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Hot Docs/Rogers on Bloor

FRI.07.SEP at 11:30am [2012]


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Walter Salles
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles and based on the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac, On The Road tells the provocative story of Sal Para… 
CastViggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Riley, G…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Dror Moreh
Charged with overseeing Israel’s war on terror, the head of the Shin Bet — Israel’s secret service agency — is present at the crossroad of every… 
CastAmi Ayalon, Yaakov Peri, Avraham Shalom, Car…
LanguageEnglish, Hebrew   CountryIsrael
DOC$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Sarah Polley
Polley's The Stories We Tell will explore the nature of memory and storytelling. Polley’s effort is the filmmaker’s first feature-length docume… 
CastSarah Polley
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Luis Prieto
In London, a drug pusher's life spins out of control over the course of one week. Nicolas Winding Refn serves as executive producer on this Eng… 
CastRichard Coyle, Bronson Webb and Agyness Deyn
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Andy Capper
The album “Reincarnation”, Snoop Dogg's 12th, will be released later this year. The film, also entitled “Reincarnation,” will make its debut at … 
CastSnoop Dogg, Diplo
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon’s 9.79* looks at the legacy of the 100-metre men’s final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when gold medalist Ben Johnson tested positiv… 
CastBen Johnson, Carl Lewis, Linford Christie, D…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
DOC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Shari Springer Berman, Rober…
A playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother. 
CastKristen Wiig, Natasha Lyonne and Matt Dillon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Juan Carlos Medina
In this fascinating allegorical horror-thriller, a brilliant young neurosurgeon emerges miraculously unharmed from a devastating car crash — onl… 
CastDerek de Lint, Irene Montalà, Félix Gómez, R…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
VAN$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Julien Temple
Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, The Filth and the Fury) surveys the past century of London's tumultuous history in this… 
CastBill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
DOC$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Jorge Hinojosa
Director Jorge Hinojosa blends pulp fiction imagery with ambitious biographical digging to tell the story of legendary pimp/author Iceberg Slim,… 
CastIceberg Slim, Chris Rock, Henry Rollins, Ice…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 11:45am [2012]


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Mira Nair
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostag… 
CastKate Hudson, Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Suthe…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Harmony Korine
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a night… 
CastSelena Gomez, James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

SUN.09.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Dan Algrant
Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert i… 
CastImogen Poots, Penn Badgley, William Sadler, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Ben Drew
Cutting-edge British music artist Ben Drew (a.k.a. Plan B) makes his directorial debut with this gritty crime drama that uses original music by … 
CastRiz Ahmed, Natalie Press, Ed Skrein, Anouska…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$R

MON.10.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Joshua Oppenheimer
In a place where killers are celebrated as heroes, these filmmakers challenge unrepentant death-squad leaders to dramatize their role in genocid… 
CastUnknown
LanguageIndonesian   CountryDenmark
DOC$14A

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


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Edward Burns
Seven adult siblings from a working-class, Irish-American family must deal with their estranged father's desire to return home for Christmas for… 
CastKerry Bishé, Connie Britton, Heather Burns, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Shola Lynch
Free Angela is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 ye… 
CastAngela Davis
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, France
GALA$$PG

MON.10.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Peter Strickland
A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art. In this tense and moody psychological thr… 
CastToby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, F…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$14A

MON.10.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Zhang Yuan
Beneath Beijing's dazzling economic boom exists the downtrodden and the forgotten “little” people who bear the weight of life's trials and injus… 
CastDuan Bowen, Lv Yulai, Shi Shi , Han Wenwen, …
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
VAN$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Dan Algrant
Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert i… 
CastImogen Poots, Penn Badgley, William Sadler, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Pablo Larraín
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pino… 
CastGael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro and Anton…
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
SP$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Adrián García Bogliano
On a family vacation, a couple’s son and daughter disappear while exploring a cave-riddled mountainside. The children eventually return home see… 
CastFrancisco Barreiro, Giancarlo Ruiz and Laura…
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico, Argentina
VAN$18A

TUE.11.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Jo Sung-hee
Summoned by an unexpected phone call, an elderly woman visits a cottage she used to visit when she was a young girl. Half a century before, she … 
CastJoong-ki Song and Bo-yeong Park
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CWC$14A

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


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Jesper Ganslandt
When three estranged sisters reunite for their domineering mother's birthday bash, old wounds open and conflicts rise to the surface, in the pow… 
CastCarolina Gynning, Helena af Sandeberg, Alexa…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
VAN$14A

WED.12.SEP at 2:45pm [2012]


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Brandon Cronenberg
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communio… 
CastCaleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McD…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$14A

WED.12.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Aleksander Nordaas
Two forensic clean-up men discover a deadly mythological siren hidden in the basement of a remote cabin in the Norwegian woods. She never utters… 
CastMorten Andresen, Erlend Nervold, Silje Reinå…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
VAN$14A

WED.12.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Soi Cheang
A rookie cop takes on a veteran escape driver in a death defying final showdown on the motorway. A cocky young cop on the city's top-secret, hi… 
CastShawn Yue, Anthony Wong, Xiaodong Guo
LanguageCantonese   CountryHong Kong
VAN$14A

THU.13.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Liz Garbus
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman C… 
CastElizabeth Banks, Zoe Saldana, Lindsay Lohan,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

THU.13.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Jamie Kastner
A cheeky, sexy documentary-hybrid, The Secret Disco Revolution wraps revealing celebrity interviews — The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Kool an… 
CastReg Taylor, The Village People, Gloria Gayno…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
DOC$14A

THU.13.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Rodney Ascher
Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with ardent fans convinced they have decoded Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining’s secret messages … 
CastBuffy Visick
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VAN$14A

THU.13.SEP at 9:00pm [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

FRI.14.SEP at 11:30am [2012]


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Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandb…
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947. 
CastPål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Chri…
LanguageEnglish | Norwegian…   CountryUnited Kingdom, Norw…
SP$PG

FRI.14.SEP at 2:45pm [2012]


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Marco Bellocchio
A drama set in different locations during the last six days of life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who lived 17 years in a vegetative state. A… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwa…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly, French
SP$14A

FRI.14.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Ramaa Mosley
John and Alice are in their 20s, married, very much in love, and broke. In high school, gorgeous Alice was voted “most likely to succeed” but no… 
CastJuno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

FRI.14.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Harmony Korine
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a night… 
CastSelena Gomez, James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

SAT.15.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Maiken Baird
Venus & Serena takes an honest and unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of sisters and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Through th… 
CastSerena Williams, Venus Williams, Bill Clinto…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Shola Lynch
Free Angela is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 ye… 
CastAngela Davis
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, France
GALA$$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Bartholomew Cubbins, Jared L…
In August 2008, Virgin Records tried to sue the band 30 Second to Mars, headed by front-man/actor Jared Leto (Fight Club, Mr. Nobody), for $30m.… 
CastJared Leto
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

SAT.15.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Noah Baumbach
An aspiring dancer (co-writer Greta Gerwig) moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminis… 
CastGreta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.15.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Neil Jordan
A mother and daughter vampire duo form a deadly pact. Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, w… 
CastGemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Jonny Lee Mil…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

SUN.16.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Liz Garbus
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman C… 
CastElizabeth Banks, Zoe Saldana, Lindsay Lohan,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

SUN.16.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Spike Lee
Bad 25 celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Michael Jackson “Bad” album with unseen footage, content shot by Jackson himself, and a treasure c… 
CastMichael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Martin Scorse…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

SUN.16.SEP at 3:30pm [2012]


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Bartholomew Cubbins, Jared L…
In August 2008, Virgin Records tried to sue the band 30 Second to Mars, headed by front-man/actor Jared Leto (Fight Club, Mr. Nobody), for $30m.… 
CastJared Leto
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

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


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Ben Wheatley
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong tu… 
CastAlice Lowe, Steve Oram and Dan Charles
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

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