This CANADIAN PREMIERE SCREENING is co-presented by RIDM, Montreal's International Documentary Film Festival and our friends at Barriere Lake Solidarity, who are starting up their own radio station, similar to the one featured in the film.
Events
11 / 15
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11 / 16
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11 / 17
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11 / 18
Start: 15:45
End: 17:30
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. Castigated as a pariah in his community, Farmer John bravely transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson. He succeeds in creating a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America. Start: 17:00
End: 18:35
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. Start: 19:00
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Black and White. RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, 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. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Red Without Blue. BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometimes called hermaphrodites). This beautiful and stylish film artfully explores the potent creative collaboration between Mani Bruce Mitchell and the acclaimed photographer Rebecca Swan. Portrayed through this lens, Mitchell’s story introduces viewers to notions of fluid gender identity, challenging the rigid categories of “male” and “female.” Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
“My ancestors have farmed this land generation after generation, and I just about ended the whole thing. What do you do when nothing is left? And in a rural community where you aren’t welcome because you’re kind of different.” —Farmer John Peterson Start: 20:00
End: 21:30
Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, an entertaining and startling new film on 21st century suburbanites. Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the burbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The Late Suburban Age. | ||
11 / 19
Start: 13:30
End: 14:15
In Collaboration with London Indymedia. The belief that good triumphs over evil resonates deeply in our psyche through religious, cultural, and political discourses. It is also a common theme in the entertainment media where the struggle between good and evil is frequently resolved through violence. The potential negative impact of media violence on children has long been a public concern. It is even more troubling when U.S. military violence, both in the news and in the entertainment, is often glorified as heroic and patriotic. | ||
11 / 20
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11 / 21
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
El Contrato follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four living in Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make an annual migration to southern Ontario. For eight months of the year the town's population absorbs 4000 migrant labourers who pick tomatoes for conditions and wages no local will accept. Under a well-meaning government program that allows growers to monitor themselves, the opportunity to exploit workers is as ripe as the fruit they pick. Grievances are deflected by a long line of others "back home" who are willing to take their place. Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
Some time in the 1960s, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, this new gigantic fish multiplied incredibly fast, and its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo: Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the African continent. Start: 19:30
End: 22:30
This WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING is co-sponsored by RIDM, Montreal's International Documentary Film Festival. ROADSWORTH is preceded by the experimental documentary short THE SPOT (Alexandre Philippe / France / 2008 / 17 min), a MONTREAL PREMIERE SCREENING. THE SPOT looks at that infamous historical location where JFK met his maker, and where tourists and looky-loos continue to flock to. | ||
11 / 22
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11 / 23
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11 / 24
Start: 20:00
End: 22:00
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. | ||
11 / 25
Start: 15:45
End: 18:00
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too the suburban way of life has become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In Collaboration with London Indymedia. The Big Sell Out is a political film. In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatization is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatization politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! Start: 19:30
End: 22:30
The filmmaker may not feel he has made a political film, but we'll let the audience decide... | ||
11 / 26
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11 / 27
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11 / 28
Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
Celebrate Buy Nothing Day 2008 with an entertaining look at how our surplus lifestyle comes at the expense of others. On this "biggest shopping day of the year," we will say "no" to the corporate-greed economy and "yes" to a free-will exchange of goods. Bring your loved & unwanted clothes, tools, nick nacks and toys for a Free Swap after the film in the firehouse basement. Coffee donated by Coffee Obsession. Donations are appreciated but not required! About the film: | ||
11 / 29
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11 / 30
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12 / 1
Start: 19:30
End: 22:30
MONTREAL PREMIERE SCREENING What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! | ||
12 / 2
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. Start: 20:00
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. | ||
12 / 3
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12 / 4
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12 / 5
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Screened to audiences at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, this fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from widely acclaimed Egyptian director Tahani Rached (SORAÏDA, WOMAN OF PALESTINE and FOUR WOMEN OF EGYPT) follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Rached won astonishing access to the girls’ world; this vigorous, cinematic film is built upon the deep trust of its subjects and the long experience of the filmmaker. Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
The coca leaf is indigenous to Bolivia and a sacred leaf revered and used by the majority of Bolivians. It is also the source ingredient for cocaine and the target of billions of dollars worth of militarized coca eradication, alternative development and narcotic interdiction efforts. Fifteen years since George Bush Sr. declared a war on drugs in his inaugural presidential address, cocaine is still a thriving business and the impact of American drug policy on the people of Bolivia has brought the country to the brink of a total social upheaval. | ||
12 / 6
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12 / 7
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12 / 8
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12 / 9
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12 / 10
Start: 19:00
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! | ||
12 / 11
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12 / 12
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
In 2003, the United Nations revealed that for the first time in history, more refugees were disrupted by environmental factors than from war or political persecution. As the number of natural disasters increases and governments spend more time debating their role and responsibility as global citizens than effecting change, Canadian filmmakers Helene Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval focus on the actual plight of individuals from the Maldives to Brazil who are being uprooted by the degradation of the environment they depend upon to live. | ||
12 / 13
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12 / 14
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12 / 15
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