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Art Gallery of Ontario

THU.06.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Chris Marker
Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and how, as a resul… 
CastArielle Dombasle, Florence Delay, Riyoko Ike…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CTQFree18

FRI.07.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Thomas Demand, Shambvani Kau…
Bookended by Thomas Demand’s astonishing 100-second animation Pacific Sun and legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr’s no-holds-barred trip… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 1:00pm [2012]


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Miguel Gomes
The entrancing new film by Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) travels from a modern "Paradise Lost" to an exotic, magi… 
CastTeresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, …
LanguagePortuguese   CountryPortugal / Brazil
WL$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Nicolas Rey
autrement, la Molussie is an award-winning philosophical fable that draws on Günthers Anders’ amazingly prescient anti-fascist novel The Molussi… 
CastPeter Hoffmann
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
WL$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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José Luis García
Filmmaker José Luis García was fascinated by a young Korean student activist he met in 1989 in North Korea. The director begins his quest to ask… 
CastJosé Luis García, Lim Sukyung, Alejandro Kim
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
DOC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


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Luther Price, Jean-Paul Kell…
A diverse grouping of resuscitated materials and curios simultaneously partakes in today's pervasive archive fever and points to forever changin… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Barry Berk
John Wraith, a man in his mid-40s, regains consciousness in hospital. His wife and daughter were killed in a car accident because he fell asleep… 
CastLionel Newton, Deon Lotz, Jay Anstey
LanguageEnglish, Afrikaans   CountrySouth Africa
CWC$18A

SUN.09.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Shumona Goel, Tito & Tito, F…
Rendered in raw, intimiste strokes, these portraits participate in the paradoxical experience of being an artist with aspirations belonging to t… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:15pm [2012]


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Igor Drljaca
Miro, an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia, lives in Toronto. He has a hard time relating to others and he never stays in one place for too l… 
CastGoran Slavkovic, Jasmin Geljo, Edis Livnjak,…
LanguageSerbo-Croatian, Bosn…   CountryCanada / Bosnia & He…
DISC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 10:30am [2012]


Reviews
José Luis García
Filmmaker José Luis García was fascinated by a young Korean student activist he met in 1989 in North Korea. The director begins his quest to ask… 
CastJosé Luis García, Lim Sukyung, Alejandro Kim
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
DOC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 1:00pm [2012]


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Jason Buxton
An alienated teenager's online threat ignites fear in a small community, in this disturbing and perceptive look at how our media-fuelled, post-C… 
CastConnor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Craig Arnold, Mi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
DISC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Goran Paskaljevic
A discovery at the site of a former Nazi death camp leads a retired music professor to find out the secret of his true origins, in this moving d… 
CastMustafa Nadarevic, Predrag Ejdus, Nebojsa Gl…
LanguageSerbian   CountrySerbia/Croatia/Maced…
MAST$PG

MON.10.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Aldo Tambellini, Josh Solond…
Influential intermedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s 1960s revolutionary Black films (currently being restored and archived by the Harvard Film Archi… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18A

MON.10.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Abdoul Aziz Cissé
This captivating documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of… 
CastUnknown
LanguageFrench, Wolof   CountrySénégal
DOC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 9:30am [2012]


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Girish Kasaravalli
In Girish Kasaravalli's gently philosophical character piece, a humble, low-level civil servant cast as the lead in a popular TV serial chronicl… 
CastKrishna murthy Shikeripura, Jayanthi
LanguageKannada   CountryIndia
CWC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 1:00pm [2012]


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Annemarie Jacir
Jordan, 1967: displaced in a refugee camp after the occupation of their West Bank village, an 11-year old boy and his mother enact the emancipat… 
CastMahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
LanguageArabic   CountryPalestine/Jordan
CWC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Dror Sabo
Alienated from a society that no longer seems to have a place for them, two elderly ex-soldiers undertake a vigilante campaign against injustice… 
CastYossi Polak, Yehoram Gaon, Noa Barkai
LanguageHebrew   CountryIsrael
CWC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Lonesome Solo, Bamba Souleym…
In the busy streets of Abidjan, Tony, an out-of-school youth, scrapes together a living by hawking cigarettes but he soon turns to violence. Sho… 
CastAbdoul Karim Konaté, Adélaïde Ouattara, Mama…
LanguageFrench / Nouchi   CountryIvory Coast
DISC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Hala Alabdalla
Initially intended as a documentary foray into the art of caricature in Egypt and Syria, when the insurgencies break out in both countries, Syri… 
CastUnknown
LanguageArabic   CountrySyria/France
DOC$14A

WED.12.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Abdoul Aziz Cissé
This captivating documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of… 
CastUnknown
LanguageFrench, Wolof   CountrySénégal
DOC$PG

WED.12.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Yi-kwan Kang
A juvenile offender Ji-gu reunites with his young mom who he thought was dead. Ji-gu is a 15-year-old juvenile offender under probation who liv… 
CastJunghyun Lee, Youngju Seo
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CWC$14A

WED.12.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Sylvie Michel-Casey
In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do d… 
CastWolfram Koch, Bettina Stucky, Leo Bruckmann,…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
DISC$14A

THU.13.SEP at 9:30am [2012]


Reviews
Hala Alabdalla
Initially intended as a documentary foray into the art of caricature in Egypt and Syria, when the insurgencies break out in both countries, Syri… 
CastUnknown
LanguageArabic   CountrySyria/France
DOC$14A

THU.13.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Markus Imhoof
Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” In the past five year… 
CastUnknown
LanguageGerman, English   CountryGermany/Austria/Swit…
DOC$PG

THU.13.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Lonesome Solo, Bamba Souleym…
In the busy streets of Abidjan, Tony, an out-of-school youth, scrapes together a living by hawking cigarettes but he soon turns to violence. Sho… 
CastAbdoul Karim Konaté, Adélaïde Ouattara, Mama…
LanguageFrench / Nouchi   CountryIvory Coast
DISC$14A

FRI.14.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Yi-kwan Kang
A juvenile offender Ji-gu reunites with his young mom who he thought was dead. Ji-gu is a 15-year-old juvenile offender under probation who liv… 
CastJunghyun Lee, Youngju Seo
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CWC$14A

FRI.14.SEP at 10:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Abdoul Aziz Cissé
This captivating documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of… 
CastUnknown
LanguageFrench, Wolof   CountrySénégal
DOC$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 10:00am [2012]


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Aida Begic
Rahima, 23, and Nedim, 14, are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, includ… 
CastMarija Pikic, Ismir Gagula and Bojan Navojec…
LanguageBosnian   CountryBosnia-Herzegovina
CWC$14A

SAT.15.SEP at 1:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Markus Imhoof
Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” In the past five year… 
CastUnknown
LanguageGerman, English   CountryGermany/Austria/Swit…
DOC$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Andrzej Jakimowski
Ian, a new instructor at a well-known Lisbon clinic for the visually impaired, starts to teach spatial orientation to his international group of… 
CastEdward Hogg, Alexandra Maria Lara, David Atr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
CWC$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci's first feature in ten years is an intimate, moving and beautifully realized study of two troubled siblings g… 
CastTea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Sonia Be…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
MAST$14A

SAT.15.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


Reviews
Andrew Williamson
When a Marshallese family man living in Kona, Hawaii is diagnosed with stomach cancer, he keeps his illness a secret and resolves to pay off his… 
CastJonithen Jackson, Rojel Jonithen, Jeff Nashi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

SUN.16.SEP at 1:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Sylvie Michel-Casey
In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do d… 
CastWolfram Koch, Bettina Stucky, Leo Bruckmann,…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
DISC$14A

SUN.16.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


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Peaches
The first feature film by notorious Canadian musician and performance artist Peaches is a wild transsexual rock opera, screening in conjunction … 
CastDanni Daniels, Sandy Kane, Peaches
LanguageEnglish   CountryGermany
VAN$14A

SUN.16.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Goran Paskaljevic
A discovery at the site of a former Nazi death camp leads a retired music professor to find out the secret of his true origins, in this moving d… 
CastMustafa Nadarevic, Predrag Ejdus, Nebojsa Gl…
LanguageSerbian   CountrySerbia/Croatia/Maced…
MAST$PG

SUN.16.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


Reviews
Sergei Loznitsa
In this eerie, dreamlike World War II drama from Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy), a partisan suspected of being a traitor is apprehended by his comrade… 
CastVladimir Svirski, Vlad Abashin, Sergei Koles…
LanguageRussian   CountryRussia/Belarus/Latvi…
CWC$14A

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