Documentary

ALL SEATS $7 ---- Jennifer Baichwal's cameras follow Edward Burtynsky as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling.

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An excellent film to engage young minds about their place in a changing world.

Revolution

WINNER! Audience Award - Victoria Film Festival 

WINNER! Most Popular Environmental Film - Vancouver Film Festival

People's Choice Award - Runner Up - TIFF

Audience Award - Best Documentary - Atlantic film Festival

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PG

Special Encore Tribute Screening in memoriam to the remarkable career of Canada's own, Gordon Lightfoot

"From the song he refuses to perform to his admiration for Drake, a songwriting legend reflects on his lyrics and longevity with candour and humour.

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14A

Co-presented by Strummerfest 2012

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

“Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten opens with startling black-and-white footage of Joe Strummer in the studio, singing. We don't hear any music, just his voice - that strangled lumpen rasp, all ferocity and barbed wire, not so much singing as spitting the lyrics.

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PG

“...Astounding, bombastic, groundbreaking, electrifying, and among the best films about any artist or musician I’ve ever seen.” —Corey Seymour, Vogue

MOONAGE DAYDREAM illuminates the life and genius of David Bowie, one of the most prolific and influential artists of our time.

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SAMSARA is a nonverbal, guided meditation that will transform viewers in countries around the world, as they are swept along a journey of the soul. Through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.

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NR

Runner Up at HOT DOCS 2022 for Audience Award

"In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal.

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Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a fascinating up-close look at renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei and his ongoing battle with the Chinese government. Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic.

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NR

"Gorgeous, humbling, looking out-, up- and inward, the documentary 'The Velvet Queen' is the rare nature film about not only beauty and beasts but also the very human urge to make sense of our place in it all." - Los Angeles Times

"Nature documentaries don’t get much better than Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier’s captivating journey to the Tibetan mountains, where we follow two men on a quest to find and photograph the elusive, reclusive snow leopard.

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The Venice Syndrome

“In the 1973 horror classic Don’t Look Now, Venice played itself as a soggy ghost town. Now Andreas Pichler’s sobering documentary The Venice Syndrome confirms the great city is haunted, alright – by its own impossibly glamorous legacy of gorgeous girls and gondoliers.

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