My English Cousin (Switzerland/Qatar) Dir. Karim Sayad Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Meet Fahed Mameri. He’s the cousin of director Karim Sayad. Fahed’s life fuels his cousin’s documentary and his dull, tedious routine provides
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The Physics of Sorrow is Theodore Ushev's most ambitious and significant project to date as it offers a time capsule for a generation told using an unprecedented animation technique.
Keep ReadingThe Rest (Germany, 78 min.) Dir. Ai Weiwei Programme: Special Presentations (North American Premiere) Ai Weiwei’s 2017 doc Human Flow is one of the most extraordinary portraits of the global migration crisis ever put
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Barbara Kopple discusses her documentary New Homeland, which observes a group of young Syrian and Iraqi refugees attend a summer camp in Algonquin Park. The director talks about sharing the kids' story,
Keep ReadingNew Homeland (USA, 93 min.) Dir. Barbara Kopple Check the Twitter feed for stories about migration and the USA, and the results are dire. Sensationalized and politicized accounts of a caravan rising up
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Heartbound directors Sine Plambech and Janus Metz discuss their powerful film that examines the borders of love in the age of globalization.
Keep ReadingHeartbound (Hjertelandet) (Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden, 90 min.) Dir. Janus Metz, Sine Plambech Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) What are the borders of love? Heartbound offers a different kind of love story as it observes the marriages in the sparsely
Keep Reading’m Leaving Now / Ya Me Voy (USA/Mexico, 74 minutes) Dir: Lindsey Cordero, Armando Croda Programme: Made in Mexico. (World Premiere) A camera attached to a cart full of recyclables is
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Keep ReadingDirector Michèle Hozer discusses her new documentary Sponsorland about the experiences of Syrian refugees and their sponsors in Prince Edward County.
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