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Your search by 'Documentary' has identified 32 films.
45365
United States, 2009, 93 min.
Shot over the course of nine months, 45365 (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) captures small town American life in striking cinema-verité style, peeling away...
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65_RedRoses
Canada, 2009, 70 min.
In Attendance: Nimisha Mukerji
65_REDROSES takes an unflinching look into the lives of Eva Markvoort and her two online friends who are all battling Cystic Fibrosis, a...
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All Tomorrow's Parties
United Kingdom, United States, 2009, 82 min.
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES is a DIY concert film featuring performances from an eclectic mix of artists including: Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Patti Smith,...
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Art & Copy
United States, 2009, 86 min.
Directed by Doug Pray (HYPE!, SCRATCH), ART & COPY captures the creative energy and passion behind the iconic advertising campaigns that have had a profound...
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Best Worst Movie
United States, 2009, 91 min.
Twenty years after TROLL 2 was dubbed the worst movie ever made by IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, the feature length documentary BEST WORST MOVIE explores...
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Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
Canada, 2008, 99 min.
In the early hours of March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker ran aground in Alaska. It discharged millions of gallons of crude oil...
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Broke.
Canada, 2009, 77 min.
In Attendance: Rosie Dransfeld
Rosie Dransfeld’s documentary film BROKE gives us a glimpse into the often surprising hardships and desperation of society’s marginalized. Revolving around the life...
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land)
Denmark, 2008, 84 min.
BURMA VJ recounts the efforts of a small group of independent video journalists who risked torture and life in jail to ensure the truth behind...
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Carcasses
Canada, 2009, 72 min.
The newest feature by Montreal filmmaker and critic Denis Côté, CARCASSES is a half-documentary exploring the life of Jean-Paul Colmor, a 74-year-old collector who has...
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CBQM
Canada, 2009, 67 min.
To its far-flung listeners across the Mackenzie Delta, CBQM is more than a simple radio station. It’s a dependable pal, a beacon in the storm...
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Cooking History
Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2008, 88 min.
Military cooks, while never mentioned in history books, have shaped the course of history. COOKING HISTORY presents portraits of various army military cooks from all...
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Cropsey
United States, 2009, 84 min.
Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of Cropsey. Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who...
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Defamation
Austria, 2009, 93 min.
In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint, 5 Days, Flipping Out) travels the world searching for modern manifestations of anti-Semitism....
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Earth Days
United States, 2009, 100 min.
EARTH DAYS recalls a time when everyone in America was not “going green”, a time before eco-activism was all the rage. Documentarian Robert Stone looks...
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H2Oil
Canada, 2009, 75 min.
In Attendance: Shannon Walsh & Sarah Spring
In Canada’s richest province, the war for water has begun.It goes without saying that water – its depletion, exploitation,...
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Houston, We Have A Problem
United States, 2008, 85 min.
In Attendance: Nicole Torre and Steve Munson
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM is a feature documentary about America's ferocious appetite for oil from an insider's perspective...
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Invisible City
Canada, 2009, 75 min.
"In this community, manhood comes early. ... Being weak is not an option." - Ainsworth Morgan, Nelson Mandela Park Public SchoolMikey and Kendell's friends boast...
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It Might Get Loud
United States, 2008, 97 min.
Starring Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2) and Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs, Dead Weather), It Might Get Loud is the confession of love...
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Mirror, The (Lo Specchio)
In Attendance: David Christensen
In the far northwest corner of Italy, in a quiet valley dominated by steep hills, is the tiny hamlet of Viganella. It’s...
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Necrobusiness
Sweden, 2008, 95 min.
In Lódz, Poland, prominent funeral director Witold Skrzydlewski and local pathologist Jacek Tomalski concoct a scheme to corner the market on funerals and burials by...
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NPP: Gros Morne
Canada, 2009, 54 min.
In Attendance: Ryan J Noth (Director)
In this exclusive Calgary International Film Festival engagement, the film and music worlds will lovingly collide. Some of the...
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Old Partner (Wonangsori)
Korea, Republic of, 2008, 78 min.
OLD PARTNER is a touching tale of companionship between an old ox and an even older master, Choi. Choi is 80-years-old and nearly deaf, but...
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One Nine Nine Four
Australia, United States, 2009, 90 min.
In Attendance: Jai Al-Attas (Director)
Twenty-four year old Australian filmmaker Jai Al-Attas documents the birth, growth and explosion of punk rock in the ‘90s in his...
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Paris 1919 (Paris 1919: Un traité pour la paix)
In Attendance: Paul Cowan (Director)
Two months after the end of the Great War, kings, queens, presidents, and diplomats descended on Paris to craft a peace...
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Philosopher Kings, The
United States, 2009, 70 min.
THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS is a documentary film about the kind of wisdom that gets you through the day – the wisdom that comes from surviving...
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Prom Night in Mississippi
Canada, 2008, 90 min.
In 1997, Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman made an offer to the high school in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi: he would foot the bill...
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Rock Prophecies - VW Rock 'n Roll Red Carpet Party
United States, 2009, 80 min.
IN ATTENDANCE: Robert Knight, John Chester
Imagine seeing Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones long before they became famous. Legendary Rock photographer Robert Knight did just...
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Tibet in Song
United States, 2009, 86 min.
Sometimes all it takes is a song. Before the Chinese occupation, Tibet was a sovereign nation with its own music, culture, laws, and customs. Serving...
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Tulku
Canada, 2009, 75 min.
TULKU is a documentary film about young people caught between the modern culture they were born into and the ancient Tibetan Buddhist culture from which...
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Unmistaken Child (Hagilgul)
Israel, 2008, 102 min.
The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows a 4-year search for the...
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Way We Get By, The
United States, 2009, 84 min.
The award-winning THE WAY WE GET BY is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story...
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Who Killed Nancy
United Kingdom, 2009, 100 min.
October 12th, 1978, New York Police discover the lifeless body of 20-year-old Nancy Spungen – ex-prostitute, sometime stripper, heroin addict and infamous girlfriend of Sex...
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