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TIFF 15 – THE PROGRAM – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 13, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at Roy Thomson Hall Monday, September 14, 2015 @ 5pm – Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 4:30 PM at Elgin/Winter Garden Theatres Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) directs Ben Foster in this thriller about disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong’s doping […]

Locarno 15 – K2 TOUCHING THE SKY – Semaine de la Critique

First Festival Screening – August 7, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Teatro Kursaal Last Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at PalaVideo The children of acclaimed alpinists, who died on K2 in Karakorum Mountains, undertake an expedition to answer the question: what is the price of passion. In the summer of 1986, […]

Mystic Ball

<em>Mystic Ball</em>

by Shael Stolberg for Festival Products The award winning Mystic Ball is an engaging portrait of one man’s passion; chinlone. Canadian first-time filmmaker Greg Hamilton takes as on his journey to understand this sport played in Myanmar and said to be at least 1,500 years old. A former martial arts expert, Hamilton falls in love […]