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  • Ibyiza Birimbere The Best is Still to Come

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    Three young Rwandese invite you to visit Rwanda in 2014 - 20 years after the Genocide.

  • Ian Harvie Superhero

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    You may know Ian Harvie as Margaret Cho’s opening act, a cross-country headliner or a groundbreaking trans comedian unafraid to joke about subjects no other comedian has ever touched.

    In the spring 2014, Harvie (with the help of executive producer Cho) unveiled his first-ever live standup comedy...

  • I'm Gone: A Film About Amy

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    I’m gone is the story of a journey set to a dark country melody. Twenty hours on the road from Montréal to an island lost in foggy Nova Scotia, three drug addicts in remission, two filmmakers, ten million mosquitoes, twelve days to record an album and prove that it’s possible to stay alive and re...

  • I Will Marry the Whole Village (Ozenicu celo selo)

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    In this award winning docu-comedy, Peca, an accordion player, has decided to marry all the single men in his small village. In his own words, "I'm going to marry the whole village, even if I regret it." On this naive journey of matrimony and self-discovery, Peca sets out to bring happiness to his...

  • I Wasn't Always Dressed Like This

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    The veil is an object that tends to instigate profound and diverse feelings. Its practice and meaning have been greatly abused throughout history. Within the context of the West the question one might ask: “In a free country, why are women choosing to veil?”
    In a very intimate and meditative mode...

  • I Say Dust

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    Two Arab-American women in New York City fall in love, argue home and identity, engage in a chess battle, and express themselves through the power of the spoken word. 'I Say Dust' explores poetry in cinema.

  • I Am Skylar

    Movie

    I Am Skylar is the emotionally compelling story of an articulate 14-year-old girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become. Surrounded by a family and a community who show her unconditional love as she follows her personal path, Skylar faces the complexities of being...

  • Human Harvest

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    When reports first emerged from China in 2006 that state-run hospitals were killing prisoners of conscience to sell their organs, it seemed too horrible to believe. But as researchers around the world—including human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian member of parliament David Kilgour...

  • Hue: A Matter of Colour

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    Hue, by renowned director and cinematographer Vic Sarin, is a personal, heartfelt investigation into the history and often-tragic effects of colourism—the phenomenon whereby people within the same ethnic group discriminate against each other based on differences in skin tone. Sarin travels to cou...

  • Huayhuash

    Movie

    Three mountain bikers from Colorado attempt a multi-day circumnavigation of the Huayhuash range of the Peruvian Andes with nothing but their bikes, gear, cameras and friendship.

  • How to Save a Fish from Drowning

    Movie

    How to Save a Fish from Drowning is a quirky film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about another neighbour having had...

  • How Love Won

    Movie

    When social conservatives try to outlaw same-sex marriage in Minnesota forever, LGBT activists fight back in a way that not only changes history but their lives in the most unexpected way.

  • House for Sale

    Movie

    A man goes undercover to meet the wife of the man he is having an affair with.

  • Hope
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    Hope

    Movie

    Hope, from first time documentary filmmakers Stuart Reaugh and Thomas Buchan, follows artist Ken Paquette, his partner Winnie Peters and their five boys (ages four through fifteen) as they struggle to cope during a year of wrenching change.

    The family lives on the Schkam Native Reserve, across t...

  • Honest in Thought and Deed

    Movie

    A retired police officer reflects on the racism he witnessed in law enforcement.

  • Homo Politicus

    Movie

    The demons of extreme nationalism regularly recur in Poland. Likewise, a growing level of internal social and political polarization. For the last few years the celebrations of the Independence Day ended up in violent demonstrations, the devastation of Warsaw and brutal clashes between the extrem...

  • Holy Angels

    Movie

    In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Canada’s colonialist history through impressionistic images and...

  • Holky: The Steven Holcomb Story

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    Steven Holcomb, known to his team and friends as "Holky", is a bobsled driver who emerges as an unlikely best hope to end Team USA's 62-year Olympic gold medal drought. But Steven has a dangerous secret: He is going blind - and he's the bobsled driver. In the last interview conducted before he pa...

  • Holden

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    Holden is a young photographer with a problem of short-term memory, who travels to Paris for a photo session with a successful French actor. Holden falls in love from the very beginning. Both will spend the night together, knowing that it will probably be the only night they'll spend together.

  • Hold On (Kenbe La)

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    Haiti is often portrayed as a country full of poor people waiting for help. Filmed before and after the January 12th, 2010 earthquake, "Kenbe La (Hold On)" chronicles the work of musicians and teachers of the Holy Trinity Music School in Port-au-Prince. American cellist Janet Anthony has voluntee...

  • Hjem - Living at the End of the World

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    What does the term "home" mean for people who find themselves confronted daily with the simultaneous harshness and beauty of life in the Arctic Circle? And what does "home" mean for us? In their documentary, the filmmakers Martina Chamrad and Christoph Kirchner seek answers in Hammerfest, Norway,...

  • Hitler's Drug

    Movie

    Hitler’s Drug is a powerful portrait of a young man leading a local gang in Cambodia.

  • Hi-Ho Mistahey!

    Movie

    Fourteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin launched a campaign to build a suitable school for the children of the Cree community of Attawapiskat in 2008. Two years later, tragedy struck when Shannen was killed in a car accident. Her campaign became a national movement, bringing people from all walks of...

  • Here is Germany

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    Here is Germany depicts Nazism as simply a continuation of the aggressive German tradition, and then merely a façade for the military-industrial complex. The film says that Poles, Italians, Belgians, and Americans were murdered by the Germans. The Nazi persecution of Jews is not explicitly mentio...