Lesson for Zaffirah
http://youtu.be/tAinwJ05XCw Carolina Rivas & Daoud Sarhandi / Mexico / 2011 / 75 min, Canadian Premiere In Spanish with English subtitles Winner: Best Film Prize – Mexico Today, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), 20
Aung San Suu Kyi- Lady of No Fear
http://youtu.be/MhIhYSTuh2U Anne Gyrithe Bonne / Denmark / 2010 / 60 mins, North American Premiere In English Portrait of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi since 1988 leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma. The documentary Lady of No Fear focuses on her perso
Burmese Dreaming
Timothy Syrota / Australia / 2010 / 50 mins, Canadian Premiere In English Official Selection: United Nations We the People’s International Film Festival, 2011 – London, UK; Buffalo-Niagara International Film Festival, 2011 A creative non-fiction documentary by Australian filmmaker
Kofta
Michiel van Jaarsveld / Netherlands / 2010 / 90 min, North American Premiere With Ebru Akyildiz, Gürkan Küçüksentürk and Vefa Ocal In Dutch with English Subtitles Business is going very badly for Erdal Koksal, chef and owner of The Sultan, a traditional Turkish eatery. While trying to keep his
My Grandpa the Bank Robber (Mijn Opa de Bankrover)
Ineke Houtman / Netherlands / 2011 / 90 min, North American Premiere With Kees Boot, Loes Haverkort and Katja Herbers In Dutch with English Subtitles In order to find her father in Surinam Grace is forced to take some desperate measures. Grace is the only black child of an all-white family, desperat
Flowers of Evil (Fleurs de mal)
http://youtu.be/fQH6xWyxSSY David Dusa / France / 2010 / 99 min, Canadian Premiere With Rachid Youcef, Alice Belaidi In French and Farsi with English Subtitles Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Pa
Amin
Shahin Parhami / Canada, Iran, South Korea, Ukraine / 2010 / 120 mins, Toronto Premiere With Amin Aghaie In Farsi, Turkish, “Qashqai” and Russian Winner: Asian Vision Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival; Special Distinction, Dubai International Film Festival; Official Select
On the Run with Abdul
David Lale, James Newton / UK, France / 2010 / 23 mins, Canadian Premiere In English, French, Pashtu with English Subtitles Winner, Press Award, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2010; Main A
My Name is Mohammed
Ahmed Al-Daradj, Nadia Eliewat, Hayder Helo / Iraq, UK, Jordan / 2010 / 11 min, Canadian Premiere In Arabic with English Subtitles Nine year old Iraqi refugee Mohamed dreams of being a regular kid and going to school. Instead he is a reluctant shoe sh
Checkpoint
http://youtu.be/jo5FQv_SHW4 Ruben Amar, France, 2011, 19’, Canadian Premiere In Arabic and Hebrew with English Subtitles Suleiman, an eleven year old Palestinian boy, lives in a small village in the Gaza strip. Every month, he goes with his father to the ruins of a destroyed village. Though he doe
David
Joel Fendelman, U.S.A., 2011, 80 min, Toronto Premiere With Maz Jobrani, Mautasem Mishal, Binyomin Shtaynberger In English/Arabic/Hebrew with English Subtitles Winner: Audience Award, Brooklyn Film Festival 2011; Ecumenical Prize, Montreal Film Festival 2011 As the son of the Imam of the loca
If You Die, I’ll Kill You
Hiner Saleemi , France , 2010, 90 min, North American Premiere With Golshifteh Farahani, Jonathan Zaccai, Jane Birkin, Mylene Demangoet In French and Kurdish with English Subtitles Philippe, who is just out of prison, encounters Avdal, a Kurd who is looking for an Iraqi criminal. A friendship forms