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2011 FILM LINEUP
Thursday September 29th – 7:00pm
Under The Red Star
director: Kelly Saxberg
docu-drama
75 minutes
country: Canada
The Finnish Labour Temple opened at 314 Bay Street in March 1910 but this workers hall was a temple of a different sort, one where political, rather than religious devotion, was practiced. “Under the Red Star” tells the story of union organizers, strong minded women, athletic children, actors and even poets. This docu-drama brings to life the lively and dramatic past of the early years of Finnish immigration to Canada.
Thursday September 29th – 9:00pm
5 Minutes Each
director: Vojin Vasovic
fiction, animation
country: Canada, Serbia/Montenegro
9 mins 50 sec
A metaphorical story about the constant struggle of the artist to reach those five minutes of limelight. A tale about the upswing, downfall, climax, and the unexpected
Mortem
director: Eric Atlan
fiction, psychological thriller
country: France
1hr 34 mins
The story of a young woman who defies her own death.
Friday September 30th – 6:00pm
Sticky Money
director: Ryan La Via
fiction, comedy
country: Canada
10 minutes
The Adventures of a 20 dollar bill around the Bay/Algoma area.
Foreign Film
director: Nilufer Rahman
fiction-comedy
country: Canada
7 mins 30 sec
A light-hearted comedy about culturally diverse moviegoers who get on each other’s nerves while viewing a foreign film. They quickly discover that some things need no translation.
5 Minutes Each
director: Vojin Vasovic
fiction, animation
country: Canada, Serbia/Montenegro
9 mins 50 sec
A metaphorical story about the constant struggle of the artist to reach those five minutes of limelight. A tale about the upswing, downfall, climax, and the unexpected
Chopsticks
director: Ryan La Via and Dianne Brothers
fiction-comedy
country: Canada
8 mins
When his car breaks down, a professional life coach gets some life advice from the man who picks him up.
director: Ainhoa Menedez Goyoaga
fiction-drama
country: Spain
11 mins
Anna works in a doll factory. Her whole life revolves around performing mechanical motions to put in the doll’s eyes. But a small change at her work will change her life forever.
Rascacielos 
director: Mariana Torres
fiction, drama
country: Spain
14 mins
In Oscar’s world, the men in suits live in skyscrapers. They are happy, never run away, and never cry. Until one day, one man hides and the rules fall apart.
Friday September 30th – 8pm
Minispekktaakkeit
director: Maarit Suomi
short
country: Finland
3 mins
In what can be described as “cinematic haikus”, Mini spectacles depict big emotions, briefly. The feelings are familiar. There is something pitiful about them, something amusing, horrifying, and strange.
A Finn’s Sauna
director: Arthur Fielder
documentary
country: Canada (Local)
10 mins
A look at Saunas from the perspective of Finnish Canadians in Thunder Bay Ontario.
House of Branching Love
director:Mika Kaurismäki
fiction
country
mins
The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple – Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer
Friday September 30th – 10pm
director: Sergi Portabella
narrative fiction, comedy
country: Germany
12 mins
Two script writers who write a film about a teenage couple who become bank robbers. A film about the struggle of writing a movie, getting lost along the way, and ending up starring in your own script.
director: Sonali Gulati
documentary
country: USA, India
1 hr 11mins 23sec
A personal documentary by an Indian lesbian filmmaker who struggles with not being able to come out to her mother.
Saturday October 1st – 1:00pm
Sidewalk Symphony
director: Jonathan Salemi
fiction, comedy?
Country: USA
8 mins
What happens to a boy’s imagination when his MP3 player is taken away?
Where on Earth is My Bike
director: Paul Morralee
documentary
country: Canada
29 mins 23 seconds
Watch as bikes from around the world arrive in Africa and see the effects of international gifts to Africans in need. Experience a fast ride through two countries in Africa and see how a bike can change a life and also employ hundreds in the process.
director: Sanjay Rawal
documentary
country: USA
28 mins
This is the weightlifting odyssey of Sri Chinmoy, the late spiritual teacher and peace advocate. This documentary speaks specifically of the exhibition held on November 13 2004.
Harry’s Hairy
director: Leon Haggarty
fiction, comedy
country: Canada
2 mins 45 sec
A mad scientist concocts a potion. His young lab assistant comes across it and decides to take a sip…
Saturday October 1st – 3:00pm
director: Jocelyn Forgues
fiction/documentary
country: Canada
25 mins
While Julie dreams of leaving her small town to become a great filmmaker, she crosses paths with the owner of the general store who is a WWII Veteran.
Un Fils
director: Andre Gaumond
fiction, drama
country: Canada
19 mins 58 seconds
A psychologist, Sebastien Huberdeau, pushes a young boy to tell why he wanted to commit suicide. What he discovers is beyond his expectations.
Les Rideaux Rouges
director: Alain Deymier
fiction, drama
country: France/Spain
34 mins 50 sec
Two young orphans, Jose and his companion Pablo , flee their home under threat and are condemned to drift. Jose is going to have to enter the adult world and set off to find his destiny, while trying to solve the mystery of his identity.
Saturday October 1st – 5:00pm
The Thing That Happened
director: Andrew Walton
documentary
20 mins
Country: USA
A documentary that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school in northern Uganda. The school struggles on a shoe-string budget to provide a home and education for children displaced by a civil war. The children: former child soldiers, orphans and the poor, try to erase their horrific past and focus on their future
The Return of Old Man Kabura
director: Patrick Ngendakumana
fiction, drama
country: Burundi, Canada
7 mins
An 82 year old refugee comes home to Burundi and tries to rebuild his life after 38 years in exile.
director: Ted Haddock
documentary
country: USA
33 mins
In a world where 27 million children, women, and men live as modern-day slaves, the fight for justice cannot wait. This film takes you inside the violent and ugly business of slavery, from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India.
Two Cities 
director: Nadia Awad
fiction, drama
country: Canada
15 mins
The story of four characters whose lives collide after a kidnapping in Darfur.
Saturday October 1st – 7:00pm
director: Barry Greenwald
documentary
country: Canada
70 mins
In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three 12-year-old Inuit boys were separated from their families and sent to Ottawa to live with white families and educated in white schools. They had no idea they were part of an experiment, and the consequences it had on their identity and culture was brushed aside.
Gas Through the Glass
director: Kayleb Magiskan
fiction, drama
2 mins 30 sec
An introspective look at the life of a man just trying to get his next high.
Choke
director: Michelle Latimer
animated short
country: Canada
5 mins
Upon leaving his First Nations reserve, Jimmy encounters the lost souls of the city and is reminded that no matter how far you travel, you cannot escape who you are.
Saturday October 1st – 9:00pm
Joseph l’Insourmis
director: Caroline Glorion
fiction, drama
country: Belgium/France
1hr 30 mins
In the early 1960s, a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Paris is home to three hundred and fifty families. They live in poverty, and violence is their daily lot. Father Joseph Wrezinski makes it his life mission to help his people, and makes a lasting impact on a young boy’s life.
La Premiere Etoile 
director: Jason Fischer
fiction, comedy
country: Canada
8 mins 30 seconds
Canadian hockey legend, Duane Timberlane, takes on a group of businessmen plotting to take over Canada.
Sunday October 2nd – 1pm
Big Blue Row
director: Kelly Saxberg
documentary
country: Canada
8 mins
This film is a follow up to “Life is But a Dream” – a portrait of local writer Charlie Wilkins as he prepared for an adventure of a lifetime. Charlie and 16 crew members arrived in Barbados after 54 traumatic days rowing Big Blue across the Atlantic from Morocco. This Doc Challenge film focuses on their skipper, Angela Madsen, a 50 year old paraplegic grandmother of three.
Tugs
director: Jessica Edwards
documentary
country: USA
9 mins 30 sec
Set against the backdrop of one of the busiest harbours in New York City, “Tugs” is an ode to the hardest working boats on the waterways and the people who pilot them. The marine towing industry has matured, but the traditions of family, community, and hard work remain.
director: Raili Roy & Kelly Saxberg
documentary
32 mins
In the difficult conditions of the Thunder Bay region, farming is not an obvious career choice for young people. Producing food in Northwestern Ontario requires a special kind of farmer. This is the story of five local producers and the challenges they face.
director: Pixie Cram
documentary
country: Canada
30 mins
In the spring of 2010, Tamir marked its 25th Anniversary with a professionally managed, fully integrated, theatrical production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Centrepoint Theatre in Ottawa. This is the story challenges and dreams of several of their key players.
Sunday October 2nd – 3:00pm
Never Happen Here: The Whitehorse 9/11 Story
director: Max Fraser
documentary
country: Canada
45 mins 5 seconds
On 9/11, the safe peaceful world of a remote northern town was shattered when a “hijacked” 747 approached with fighter jets on its tail. Almost 10 years later, questions are still asked about why a hostile Korean airliner was diverted to Canada. A Northern point of view documentary with national and international dimensions.
Inuit High Kick
director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
short
country: Canada
3 mins
An Inuit man demonstrates his strength and power as he does a high kick.
Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos
director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
documentary
50 mins
country: Canada
A young Inuit woman, fascinated with the old tradition of her people’s tattoos, goes back home to discover their history, and why the tradition disappeared so quickly.
Sunday October 2nd – 5:oopm
director: Martin Bargiel
fiction, drama
country: Germany
19 mins
Some dreams shouldn’t be remembered.
Mish Mush
director: Amar Chebib
fiction, drama
country: Syrian Arab Republic, Canada
18 mins 42 seconds
Upon being drafted for military service, Ahmad, a determined young Syrian poet, decides to flee the country.
Der Eintanzer
director: Gregor Erler
fiction-drama
country: Germany
27 mins (11 sec)
During the roaring 20s in Berlin, Hans, an old discouraged dancer, befriends a poor child from the streets. With the power of dancing, fantasy, and friendship, they escape the upcoming war into a world without poverty, hunger, and loneliness.
Sunday October 2nd – 7:00pm
director: Thomas Wallner
documentary
country: USA
1hr 30 mins
The Guantanamo Trap tells the stories of four people whose lives have been irrevocably changed by the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre.
Shrapnel
director: Robert March
fiction, drama
country: United Kingdom
12 mins 11 seconds
Damaged by his war experiences, an ex-soldier has a chance meeting with a young woman on a train. Memories and hopes combine to take him on a painful journey into his past and force him to face the biggest decision of his life.
Sunday October 2nd – 9:00pm
director: Joshua Dylan Mellars
documentary
country: USA
1 hr 12 mins
Alam Khan is travelling from San Rafael, California to India on his first concert tour. This time he goes without his legendary father, Ali Akbar Kahn. When Alam feels the weight of living up to his family’s North Indian Classical music tradition, he remembers his father’s advice: “Don’t worry, play like a lion!”
Special thanks to our Program Selection Committee 2011:
Michel Beaulieu
Jean-Yves Bernard
Madeleine Bernard
Pete Binsted
Noreen Bourgeois
Carrie Fawcett
Jacomyn Gerbrandy
Leon Haggarty
Gabriel Harpelle
Ron Harpelle
Richard Hiner
Tiffany Jarva
Danny Johnson
Sarah Lehtinan
Kerstin Math
Connor McMahon
Sandy Moonias
Tina Munroe
Devin O’Hara
Jaimi Penny
Steve Robinson
Graham Saunders
Kelly Saxberg
Nick Sottile
Nicholina Yourakas
