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September 5
PINA*. Germany/France/UK, 2011 (103 min.) Dir: Wim Wenders. With: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo. This homage to the late Pina Bausch takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: first onto the stage with her legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, then the dancers are followed out of the theatre dancing through the city. Best Documentary, European Film Awards, 2011; Nominee Best Documentary Oscar 2012.

WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. US, 2010 (111 min.) Dir: David Guggenheim. With: The Black Family, Geoffrey Canada, The Esparza Family. Depiction of an American education system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, by undertaking an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes”, and methodically dissecting a broken system. Audience Award winner + nominee for Grand Jury prize in Documentary category, Sundance Film Festival 2010.

October 3
BULLY. US, 2010 (98 min.) Dir: Lee Hirsch. With: Alex, Ja’Maya, Kelby. A controversial documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in American schools through offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families including suicide, the education's response to aggressive behaviours and a growing movement in America to change how bullying is handled. Special Jury Mention Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2011.

PAYBACK*. Canada, 2011 (86 min.) Dir: Jennifer Baichwal. With: Eric Schlosser, Margaret Atwood, Conrad Black. An adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s visionary work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this documentary on “debt” in its various forms—societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Nominee in World Cinema Documentary category, Sundance Film Festival 2012.

October 31
INSIDE JOB. US, 2010 (120 min.) Dir: Charles Ferguson. With: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert. First film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Best Documentary Oscar 2011.

PROJECT NIM*. UK/US, 2011 (93 min.) Dir: James Marsh. With: Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace. Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s in order to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Nominee Best Documentary BAFTA 2012.

December 12
FAMILY PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE*. Ukraine/Canada, 2011 (90 min.) Dir: Julia Ivanova. In a small Ukrainian town, Olga Nenya, raises 16 black orphans amidst a population of Slavic blue-eyed blondes. Their stories expose the harsh realities of growing up as a bi-racial child in Eastern Europe. Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2011; Nominee Best Feature Length Documentary Genie 2012.

NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD. US, 2006 (103 min.) Dir: Jonathan Demme. With: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Pegi Young. Intimate musical portrait of legendary singer/songwriter Neil Young, filmed on the occasion of the world premiere of Young’s Prairie Wind concert at Nashville’s hallowed Ryman Auditorium (the original home of the Grand Ole Opry).

*English subtitles.

 

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