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Feature length documentaries from all around the world.

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Once Upon A Time ProletarianKings Of Pastry
(Country: US; Director: Samantha Buck)
A happily married woman tries to sort out the life of her 20 year old pregnant sister, one of whose existing children is dying and whose boyfriend is upsetting their mother.

(Country: Canada, US, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine; Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier; Cast: Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Alan M. Dershowitz, Richard Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Nidal Barham)
A look at the controversial American academic on tour, with commentary from leading debaters.

(Country: Canada; Director: Laura Bari; Writer: Laura Bari; Cast: Antoine Houang)
Portrait of a five-year-old blind boy who uses a mini boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds around him, exploring his life and his imagination.

(Country: Australia; Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson; Cast: Jack Charles)
The actor who founded Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company talks about his life, his heroin habit, and his criminal tendencies.

(Country: US; Director: Michel Negroponte)
The story of a musician who cured his multiple drug addictions using the African hallucinogen ibogaine, and wants to help others do the same but discovers it can be dangerous.

BastardyThe September Issue
(Country: Mexico; Director: Eugenio Polgovsky)
Documentary observes how hard work defines the lives and existence of children and their families.

(Country: USA, UK, Netherlands; Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker)
An American pastry chef travels to France to enter the Olympics of cooking, in pursuit of a red, white and blue collar from the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.

(Country: US; Director: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher; Writer: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri)
An ordinary American family struggles with poverty and the impact of war. ,

(Country: China, UK, Germany; Director: Xialou Guo, Pamela Casey)
An exploration of the social and political landscape of modern China.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith; Cast: Tonio Zuniga)
A documentary following a man accused of murder who must fight for his life against a corrupt justice system, effectively guilty until proven innocent.

(Country: Cameroon, France; Director: Jean-Marie Teno)
Attendees at a secret film club in Burkina Faso, where banned films are shown, discuss the state of the film industry in Africa.

(Country: US; Director: RJ Cutler)
With unprecedented access, director RJ Cutler and his crew shot for nine months as they captured Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her team preparing the 2007 Vogue September issue, widely accepted as the "fashion bible" for the year's trends. ,

(Country: Israel, Switzerland; Director: Oded Adomi Leshem)
A look at how cochlear implants are being received in the world's largest deaf community, in El-Sayed, Palestine.


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Jean-Pierre Améris talks about his comedy Romantics Anonymous.

Michel Hazanavicius, the Dardennes and others on cinematic and fairy tale influences.

McQueen, Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity

Scottish and Icelandic shorts lead the pack.

Events include a rare screening of The Blue Angel
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