:DOCUMENTARY:
100 Years of Faith (CANADA) / 53min
Director: Anthony Sherwood
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A documentary film about one of the oldest Black churches in Canada. The Union United Church first opened its doors in 1907 and has played an active role in the history of the City of Montreal for over 100 years. The church was founded by immigrants from the United States and the Caribbean – including Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua and the Bahamas.
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Sanpanchando (Columbia) / 48 min
Director: Daniel Mosquera
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Through Music, dancing and first hand accounts, this documentary vividly encapsulates aspects of the co-racial, religious and political foundations that hold the festival together. It examines both its material and symbolic expressions. Musical montage, local commentary and interviews weave a narrative of survival, told from the perspective of robust afro-cultural identity. Located in Quibdo, Choco. This community reveals a history of marginalization and resilience that contest its own segregation and exploitation. Sanpanchando offers a different vision of what it means to be and feel Colombian.
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Segregation of the Greatest Nation (USA) / 81 min
Director: Woodie King Jr
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In this “concept” essay documentary, 16 participants between the ages of 70 and 90 are interviewed about World War II and how that war changed their lives. Stock and archival footage to recreate the temper of the time is used. Poignant recollections and remarkable archival footage illuminate the way these men, women and their families were affected by World War II.
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Salud (USA) / 93 minutes
Director: Connie Field
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Salud is a timely film about the competing values that mark the battle for global health. The film’s cameras travel to The Gambia, rural South Africa, Venezuela, coastal villages of Honduras and river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor community has ever seen and in some nations they staff entries health systems. We accompany some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals now staffing public health systems in over 60 countries. Their stories, and those of young medical students – now numbering 30,000 – from the Americas, Africa and Asia studying in Cuba, challenge us to rethink the potential of international health cooperation.
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The Journey (Barbados) /28min
Director: Aja
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The year long journey takes Aja to Brazil, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Jamaica and Isreal/Palestine. It was captures in a six-part television series entitled “Don’t Let Them Die.” These 28 min excepts of the television series will give you the opportunity to see Aja walking thought some of the most poverty-stricken and dangerous areas of Rio de Janerio, Johannesburg, Freetown, Port au-Prince, Kingston, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
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Unforgiven: Reggae Street Wars (Canada) / 60min
Director: Alexander Burke
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This film takes a look at the most controversial side of the reggae music industry. Find out why reggae music wars have been around since Prince Busta and Derrick Morgan. Bounty Killa Mavado Aidonia Bizzy Signal Vybz Karetl Ninja Man Twins of Twins Voice Mail Munga Honorable and D'Angel attempt to explain the increase in competition along with the shrinking market share. These issues are what fuel reggae music wars. The artists remind us they too are employees and just like employees they too must fight to keep their jobs.
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:FEATURES:
Painted Smiles (USA)/ 95 min
Director: Scott A. Rainey
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Twice-married Michelle is learning life lessons and putting her unhappy romantic past behind her, proving the third time is the charm in her newest marriage. Unfortunately, things are never ever what they seem to be, and truths can be hidden even from close friends and family.
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The Harvest (Canada) /73 min
Director: Nicolas Jolliet
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The Harvest tells the story of a Rasta man trying to leave his island to see the world and become a musician. For island people it is very difficult to obtain a visa, let alone make enough money for flights and expenses. Jahweve decides to grow weed in the mountains, to obtain the means to follow his dreams of traveling and becoming a touring musician. But his mission is not an easy one, since the army helicopters are flying around the island frequently arresting farmers, and burning their marijuana fields.
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This Beautiful City (Canada) / 87 min
Director: Ed Gass- Donnelly
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Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two free-base cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party of their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until a wet thud and sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intercept throughout, weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.
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Witnessing Headlines (USA) / 78 min
Director: Dana Gedrick, Barry Shaw
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A look at what happens when you turn the cameras around on the media during one of the most publicized trials of the decade.
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Hit For Six! (Barbados) / 99 min
Director: Alison Saunders-Franklyn
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Hit For Six” is a captivating fictional story of a playboy West Indies cricketer who fights demons of his past, including a match fixing charge, and learns about love while struggling for his last chance to play in a major global tournament and earn the respect of his estranged father, a former great West Indies player.
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:SHORT FILMS:
Adolfo (France) / 43:30 min
Director: Sofi DELAAGE
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This film depicts the last days before the departure from Cuba, by sea, of Adolfo who became a Taxi driver after the fall of the socialist block. Discouraged by the difficulties of the day to day life and determined to reach the American coast where part of his family has already immigrated, Adolfo is haunted by all the inner conflicts of today’s Cuban. While he secretly prepares his escape at night, Adolfo keeps on driving around town during the day with Clients on board.
The different events and meeting that chance will put on his path, during those last three days, will make him give up his departure. Adolfo becomes aware more and more of his deep roots and his inner truth: the necessity to remain on his land with his friends, his world.
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Locked Doors Broken Windows (USA) / 30 min
Director: B. Randy Offor
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A modern day version of Sophodes play Oedipus Rex. The story of an orphan who does not know his parents. He who accidently kills his father and falls in love with his mother.
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The Faces of Funk (USA) / 35min
Director: Nate C. Williams
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The FACES OF FUNK is the story of the great seventies funk band ICEMOSIS. Karen Davis the now famed publicist was a reporter for Soul to Soul magazine in the 70’s. She was the last person to interview the band while they were out on tour in 1979 with Cameo and Con funk shun. Karen was allowed backstage in Atlanta before and after the show and got some great stuff from most of the members. Answers to questions that many of the fans wanted to know. Although she has been offered much for the footage, she has held on to this footage since that time.
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Kolaborator (Australia, Romania) / 14:31 min
Director: Chris Bessounain
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During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia many soldiers were ordered to kill fellow citizens including friends and relatives in the name of patriotism. The Kolaborator follows Goran, 24, a promising young soccer player who is forced to become a soldier. Goran goes from being a talented athlete to an executioner virtually overnight.
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Slightly Imperfect (USA) / 6:08 min
Director: Nancy Smith
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An emotional roller coaster on the morning after a tiff with her boyfriend about her desire to move in her toothbrush.
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Last Day of the World (Sweden) / 30min
Director: Mattias Paar
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Five years ago, man discovered that a huge meteor destroyed the planet Earth, the last day of the world. During these five years of waiting to die, all life slowly turned into chaos. Armies began to establish, to stealing all remaining food, supplies and drugs, destroying all in its path. John and Cassie get drawn into one of the armies to save their own lives, but on the last day of the world, they try to leave the army behind to die together.
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Droomtijd (Dreamtime) / 19:50min
Director: Tom Van Avermaet
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A man lives contentedly in a dark, industrial world where clocks are treated as gods and give the beat. The appears punctually at his work every day, until a visit from the mysteries sandman changes everything…
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Holding On (Barbados)/ 40min
Director: Laura Lin Hutchinson
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Three sisters whose personalities and lifestyles are as diverse as the islands of the Caribbean. Old fashioned Mya is a mother hen, Sam is all about money and Emma is a rising star. Challenged with changing circumstances they come together to make a decision regarding their beach front home for which resort developers have made them an offer they can’t refuse…or can they?
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