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  • Instructions on How to Make a Mannequin (Istruzioni Per Come Creare Un Manichino)

    Movie

    The oppressive and silently rigid atmosphere created by his parents pushes the son to suppress his homosexuality in order to please them and not suffer their rejection. Their personalities based on the appearance and the absence of the soul makes them live like "mannequins".

  • Infantile

    Movie

    A moment in synchronized swimming training makes twelve-year-old Mira intrigued about her middle-aged coach, Lucy. She remains in the building after class, fakes an injury and lies about her absent mother. Lucy is captivated by Mira’s imaginary world and invites Mira to her home. When Mira procee...

  • Impériale

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    At dawn, a cannon shot shatters the plain. Horses gallop across the beaten earth. Eva, 21 years old, wants to join the hunters of the Imperial Guard, a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men. In her quest for romanticism, she hides her identity so that she can set foot in...

  • I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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    I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Through an artful blend of Eisenstein’s drawings, inventive animation and the author’s own voice, the film weaves together personal and global history. Ei...

  • I Am Desire (Je Suis Désiré)

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    When a social worker comes home, a couple of men embellish their love story to get what they desire most in the world...
    This movie highlights the desire between two boys before gradually evolving.

  • How We Played the Revolution

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    The story of the film begins in 1984, the very beginning of perestroika in USSR, when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year’s party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band ANTIS spread from lips...

  • Hope Builders (Les Porteurs D'Espoir)

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    The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method (Action Research) aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges.

    During a very special school year, the students of Dominique Leduc’s gra...

  • Homecoming

    Movie

    On a taxi ride back home - his first in 20 years - actor Stephen Chang reminisces about the last conversation he had with his father, Jim. In his hands are a pair of bottle caps.

  • Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

    Movie

    A look at the Alaskan wilderness throughout the year, from the harsh winters to the rejuvenating spring, and the animals (including its human residents) who learn to adapt to the extremes of Alaskan weather.

  • Breadmakers

    Movie

    Bread making by a unique community with learning disabilities in Edinburgh.

  • Boy on the Bridge

    Movie

    In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates' careless summer days of riding his bike and tantalizing the local residents come to an abrupt end when he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, which exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.

  • Boxed

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    Boxed' attempts to discuss the idea of gender being something more than a binary and how people who don't conform to its norms are pushed to margins. The film focuses mainly on the Indian trans community through which it presents the community's take on the controversial Transgender Persons Bill ...

  • Bowes Academy

    Movie

    Bowes Academy, preparing the next generation of closeted gay conservatives.

  • Bobby

    Movie

    Bobby is a high-functioning autistic individual whose struggles are compounded by societal pressures. His parents struggle with coming to terms with their child's situation given the stigma attached to such matters in the Indian American community.

  • Blue Water

    Movie

    Giulia is a young amateur swimmer who, despite herself, must qualify for the
    Olympics. During the day she works in a cafe, at night she trains in the pool.
    Unfortunately she has little time. Her elder sister, Giuditta, swimming champion, lost
    her sight because of a car accident: Giulia was drivin...

  • Blue End

    Movie

    Are you brave enough to uncover the truth that everyone else is blind to? Only the most innocent ones are.

    The Blue End is the story of Little Alan, a brave little boy who wants to see the truth that everyone else ignores...

  • Bloody Boys

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    Bloody Boys follows three families through three parallel stories; Birgitta who decides to end her apartment lease to move in with yet another man, leaving her son, Simon, without a place to stay, Lina who asks for a divorce, which prompts her husband to start writing a book on the cruel ways of ...

  • Bleed Down (Etlinisigu'niet)

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    Jeff Barnaby’s Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) destroys any remaining shreds of the mythology of a fair and just Canada. His message is clear: we are still here. Attempts to “get rid of the Indian problem” have failed. The future is coming. A howl of pain rips across the land in Etlinisigu’niet as t...

  • Black Indians

    Movie

    A documentary film vibrant with passion, spirituality, wild music and beauty, at the crossroads of black American and Indian culture. A feel-good movie that makes you happy and immerses you in the world of the Black American tribes of the New Orleans neighborhoods, who mask and dress up as dreamy...

  • Black Cat in a Dark Room

    Movie

    After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.

  • Black & White

    Movie

    This experimental film dissects the Webster’s Collegiate
    Dictionary’s definitions of the words Black and White – to prove how historically, the meanings of the words have been ingrained with very specific connotations in relation to race and ethnicity.

  • Birth of a Family

    Movie

    Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard.

    Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Ro...

  • Billion Star Hotel

    Movie

    A little homeless boy, learns how things are going in real life, from his mentor, Papa Rudi.

  • Big News from Grand Rock

    Movie

    Small-town journalist Leonard Crane starts making up stories to save his job, but gets in trouble when one of his fabricated news pieces turns out to be true.