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The Year Before (2006)
The Year Before is a portrait of four Montreal teenagers in their final year of high school. In classic vérité tradition, this film goes deep inside their everyday world to explore the evolving values of, and growing pressures, facing young men.
Directed by Katie McKenna
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Music is the Medicine (2010)
MUSIC IS THE MEDICINE is a one-hour documentary that follows the journey of blues-rock virtuoso Derek Miller, one of Indigenous Canada’s most recognizable artists, as he sets out to release his next album, with high hopes of achieving mainstream success...
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Urban Roots (2009)
Urban Roots is an inspiring ocumentary on urban vegetable gardening. Meet three dynamic gardeners who share their personal stories on living a more self-sustainable lifestyle while providing practical information on how to garden. Learn to grow your own...
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Letter to Myself (2008)
Kim wrote herself a letter so she would remember the pain of her crystal meth addiction, and it provides the structure for this insightful film that features the stories of two young women from small towns, their families and counsellors as they struggle...
Directed by Elizabeth Miller
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Once a Nazi... (2006)
Structured as a who done it documentary thriller; Once a Nazi… is Adalbert Lallier’s tragic story, a man haunted by his connection to the most infamous group of mass murderers of the twentieth century – the notorious Waffen SS. Today Lallier wrestles...
Directed by
Evan Beloff |
An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate twenty-seven years after his untimely death.
His inimitable music and writing reveal and insightful world-view that we are still unravelling – his complex recording...
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Inuit Odyssey (2009)
Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson takes a journey across the North and a millennium back in time, tracing the origins of the modern Inuit in an extraordinary Arctic Odyssey from Siberia to Greenland. What he discovers along the way overturns our...
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Breaking Ranks (2006)
Breaking Ranks is a documentary about the plight of four U.S. soldiers seeking sanctuary in Canada as part of their resistance to the war in Iraq. The film documents their experiences as they try to exercise their consciences amidst profound emotional,...
Directed by Michelle Mason
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Mandrake: A Magical Life (2001)
Mentalist. Illusionist. Escape Artist. Mandrake was not one magician, but many.
Who was the real Leon Mandrake? This biography draws back the curtain once more for the great magician who mesmerized North American audiences for over 60 years. The...
Directed by Mary Ungerleider
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Bruce & Me (2004)
Filmmaker Oren Siedler's personal exploration into her troubled and unusual relationship with her brilliant, charming, con-artist, white-collar criminal father takes us around the world, from Australia to USA, Canada, Israel, Mexico and Cuba. The...
Directed by Oren Siedler
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Citizen Sam (2006)
Sam is running for mayor.
Sam Sullivan was a local curiosity, the quadriplegic city councillor in a pinstripe suit, with a pipe dream of leading his shattered right-wing party back to power. Citizen Sam goes deep inside Sullivan's mayoral...
Directed by Joe Moulins
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TITLE: The Women’s Movement Continues: Grandmothers in Solidarity
GENRE: Documentary, women.
TIME: 20min
LOGLINE: Canadian Grandmothers welcome African Grandmothers to Canada on a journey into solidarity to end HIV/AIDS in African communities....
Directed by Sarah Moffat
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The Faces of Cheremosh: A Forty-Year Reflection tells the story of the Edmonton-based Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company from its beginnings in 1969 to its 40th anniversary celebrations. Through its people and its performances we hear the story of...
Directed by Gail Currie
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Sweatin' It (2002)
The story of two Mississauga teens whose lives turn upside down when they volunteer to 'sweat it' with Olympic Champion Daniel Igali.
Wrestler Daniel Igali is fueled by a new dream after winning a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics. He wants...
Directed by Lalita Krishna
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St-Henri, the 26th of August (2011)
On August 26th, 2010, fourteen filmmakers recorded multiple stories in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Henri. The resulting film is a touching, funny and fascinating day-in-the-life of an eclectic community. Doris roams the streets collecting bottles...
Directed by Shannon Walsh
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A Mind Like Mine (2009)
A preview from a compelling documentary chronicling a year in the life of two adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This deeply personal film features the filmmaker's son, Kail and another young man Daniel. Seven years after...
Directed by Karen O'Donnell
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Keeping Up With Cathy Jones (2006)
Keeping Up with Cathy Jones is a biographical romp through the life and times of this outrageously funny lady of stage and television. From the first celluloid glimpses of CATHY AT 16, THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES, her one woman shows and stand-up routines...
Directed by Barbara Doran
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The Meaning of Life (2009)
The Meaning of Life is an 82- minute documentary which looks at a very unusual prison, and at a fascinating model for rehabilitating prisoners - a collaboration between the Chehalis Nation of British Columbia and Correctional Service of Canada....
Directed by Hugh Brody
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Through intimate portraits of four women from across sub-Saharan Africa, Grandmothers: The Unsung Heroes of Africa highlights the crucial role grandmothers play not only in caring for AIDS orphans but also in holding their families and communities...
Directed by Liz Marshall
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In the Shadow of the Chief (2003)
On a rain-soaked morning in May 1961, amidst the snow-capped mountains and verdant forests of Squamish, British Columbia, two young climbers; Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper started up the Stawamus Chief. Within two weeks news of their attempt had spread and...
Directed by Ivan Hughes
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Tour Israel by Remote (2010)
I'm making 2 documentaries, one called "Tour Israel by Remote - Is it Possible to Know the Truth?" and the other & "Tour Israel by Remote - Answers for us Spawned from Ancient Cruelty." I'm planning to go back to Israel...
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Power (1996)
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility. With unprecedented access to key figures like Cree leader Matthew...
Directed by Magnus Isacsson
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Bats have always coexisted with man. Despite this, science has only recently begun to realize that bats possess secrets of immeasurable benefit to human beings; qualities that science is now harnessing to help the blind, to save victims of stroke, to...
Directed by Jon KALINA & Jean-Marie MIGAUD
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Quarantaine (2010)
“Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer's marvelously entertaining multi-disciplinary take on the male mid-life crisis. Mixing solo dance, collective scat, humour and pathos, Victorian gothic animation and great music, this Montreal stage adaptation is...
Directed by
Philip Szporer |
