CANADA – 2014 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
Maverick. Auteur. Rebel. Innovator. Storyteller. Rambler. Gambler. Mad man. Family man. Director. Artist.
Robert Altmanʼs life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist.ALTMAN, Canadian director Ron Mannʼs new documentary, explores and celebrates the epic fifty-year redemptive journey of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of the medium.
CANADA – 1992 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - B&W - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with interviews, Twist chronicles the evolution of rock and roll dance.
From the time when moving hips marked you as a social degenerate, to a time when shaking your "thing" became the dance-form that rocked the world.
Featuring: Cholly Atkins, Hank Ballard, American Bandstand Dancers, Chubby Checker, Joey Dee, Gladys Horton, Dee Dee Sharp, Mama Lu Parks, The Parkettes
USA – 2013 – 62 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MERETE MUELLER & CHRISTOPHER SMITH
TINY is a documentary about home, and how we find it.
The film follows one couple’s attempt to build a Tiny House from scratch, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into houses smaller than the average parking space.
Through homes stripped down to their essentials, the film raises questions about sustainability, good design, and the changing American Dream.
UNITED KINGDOM / IRELAND – 2013 – 136 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SOPHIE FIENNES
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies.
USA – 2011 – 83 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JONATHAN LEE
Author of the legendary best-seller Growing Up Absurd, poet, pacifist, visionary, out queer (and devoted, married family man) in the 1940s and ‘50s, Paul Goodman was a moral compass for many in the growing counterculture in the 1960s.
USA – 2013 – 111 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY GREG 'FREDDY' CAMALIER
FEATURING ARETHA FRANKLIN, GREG ALLMAN, BONO, CLARENCE CARTER, JIMMY CLIFF, MICK JAGGER, ETTA JAMES, ALICIA KEYS, WILSON PICKETT, KEITH RICHARDS, PERCY SLEDGE, AND STEVE WINWOOD
Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative and defiant music in American history.
Under the spiritual influence of the "Singing River" as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals is some of the most important and resonant of all time. "I’ll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", "When a Man Loves a Woman", "I Never Loved A Man the Way That I Loved You", "Mustang Sally”, "Tell Mama", "Kodachrome", and "Freebird" are just a few of the tens of thousands of tracks created there.
CANADA – 47 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book’s publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory—a theatrical version of her novel.
USA – 1983 – 92 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
Starring Martin Sheen and The Ploughshares 8 in the trial and conviction of peace activists who performed the first act of disarmament since World War II. Not docudrama, but the illusion and reality of the Ploughshares 8 playing themselves and 50 actors playing the court. Music by Jackson Browne.
CANADA – 1999 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - B&W - STEREO - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
FEATURING: WOODY HARRELSON AND 60 MILLION POT SMOKERS
Years in the making...
Ron Mann's much-anticipated documentary presents a humorous and surprisingly balanced history of recreational MARIJUANA use in the late 20th century.
Those who remain pure will see the degradation you've been missing. Those who have succumbed to temptation will learn how a nice person like yourself became a dangerous criminal.
CANADA – 2008 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY ASTRA TAYLOR
FEATURING CORNEL WEST, PETER SINGER, SLAVOJ ZIZEK, JUDITH BUTLER, AVITAL RONELL, MICHAEL HARDT, ANTHONY APPIAH AND MARTHA NUSSBAUM.
EXAMINED LIFE takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us.
CANADA – 2016 – 82 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JAY CHEEL
If you could travel through time, where -- or when -- would you go? Would you revisit a fond memory from your childhood? Catch a glimpse of the dinosaurs? Or would you place a sure-win, against-the-odds bet on an underdog sports team? Everybody has fantasized about traveling through time, but is it really possible?
CANADA – 2016 – 122 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH/ JAPANESE GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY KEVIN MCMAHON
For 50 years scientists have been working to understand humanity’s daily influence on our planet’s life forces. SPACESHIP EARTH is a poetic feature film exploring what they have learned, and what that tells us about our responsibility for steering the only ship in the universe known to carry life.
UNITED KINGDOM - 2014 - 83 MINTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY JAMES HALL, EDWARD LOVELACE
The celebrated lyricist, Edwyn Collins could only say two phrases after waking up: 'Grace Maxwell' and 'The Possibilities Are Endless’. This is the incredible story of Collins, a songwriter who had the contents of his mind effectively deleted after experiencing a stroke. Placed inside Edwyn's mind, we embark on a remarkable journey from the brink of death back to language, music, life and love. With the help of his wife Grace, Edwyn submerges himself in a landscape of memories, as he tries to unlock the story of his past. More than a story of determination against all odds; it is an intimate and life-affirming tale of rediscovery.
ITALY / FRANCE - 2014 - 86 MIN - COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JONATHAN NOSSITER
Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their converted 11th century monastery and winery in Tuscany find a way to grow grains, fruits and wine that creates a link to their ancient Etruscan heritage; Corrado Dottori and Valerio Bochi, refugees from industrial Milan in their grandfather’s farmstead in the magical Marches labour for a rural expression of social justice; ex-librarian Elena Pantaleoni working her father’s vineyards in Emilia, strives to make her estate a utopian reality; and then Stefano Bellotti, the Pasolini of Italian agriculture, a radical farmer poet, disrupts everyone's rules from his avant garde farm in the Piedmont.
SWEDEN / NORWAY / FRANCE / GERMANY - 2014 - 100 MIN - IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ROY ANDERSSON
Like a modern times Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humour and tragedy that is in us, life’s grander as well as frailty of humanity.
2014/ USA/ 71 MINUTES
A FILM BY BY DOUG AITKEN
Station to Station is a living project exploring modern creativity.
Over 24 days, Station to Station traveled 4,000 miles by train from the Atlantic to the Pacific. An evolving group of artists, musicians, and performers took part in a series of unique happenings.
USA – 2015 – 89 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY NOAH HUTTON
Ancient oceans teeming with life, Norwegian settlers, Native Americans and multinational oil corporations find intimacy in deep time. Following up his 2009 feature Crude Independence (SXSW), Deep Time is director Noah Hutton's ethereal portrait of the landowners, state officials, and oil workers at the center of the most prolific oil boom on the planet for the past six years. With a new focus on the relationship of the indigenous peoples of North Dakota to their surging fossil wealth, Deep Time casts the ongoing boom in the context of paleo-cycles, climate change, and the dark ecology of the future.
GERMANY - GREECE - USA – 2015 – 93 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE
A FILM BY MICAH MAGEE
San Antonio, Texas. Seventeen-year-old Layla’s prayers are answered when she wins a college scholarship. From a low-income family, she has been working full time at a local telemarketing company and it hasn’t stopped her from being at the top of her high school class. Hanging out with her slacker boyfriend Danny and partying with her best friend Melanie round out Layla’s routine. But an unplanned pregnancy changes everything.
USA – 2014 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
STARRING HAYLEY LU RICHARDSON AND BOOBOO STEWART (X MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, TWILIGHT)
A FILM BY THOMAS S. HAMMOCK
The Last Survivors follows two teenagers battling to survive in a vast and barren valley, where it has not rained for ten years. As the rain dried up, the rules of society simply blew away, leaving them to single-handedly fight off a gang of bloodthirsty mercenaries, hell bent on seizing their most precious possession, a small water-bearing well.
