 CITY REFLECTIONS
William Harbeck's six-minute, hand-cranked footage from the front of a street car is the earliest existing moving imagery of Vancouver. The Vancouver Historical Society has placed this footage alongside an identical re-enactment, shot 100 years later. |
 BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, THE
The story of the Red Army Faction, a German radical-protest terrorist group that formed in the late '60s so violent, they made the Black Panthers and The Weather Underground seem like pacifists, and their tale is dramatized in this festival favourite. |
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 T.A.M.I. SHOW, THE ( Teenage Awards Music International )
Filmed just 8 months after The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The T.A.M.I. Show introduced rock 'n' soul youth culture to America in the first concert movie of the rock era. One of the rarest and most sought-after performance films of its time. |
 AFGHAN STAR
A look at how contestants on the a musical contest program "Pop Idol" in Afghanistan risk their lives to appear on the show. |
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 STONING OF SORAYA M, THE
Depicting a practice that continues today in Iran and elsewhere despite official denials, the Political Film Society nominated “The Stoning of Soraya M.” as best film exposé and best film on human rights of 2009. |
 AFRICAN QUEEN, THE
It's been a long time coming. This undisputed film classic has been out of print for nearly a decade, and back then it was only on VHS tape. Now it finally arrives meticulously remastered for DVD. |
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 ART AND COPY
We are constantly bombarded by advertising. Sometimes it irritates us; sometimes it amuses us; occasionally, it may even move us.This documentary looks at the craft of advertising and some of the people behind it. |
 PARIS, TEXAS
"Paris, Texas" won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, a BAFTA award for director Wim Wenders, and Film of the Year from the London Critics Circle, to name just a few of its honours. |
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 PETROPOLIS: AEIRAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS
This documentary uses sweeping aerial photography of the Athabasca Tar Sands to showcase the environmental issues at stake in the exploitation of this rich natural resource. |
 IT MIGHT GET LOUD
Here are three personal remembrances of the electric guitar and its profound influence on popular music in the last 50 years. |
