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As a teenager in the ’90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over…
Fashion Reimagined
Fashion designer Amy Powney is at the peak of her career, but she’s troubled by her industry’s wasteful practices. Fashion Reimagined follows her transformative global journey to create a collection…
The Expert at the Card Table: Looking for Erdnase
The best magicians of the 21st century set out on a journey to search for the lost author of the most legendary book about the art of sleight of hand.
Fogo
The deterioration of a small community in Fogo Island is forcing its inhabitants to leave and resettle. Places once occupied by humans are now becoming part of the tundra landscape….
Don’t Rest in Peace
Sharron Prior, a 16-year-old girl from Pointe-Saint-Charles, was found dead in Longueuil in 1975, three days after she disappeared. This documentary will highlight the quest of a bereaved family who…
Call Me Miss Cleo
Follow the rise, fall, and reinvention of controversial and revered ’90s television psychic Miss Cleo. Featuring interviews with celebrities and those closest to the self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, this documentary explores…
Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist
Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist (Confessions) is not your typical eco-film. Seen through the eyes of activist Peter Jay Brown (from Whale Wars), Confessions grants the viewer an intimate look at…
Don’t Be Nice
A team of young black Slam Poets stake their reputations on the risk of telling hard truths as they compete for the National Championship during the racially-charged summer of 2016.
Swans: Mystery of the Missing
With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature’s mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan’s dramatic decline. A pioneering group of scientists and conservationists sets…
Lost Book Found
The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex meditation on city life….
Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb
The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people…
Dear Future Children
Three young female activists in Uganda, Hong Kong and Chile in a united front for the future, in an inflamed film by a merely 21-year-old filmmaker.
Panther People
Filmmakers Dale Roossien and Jarrod Stark traveled all over North America, meeting people from all walks of life while exploring the growing subculture of car enthusiasts who love Ford’s iconic…
Go for It
Extreme sports meets midnight movie with a film that showcases wild surfing and skateboarding madness.
Mad Hot Ballroom
Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes…
Guy Martin: The World’s Fastest Van?
Guy Martin rebuilds his beloved transit van and tries to break the van lap record at the dangerous and demanding Nürburgring in Germany. But the huge undertaking threatens to end…
Mercy, Love & Grace: The Story of Force Blue
Mercy Love & Grace is the story of six former combat veterans gathered together to train for their next mission: saving the oceans’ coral reefs and in the process, saving…
Gurrumul
Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced Australia to the Songlines and culture…
Roots of Fire
The battle to revive dying tradition comes to life through the young musicians of Southwest Louisiana in this powerful musical documentary. Amidst shuttered rural dance clubs and encroaching globalization, five…
TLC Forever
The revolutionary top-selling American female group of all time, who broke boundaries, influenced an entire generation and survived against all odds, T-Boz and Chilli tell their story for the first…
Lil Rel Howery: RELevent
Lil Rel Howery describes how he found out that his father wasn’t a doctor, the difference between raising a son and a daughter, and racism within the black community.
Scariest Places in America
Countdown 13 locations ranging from haunted houses to abandoned asylums and a slew of frightening places in between.
Nanook of the North
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada’s northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful…
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O’Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician in the New York Philarmonic, it was inevitable…
Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery
A riveting cryptocurrency thriller unravels the story of a Canadian blockchain wizard who mysteriously died on his honeymoon in India and the fate of his investors’ $200 million. Did it…
The Making of ‘Superman III’
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more comical take on the superhero story in which the Man of Steel takes…
Santoalla
A Dutch couple, Martin and Margo Verfondern, move to a remote Spanish village of Santoalla to start a new life. There is conflict with the Spanish residents resulting in the…
Gow the Head Hunter
Captain Edward A. Salisbury was a noted millionaire explorer and writer, whose exploration stories of the islands of the South Seas Pacific appeared often in “The National Geographic,” and other…
Machina Faust
Takes a look at the life of the talented musician and composer, saxophonist Maria Faust. The film closely follows the birth of three works and how Maria’s personal experiences are…
Cycling the Frame
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle – starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate – accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through…
752 Is Not a Number
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian air space. All 176 people on board were killed, many of them Iranian Canadians….
Cenote
Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them…
Another Day of Life
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola’s civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty…
Someone Lives Here
Chronicles the modern-day David and Goliath tale amidst North America’s housing crisis. During the pandemic, Khaleel Seivwright, a young Toronto carpenter, builds life-saving shelters for unhoused people facing the winter…
Two Gods
The story of a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in Newark, NJ who takes two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives.
Meet the Censors
From a Kafkaesque office for social media in Germany and on to Sudan, and to conversations with an Iranian Ayatollah, an Indian film censor and critical journalists in China. The…
Trump: The Art of the Insult
Joel Gilbert’s directing style is on full display here with a look at how Donald Trump dominated the 2016 race, using The Art of the Insult to brand political opponents…
Planet Ocean
Dive into our planet’s greatest mysteries with a team of international underwater cinematographers as they explore the breathtaking bond between humanity and the ocean.
Léa & I
Best friends travel though Latin America meeting shamans, experimenting with plant medicines, and wondering about what makes a life well-lived when one of them might have half the time to…
The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here?
During the era of hyper-formulated pop music in the early 1980s, The Dream Syndicate emerged from Los Angeles as a sensation with their gritty, guitar-driven sound that relied heavily on…
Best of Stand-up 2020
Unnecessary milk substitutes. Bad passwords. Burlap underpants. 2020 may have sucked, but thankfully the jokes didn’t.
The Last Igloo
Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.
The Critic
A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate.
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Fraud
A family’s home movies document a desperate crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences. Born from a colossal trove of innocuous uploads to YouTube, Fraud is an impressionistic…
Visualist-Those Who See Beyond
From the underground and alternative new media art scene to mainstream giant events for hundreds of thousands of visitors, “Visualist, those who see beyond” tells the untold History of audiovisual…
More Than I Want to Remember
One night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself…
Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods
The life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father,…
From Jail Cell to Stem Cell: the Next Con for the Ex-Con
The natural medicine industry is seduced by ex-cons, adulterated by fake docuseries and physicians with exaggerated credentials, and patients are hurt all in an effort to make money before the…
Brexitannia
A sociological portrait of the United Kingdom after the historic Brexit vote of 2016. A funny, sometimes terrifying and non-judgemental look at the new populist politics sweeping western democracies.
Last Days Here
Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life…
Sunshine Superman
Documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.
The Oxy Kingpins
It follows the untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a…
The 24 Hour War
In the early 1960s, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari went to war on the battlefield of Le Mans. This epic battle saw drivers lose their lives, family dynasties nearly…
Stressed
A new exploration into emotional stress and its undeniable impact on humanity. The film delves into our history with stress, how we got to where we are today, and where…
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry — this time from behind the register — as he opens his own fast food restaurant.
Food and Country
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across…
Mysterious Object at Noon
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
Australia
How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in…
My Husband, the Cyborg
With incredible intimacy, filmmaker Susanna Cappellaro documents her husband Scott’s decision to have an extrasensory device implanted into his body in order to increase his awareness of the world around…
For the Love of a Man
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth: Actor, Leader, Hero, God. Men from various generations alter their lives, sell their belongings, and place fandom above their families in devotion to an iconic South Indian…
How Saba Kept Singing
Ninety-four-year-old David Wisnia never told his wife, children or grandchildren in Levittown, Pennsylvania, the whole truth about how he survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. They knew that David’s singing voice had entertained the…
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama’s final year in office through the present.