Thursday, April 29

Rush

Babies

D: Thomas Balmès • France • 79 min

A visually stunning and joyful chronicle of the lives of four of the world's newest human inhabitants - in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo - from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original.

Winter Garden Theatre, 6:30pm

See also April 30

Rush

RUSH: Beyond The Lighted Stage

D: Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn • Canada • 106 min

Canada's greatest rock band, the revered and iconic Rush, get the musical bio they deserve: a hard-driving, immensely engaging, heavy on the hits chronicle of the world's most popular cult band.

Winter Garden Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also April 30

Friday, April 30

Darwin's Nightmare

D: Hubert Sauper • Austria, Belgium, France • 107min

Devastating and prescient, this award-winning film is a shocking look at how globalization reduced a country to ruin. It's compulsory viewing for anyone enjoying the privileges of the Western lifestyle.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:15 am

Rush

Babies

D: Thomas Balmès • France • 79 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 1:45 pm

See also April 29

Rush

RUSH: Beyond The Lighted Stage

D: Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn • Canada • 106 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4 pm

See also April 29

And Everything is Going Fine

D: Steven Soderbergh • USA • 89 min

Meticulously crafted entirely from archive footage, Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh's And Everything is Going Fine is a poignant final monologue for his long-time friend and collaborator, the late theatre artist and master storyteller Spalding Gray.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 1

Rush

Cooking Up Dreams

D: Ernesto Cabellos • Peru, Brazil • 75 min

See review, page 3.

Screening with

Green Sea

D: Ignacio Busquier • Argentina • 14 min

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 1 and 9

General Orders No. 9

D: Robert Persons • USA • 72 min

A stunning and accomplished work, this experimental doc contemplates the signs of loss and transformation in the American South as potent metaphors for personal and collective destiny.

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 2

The Oath

D: Laura Poitras • USA, Yemen • 97 min

See review, page 3.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 7

The Woman with the 5 Elephants

D: Vadim Jendreyko • Switzerland, Germany • 93 min

Great writers create text that moves; great translators inhabit that movement. At 85, Swetlana Ge ly thrust into the art mainstream, his work drawing breathless comparisons to Warhol.

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 2

The world according to ion b.

D: Alexander Nanau • Romania • 61 min

Ion Bârlãdeanu has been creating provocative collages in a cultural vacuum for decades. Discovered living on the streets of Bucharest, the 62-year-old outsider is suddenly thrust into the art mainstream, his work drawing breathless comparisons to Warhol.

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

See also May 2

The Story of Furious Pete

D: George Tsioutsioulas • Canada • 85 min

See interview and review, page 5.

The Royal Cinema, 7:30 pm

See also May 9

The Devil Operation

D: Stephanie Boyd • Canada, Peru • 69 min

See review, page 3.

Screening with

We Are

D: Kevin Papatie • Canada • 3 min

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 3

Dish: Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service

D: Maya Gallus • Canada • 70 min

See review, page 3.

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 8 and 9

Disco and Atomic War

D: Jaak Kilmi • Estonia, Finland • 78 min

See review, page 3.

The ROM Theatre 9:15 pm

See also May 1

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go

D: Kim Longinotto • UK • 100 min

For the 40 troubled children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Expelled from school for extreme behaviour, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to turn their lives around.

Innis Town Hall, 9:30 pm

Small Wonders

D: Tally Abecassis• Canada • 52 min

Step inside those dusty neighbourhood shops selling odds and ends and meet their irresistible owners who - defying all approved business models - define our urban culture even as the big box stores inch closer.

Screening with

Flawed

D: Andrea Dorfman• Canada • 12 min

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 2

Gasland

D: Josh Fox • USA • 107 min

Flammable tap water, mysterious ailments, poisoned land and livestock: Sundance prize-winner Gasland exposes the shocking environmental calamities and cover-ups caused by natural gas drilling, shedding an absurd light on America's new energy race.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 2 and 9

Citizen Boilesen

D: Chaim Litewski • Brazil • 93 min

Through the extraordinary story of executed Danish executive Henning Boilesen, the political and economic ties between business and the armed forces are revealed as they confront urban guerrillas in the days of Brazil's military dictatorship.

The Royal Cinema, 10 pm

See also May 2

Tarnation

D: Jonathan Caouette • USA • 88 min

The most personal and experimental film to gain mainstream acclaim in recent memory, this captivating documentary provides a moving look into the director's family life: a world of trauma, tragedy, mental illness, dysfunction, love and devotion.

Bloor Cinema, 11:30 pm

Saturday, May 1

Czech Dream

D: Vit Klusák Filip Remunda • Czech Republic • 87 min

To explore the manipulative powers of consumerism, two filmmakers create an ad campaign for something that doesn't exist. The result is the largest consumer hoax in Czech history and a provocative look at rampant consumerism in a post-communist society.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:30 am

Shinjuku Boys

D: Kim Longinotto Jano Williams's • UK, Japan • 53 min

See review, page 3.

Screening with

Eat the Kimono

D: Kim Longinotto Claire Hunt • UK • 60 min

Charismatic and controversial, performer Hanayagi Genshu tours Japan, motivating crowds with her own outspoken brand of feminism: "You mustn't be eaten by the kimono. You must eat the kimono, and gobble it up."

The ROM Theatre, 11:30 am

Spellbound

D: Jeffrey Blitz • USA • 95 min

This graceful, spirited and uplifting documentary follows eight kids competing in the 1999 National Spelling Bee, offering an exciting and optimistic foray into eight different ways of growing up American.

Bloor Cinema, 1 pm

Cooking Up Dreams

D: Ernesto Cabellos • Peru, Brazil • 75 min

Screening with

Green Sea

D: Ignacio Busquier • Argentina • 14 min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also April 30 and May 9

And Everything is Going Fine

D: Steven Soderbergh • USA • 89 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 1:45 pm

See also April 30

Disco and Atomic War

D: Jaak Kilmi • Estonia, Finland • 78 min

Cumberland 2, 2 pm

See also April 30

Rush

Anne Perry - Interiors

D: Dana Linkiewicz • Germany • 70 min

See review, page 3.

Screening with

Notes on the Other

D: Sergio Oksman • Spain • 13 min

The ROM Theatre, 2:15 pm

See also May 7

talhotblond

D: Barbara Schroeder • USA • 76 min

See review, page 3.

Bloor Cinema, 3:30 pm

See also May 2

American Movie

D: Chris Smith • USA • 107 min

This wildly funny film follows Milwaukee cineaste Mark Borchardt for two years as he rallies relatives, local theatre talent, slacker friends and his endearing Uncle Bill to make a low-budget horror movie.

Cumberland Theatre 3, 4 pm

The Invention of Dr. Nakamats

D: Kaspar Astrup Schr�der • Denmark • 59 min

At a mere 81, Ig Nobel-winning inventor Dr. NakaMats fully intends to live to the age of 144. Holding 3,300 patents for everything from floppy disks to aphrodisiacs, the quirky Japanese icon delightfully champions imagination and the limitlessness of innovation.

Screening with

Arsy-Versy

D: Miro Remo • Slovakia • 23 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:15 pm

See also May 5

Made In India

D: Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha • USA • 96 min

After seven failed years of expensive U.S. treatments, Lisa and Brian Switzer desperately outsource their pregnancy to India's burgeoning surrogate market in this gripping look at the ethical and economic price of their parenthood.

The ROM Theatre, 4:30 pm

See also May 2 and 9

Osadné

D: Marko Skop • Slovakia • 65 min

In the past five years the village priest of Osadne, Eastern Slovakia, has buried 50 people and christened two. In this wryly funny doc, he and two other community leaders seek EU support to revitalize their dwindling community.

Cumberland 2, 4:30 pm

See also May 3

Bhutto

D: Duane Baughman, Johnny O'Hara • USA • 115 min

See review, page 4.

Bloor Cinema, 6:15 pm

See also May 4

The Parking Lot Movie

D: Meghan Eckman • USA • 84 min

See review, page 4.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 3

Waste Land

D: Lucy Walker João Jardim, Karen Harley • UK, Brazil • 99 min

See review, page 4.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 5

In The Name Of The Family

D: Shelley Saywell • Canada • 90 min

See review, page 4.

Screening with

Namrata

D: Shazia Javed • Canada • 9 min

The Royal Cinema, 7 pm

See also May 9

Chemo

D: Pawel Lozinski • Poland • 58 min

See review, page 4.

Screening with

Six Weeks

D: Marcin Janos Krawczyk • Poland • 18 min

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 3

His & Hers

D: Ken Wardrop • Ireland • 80 min

See review, page 4.

The ROM Theatre, 7:15 pm

See also May 3 and 9

Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee And The Spirit Of The Rural Studio

D: Sam Wainwright Douglas • USA • 60 min

This group of renegade architects, who believe that low-income housing can be designed with compassion, vigour and exuberant creativity, are changing the landscapes of people's lives on both sides of the income divide.

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

See also May 4

Disorder

D: Huang Weikai • China • 58 min

See review, page 4.

Screening with

Tussilago

D: Jonas Odell• Sweden • 14 min

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 4

The People vs. George Lucas

D: Alexandre Philippe • USA • 97 min

More than a movie, Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon that's inspired everything from needlepoint to puppet skits. But these tributes have pitted diehard fans against George Lucas, its visionary creator and copyright holder, prompting the question, whose galaxy is it?

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 3 and 4

Stolen Land

D: Margarita Martinez, Miguel Salazar • Colombia • 73 min

Embedded on the frontlines with Nasa leader Lucho and his fiercely proud people, the director captures their against-all-odds struggle to reclaim their ancestral land, confronting the Columbian government's brutal paramilitaries with non-violent resistance.

Innis Town Hall, 9:15 pm

See also May 3

A Man Came and Took Her

D: Jedrzej Niestroj, Rafal Przybyl • Poland • 80 min

When eight-year-old Ola goes missing, her rural community grows abuzz with gossip and rumour. Her grief-stricken mother remains convinced that her daughter is alive, placing more faith in fortune tellers than the police investigation.

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 3

Life With Murder

D: John Kastner • Canada • 93 min

See review, page 4.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 9

Candyman: The David Klein Story

D: Costa Botes • New Zealand, USA • 76 min

See review, page 4.

The ROM Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 4

Mark

D: Mike Hoolboom • Canada • 70 min

See review, page 4.

Screening with

A Moth in Spring

D: Yu Gu• Canada, China • 26 min

The Royal Cinema, 9:45 pm

See also May 9

Damian Abraham Presents

1991 The Year Punk Broke

D: David Markey • USA • 99 min

Fucked Up's Damian Ford Abraham will introduce "the most important film I ever saw," Dave Markey's seminal tour doc, which follows Sonic Youth on their 1991 European Tour, also with Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and others.

Bloor Cinema, 11:59 pm

Sunday, May 2

Rough Aunties

D: Kim Longinotto • UK • 103 min

Fearless and feisty, a resolute group of remarkable women protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa, confronting their nation's social strife while battling their own personal tragedies.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11 am

I Bought a Rainforest

D: Helena Nygren, Jacob Andrén • Sweden • 58 min

Jacob Andrén, like over 400,000 other Swedish children, remembers raising money to help save a rainforest. Twenty years later, wondering if his efforts made any real impact, he visits Costa Rica to see whether his piece of land remains preserved.

The ROM Theatre, noon

See also May 4

Gasland

D: Josh Fox • USA • 107 min

Bloor Cinema, 12:30 pm

See also April 30 and May 9

A Film Unfinished

D: Yael Hersonski • Israel • 89 min

Hersonski's haunting visual essay masterfully deconstructs The Ghetto, the now-infamous, unfinished Nazi propaganda film about Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto, affirming that within every perfectly constructed frame lays a darker truth.

Cumberland 3, 1 pm

See also May 5

The Woman with the 5 Elephants

D: Vadim Jendreyko • Switzerland, Germany • 93 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 1:30pm

See also April 30

Into Great Silence

D: Philip Groning • France, Germany, Switzerland, UK • 164 min

The monks of the Grande Chartreuse, home to the Catholic Church's strictest order, dedicate themselves, in permanent silence, to the service of God. This mesmerizing and poetic chronicle of spiritual devotion provides a rare, moving and transformative experience.

Innis Town Hall, 1:30pm

The World According to Ion B.

D: Alexander Nanau • Romania • 61 min

Cumberland 2, 1:45 pm

See also April 30

General Orders No. 9

D: Robert Persons • USA • 72 min

The ROM Theatre, 2 pm

See also April 30

Dreamland

D: þorfinnur Guõnason, Andri Snær Magnason • Iceland • 89 min

See review, page 4.

Bloor Cinema, 3:30 pm

See also May 4

La Belle Visite

D: Jean-Francois Caissy • Canada • 80 min

See review, page 4.

Cumberland 3, 3:45 pm

See also May 4

Budrus

D: Julia Bacha • USA, Palestine, Israel • 82 min

See review, page 4.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4 pm

See also May 3

Citizen Boilesen

D: Chaim Litewski • Brazil • 93 min

Cumberland 2, 4 pm

See also April 30

Rush

A Small Act

D: Jennifer Arnold •USA • 88 min

For $15 per term, a Swedish stranger sponsors a young Kenyan's education and transforms his life. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, he founds a scholarship to pay it forward, but discovers a failing school system that's leaving its children behind.

The ROM Theatre, 4:15 pm

See also May 5 and 9

Small Wonders

D: Tally Abecassis• Canada • 52 min

Screening with

Flawed

D: Andrea Dorfman • Canada• 12 min

Innis Town Hall, 5 pm

See also April 30

Joan Rivers - A Piece Of Work

D: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg • USA • 89 min

Can we talk? Joan Rivers may be the butt of as many jokes as she tells. Outrageously funny and brutally honest, like the raunchy comedienne herself, this all-access exposé peels back her nipped 'n tucked public mask with surprising results.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 3

Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya

D: Jonathan Schell, Eric Leibman • USA • 77 min

A prominent, sacred sexual healer tries to win back the woman of his dreams through the power of Sex Magic; merging his sexual energy with that of his many lovers.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 4 and 5

Soundtracker

D: Nicholas Sherman • USA • 88 min

Pure sound unaltered by human hands is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience.

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 4 and 9

Made In India

D: Rebecca Haimowitz Vaishali Sinha• USA • 96 min

Cumberland 2, 6:45 pm

See also May 1 and 9

The Player

D: John Appel • Netherlands • 85 min

Three hardened gamblers let us into their lives, their loves and their losses. Through these men's stories, Dutch documentarian John Appel weaves a masterful tale of his own father, an irrepressible gambler.

Screening with

Dear Matthew

D: Keith O'Shea • Wales• 15 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 3

Listen to This

D: Juan Baquero • Canada • 76 min

See review, page 4.

Screening with

Inuit High Kick

D: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril • Canada • 2 min

The Royal Cinema, 7 pm

See also May 9

How I Filmed the War

D: Yuval Sagiv • Canada • 75 min

See review, page 5.

Screening with

Even Flowers Wake Up In the Morning

D: Tara Khalili • Canada• 6 min

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

See also May 8

Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest

D: Pirjo Honkasalo • Finland • 111 min

See review, page 5.

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 5

The "Socalled" Movie

D: Garry Beitel • Canada • 90 min

See review, page 5.

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 4

Ladies in Blue

D: Claude Demers • Canada • 87 min

In the 1960s young women swooned over Quebec's crooning heartthrob Michel Louvain... and they still do. With humour and candour, now-elderly fan club members display their memorabilia and idolize the singer in a young-hearted embrace of celebrity culture.

The ROM Theatre, 9:15pm

See also May 3

Land

D: Julian Pinder • Canada • 76 min

Burnt-out baby-boomers, Sandinistas and ex-lefty capitalist developers clash in a wild-west showdown over land in a bucolic Nicaraguan seaside town. The fed-up locals have a few surprises in store for the would-be imperialistas.

Screening with

Basin

D: David Geiss • Canada • 8 min

The Royal Cinema, 9:30 pm

See also May 9

International Documentary Challenge

120 Min

Hot Docs is pleased to host the theatrical premieres of the finalists in the fifth annual International Documentary Challenge, a timed filmmaking competition where teams from around the world have five days to make a documentary.

Innis Town Hall, 9:30 pm

Daddy's Girls

D: Lily Sheffy•Israel•53 min

Filmmaker Lily Sheffy tries to untangle the secret lives her father simultaneously maintains with four different women, but as the truths are revealed, she finds herself in the uncomfortable role of confidante.

Screening with

Quadrangle

D: Amy Grappell • USA • 20 min

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 4

Farewell

D: Ditteke Mensink • Netherlands • 90 min

Through stunning archival footage and intimate journal entries, Lady Grace Drummond-Hay's exhilarating yet tumultuous journey around the world is recreated, revealing her experiences as the only female passenger onboard the 1929 maiden voyage of the Graf Zeppelin.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 4

talhotblond

D: Barbara Schroeder • USA • 76 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:45pm

See also May 1

Monday, May 3

Family

D: Sami Saif, Phie Ambo • Denmark • 90 min

Alone and grief-stricken following the suicide of his brother and the death of his mother, filmmaker Sami Saif embarks on a journey to find his Yemenite father, who abandoned him as a child.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11 am

A Man Came and Took Her

D: Jedrzej Niestroj, Rafal Przybyl • Poland • 80 min

The ROM Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 1

Chemo

D: Pawel Lozinski • Poland • 58 min

Screening with

Six Weeks

D: Marcin Janos Krawczyk • Poland • 18 min

The Isabel Bader Theatre, 1:30 pm

See also May 1

Ladies in Blue

D: Claude Demers • Canada • 87 min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also May 2

The Player

D: John Appel • Netherlands • 85 min

Screening with

Dear Matthew

D: Keith O'Shea• Wales • 15 min

The Rom Theatre, 1:45 pm

See also May 2 Osadné

D: Marko Skop • Slovakia • 65 min

Innis Town Hall, 2 pm

See also May 1

The Devil Operation

D: Stephanie Boyd • Canada, Peru • 69 min

Screening with

We Are

D: Kevin Papatie • Canada • 3 min

Cumberland 2, 2 pm

See also April 30

Joan Rivers - a piece of work

D: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg • USA • 89 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4 pm

See also May 2

His & Hers

D: Ken Wardrop • Ireland • 80 min

Cumberland 3, 4 pm

See also May 1 and 9

The People vs. George Lucas

D: Alexandre Philippe • USA • 97 min

Innis Town Hall, 4 pm

See also May 1 and 4

The Day I Will Never Forget

D: Kim Longinotto • UK • 92 min

Longinotto sensitively tackles the controversial subject of female genital mutilation in Kenya by following the pioneering women and girls who are bravely campaigning in their communities to reverse the tradition.

The ROM Theatre, 4:30 pm

Stolen Land

D: Margarita Martinez Miguel Salazar • Colombia • 73 min

Cumberland 2, 4:30 pm

See also May 1

Enemies of the People

D: Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin • Cambodia, Great Britain • 94 min

On his 10-year journey to reveal the truth about the Cambodian genocide, journalist Thet Sambath attempts to come to terms with the loss of his family by befriending Pol Pot's enigmatic lieutenant in this Sundance prize winner.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 5 and 9

B1

D: Felipe Braga, Eduardo Hunter Moura • Brazil • 98 min

See review, page 5.

Screening with

Geral

D: Anna Azevedo • Brazil • 15 min

Cumberland 3, 6:30pm

See also May 5 and 9

The Peddler

D: Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich • Argentina • 84 min

Daniel Burmeister is a one-man, full-service, travelling production company. Visiting Argentine villages, he barters for lodging and food in exchange for directing a feature film starring the locals. His DIY style yields hilarious results and a truly unforgettable community experience.

Innis Town Hall, 6:45 pm

See also May 5

Steam of Life

D: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen • Finland • 82 min

Naked men in saunas talk straight from the heart. The heat from rusty stoves cleanses their bodies, while drawing profound emotional catharses from several of these typically reserved Finnish men.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 5

The Regretters

D: Marcus Lindeen • Sweden • 59 min

In this riveting dialogue, the gender flip-flops of two Swedish men, now in their sixties, form the basis for provocative reflections on sexuality, expectations and regrets.

Screening with

Nobody Passes Perfectly

D: Saskia Bisp • Denmark, Germany • 44 min

A rare exploration of the transman experience, this intimate, stylish and sometimes funny work creates a space where gender isn't a predefined state, but a form of self-expression to be challenged and sometimes changed.

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May5

Rush

National Parks Project: Gros Morne

D: Ryan J. Noth • Canada • 43 min

Immerse yourself in the gorgeous wilderness of Newfoundland's Gros Morne National Park - filmed in all its magnificence and minutiae by master cinematographer Peter Mettler - projected onto three screens with a live improvised electronic score.

The Drake Hotel, 7 pm

Budrus

D: Julia Bacha • USA, Palestine, Israel • 82 min

The ROM Theatre, 7:15 pm

See also May 2

The Mirror

D: David Christensen • Canada, Italy • 85 min

See review, page 5.

Screening with

The FreshWater Plague

D: Jake Chirico • Canada • 10 min

The Royal Cinema, 7:30 pm

See also May 5

This Way of Life

D: Thomas Burstyn • New Zealand • 85 min

The Karenas are free-spirits who buck traditional rules of child-rearing. Living off the land, the Maori couple raises their six kids amongst wild horses in New Zealand's mountains and, even after losing their home, they still refuse to be broken.

Innis Town Hall, 9 pm

See also May 4

The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island

D: Suzanne Raes • Netherlands • 87 min

A pioneering group of Greenpeace activists, the crew of the famous ship The Rainbow Warrior, form a community on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. Best described as a "rest home for burnt-out greenies", the friends revisit their legacy of protest.

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 5

AISHEEN (still alive in Gaza)

D: Nicolas Wadimoff • Qatar, Switzerland • 85 min

Shot a few weeks after the end of Israel's January 2009 offensive, this compelling, sensitively crafted doc captures the human suffering and devastation wrought on Gaza's Palestinian residents as they daily struggle to survive.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 6

Congo in Four Acts

D: Dieudo Hamadi, Divita Wa Lusala, Kiripi Katembo Siku • Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa • 69 min

A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films, made by young Congolese filmmakers, lays bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo.

The ROM Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 7

My Perestroika

D: Robin Hessman • UK, USA • 87 min

Exploring the dreams and disillusionments of people who were raised behind the Iron Curtain, My Perestroika is an intimate and compelling portrait of the challenges faced by the last generation of Soviet children.

Cumberland 3, 9:30 pm

See also May 8

Portrait Of A Man

D: Visa Koiso-Kanttila • Finland • 81 min

This last film in Koiso-Kanttila's trilogy is a powerful and surprisingly intimate portrait of a 40-something single father in emotional crisis who, to save his relationship with his son, confronts a legacy of alcoholism and depression.

Cumberland 2, 9:45 pm

See also May 6

Sins of My Father

D: Nicolas Entel • Argentina, Colombia • 93 min

How should Sebastián Marroquin, son of Pablo Escobar - the ruthless, feared and revered Colombian drug lord - lay his father's ghost to rest? In this riveting documentary, featuring never-seen-before footage, Marroquin breaks his silence and embarks on a journey of reconciliation.

Royal Cinema, 10 pm

See also May 5

The Parking Lot Movie

D: Meghan Eckman • USA • 84 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:45 pm

See also May 1

Tuesday, May 4

Bhutto

D: Duane Baughman, Johnny O'Hara • USA • 115 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11 am

See also May 1

The "Socalled" Movie

D: Garry Beitel • Canada • 90 min

The ROM Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 2

Candyman: The David Klein Story

D: Costa Botes • New Zealand, USA • 76 min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also May 1

Dreamland

D: þorfinnur Guõnason, Andri Snær Magnason • Iceland • 89 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 2

Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee And The Spirit Of The Rural Studio

D: Sam Wainwright Douglas • USA • 60 min

The ROM Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 1

Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya

D: Jonathan Schell, Eric Leibman • USA • 77 min

Cumberland 2, 2 pm

See also May 2 and 5

Daddy's Girls

D: Lily Sheffy • Israel • 53 min

Screening with

Quadrangle

D: Amy Grappell • USA • 20 min

The ROM Theatre, 4 pm

See also May 2

Pride of Place

D: Kim Longinotto, Dorothea Gadzidis • UK • 60 min

In her first film, Longinotto serves up a searing indictment of her former English boarding school, a miniature fascist state with absurd rules, cruel punishments and little room for individual expression.

Screening with

Theatre Girls

D: Kim Longinotto, Claire Pollak • UK • 56 min

In this early film, Longinotto and Pollak spend three months capturing the daily struggles and fascinating histories of the residents of what was then London's only shelter for alcoholic, drug-addicted and mentally ill women.

Innis Town Hall, 4 pm

This Way of Life

D: Thomas Burstyn • New Zealand • 85 min

Cumberland 3, 4 pm

See also May 3

Farewell

D: Ditteke Mensink • Netherlands • 90 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:15 pm

See also May 2

Soundtracker

D: Nicholas Sherman • USA • 88 min

Cumberland 2, 4:30 pm

See also May 2 and 9

Feathered Cocaine

D: Thorkell Hardarsson, Orn Marino Arnarson • Iceland • 80 min

What do you do when you walk into a room and see a falcon and a terrorist? A falconer enters a whirlpool of international intrigue and obsession when he takes on the smuggler market for coveted birds of prey.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 6

Rush

12th & Delaware

D: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing • USA • 80 min

In Fort Pierce, Florida, a pro-life centre opens up directly across from an abortion clinic, igniting America's most uncompromising war in unexpected ways. 12th & Delaware delivers unprecedented access to behind the frontlines and to the women caught in the crossfire.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 6

The Kids Grow Up

D: Doug Block • USA • 90 min

See review, page 5.

Screening with

Time's Up

D: Jan Peters, Marie-Catherine Theiler • Germany • 15 min

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 6

Autumn Gold

D: Jan Tenhaven • Austria, Germany • 94 min

Hold on to your hip replacements and brace your funny bones! Aged 80 and up, a group of top senior track and field athletes train for the World Masters Championships, battling injury and upset in their quests for personal bests.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 6

La Belle Visite

D: Jean-Francois Caissy • Canada • 80 min

Innis Town Hall, 7 pm

See also May 2

Tankograd

D: Boris Bertram • Denmark • 57 min

See review, page 5.

Cumberland 2, 7:15 pm

See also May 7

I Shot My Love

D: Tomer Heymann • Israel, Germany • 56 min

Deeply moving and emotionally affecting, I Shot My Love is an intimate portrait of two lovers, one German and one Israeli, as they confront the challenges posed by their families, their national histories and their own emotions.

The Royal Cinema, 7:30 pm

See also May 6

David Wants To Fly

D: David Sieveking • Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 96 min

See review, page 6.

Bloor Cinema, 9 pm

See also May 5

The Canal Street Madam

D: Cameron Yates • USA • 91 min

See review, page 6.

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 6

Disorder

D: Huang Weikai • China • 58 min

Screening with

Tussilago

D: Jonas Odell • Sweden • 14 min

Innis Town Hall, 9:15 pm

See also May 1

I Bought a Rainforest

D: Helena Nygren, Jacob Andrén • Sweden • 58 min

The ROM Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 2

Sona, the Other Myself

D: Yang Yonghi • Japan, South Korea • 82 Min

A follow-up to her festival hit Dear Pyongyang, Yang Yonghi returns with a loving, poignant portrait of her niece, whom the filmmaker hasn't seen since being banned from North Korea five years ago.

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 7

Marwencol

D: Jeff Malmberg • USA • 83 min

See review, page 6.

Screening with

Peter in Radioland

D: Johanna Wagner • Scotland • 10 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 6

We Don't Care About Music Anyway

D: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz • France • 80 min

The line separating music and noise is blurred in this showcase of Tokyo's explosive avant-garde music scene. From radical turntablism to a simple, amplified heartbeat, sound collides with image to offer a frenetic montage of the cityscape.

The Royal Cinema, 9:45 pm

See also May 6

The People vs. George Lucas

D: Alexandre Philippe • USA • 97 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:45 pm

See also May 1 and 3

Wednesday, May 5

The Mirror

D: David Christensen • Canada, Italy • 85 min

Screening with

The Freshwater Plague

D: Jake Chirico • Canada • 10 min

The ROM Theatre, 11 am

See also May 3

Enemies of the People

D: Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin • Cambodia, Great Britain • 94 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 3 and 9

B1

D: Felipe Braga, Eduardo Hunter Moura • Brazil • 98 min

Screening with

Geral

D: Anna Azevedo • Brazil • 15 min

Cumberland 3, 1 pm

See also May 3 and 9

The Peddler

D: Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich • Argentina • 84 min

Cumberland 2, 1:15pm

See also May 3

The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island

D: Suzanne Raes • Netherlands • 87 min

The ROM Theatre, 1:30 pm

See also May 3

The Invention of Dr. Nakamats

D: Kaspar Astrup Schr�der • Denmark • 59 min

Screening with

Arsy-Versy

D: Miro Remo • Slovakia • 23 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 1:45 pm

See also May 1

The Regretters

D: Marcus Lindeen • Sweden • 59 min

Screening with

Nobody Passes Perfectly

D: Saskia Bisp • Denmark, Germany • 44 min

Innis Town Hall, 2 pm

See also May 3

David Wants To Fly

D: David Sieveking • Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 96 min

Cumberland 3, 3:45 pm

See also May 4

Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest

D: Pirjo Honkasalo • Finland • 111 min

Cumberland 2, 4 pm

See also May 2

Steam of Life

D: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen • Finland • 82 min

The ROM Theatre, 4 pm

See also May 3

A Small Act

D: Jennifer Arnold • USA • 88 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:15 pm

See also May 2 and 9

Sins of My Father

D: Nicolas Entel • Argentina, Colombia • 93 min

Innis Town Hall, 4:45 pm

See also May 3

Kings of Pastry

D: Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker • France, Netherlands, USA, UK • 86 min

See review, page 6.

Screening with

Seltzer Works

D: Jessica Edwards • US • 7 min

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 7

Freetime Machos

D: Mika Ronkainen • Finland, Germany • 86 min

See review, page 6.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 8

Monica & David

D: Alexandra Codina • USA • 90 min

See review, page 6.

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 8

A Film Unfinished

D: Yael Hersonski • Israel • 89 min

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 2

Space Tourists

D: Christian Frei • Switzerland • 98 min

This Sundance award winner deftly probes the new space race - space tourism - and all its ramifications for those on left on the ground as it follows an American woman's $20-million trip aboard a Russian rocket.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 6

Flowers in the Desert

D: José Alvarez • Mexico • 72 min

The Wixárika, an indigenous people of western Mexico, offer rare access to their traditional peyote pilgrimage, a spiritual journey to the sacred region of Wirikuta.

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

See also May 9

Grace, Milly, Lucy...Child Soldiers

D: Raymonde Provencher • Canada • 71 min

Ugandan girls who were abducted and forced into battle for the Lord's Resistance Army - often with babies on their backs and machine guns in their hands - now fight for peace and to save other girls from the same hell.

The Royal Cinema, 7:30 pm

See also May 8

Rush

Thieves by Law

D: Alexander Gentelev • Israel, Germany • 90 min

Raw and audacious, three former kingpins of the Russian Mafia take us inside the world's most notorious criminal organization. This unprecedented access captures the underworld's formation and its coldly calculated ascension, without a Hollywood safety net.

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 8

Waste Land

D: Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley • UK, Brazil • 99 min

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 1

Horses

D: Liz Mermin • Ireland, UK • 87 min

The diminutive underdog, the sensitive wildcard and the gentle giant: all three amazing athletes vie to become top racer at Ireland's Toberona Stables; always one race away from a win, and one injury away from retirement.

The ROM Theatre, 9:15 pm

See also May 8

Complaints Choir

D: Ada Bligaard S�by • Denmark, Finland, USA • 60 min

See review, page 6.

Screening with

The Fabulous Fiff and Fam

D: Solveig Melkeraaen • Norway • 29 min

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 6

The House of Suh

D: Iris K. Shim • USA • 90 min

A brother murders his sister's boyfriend, shocking the Korean-American community. Innis Town Hall, 9:30 pm

See also May 9

Into Eternity

D: Michael Madsen • Denmark, Sweden, Finland • 75 min

The fascinating scientific minds behind Finland's massive underground nuclear waste storage facility, where radioactive waste must sit untouched for at least 100,000 years to neutralize its potential danger, are probed.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 7

Blank City

D: Celine Danhier • USA • 94 min

"We came out of this destruction... this very empty city," explains Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in Celine Danhier's upbeat, thoroughly informative and entertaining documentary about New York City's No Wave scene of the late 1970s and its evolution into the Cinema of Transgression of the early 1980s.

The Royal Cinema, 9:45 pm

See also May 8

Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya

D: Jonathan Schell, Eric Leibman • USA • 77 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:59 pm

See also May 2, May 4

Thursday, May 6

The Canal Street Madam

D: Cameron Yates • USA • 91 min

The ROM Theatre, 11 am

See also May 4

Autumn Gold

D: Jan Tenhaven • Austria, Germany • 94 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 4

AISHEEN (still alive in Gaza)

D: Nicolas Wadimoff • Qatar, Switzerland • 85 min

The ROM Theatre, 1:30 pm

See also May 3

Marwencol

D: Jeff Malmberg • USA• 83 min

Screening with

Peter in Radioland

D: Johanna Wagner • Scotland • 10 min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also May 4

Space Tourists

D: Christian Frei • Switzerland • 98 min

Cumberland 2, 1:45 pm

See also May 5

Portrait Of A Man

D: Visa Koiso-Kanttila • Finland • 81 min

Innis Town Hall, 2 pm

See also May 3

12th & Delaware

D: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing • USA • 80 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 4

The Kids Grow Up

D: Doug Block • USA • 90 min

Screening with

Time's Up

D: Jan Peters, Marie-Catherine Theiler • Germany •15 min

The Rom Theatre, 4 pm

See also May 4

I Shot My Love

D: Tomer Heymann • Israel, Germany • 56 min

Cumberland 3, 4:15 pm

See also May 4

Complaints Choir

D: Ada Bligaard S�by • Denmark, Finland, USA • 60 min

Screening with

The Fabulous Fiff and Fam

D: Solveig Melkeraaen • Norway • 29 min

Innis Town Hall, 4:30 pm

See also May 5

Au Chic Resto Pop

D: Tahani Rached • Canada • 84 min

Welcome to the Resto Pop, a lively restaurant run by "outcasts... and punks" to serve healthy meals to the poor. With songs written and performed by the staff, this social activist doc takes a lively turn into an innovative "docu-musical."

Cumberland 2, 4:30 pm

Feathered Cocaine

D: Thorkell Hardarsson, Orn Marino Arnarson • Iceland • 80 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:30 pm

See also May 4

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

D: Kerthy Fix, Gail O'Hara • USA • 84 min

See review, page 6.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 7

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

D: Alex Gibney • USA • 120 min

Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney delivers a powerful essay on the dysfunctional processes of the U.S. political system, told through the scandalous story of lobbyist-turned-convicted-fraudster Jack Abramoff.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 8

Secrets of the Tribe

D: José Padilha • UK, Brazil • 94 min

Academic bickering has never been as luridly scandalous as that between the anthropologists studying the Yanomami, an isolated tribe in the Amazon basin.

Koerner Hall, 6:30 pm

See also May 9

Wistful Wilderness

D: Digna Sinke • Netherlands • 88 min

See review, page 6.

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 8

Divorce Iranian Style

D: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir Hosseini•UK, Iran • 80 min

The daily proceedings of a divorce court in Tehran shine a revealing light on gender politics in Iran and the strength and determination of Iranian women.

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

Nénette

D: Nicolas Philibert • France • 70 min

A captivating study of an enigmatic animal and our relationship to her, Nénette asks us what we can learn from an orangutan, and what she can teach us about ourselves.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 8

They Come For The Gold, They Come For It All

D: Pablo D'Alo Abba, Cristián Harbaruk • Argentina, Chile • 83 min

This provocative and engaging documentary examines the burden and benefits of multi-national mining, focusing on the Argentinean town of Esquel.

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

See also May 8

AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story

D: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas • UK • 103 min

This retrospective chronicles the rocky road to fame of a comedian who believed that his raunchy, thought-provoking comedy could change the world; the self-proclaimed "Chomsky with dick jokes", Bill Hicks.

Screening with

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

D: James Blagden • USA • 5 min

The Royal Cinema, 7:15 pm

See also May 8

American Radical: the Trials of Norman Finkelstein

D: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier • Canada, USA • 84 min

See review, page 6.

Bloor Cinema, 9 pm

See also May 9

What's in a Name

D: Eva K�pper • Belgium • 75 min

A riveting portrait of Jon Cory, a charismatic NYC body-art performer whose raw and provocative acts challenge society's limited views on gender.

Screening with

The Joneses

D: Moby Longinotto • UK • 13 min

Cumberland 2, 9:15 pm

See also May 9

Leave Them Laughing

D: John Zaritsky • Canada, USA • 89 min

See review, page 6.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:15 pm

See also May 8

Eyes Wide Open - Exploring Today's South America

D: Gonzalo Arij�n • Uruguay • 110 min

Uruguayan filmmaker Gonzalo Arij�n travels across the continent uncovering its current social and political progress. The ROM Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 8

Beyond This Place

D: Kaleo La Belle • Switzerland • 92 min

Now a new father, Kaleo challenges his long-estranged, hardcore-hippie dad, Cloud Rock, to a grueling 500-mile bike tour. On the road, they struggle to reconcile their vastly different outlooks and fathom the complicated love they share.

Innis Town Hall, 9:30 pm

See also May 8

Teenage Paparazzo

D: Adrian Grenier • USA • 94 min

Entourage's Adrian Grenier turns the camera on 13-year-old shooter Austin Visschedyk and stalks famous friends Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon and Paris Hilton.

Koerner Hall, 9:30 pm

See also May 8

Family Affair

D: Chico Colvard • USA • 82 min

Incest tore the filmmaker's family apart; stunned to see his pedophilic father at a family dinner decades later, his emotionally searing film questions if he and his sisters can reconcile unspeakable horrors with the basic longing for family.

Cumberland 3, 9:45 pm

See also May 8

I'm Dangerous with Love

D: Michel Negroponte • USA • 85 min

After his experience with the illegal hallucinogen ibogaine cures him of his heroin addiction, Dimitri Mugianis leaves New York for West Africa on a quest to harness the healing power of this extremely unpredictable drug.

The Royal Cinema, 10 pm

See also May 8

We Don't Care About Music Anyway

D: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz • France • 80 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:30 pm

See also May 4

Friday, May 7

Kings of Pastry

D: Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker • France, Netherlands, USA, UK • 86 min

Screening with

Seltzer Works

D: Jessica Edwards • USA • 7 min

The ROM Theatre, 11 am

See also May 5

Sisters in Law

D: Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi • Cameroon, UK • 104 min

This Cannes award winner follows the awe-inspiring work of state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and court president Beatrice Ntuba, two visionary women fiercely determined to improve their Cameroon community by battling a cultural legacy of spousal and child abuse.

Cumberland 3, 1 pm

Sona, the Other Myself

D: Yang Yonghi • Japan, South Korea • 82 min

The ROM Theatre, 1:30 pm

See also May 4

Into Eternity

D: Michael Madsen • Denmark, Sweden, Finland • 75 min

Cumberland 2, 1:30 pm

See also May 5

Anne Perry - Interiors

D: Dana Linkiewicz • Germany • 70 min

Screening with

Notes on the Other

D: Sergio Oksman • Spain • 13 min

Innis Town Hall, 2 pm

See also May 1

These Girls

D: Tahani Rached • Egypt • 68 min

See review, page 6.

Cumberland 3, 3:45 pm

The Oath

D: Laura Poitras • USA, Yemen • 97 min

The ROM Theatre, 4 pm

See also April 30

Tankograd

D: Boris Bertram • Denmark • 57 min

Cumberland 2, 4:15 pm

See also May 4

Congo in Four Acts

D: Dieudo Hamadi, Divita Wa Lusala Kiripi Katembo Siku • Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa • 69 min

Innis Town Hall, 4:30 pm

See also May 3

When I Rise

D: Mat Hames • USA • 74 min

Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted African-American singer, becomes the target of racial discrimination at the University of Texas. Against the odds, she rises to stardom.

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also May 9

My Life with Carlos

D: German Berger • Chile, Spain, Germany • 85 min

The filmmaker returns to Chile 30 years after the murder of his father, Carlos, a victim of Pinochet's Death Convoy.

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 9

War Games and The Man Who Stopped Them

D: Dariusz Jab?o?ski • Germany, France, Poland, Slovakia • 113 min

During the Cold War, Polish Colonel Ryszard Kukli?ski spied for the CIA, revealing Russia's secret plans to invade Western Europe. Through his act of betrayal, Kuklinski saves his beloved homeland, but is forced into exile.

The ROM Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 8

Views on Vermeer - 12 Short Stories

D: Hans Pool • Netherlands • 69 min

What do a Scarlett Johansson film, one of the last photos of the Twin Towers and Steve Wynn all share? Each is inspired by 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer.

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 9

Our House

D: David Teague, Greg King • USA • 60 Min

See review, page 6.

Screening with

Architecture of Home

D: Thorunn Hafstad • Iceland • 29 min

Residents of a housing co-op in Reykjavik give us a quirky tour of their digs.

Innis Town Hall, 7 pm

See also May 8

A Different Path

D: Monteith McCollum • USA • 96 min

See review, page 6.

The Royal Cinema, 7:15 pm

See also May 9

Thunder Soul

D: Mark Landsman • USA • 83 min

Big afros, funk arrangements and a super tight stage show put the Kashmere High School Band on the map in the 1970's. Thirty-five years later, the band reunites to honor their mentor, Conrad "Prof" Johnson.

Cumberland 3, 9 pm

See also May 8 and 9

Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn

D: Josh Whiteman • Australia • 90 min

Music's glitterati - from Bono to the late Kurt Cobain - share their thoughts on photographer Anton Corbijn, with revealing footage of Corbijn directing his first feature, Control.

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 9

Neighbors

D: Tahani Rached • Egypt • 105 min

A stunningly shot journey through the once-opulent homes and abandoned gardens of Cairo's bygone colonial elite.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 8

Iraq in Fragments

D: James Longley • USA, Iraq • 94 min

American director James Longley spent more than two years in Iraq to film this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered document of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

Innis Town Hall, 9:30 pm

The Absence of Mr. or Mrs. B

D: Fima Emami, Reza Daryanoush • Iran • 60 min

A childless couple undergo multiple fertility treatments that drain both their finances and their feelings. A dramatic look at Iran's second-leading cause of divorce.

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also May 9

Human Terrain

D: James Der Derian, Michael Udris, David Udris • USA • 80 min

Seeking to understand 'why they hate us,' the U.S. military's new cultural awareness strategy targets the hearts and minds of Iraqis and Afghans, but controversy erupts when academics embedded with combat troops bring the war home to the university.

Screening with

1000 Voices

D: Tim Travers Hawkins • UK • 9 min

The ROM Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 8

A Drummer's Dream

D: John Walker • Canada • 84 min

Seven world-renowed master drummers blow the roof off a barn in Ontario's remote cottage country when they gather to teach and end up delivering performances that lift the spirit with pure joy and exhilaration.

The Royal Cinema, 10 pm

See also May 9

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

D: Kerthy Fix, Gail O'Hara • USA • 84 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:59 pm

See also May 6

Saturday, May 8

Horses

D: Liz Mermin • Ireland, UK • 87 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 5

Doc It!

Canada • 120 min

A showcase for teenage doc makers, Doc It! presents the brightest of these young voices.

The ROM Theatre, 11:30 am

Gaea Girls

D: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams • UK, Japan • 106 min

This doc exposes the gruelling, brutal and often humiliating training regime of female professional wrestlers in Japan.

Bloor Cinema, 12:30 pm

Monica & David

D: Alexandra Codina • USA • 90 min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also May 5

Rush

Dish: Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service

D: Maya Gallus • Canada • 70 min

The Royal Cinema, 1:30 pm

See also April 30 and May 9

Wistful Wilderness

D: Digna Sinke • Netherlands • 88 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 6

Eyes Wide Open - Exploring Today's South America

D: Gonzalo Arij�n • Uruguay • 110 min

The ROM Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 6

My Perestroika

D: Robin Hessman • UK, USA • 87 min

Cumberland 2, 2 pm

See also May 3

Leave Them Laughing

D: John Zaritsky • Canada, USA • 89 min

Bloor Cinema, 3:15 pm

See also May 6

Grace, Milly, Lucy...Child Soldiers

D: Raymonde Provencher • Canada • 71 min

The Royal Cinema, 4 pm

See also May 5

They Come For The Gold, They Come For It All

D: Pablo D'Alo Abba, Cristián Harbaruk • Argentina, Chile • 83 min

Cumberland 3, 4 pm

See also May 6

Nénette

D: Nicolas Philibert • France • 70 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:30 pm

See also May 6

Human Terrain

D: James Der Derian, Michael Udris, David Udris • USA • 80 min

Screening with

1000 Voices

D: Tim Travers Hawkins • UK • 9 min

Innis Town Hall, 4:30 pm

See also May 7

Our House

D: David Teague, Greg King • USA • 60 min

Screening with

Architecture of Home

D: Thorunn Hafstad • Iceland • 29 min

Cumberland 2, 4:30 pm

See also May 7

Neighbors

D: Tahani Rached • Egypt • 105 min

The ROM Theatre, 4:45 pm

See also May 7

thunder soul (Festival Faves)

Bloor Cinema, 6 pm

See also May 7 and 9

AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story

D: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas • UK • 103 min

Screening with

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

D: James Blagden • USA • 5 min

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 6

Freetime Machos

D: Mika Ronkainen • Finland, Germany • 86 min

The Royal Cinema, 6:45 pm

See also May 5

War Games and The Man Who Stopped Them

D: Dariusz Jab?o?ski • Germany, France, Poland, Slovakia • 113 min

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 7

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

D: Alex Gibney • USA • 120 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 6

Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round

D: Tahani Rached • Canada • 57 min

This powerful and raw vérité portrait captures the anguish and resilience of Lebanese civilians living with death and destruction after a 1982 Israeli bombing destroys their West Beirut homes.

Innis Town Hall, 7:15 pm

Family Affair

D: Chico Colvard • USA • 82 min

The ROM Theatre, 7:30 pm

See also May 6

Teenage Paparazzo

D: Adrian Grenier • USA •94 min

Bloor Cinema, 9 pm

See also May 6

How I Filmed the War

D: Yuval Sagiv •Canada • 75 min

Screening with

Even Flowers Wake Up In the Morning

D: Tara Khalili • Canada • 6 min

Innis Town Hall, 9:15 pm

See also May 2

Beyond Ipanema

D: Guto Barra • Brazil, USA • 87 min

The samba and bossa nova's eclectic rhythms have inspired everyone from David Byrne to M.I.A, and everything from marching bands to jazz. This electrifying sonic journey explores the innovation and influence of Brazilian music across the globe.

Cumberland 3, 9:15 pm

See also May 9

Beyond This Place

D: Kaleo La Belle • Switzerland • 92 min

The Royal Cinema, 9:30 pm

See also May 6

The Fog of War

D: Errol Morris • USA • 107 min

Errol Morris's thoughtful portrait of former U.S. secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara won an Oscar.

The ROM Theatre, 9:45 pm

Blank City

D: Celine Danhier • USA • 94 min

Cumberland 2, 9:45 pm

See also May 5

Thieves by Law

D: Alexander Gentelev •Israel,Germany • 90 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 10 pm

See also May 5

I'm Dangerous with Love

D: Michel Negroponte • USA • 85 min

Bloor Cinema, 11:45 pm

See also May 6

Sunday, May 9

American Radical: the Trials of Norman Finkelstein

D: David Ridgen Nicolas Rossier • Canada, USA • 84 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 11:30 am

See also May 6

Views on Vermeer - 12 Short Stories

D: Hans Pool • Netherlands • 69 Min

The ROM Theatre, 11:30 AM

See also May 7

The Corporation

D: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott • Canada • 145 min

Arguing that the modern corporation possesses all the personality traits of a psychopath, this film dissects the damage done by corporatism.

Innis Town Hall, 12:30 pm

Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn

D: Josh Whiteman • Australia • 90 min

Bloor Cinema, 1 pm

See also May 7

A Drummer's Dream

D: John Walker • Canada • 84 min

Royal Cinema, 1:30 pm

See also May 7

The Story of Furious Pete

D: George Tsioutsioulas • Canada • 85 Min

Cumberland 3, 1:30 pm

See also April 30

Thunder Soul

D: Mark Landsman • USA • 83 min

The ROM Theatre, 1:45 pm

See also May 7 and 8

Land

D: Julian Pinder • Canada • 76 min

Screening with

Basin

D: David Geiss • Canada • 8 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 2 pm

See also May 2

The Absence of Mr. or Mrs. B

D: Fima Emami, Reza Daryanoush • Iran • 60 min

Cumberland 2, 2 pm

See also May 7

Life With Murder

D: John Kastner • Canada • 93 min

Bloor Cinema, 3:45 pm

See also May 1

When I Rise

D: Mat Hames • USA • 74 min

Cumberland 3, 4 pm

See also May 7

Soundtracker

D: Nicholas Sherman • USA • 88 min

Innis Town Hall, 4 pm

See also May 2 and 4

Secrets of the Tribe

D: José Padilha • UK, Brazil • 94 min

The ROM Theatre, 4:15 pm

See also May 6

What's in a Name

D: Eva K�pper • Belgium • 75 min

Screening with

The Joneses

D: Moby Longinotto • UK • 13 min

Cumberland 2, 4:15 pm

See also May 6

His & Hers

D: Ken Wardrop • Ireland • 80 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 4:30 pm

See also May 1 and 3

Listen to This

D: Juan Baquero • Canada • 76 min

Screening with

Inuit High Kick

D: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril • Canada • 2 min

Royal Cinema, 4:30 pm

See also May 2

dish (Festival Faves)

Bloor Cinema, 6:30 pm

See also Apr 30 and May 8

A Different Path

D: Monteith McCollum • USA • 96 min

Cumberland 3, 6:30 pm

See also May 7

My Life with Carlos

D: German Berger • Chile, Spain, Germany • 85 min

Innis Town Hall, 6:30 pm

See also May 7

In The Name Of The Family

D: Shelley Saywell • Canada • 90 min

Screening with

Namrata

D: Shazia Javed • Canada • 9 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 6:45 pm

See also May 1

Beyond Ipanema

D: Guto Barra • Brazil, USA • 87 min

Royal Cinema, 7 pm

See also May 8

Flowers in the Desert

D: José Alvarez • Mexico • 72 min

Cumberland 2, 7 pm

See also May 5

The House of Suh

D: Iris K. Shim • USA • 90 min

The ROM Theatre, 7 pm

See also May 5

Made In India (Festival Faves)

Innis Town Hall, 9 pm

See also May 1 and 2

B1

D: Felipe Braga, Eduardo Hunter Moura • Brazil • 98 min

Screening with

Geral

D: Anna Azevedo • Brazil • 15 min

Cumberland 3, 9:15 pm

See also May 3 and 5

A Small Act (Festival Faves)

Bloor Cinema, 9:15 pm

See also May 2 and 5

Mark

D: Mike Hoolboom • Canada • 70 min

Screening with

A Moth in Spring

D: Yu Gu • Canada, China, USA • 26 min

Isabel Bader Theatre, 9:30 pm

See also May 1

Gasland (Festival Faves)

Royal Cinema, 9:30 pm

See also Apr 30 and May 2

Cooking Up Dreams (Festival Faves)

Cumberland 2, 9:30 pm

See also Apr 30 and May 1

Enemies Of The People (Festival Faves)

The ROM Theatre, 9:45 pm

See also May 3 and 5