MIPTV 2013
The Fruit Hunters
From award-winning director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) comes a story of adventure, desire and obsession.
Doc | 93 min | HD
Yung Chang
EyeSteelFilm Inc. | NFB
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International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2012
International Film Festival, Palm Springs, 2013
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Secretariat's Jockey, Ron Turcotte
Ron Turcotte is deemed one of the best jockeys of all time. From 1961 to 1978, he won 3,033 horse races. But he’s better known for taking the U.S. Triple Crown astride Secretariat, the fastest thoroughbred the racing world has ever known. At the time, the prestigious trophy hadn’t been won in 25 years. Turcotte is also the only jockey in history to have won five of the six consecutive Triple Crown races. His brilliant career came to an abrupt halt during a race that left him a paraplegic.
Doc | 52 min | HD
Phil Comeau
NFB
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible
From John Kastner, four-time Emmy winner and director of Life with Murder, comes Not Criminally Responsible, a new documentary about the revolution in the treatment of the “criminally insane.” Kastner and his crew are given remarkable access to a forensic psychiatric institution, filming inside its walls for over a year. The film shows how psychiatrists treat mental patients who have committed violent crimes—patients who not long ago would have been considered so hopelessly dangerous they must be confined for life, but today are being released back into the community.
Doc | 90 min - 60 min | HD
John Kastner
JS Kastner Productions | NFB
Alphée of the Stars
Directed by Hugo Latulippe, and co-produced by Esperamos and the NFB, this documentary follows the filmmaker's daughter, Alphée. She has a rare genetic condition called Smith-Lemli-Opitz disorder, for which there is no cure.
Doc | 83 min | HD
Hugo Latulippe
Esperamos Films | NFB
CHI
Two women, well-known filmmaker Anne Wheeler and actor Babz Chula, take off for southern India with a camera and the hope of making a film about a little known treatment for cancer – something akin to a miracle.
Doc | 59 min | HD
Anne Wheeler
NFB
Buying Sex
Timely and wise, this important documentary about the state of prostitution laws in Canada is a revelation. Buying Sex offers a wide spectrum of insight into the issue, inviting us to think for ourselves about the consequences of social change.
Doc | 75 min | HD
Theresa Macinnes, Kent Nason
NFB
Vanishing Point
Two Inuit communities of the circumpolar north—one on Canada’s Baffin Island, the other in Northwest Greenland—are linked by a migration led by an intrepid shaman. Navarana, Inughuit elder and descendant of the shaman, senses the consequences of rapid social and environmental change, and charts a course into the uncertain future.
Doc | 82 min | HD
Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs
NFB
They Think I'm Chinese
Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Lea, Julia, Anne and Flavie.
Doc | 52 min | HD
Nicole Giguère
NFB | Productions VF Inc.
The People of Kattawapsiskak River
The People of the Kattawapiskak River by Alanis Obomsawin looks at the causes of a housing crisis in a Northern Ontario Cree community in 2011.
Doc | 50 min | HD
Alanis Obomsawin
NFB
Hollow Land
With their prize possession in tow, a much-travelled young couple arrive in a new land—where all is not as they expected it to be. As they await the birth of their first child, they struggle in the face of poverty and oppressive new customs. Hollow Land is a brilliant animated film that captures the pressures, disruptions, and corrosive anxieties that are a part of daily life for so many immigrants and refugees around the world.
Animation | 14 min | HD
Michal Pfeffer, Uri Kranot
NFB, Dansk Tegnefilm, Les films de l’Arlequin
Clockmakers
Trampoline artists evolve in an abstract architectural world. As the number of their jumps multiply, they create a universe of movement where image and sound become one.
Animation | 4 min | HD
Renaud Hallé
NFB
Reflection
Composed of real-life images that have been manipulated, this immersive experience explores the urban environment, using abstraction to examine the power of reflection in our surroundings.
Animation | 5 min | HD
Sylvie Trouvé
NFB
Gloria Victoria
Gloria Victoria, the third film in a trilogy on the relationship between art and power, unfolds on the still-smouldering rubble of a furious 20th century. From the Russian front to the Chinese Revolution, from Dresden to Guernica, director Theodore Ushev recycles elements of surrealism and cubism to construct a collage for peace.
Animation | 7 min | HD
Theodore Ushev
NFB
Inspector Street
Some strange phenomena have been observed at the corner of Inspector Street. As the investigation begins, characters living inside a newspaper come to life from photos, and shape the world around them.
Animation | 8 min | HD
Emmanuelle Loslier
NFB
The Day is Listening
A man loves a woman; both of them love literature. Through the imagery of Félix Dufour-Laperrière and the poetry of Hélène Dorion, this film delicately depicts the murmur of its characters’ lives and the harmony of their feelings.
Animation | 8 min | HD
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
NFB
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