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Karim Aïnouz
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Madame Satã
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Brazil, 2002, 105 min)
Karim Aïnouz's vivid 30s-set period piece recreates a key time in the life of legendary gay Brazilian streetfighter and cabaret singer Joao Francisco dos Santos. A fiercely proud, imposing figure More»
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Jennifer Abbott
(2003 Festival) |
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The Corporation
[Feature] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2003, 165 min)
Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Naomi Klein, this engaging documentary by Mark Achbar (Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, VIFF 92) and Jennifer Abbott (A Cow at My Table, VIFF 98) successfully reveals the pervasive daily presence of the corporation as today's dominant power. A must see. More»
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Tally Abecassis
(2005 Festival) |
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Lifelike
[Mid-Length] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 52 min)
Director Tally Abecassis introduces us to the sometimes wacky world of taxidermy by following a group of taxidermists in preparation for a national championship in Orillia More»
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Dominique Abel
(2003 Festival) |
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Seville South Side
[Feature] - Latin Music
(France, Spain, 2003, 105 min)
On a run-down housing estate on the south side of Seville in southern Spain--home since the 90s to the city's Gitano (Spanish Gypsy) community--music and dance flourish. A beautiful film packed with toe-tapping and soaring Gypsy music. Latcho Drom fans will love this! More»
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Dahna Abourahme
(2004 Festival) |
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Until When...
[Feature] - Changing the World
(Palestine, USA, 2004, 76 min)
With attention to the experiences of all generations, but particularly that of today's youth, Dahna Abourahme has directed a documentary which insightfully and poetically articulates the frustrations, fears and hopes of Palestinian refugees living in Dhiesheh, a camp near Bethlehem. More»
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Lenny Abrahamson
(2007 Festival) |
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Garage
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Ireland, 2007, 85 min)
Josie, a lonely, simple man running a crumbling garage in a quiet corner of Ireland, leads an unremarkable but basically contented life--until his desire for friendship leads to events that change things forever... Lenny Abrahamson's sophomore feature won the CICAE Art and Essai Cinema Prize at Cannes. More»
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Tawfik Abu Wael
(2004 Festival) |
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Thirst
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Israel, Palestine, 2004, 110 min)
Financed with Israeli money but thoroughly Palestinian in sensibility, Tawfiq Abu Wael’s debut feature concerns an authoritarian father who drags his shamed family to an isolated spot to eke out an existence. The tragedy that ensues exhibits "a delicate equilibrium between drama, stunning visuals and metaphoric undertones..."--Variety More»
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Hany Abu-Assad
(2003 Festival) |
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Ford Transit
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Netherlands, Palestine, 2002, 81 min)
Largely taking place in the Ford van of Rajai as he taxis a heterogeneous mix of people between Ramallah and Jerusalem while sharing his views on the war, occupation and resistance, this is a film which acclaimed director Hany Abu-Assad sees as "a metaphor for the theater of the Palestinians... When occupation becomes daily life, reality becomes like fiction." More»
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Rana's Wedding
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Palestine, Netherlands, 2002, 90 min)
A young woman forced to get married in a hurry serves as Hany Abu-Assad's dramatic pretext for his inquiry into life in contemporary East Jerusalem. Although made from a Palestinian point of view, the film is remarkably balanced, foregrounding a message of hope over guns and suspicion. More»
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Hany Abu-Assad
(2005 Festival) |
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Paradise Now
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(France, Germany, Netherlands, Palestine, 2005, 90 min)
Shot in Nablus, Hany Abu-Assad's timely and shocking film looks at two Palestinian childhood friends who are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Sworn to secrecy, the friends begin their journey across the border, but the operation doesn't go as planned... Best Director, Berlin Film Festival. More»
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Hany Abu-Assad
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Ford Transit
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Netherlands, Palestine, 2002, 81 min)
Largely taking place in the Ford van of Rajai as he taxis a heterogeneous mix of people between Ramallah and Jerusalem while sharing his views on the war, occupation and resistance, this is a film which acclaimed director Hany Abu-Assad sees as "a metaphor for the theater of the Palestinians... When occupation becomes daily life, reality becomes like fiction." More»
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Rana's Wedding
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Palestine, Netherlands, 2002, 90 min)
A young woman forced to get married in a hurry serves as Hany Abu-Assad's dramatic pretext for his inquiry into life in contemporary East Jerusalem. Although made from a Palestinian point of view, the film is remarkably balanced, foregrounding a message of hope over guns and suspicion. More»
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Jesse Acevedo
(2005 Festival) |
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Everything Blue:The Colour of Music
[Feature] - Brazilian Music
(Brazil, 2004, 76 min)
A sweeping exploration of Brazilian music--from director Jesse Acevedo--that uncovers the long history of struggle, sorrow and political dissent that underlies the soul of Brazilian samba. We follow the lives of four black women artists and one famous transvestite as they navigate the violent favelas. Beautiful to watch and wonderful to listen to. More»
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Mark Achbar
(2003 Festival) |
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The Corporation
[Feature] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2003, 165 min)
Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Naomi Klein, this engaging documentary by Mark Achbar (Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, VIFF 92) and Jennifer Abbott (A Cow at My Table, VIFF 98) successfully reveals the pervasive daily presence of the corporation as today's dominant power. A must see. More»
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Maren Ade
(2004 Festival) |
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The Forest for the Trees
[Feature] - German Indies
(Germany, 2003, 81 min)
With high hopes, mousy Melanie leaves the countryside to start her teaching career, but is confronted by rebellious students and the loneliness of the big city. She soon befriends her neighbour, but Melanie has little sense of where to draw the line. Maren Ade's impressive digital debut begins as a well-observed story about an over-enthusiastic young woman, but ends up grippingly raw, truthful and universal. More»
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Jörg Adolph
(2004 Festival) |
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Channel-Swimmers
[Feature] - German Indies
(Germany, 2004, 92 min)
Of the 6,000 attempts to swim across the English Channel, only 500 have succeeded. Starting out as a record of German Christoph Wandratsch's attempt to break the record for the swiftest crossing, Jörg Adolph's film becomes a gripping documentary on the idea, history and dangers of swimming that 33-kilometre stretch of water. More»
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Behrooz Afkhami
(2004 Festival) |
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The River's End
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Iran, 2004, 90 min)
A young man, haunted by the memory of his late father, abandons his life in Isfahan and travels to Tehran, seeking a haven. Behrooz Afkhami has fashioned a dreamlike narrative that chronicles his young narrator's downward descent with sympathy and visual flair. More»
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Anne Aghion
(2004 Festival) |
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Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda?
[Mid-Length] - Changing the World
(France, 2002, 55 min)
In this important film about reconciliation, Anne Aghion investigates the Gacaca tribunals which hear the cases of Rwandans in prison for their roles in the 1994 genocide. Screens with: In Rwanda We Say... The Family that Does Not Speak Dies. More»
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In Rwanda We Say... The Family that Does Not Speak Dies
[Mid-Length] - Changing the World
(France, 2004, 54 min)
As prisoners are released under the Gacaca laws, Annie Aghion returns to the hillsides of Ntongwe, Rwanda, to witness the reuniting of prisoners and survivors. Screens with: Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? More»
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Ashim Ahluwalia
(2006 Festival) |
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John & Jane
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(India, 2005, 83 min)
Six call centre workers in Mumbai--who spend their days in a virtual America dealing with calls from California to Maine before returning to their difficult lives--are chronicled in Ashim Ahluwalia's documentary that treads a fine line between fact and fiction.. More»
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Yasmin Ahmad
(2007 Festival) |
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Gubra
[Feature] - Dragons and Tigers
(Malaysia, 2006, 103 min)
Yasmin Ahmad’s comedy-dramas are popular in Malaysia, but crowd-pleasing laughter and tears don’t come at the expense of depth. She concocts a rich mix of high comedy, smooth melodrama and utopian longing that resonates with the textures of Malaysia’s richly multicultural experiment. More»
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Abbas Ahmadi
(2006 Festival) |
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13 and a Half
[Mid-Length] - Canadian Images
(Canada, Iran, 2005, 60 min)
Unprecedented, daring and set in Tehran, co-directors Abbas Ahmadi and Nader Davoodi's film shines a hopeful light on Iranian women and the conflict between traditionalism and modernism heightened by the Islamic Revolution. They document the all-female stage play 13--a hyperbolic enactment of a King’s harem--alongside breathtakingly honest interviews with the cast and director Banafsheh Tavanaee. More»
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