A chronicle of novelist David Leddick's journey to create a one-man musical stage show about his 20 year friendship with British raconteur and gay icon Quentin Crisp.
Digitally restored from the original 35mm negative with a newly remastered soundtrack! Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler’s inquiry into transcendence is a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Mettler…
Selected by TIFF as one of Canada's top 150 essential films and digitally restored in 2017 from the original 35mm negative, featuring a newly remastered soundtrack. PICTURE OF LIGHT is a poetic essay by filmmaker Peter Mettler documenting the search for a natural wonder: the mysterious Aurora…
En remontant la piste de Yu Bin, mon grand père, je découvre l'histoire des étudiants chinois dans l'Europe des années 20 puis celle de la Chine au cours du 20e siècle : entre espoirs et désespoirs. Je mélange mon imaginaire d'enfant…
Shocking undercover footage shows how animals exported from Europe as livestock are routinely exposed to inhumane conditions and abused. A ruling that EU animal welfare regulations should remain in place until the very end of the journey is not being imposed. We investigate the hidden side of Europe’s…
Pork. It’s the Jewish religion’s biggest taboo and one of Israel’s most controversial issues. Told in a humorous tone, Praise the Lard follows the quirky story of how a simple farm animal became a symbol of freedom for secular Israelis and an existential threat to the religious.
Avant-guerre, le jazz en Belgique est à son apogée et nos orchestres portent haut les couleurs de cette musique sur le continent européen. Cette fécondité artistique sans précédent voit naître le grand orchestre de jazz de la radio belge sous la…
aim Hatuel started piercing his kids at the age of 5. Today, they are Israeli fencing champions. It all started a day after his release from the army, when he saw an ad that changed his life. He was accepted into a fencing academy, a social sport initiative aimed at turning street kids into law abiding…
Summer 2011: 25-year-old Daphni Leef moves into a tent in the centre of Tel Aviv to protest the cost of housing. Within a few days she becomes a leader and a face for the largest protest movement in the history of Israel. The film depicts the challenges a person at the forefront of a struggle must face…
During the 1920s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. The director embarks on a journey to find out what’s left of the legendary café owned by her family. After discovering that family myths don’t always match historical facts, she’ll re-create her family’s…
A FASCINATING SPIRITUAL JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE BEHIND PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES Award winning documentary ( 105’ min). By Renée Scheltema Is it possible that some people can read your mind, “Telepathy“? or look into the future, “Clairvoyancy“? Why is it that some…
Something Unknown (Qualcosa di Sconosciuto) è un viaggio nel mondo dei fenomeni psichici interrogando la scienza e gli esperimenti che analizzano il complesso e affascinante rapporto mente-corpo, mente-materia, mente-mondo. Pensi a una persona e lei improvvisamente ti chiama. Una mattina ti…
