Delroy, a migrant worker, has spent half his life working in the Ontario tobacco belt to support his family in Jamaica. Goodbyes have become ritual but Delroy harbours a secret – he has cancer. Though his health declines, Delroy continues to work while shielding his family from the inevitable. A story of acceptance and perseverance, […]
Best friends and Holocaust survivors Kitty and Ellen reflect on the striking resemblance between the contemporary political climate and their past.
Remote Viewing Memories is a found-footage documentary that tells the story of Ed Dames, one of the world’s leading experts on remote viewing (a psychic method of transcending space and time). Through archival interviews, infomercials and other media we follow Ed as he leaves the military in the late 80’s and attempts to find success […]
An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman, who was killed from a ‘bean’ ball delivered by Yankee pitcher Carl Mays in 1920. The Beaning presents the insidious connection between Chapman’s untimely death and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty.
Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he searched for a mysterious man named Ricardo Klement. What he discovered in the remote outskirts of Buenos Aires would send shockwaves around the world.
Using her grandfather’s 16mm family films, a woman explores how our memories are changing now that we have the technology to document every moment of our lives.
NYC PREMIERE In 1967, Detroit’s mostly white police department was known for its harsh treatment of black citizens. When police raided an after hours party at the intersection of 12th Street and Clairmount, the streets erupted in what’s been called a riot by some, a rebellion by others. It lasted five days and left 43 […]
2017 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Antonio Lopez was the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s New York and Paris. He was known for discovering talents such as Pat Cleveland, Grace Jones and Jerry Hall. Filmmaker James Crump takes us back to the swinging seventies when fashion designers and their entourages gained the prominence […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Advised by their accountant to form a new company to protect their assets, The Beatles created Apple Corps in 1968 and began investing in all manner of businesses to spread their countercultural ethos, from a fashion […]
NYC PREMIERE In 1985, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was invited to Wilmington, North Carolina, to document the filming of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet on Super 8, in photographs and through audio recordings, with the full participation of Lynch and actors Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern and Jack Nance. Three decades later, Braatz […]