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- The unbelievable story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s.
- Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- A groundbreaking investigation into the secretive world of private security forces in Iraq.
- Inspired by the NYT bestselling book, this lively philosophical investigation into the rise of asshole behaviour across the world asks: What does it mean to be an asshole, and more importantly, how do we stop their proliferation?
- Millennials Laura, Andra and Ayo are part of a growing feminist effort to revive the practice of witchcraft and reclaim the term 'witch'.
- Surveys the history of Jewish comedy.
- Filmmaker Barri Cohen leads part detective story, part social history in UNLOVED - HURONIA'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN as she uncovers the truth about Alfie and Louis, her two long-dead half-brothers. They were institutionalized at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia in the 1950s, with one brother unceremoniously buried in secret in an unmarked grave as a small child. Their lives were cut short, but their story stands as a microcosm of the immense tragedy of the Western World's 20th-century disastrous treatment of intellectually disabled children and youth. Through the interwoven narratives of a POV family story with critical institution survivors, a question preoccupies the film: how do we allow ourselves to dehumanize the most vulnerable people in our care? UNLOVED - HURONIA'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN is a heartbreaking yet redemptive work that moves outwards from a highly personal and painful family secret to an investigation of hidden, searing truths about an entire government-enabled system of institutional cruelty and ugliness against vulnerable children. Yet, humanity is hopefully restored by assembling community and survivor testimony, along with the filmmaker's insistence that these experiences be fully recognized and memorialized.
- When first responders arrive to a call of a break-in, they find 16-year-old Cynara without vital signs, and her mother, Cindy Ali, lying on the floor, unable to move. Hours later, Cynara is dead, and Cindy is the prime suspect.
- An exploration into the nature of stupidity in Western society and its history of our perception of it.
- Pathologist who performed Einstein's autopsy stole his brain, hoping to reveal source of genius. But decision haunted him.
- JUST SAY IT explores the bizarre and hilarious nature of people's number one fear: public speaking. It examines the history and psychology of this fear while following Luke King, the film's director, as he takes a public speaking class and attends Ontario's largest provincial speech competition for kids. Just Say It! features candid interviews with Canadian celebrities including the CBC's Peter Mansbridge, George Chuvalo and the cast of the Royal Canadian Air Farce as they attempt to help Luke shed some light on Canadians' deepest fear.
- Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP scratches beneath flaking paint and rusting metal to reveal the beauty and pathos in the ugliness we leave behind. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who each have a connection to objects that have reached their 'end of life'. Together their stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel at their eventual loss, and the joy of their rebirth.
- Canadian documentary film, following the story of Sean Clifton, who stabbed and badly injured a woman in a shopping mall while he was in a delusional state.
- A single mother of two from small-town Canada looks for her missing father in Mexico and ends up taking on one of the most corrupt justice systems in the world.
- After learning of the shocking statistic that women are the fastest growing prison population worldwide, three filmmakers walked into a Canadian prison with a very simple question for the women inside: What would have needed in society to have not ended up here? In Conviction, Ackerman, Pahlke, and MacInnes, take a unique and creative collaborative approach with women on the inside, Bianca Mercer, Treena Smith, Laura Toney, Caitlin Hill, as well as prison guard, Tanya Bignell, to answer that question. They paint, draw, sing, photograph and film, envisioning a more ideal world, authoring their own narratives through art. They join advocates and Senator Kim Pate, in a worldwide movement questioning the ideas of punishment and prison. It implores the viewer to ask why it is that we imprison our most vulnerable - those who are battling childhood traumas, mental health issues and addiction. Not another 'broken prison' film, this collaboration is a 'broken society' film-an ambitious and inspired re-build of our community, from the inside out.
- Lane, an ex-ember of a cult called the Exclusive Brethren, attempts to re-unite with his estranged family who ex-communicated him from the cult when he was 18 years old.
- It explores the dark art of geopolitical spin-doctoring.
- Anyone who knew Babz Chula-a talented, larger-than-life actress-could tell you that her life force, or chi, was incredibly strong. When Babz reconnected with director Anne Wheeler in 2009, they discovered a mutual interest - India. Babz easily convinces Anne to join her on a journey to Kerala, where 63-year-old Babz will undergo treatment by a renowned Ayurvedic healer in an effort to rid herself of the cancer that has been threatening her life for the last six years. Anne suggests she bring her camera and film the treatment, and Babz enthusiastically agrees. Not all goes according to plan when they arrive; the centre is far less sophisticated than Babz anticipated, and she is very ill from her last round of chemotherapy and the long journey. But, after six weeks of treatments, introspection, and laughs with Anne at the bare-bones clinic, Babz seems to show considerable physical and psychic improvement. At least that's what Anne believes is happening, until they return home and it is revealed that Babz's cancer has spread-new tumors are present and she has weeks, if not just days, to live. And now all the things they'd pondered in India, like facing death without fear or a belief in a God, become an imminent reality. Amazingly, the irrepressible Babz invites Anne and her camera to continue bearing witness to her journey into the unknown.
- A documentary which examines copyright issues in the information age.
- A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father: Roberto Rossellini.
- Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine offers an intimate look at a pioneer performer who's road trip to stardom and long career deserves a rightful place in music history.
- A look at the monarch butterfly's mysterious migration from Canada to Mexico.
- What begins as a character study of an eccentric man who passes out flyers for a living, becomes an intense five year journey of self-discovery and the search for fame.