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 […]
