From the heart of an untamed wilderness to the midst of the American Civil...
Directed by Pepita Ferrari
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Probably Sure (2009)
Document reaction to Calgary Atheist Bus Campaign. Poster on buses reads: "There probably is no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life".
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This documentary film takes an historical look at the Jewsih community of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia from the turn of the 20th century to their 100th anniversary in 2001. Interviews are done with remaining members of the Jewish community as well as others...
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Return of the Prairie Bandit (2011)
Their habitat once stretched across the Prairies, but when humans almost decimated the one thing they eat, the black-footed ferret disappeared. The only ferret native to North American, this mysterious animal became the most endangered species in the...
Directed by Kenton Vaughan
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Cubanos, a completely independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship. The main...
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Crimes of Compassion (2001)
Crimes of Compassion takes an insider's look at the Vancouver Island Compassion Society (VICS) as it struggles to operate after being busted by the police. The VICS was established to provide affordable, medical-grade cannabis to people with...
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There is a war being waged in Canada for young minds. It’s happening on the streets and in the schoolyards, erupting in violence and hate. Hard times-and harder hearts-have brought simmering racist attitudes to the surface.
The Heritage Front, Aryan...
Directed by Peter Raymont
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When Silence is Golden (2007)
When Silence is Golden follows the film`s director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana. Through her journey, we meet the inhabitants of this town who, despite...
Directed by Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque
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This Wrestling Life (2010)
This Wrestling Life follows the trials and tribulations of the next generation of wannabe wrestlers as they pursue their dream of becoming global superstars. Audiences get an unprecedented all access pass into the bizarre lives of Travis, Bill, Natalie...
Directed by Stephen Gillis
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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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Club Native (2008)
Falling in love with the wrong person can have devastating repercussions for Mohawks on the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec. Award-winning director Tracey Deer takes a courageous look at her home community, raising questions of identity, history and...
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Carl Freed |
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Tiger Spirit (2008)
Millions of Korean families were separated from one another in the 1950s when war broke out between the Soviet-occupied North and the American-controlled South. For more than a generation, families have not been able to visit, speak on the phone or even...
Directed by Min Sook Lee
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The File Folder (2013)
This is a story about Violet-Rose Pharoah, a former child in care. After she overcame the challenges of aging out, she started a blog “The File Folder” that allows other young people who were in care to share their experiences.
Her goal is to collect...
Directed by Irina Sedunova [nid:7317]
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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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