During an evening performance in the an urban multiplex cinema the spectators of a social drama are suddenly torn from the film Reality: Karsten, charismatic leader of a group of starry-eyed idealists, interrupts the running film, steps before the white screen and starts a talk about structural violence and global injustice to the protesting audience. When the first spectators want to defend themselves against this intervention in her evening plans and go it becomes very clear that Karsten is not anlone and is supported by some armed comrades. As the first shots fall, the audience realizes that they are held hostage in a seriously menacing situation and there seems to be no way out from the obstructed cinema.
When local heavy and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell) he soon discovers the private party involves child prostitution and trafficking, catering for wealthy paedophiles.
A biographical documentary on eminent Indian rock and jazz musician and percussionist Nondon Bagchi and a generation of 60's musicians playing English rock music in India.
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.
What does it take to say a word of love? How long and how much strength does it take for the heart to speak? How many streets at night? How fast? How many faces in how many bars? What tenderness? What pain? What music? What images in the mind? And where does it come from? Is it in the darkness of a closed park at night? In the back room of a Chinese bar? In the bottom of a beer? In a collective dance? In a sister's laughter? When does it finally happen? For the soul to let go.
Natan tells the remarkable story of Bernard Natan, a Romanian immigrant who came to Paris in 1905 and was involved almost immediately with French cinema.
