Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art, this documentary won the Audience Award at its premiere in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
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10 / 16
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10 / 17
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10 / 18
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10 / 19
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and ... all » scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Source: Start: 19:30
SCREENING POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE Iraq In Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in cinema verité style, the film powerfully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and concerns are at once personal and illustrative of larger issues in Iraq today. | ||
10 / 20
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10 / 21
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10 / 22
Start: 19:30
China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see – how the clothes we buy are actually made. | ||
10 / 23
Start: 16:30
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. | ||
10 / 24
Start: 19:00
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
Enemies of happiness, the winner of the international premiere award is a powerful, remarkable and inspiring film. From its stunning opening, emerges a gripping story of opposition and women's rights in today's Afghanistan as the country tries to reconstruct life after the Taliban. At its heart, it's a portrait of Malalai Joya on the campaign trail in the first democratic elections in Afghanistan in 30 years. | ||
10 / 25
Start: 16:00
End: 17:50
Les rives du plus grand lac tropical du monde, considéré comme le berceau de l’humanité, sont aujourd’hui le théâtre du pire cauchemar de la mondialisation. En Tanzanie, dans les années 60, la Perche du Nil, un prédateur vorace, fût introduite dans le lac Victoria à titre d’expérience scientifique. Depuis, pratiquement toutes les populations de poissons indigènes ont été décimées. De cette catastrophe écologique est née une industrie fructueuse, puisque la chair blanche de l’énorme poisson est exportée avec succès dans tout l’hémisphère nord. | ||
10 / 26
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS is a film about personal courage courage to change the world and the courage to stand in the forefront of this battle. Malalai Joya is a 28 year-old woman from Afghanistan. This film follows her parliamentary campaign to her election as a delegate in Wolesi Jirga, or National Assembly. It is the first democratic parliament election in Afghanistan in over 30 years. Surrounded by security, Malalai Joya spreads her political beliefs despite several death threats. There have been 4 attempts against her life. Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
Breaking the Spell is a 1999 anarchist documentary, directed by Tim Lewis, Tim Ream, and Sir Chuck A. Rock. Using amateur camera footage recorded by protesters at the scene of the 1999 WTO riots, it documents the riot from the perspective of the anarchists, their opinions of fellow protesters, local politicians, and includes footage which aired nationally on 60 Minutes. The film is currently distributed by CrimethInc. on the CrimethInc. Guerilla Film Series, Volume One DVD. website: | ||
10 / 27
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10 / 28
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10 / 29
Start: 19:30
This special screening is co-sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and Save Darfur Canada / Sauvons le Darfour Canada SYNOPSIS: | ||
10 / 30
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10 / 31
Start: 19:00
The highly acclaimed documentary chronicles the 1960s counterculture as it was born and bred at the University of California, Berkeley. What began as a campus Free Speech Movement blossomed into a generation's social revolution, women's liberation, and the Black Panther's struggle. Student activism began to take concepts of democracy and equality taught in their classes and apply them to real life by coordinating a transformation of the university power structure. The film unrolls in three sections: Confronting the University, Confronting America, and Confronting History, | ||
11 / 1
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11 / 2
Start: 19:00
End: 23:00
Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary that offers a "fly on the wall" perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today's radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to spend their days. The Free School, however, is unique in that it transcends obstacles that prevent similar schools from reaching a economically and racially diverse range of students and operates in the heart of an inner-city neighborhood. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, ide2ntity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RWB follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farley's struggle to redefine their family. The twins' early lives were quintessentially all-American: picture-perfect holidays, supportive parents who cheered them on every step of the way. Start: 19:30
Life and Debt is that rare breed of documentary which succeeds in both educating and informing its viewers on a complex topic while also entertaining them from start to finish. Thanks in part to the stunning natural beauty of Jamaica, Life and Debt is a cinematically beautiful masterpiece which explores the inherent contradictions and hypocrisies of neo-liberal ideas of development by examining the effects of IMF imposed structural adjustment policies on the idyllic island paradise of Jamaica. | ||
11 / 3
Start: 15:45
End: 16:00
The Meatrix (www.TheMeatrix.com), the most popular online advocacy film in history, won the award for Best Documentary Short at the Fourteenth Annual Environmental Media Awards (EMAs) held November 17th at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. The film, shown on a segment of Now with Bill Moyers, is an animated spoof of the popular Warner Brothers film "The Matrix." A trenchcoat-clad cow named Moopheus and an enlightened pig named Leo uncover the shocking truth about the way our meat is produced on large factory farms. | ||
11 / 4
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11 / 5
Start: 18:15
End: 21:00
En avant programme : L’UQAM au bord du gouffre *** The Boys of Baraka Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Start: 19:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Raised to be Heroes and co-sponsored by Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote: Start: 20:30
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with The Iron Wall. They will fight for their country, they will die for their country, but not in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And although they act on conscience, they pay a steep personal price. Featuring haunting accounts from the front lines, Raised to Be Heroes introduces the latest generation of Israeli soldiers to selectively object to military operations undertaken by their country. | ||
11 / 6
Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and personal portrait we join two young female elite soldiers trained for the ultimate mission. We share their childhood experiences, their dreams and their families’ loss. Left behind are the mothers. | ||
11 / 7
Start: 05:00
End: 08:00
People are often unaware of just how prevalent persuasive techniques are in the media, and that they are exposed to persuasion on a daily basis in many different forms. As an introduction to the genre of persuasion, we will examine the complex ways in which the marketing industry targets young adults with messages of consumption. This provocative documentary style is an intriguing and eye opening introduction to the subject of media propaganda. Start: 17:00
End: 18:00
Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. In the ongoing history of attempts by multi-national corporations to exploit Latin America's natural resources, TAMBOGRANDE is a rare success story, on demonstrating how ordinary people can defeat government and corporate collusion, and one that has already become an inspiration to other popular political movements across the continent. | ||
11 / 8
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11 / 9
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
On April 12th 2002 the world awoke to the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and had been replaced by a new interim government. What had in fact taken place was the first Latin American coup of the 21st century, and the world's first media coup... | ||
11 / 10
Start: 15:30
End: 16:45
Our food choices have a direct influence on the environment : production, transportation, pollution, etc. Wanting to demystify vegetarianism and veganism, three young adults present their reflections and observations, and | ||
11 / 11
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11 / 12
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. The company's plans for an open-pit gold mine would involve relocation of half of the town's residents, and contaminate the soil and ground water in this agricultural region famous for its fruit orchards. Start: 19:30
This special CANADIAN PREMIERE screening will be feature director John Pilger in attendance, for the first time in Canada. The event is a collaboration with the Human Rights Media Institute. SYNOPSIS: | ||
11 / 13
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11 / 14
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
The following documentaries will be screened: Green Green Water Water Thieves Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
When did feminism become a bad word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
After working his way through Venezuela, and the Amazon he arrived at the Third World Social Forum in Porte Alegre, Brasil. While waiting for Noam Chomsky to speak in front of 20, 000 participants, he was captivated by the speech of Leonilda Zurita, leader of the Bartolina Sisa Bolivian Federation of women peasant farmers. She was pleading for the world to take notice of the undeclared war that was being waged against her people. She was speaking at the World Social Forum after enduring 13 days of struggle in which 9 of her companions had been killed by Bolivian security forces. | ||
11 / 15
Start: 16:00
End: 17:30
Version française à venir. On September 12, 2002 twenty "at risk" 12-year-old boys from the tough streets of inner-city Baltimore left home to attend the 7th and 8th grade at Baraka, an experimental boarding school located in Kenya, East Africa. Here, faced with a strict academic and disciplinary program as well as the freedom to be normal teenage boys, these brave kids began the daunting journey towards putting their lives on a fresh path. | ||
