Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 28 @ 4pm Synopsis: “Wacken 3D. Louder than Hell” is the ultimate documentary about the biggest Metal festival in the world. Filmed with six camera units and 18 stereoscopic 3D cameras, the movie takes you on stage and behind the curtain with Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motorhead, Rammstein and many […]
Remaining Screenings: Thurs, Nov 26 @ 8pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 9:30pm Sat, Nov 28 @ 1:15pm Synopsis In the age of New Media, people all around the world are posting an endless stream of video clips online. Every day, thousands of web surfers cram their video notes into virtual bottles, toss them into the […]
Four awards juries selected films from each of the festival’s Viewfinders, Metropolis, Shorts, and inaugural DOC NYC U sections to recognize for their outstanding achievements in form and content. Festival audiences voted for the SundanceNow Doc Club Audience Award. Viewfinders Competition Grand Jury Prize Winner – Motley’s Law, directed by Nicole Horanyi Special Mention – […]
Remaining Screening Times: Sat, Nov 21 @ 10:30am Sun, Nov 22 @ 8:45pm Mon, Nov 23 @ 12:15pm Thurs, Nov 26 @ 5:30pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 5:15pm Sat, Nov 28 @ 7pm “Marianne Hertz: Model and Perfect Mother.” This is how filmmaker Tom Fassaert’s grandmother was presented in a 1950s magazine. His father, uncle […]
Screening Times: Sat, Nov 21 @ 7:30pm Sun, Nov 22 @ 10:30am Wed, Nov 25 @ 1pm Thur, Nov 26 @ 9:45pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 5:15pm In 1973, Claude Lanzmann started shooting Shoah, a nearly 10-hour film that many regard as the most important ever made about the Holocaust. The Frenchman worked for a […]
Aside from screening his Top 10 favorite documentaries, IDFA is honoring Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris with a retrospective. His films show a master of interviewing at work: talking heads who never quite say what you expect them to. When Errol Morris interviews someone, he usually starts by saying that he doesn’t know where to […]
First Screening – Saturday, November 14th – 4pm @ TIFF For all the cinematic and televisual treatments of alcoholism that have come before, rarely has the affliction been treated with such harrowing frankness and sheer expressive brilliance as on display Wojtek Smarzowski’s The Mighty Angel. Based on Jerzy Pilch’s celebrated novel, the movie tells the […]
First Screening – Tuesday, November 10 – 6:30pm @ TIFF Bell Lightbox When the filmmaker Michel Negroponte (Jupiter’s Wife) received an e-mail from a woman who thought she might be a promising subject for a documentary, a process of collaboration began that would result in one of the most revealing self-portraits of living with mental […]
First Screening – Tuesday, November 10th – 9pm @ TIFF As it does for most people, Sarah’s day begins with the sound of the bedside alarm. But that’s where the similarity ends. For Sarah (Libby Munro), the beginning of the day marks the start of another ordeal, wherein no task is easy, time trickles by […]
Opening Night Screening – Friday, November 6th – 7:45pm @ Bloor Hot Docs Cinema When he was on his game as a professional hockey player, Sheldon Kennedy was in complete control: assured, aggressive, strategic and always in motion. Off the ice, however, Kennedy was living a secret nightmare. A victim of serial sexual abuse perpetrated […]
