All Films

Dancing Mania

2012 • 25 min • Iran

A short documentary on the latest film by Mania Akbari titled, From Tehran to London. The film takes a closer look at Akbari’s latest boundary-pushing film that displays females dancing for the first time in Iranian cinema after the revolution. Through the lens of critical analysis with a touch of Freudian psychoanalysis, the documentary comments on how the themes of dance, death, homosexuality, censorship and devastation come to light through the actor’s dialogues and symbols in the film.

Cobra Twist

2012 • 30 min

Straight to video film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

Cracking Your Genetic Code

2012 • 54 min

What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA - all three billion chemical letters of it - read, stored, and available for analysis. Cracking Your Genetic Code reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution. Meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralize the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions. But what are the moral dilemmas raised by this new technology? Will it help or hurt us to know the diseases that may lie in our future? What if such information falls into the hands of insurance companies, employers, or prospective mates? One thing is for certain: the new era of personalized, gene-based medicine is relevant to everyone, and soon you will be choosing whether to join the ranks of the DNA generation.

The Sunday Robbers

2012 • 17 min • Canada

A guy tries to convince his ex-girlfriend to have sex with him, on the very same day that they both plan to commit a robbery with her new boyfriend.

John Heroux: Gulf War Fighter Pilot

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

In 1991, John Heroux served in Operation Desert Storm, piloting one of forty F16 Fighter Planes sent in to target large manufacturing facilities deep inside Iraq. Looking back on these missions, John explains that pilots, himself included, felt no pride at causing destruction, but did have pride in serving their country and completing their tasks. This is his story.

Geister, die ich rief

2012 • 38 min • Germany, Sweden

Johanna believes to find happiness and security in her family live with husband and daughter. But facing her unfulfilled desire disturbs Johanna's serenity.

Summer Vacation

2012 • 22 min • Israel

Sea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.

Baby Shoes

2012 • 4 min

As a father begins to sell his son's baby shoes and clothes, we see his thoughts of the child's life.

Lost Horizons

2012 • 15 min • France

In Corsica, a young man who is a fisherman like his late father before him wishes to leave and discover new horizons. A passionate music lover, he is torn between his mother who encourages him to pursue his passion and his grandparents who want him to stay on the island.

Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok

2012 • 45 min • Philippines

Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok unravels the multiple layers of the almost mythological figure-living legend, Fang Od, a 92 year old woman who has been called the ‘Last [Traditional] Tattoo Artist of Kalinga.’ The first layer of the story is the one she is most famous for-being a tattoo artist. At her eyes, she continues to exhibit sharpness and precision in the very demanding art and skill of tattooing. The second layer shows her many stories as woman who has reached the age of looking back. She regales us with stories of her many suitors, of her youth, the dancing and the feasts. She also looks back with not just a tinge of regret that she never married nor had children of her own. Her body covered in tattoos is a landscape on its own mirroring the map of a woman who has chosen wittingly or unwittingly a road diverging from convention and in the process became a culture-bearer.

The Mystery of Dark Matter

2012 • 52 min • France

Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it is. This breath-taking thriller leads us to the dawn of a scientific and metaphysical revolution, akin to Copernic's or Galileo's. It could totally change the way we perceive our world.

Jaws: The Restoration

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

A short documentary featurette about the 2012 restoration of Jaws.

Reconstructing a Family

2012 • 36 min • Norway

How do we choose to tell the stories from our past?

Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogant young man won over the queen by playing on her love of Indian cuisine and romantic view of the country,teaching her Hindistani,whilst she signed letters to him 'Mother',bestowing houses and gifts on him and his family. Already shocked that a Muslim should be at the heart of the court the Royal family stepped in when Victoria announced her desire to knight him and they threatened to have her declared insane if she went ahead. It worked. And in 1901 after the queen's death Karim was banished from Royal circles,returning to India where he died.

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

2012 • 53 min • United States of America

A devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011 triggering a crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. This 2012 documentary reveals how close the world came to a nuclear nightmare. In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. FRONTLINE tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant’s pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings; the nuclear experts and officials in the prime minister’s office fighting to get information as the crisis spiraled out of control; and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives’ orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers.

Damascus Road

2012 • 25 min • United States of America

In a dystopian Washington, DC, a shadowy agency recruits a marine to assist in their human welfare program. His loyalty begins to fade when called to carry out a bizarre order.

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

2012 • 53 min • France

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.

Feral

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.

Artefact #3: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.

The Room

2012 • 12 min • Mexico

Mariana must sacrifice her dog Frida after violently beating it for having destroyed her recently deceased son's toys. The pet's death helps Mariana accept and overcome the loss of her son.

I Was Blacklisted by Thom Powers

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.

Giuseppe

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Giuseppe is a small black Chihuahua. This is his life as told by him.

All That She Surveys

2012 • 15 min

A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

Tom Daley: Diving for Britain

2012 • 46 min • United Kingdom

The British ITV channel specially broadcasts Tom Daley's latest documentary, looking back on Daley's training and life in the four years since the last Olympic Games. This is also the first time he and his fiance and Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black have framed a documentary. The two looked back on the process of meeting and falling in love, the ins and outs of Daly's difficult decision to come out, and how he returned to the platform now is all the credit of Lance. The engagement of the two was blessed by the family and the whole team, and all kinds of loving interactions were sweet and touching. And Daley's latest jumping method "Fireworks", which incorporates traditional Russian acrobatics, also appeared in the documentary. Hope to see this different firework at the 2016 Rio Olympics.