A GOOD MAN A film by Safina Uberoi | Australia | 2009 | 79' | 55'
			Chris Rohrlach is not your typical Australian sheep farmer. Willing to try anything to make the money needed to keep his quadriplegic wife of 14 years, Rachel, out of long-term hospital care, he decides to open a countryside brothel.

			A PLACE WITHOUT PEOPLE A film by Andreas Apostolides | Greece | 2009 | 55'
			When the world's most famous East African nature reserves were created in the 50's and 60's, few people know that the indigenous people, who had lived there in harmony with nature for 3000 years, were evicted from these areas. Still today governments, the tourist industry and conservation organizations advance the idea that the native Africans are intruders into what was once their own pristine wilderness.

			A SEA CHANGE A film by Barbara Ettinger | USA | 2009 | 83' | 55'
			A shocking story that draws attention to a very urgent but little-known crisis. Top scientists warn that a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless widespread awareness is raised to stop acidification of the world's oceans. Imagine a world without fish.

			ANOTHER PERFECT WORLD A film by Jorien van Nes and Femke Wolting | Netherlands | 2009 | 70' | 55'
			The utopias of the future will be created online, in digital worlds capable of rendering photo-realistic depictions of whatever the mind can imagine with technologies that allow people from around the world to join in. We now have the chance to build new worlds from scratch. If you were going to do so, on which principles would you establish it?

			BREAKING THE SILENCE A film by Hélène Magny and Pierre Mignault | Canada | 2010 | 75' | 52'
			The Burmese Junta in power since 1962, has promised elections in 2010. This new documentary, clandestinely shot in regions where few foreigners have dared to venture, looks at one of Burma's most dangerous zones (the Karen region) and meets people hiding in the jungle in order to resist forced relocation by the military regime, disclosing the secret networks of militants fighting along the Thai border, inside and outside Burma.

			GARBAGE DREAMS A film by Mai Iskander | USA | 2009 | 84' | 55'
			The story of three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect.

			Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould A film by Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont | Canada | 2009 | 108' | 85' | 58'
			An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. Glenn Gould: The Inner Life casts a new light on a man whose ideas were as controversial, and his private life as passionate, as his music. The film includes personal memories from Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some of whom have never spoken about him before, plus never-before heard home recordings and excerpts from his private diaries. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009

			GOOGLE BABY A film by Zippi Brand Frank | Israel | 2009
			A dramatic journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Israeli entrepreneur Doron proposes a new service - Baby production- providing customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as way to lower prices. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 <strong>World Premiere Docaviv 2009 - Best film award</strong>

			I BOUGHT A RAINFOREST A film by Jacob Andren & Helena Nygren | Sweden | 2010 | 58'
			Jacob Andrén, an ordinary kid going to school in the 80's, was, as at many schools in the western world, involved in fundraising actions to "save the rainforest" Their teachers urged them to help by "buying a tree". Now a grown up young man he is wondering about what happened to all those trees that he and his classmates bought with the money they made by selling stuff on the flea market. He remembers getting a certificate, but that was 20 years ago. Jacob decides to buy a plane ticket to try to find his tree and to find out if their effort did make a difference.

			INTO ETERNITY A film by Michael Madsen | Denmark | 2010 | 75' | 58'
			Every day large amounts of high-level radioactive waste are placed in interim storage, vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters or changes in society. In Finland, the world's first permanent repository is being cut out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last the entire period the waste remains hazardous: 100,000 years.

			KARSH IS HISTORY A film by Joseph Hillel | Canada | 2009 | 58' Produced by Produced by Productions Grand Nord, in association with The Portrait Gallery of Canada and BRAVO!
			Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, Fidel Castro, JFK, Winston Churchill, Picasso, Glen Gould, Audrey Hepburn: we all know that single, most famous picture of every one of them. Behind the camera was the legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh, the ultimate mythmaker.

			LEARNING FROM LIGHT A film by Bo Landin & Sterling van Wagenen | USA | 2009 | 84' | 60'
			Culture, Nature and Light: These elements provide the structure for the documentary that explores the vision of one of the world's greatest architects, Chinese-American I.M. Pei while chronicling his latest and maybe final creation; the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. For this commission I.M. Pei embarked on an odyssey into the world and history of Islamic architecture. This personal portrait follows him and visits places like Alhambra and Cairo to understand the essence of I.M. Pei's inspiration and vision.

			LOVE AT THE TWILIGHT MOTEL A film by Alison Rose | Canada | 2009 | 50'
			The motel presents a veneer of everyday normalcy. Chambermaids go about their chores in the hot Miami light. A green gecko poses against pink stucco. A retro neon sign looms over the lazy hum of city traffic.

			LOVE INTERRUPTED A film by Alison Armstrong and Giselle Portenier | Canada | 2009 | 50'
			Amazing and deeply moving stories of first loves who were separated in youth, lost all contact with each other and eventually managed to reunite decades later. Two couples who were torn apart by class, religion, parents and geography, tell us their stories of how they met, why they broke up and most importantly, what drew them back together.

			MIGHTY UKE A film by Tony Coleman and Margaret Meagher | Canada | 2009 | 76' | 55'
			Think of a ukulele and you probably imagine grass skirts, slide guitar and kitchy lyrics, but far from being just a Hawaiian novelty instrument, the ukulele has a rich history and has profoundly affected music around the world.

			MINE: KATRINA'S ORPHANED ANIMALS A film by Geralyn Pezanoski | USA | 2009 | 80' | 55'
			A powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop and aftermath of the Katrina disaster, when thousands of pets, forcefully left behind, were transported around the country and adopted even when their displaced owners still desperately were looking for them. When two families love the same pet, conflicts inevitably arise over who is the rightful "owner" and what is right for the animal.

			PAX AMERICANA and the Weaponization of Space A film by Denis Delestrac | France-Canada | 2009 | 90' | 55'
			In a language tinted with irony and peppered with shocking facts, the film examines the origins and reality and future of the militarization of space and opens a debate that until now has been reserved for the specialists, some of whom maintain that the arms race in space can only lead to apocalypse.

			PETS ON PROZAC A film by Patrick Reed | Canada | 2009 | 58'
			People now commonly see their pets as part of the family. Pet spas offer "paw-dicures"; celebrity chefs dish up treats at pet delis; and everything from braces to stem cell transplants to heart surgery is now available for your pet....assuming you can afford it. The newest trend is the most controversial and revealing: psycho-active drugs for dogs and cats.

			PRESUMED GUILTY A film by Roberto Hernandez & Geoffrey Smith | Mexico | 2009 | 85'
			Wrestling with an unhappy love affair, José Antonio Zuñiga pleaded: "God, please kill me or put me in jail" . A week later, a boy points him out from a police car, Tonio gets arrested then charged with murder. A judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years on the testimony of a single, shaky, eyewitness. Two unlikely filmmakers, Mexican lawyers, recruited by Tonio's friends, start to follow him with a camera in what seemed a hopeless 3 year quest to get the case re-tried.

			REEL INJUN A film by Neil Diamond | Canada | 2009 | 85' | 58'
			Cree director Neil Diamond brings a wry and slightly mischievous wit to this insightful and entertaining documentary that traces the evolution of the powerful images of "the Indian" in Hollywood movies - images that have influenced the understanding (and misunderstanding) of North American Natives in almost every corner of the world and have locked the North American natives into powerful stereotypes, from which they only recently started to break loose. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009

			SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS A film by Lee Storey | USA | 2009 | 70' | 52'
			Born in response to the liberal counter-culture of the '60s by the ultra-conservative religious sect, Moral Re-Armament, SMILE TILL IT HURTS explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a common enthusiastic vision to change the world one squeaky-clean song at a time. But its cheery façade concealed the more complicated reality of an organization founded on conservative American ideals and cult-like utopian ideology.

			SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION A film by Summer Preney and Jane Michener | Canada | 2010 | 58'
			Sounds Like a Revolution is pro-active and energizing documentary about a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Paris, Michael Franti and Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum discuss their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment when dissent was silenced and media outlets either ignored them or forced them into self-censorship before their material was released. Now with the decade gone, the Internet and Obama bring new hope.....

			SPACE TOURISTS A film by Christian Frei | Switzerland | 2009 | 95'
			Very topical and first time ever, humorous and laconic view of the way billionaires depart our planet earth to travel into outer space for fun. With extra-ordinary access and never before seen images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery.

			STEAM OF LIFE A film by Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen | Finland | 2010 | 84'
			Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In the warmth of rusty stoves they cleanse themselves both physically and mentally in an exceptionally intimate and poetic film with a deeply emotional and unforgettable finale.

			THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA A film by Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith | USA | 2009 | 90'
			1971: America is embroiled in a dirty war based on lies and deceit. A president is abusing the power of his office, ignoring the will of the people, congress and the courts. One man, Daniel Ellsberg, at the center of power leaks the truth about the Vietnam war to the New York Times. Henry Kissinger called him, "the most dangerous man in America" And 3 decades later, he's still at it. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009

			THE RAINBOW WARRIORS OF WAIHEKE ISLAND A film by Susanne Raes | Netherlands | 2010 | 90' | 58'
			A group of Greenpeace pioneers looks back on their activists' life. Once the crew of the famous ship Rainbow Warrior bombed by French agents in 1985, now they are living together on Waiheke Island in New Zealand. Age causes them to make up the balance: have their ideals proven to be tenable, and what has their activist past achieved for the world and for themselves?

			THE WAY WE GET BY A film by Aron Gaudet | USA | 2009 | 85'
			Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about "troop greeters" - a group of senior citizens who gather day and night at Bangor airport, Maine to thank American soldiers departing for war and greet them when they come back from Afghanistan and Iraq ( and hand them cell phones to call their loves ones!) the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. A deeply moving film about life and how to live it.

			WEAPON OF WAR A film by Femke and Ilse van Velzen | Netherlands | 2009 | 59'
			Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. In the Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In this unique film military perpetrators unveil the hidden motives and strategies of rape as a war crime. Filled with trauma, an ex-rebel rapist attempts to reconcile with his past, by meeting one of his victims. Captain Basima is working as an army priest and confronts soldier/rapists. He urges them to change. Just like he did.