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TRANSFIXED: TV AND
ADDICTION
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9:30 AM Doors Open
Coffee & Breakfast
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THE PUBLIC ADDICT
(Symposium Panel)
11:00 AM
RESCREEN:
SWIFT CURRENT
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Joshua Rofé
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11:30 AM Lunch
12:30 PM
AFFLICTION FICTION
(Symposium Panel)
2:30 PM
NET FIX
(Symposium Panel)
Workman Theatre
1:30 PM
TEENLAND
(Shorts Program, pg 40)
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12 PM – 4 PM
MASTER CLASS:
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CASANOVA ON
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OF MEN AND WAR
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Laurent
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THE MIGHTY ANGEL
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Wojciech Smarzowski
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OPENING
RECEPTION (pg 48)
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BREAKING THE
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Erminia Colucci
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A MINOR LEAP
DOWN
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Hamed Rajabi
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SCREENING WITH:
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Louise Keay Bell
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JUANICAS
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Casanova
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PAUL SHARITS
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François Miron
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SCREENING WITH:
MER DEPRÉ
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Margaret Orr
ECHOES
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Jaimz Asmundson
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHELLE
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Michel Negroponte &
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EIGHT
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HEDI SCHNEIDER IS
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Sonja Heiss
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DÉCOR
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Ahmad Abdalla
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DANIEL’S WORLD
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Veronika Lisková
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MY SKINNY SISTER
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HOMESICK
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A LIGHT BENEATH
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Valerie Weiss
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ABOUT WORKMAN ARTS
RWM PROGRAMMING TEAM
For over 28 years, Workman Arts’ growing audiences have enjoyed evocative and
thought-provoking artistic productions that entertain, educate and challenge public
perceptions about mental illness and addiction. Workman Arts is the longest-running
multi-disciplinary arts and mental health organization in North America and our artist
members have benefited from exceptional training and educational programs unlike
anything offered elsewhere in the world.
Geoff Pevere, Director
Kayla Wemp
George Hardy
Glen Pennell
Scott Miller Berry
Lisa Brown
In partnership with CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), Workman Arts
supports and facilitates aspiring, emerging and established artists with mental
health and/or addictions issues to develop and refine their artistic practices. We work
to provide a safe and nurturing environment where artistic projects, professional
opportunities and personal and professional networks are developed and fostered.
RWM STAFF
Founded in 1987 by Lisa Brown, a former psychiatric nurse at CAMH, and guided
by the principal that the creative process is integral to the quest for personal and
spiritual development, Workman Arts has grown over the years from a theatre
company of eight members to a multidisciplinary arts organization with over 300
member artists. Located in the arts district in west-end Toronto, Workman Arts
manages a 220-seat theatre, visual and media arts studios and training facilities.
Since inception, Workman Arts has created award-wining performances and
exhibitions. Through our dynamic platforms producing theatre productions, visual art
exhibitions like Being Scene and our annual film festival Rendezvous with Madness,
we are engaging artists and audiences to think differently about mental illness and
addictions through creation, presentation and discussions.
For more information please visit www.workmanarts.com
Lisa Brown, Festival Director and Founder*
Geoff Pevere, Program Director
Scott Miller Berry, Festival Manager
Kayla Wemp, Program & Panel Coordinator
Chris Mitchell, Visual Arts & Events Manager
Sarah Turner, Visual Arts & Events Assistant
Cara Spooner, Symposium & Education Coordinator
Andrea Mateka, Print Promotion & Production Coordinator
Jennifer Li, Web & Outreach Manager
Danica Brown, Guest Relations & Volunteer Coordinator
David Sweeney, Technical Director
Lascelle Wingate Management Services, Financial Officer
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Gust Creative, Festival & Catalogue Design
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*Founded Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in 1993 with Kathleen Fagan.
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ABOUT WORKMAN ARTS
RENDEZVOUS STAFF
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Welcome to the 2015 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival. On behalf of the
Workman Arts Board of Directors, we are pleased to have you join us for the festival’s
23rd year of showcasing powerful films and dynamic panel discussions exploring
themes surrounding mental illness and addictions.
As always, this year’s programming will present and illustrate wide ranging mental
health and addiction issues from at home and abroad. It is my pleasure to welcome
those national and international filmmakers to Toronto and to congratulate our very
own Workman Artists on their shorts program this year.
Together we are about to embark on a cinematic journey. From challenging narratives
of activism and advocacy to comedic interpretations of depression, we will question
cultural stigmas and examine those issues that can reside in all types of families.
Through the medium of moving image, we hope to engage you, as audience
member, to think differently about mental illness and addictions through these
ongoing discussions.
And with many thanks to those individuals who support and organize this great
event, let the festival begin! Because as they say: it’s not about the destination, but
the journey that we take to get there.
Patrick Manley
Chair, Board of Directors, Workman Arts
This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival
and it shows. With programming that ranges from the everyday - such as getting
through your morning routine while suffering from OCD - to the controversial and
difficult topics of child abuse, pedophilia, and alcoholism, we have come into our
own. While RWM has always pushed back on conventional boundaries, there is a
current maturity unlike previous years – but the festival still has that raw, emotional,
provocative edge to unnerve, surprise, comfort and educate. Many of the films we
will see over these nine days will ask us to look hard at the issues and ourselves and
keep an open mind when taboo issues are brought forward to the screen.
We are pleased to open the festival with Swift Current, the electrifying story of
former hockey star Sheldon Kennedy’s story from hotshot young prospect to
shattered alcoholic to high profile advocate for victims of sexual abuse. Director
Joshua Rofé creates an intensely affecting case for a culture that still has a long way
to go when it comes to acknowledging both the frequency and the impact of the
exploitation of the most vulnerable by those in positions of power. I’m very glad that
Sheldon Kennedy will be joining us on Opening Night, as well as throughout the
weekend including at our festival symposium, TRANSFIXED: ADDICTION AND TV.
As you look through this catalogue you will discover that RWM Program Director
Geoff Pevere and the program committee have curated a superb line-up of local,
national and international films that will be sure to engage the senses and excite your
conversations. This is no more so apparent than in this year’s festival symposium:
TRANSFIXED will be sure to bring conversation about mental health straight into
your living room by asking the question that matters to us all, “Are we addicted to TV
series and shows?” Following this conversation, our very own Workman artists will
dissect this modern idea in this year’s art installation, we now return you to your
perpetual pleasure.
I wish to thank the RWM programming committee, Workman Arts and Rendezvous
staff, all the filmmakers and visual artists, out of town guests, panelists, donors,
sponsors, volunteers, our partner CAMH, our Board of Directors, and to you, the
audience for making this such a successful year! As the festival comes to the end of
another year, we look back at all we have achieved and all we have experienced and
after all that there’s still so much to learn. Lisa Brown C.M., M.S.M., RN
Founder and Executive Artistic Director
Workman Arts
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LETTERS FROM THE FESTIVAL
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Year after year, the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival knocks us out.
Viewing its powerful roster of films about mental health and recovery changes
us-- challenging our preconceptions, deepening our understanding, and cultivating
our compassion.
This year the festival tackles some incredibly powerful and challenging themes-issues like childhood sexual abuse, borderline personality disorder, agoraphobia,
eating disorders and pedophilia—complex forms of mental illness that the patients
we care for at CAMH struggle with every day.
And they do it well. Thought-provoking panel discussions featuring artists, mental
health professionals and people with lived experience encourages the conversation
to continue after the viewing experience. This has always been something I enjoy
most about Rendezvous.
Welcome to the film festival that explores the most vast and exciting frontier
imaginable: the human mind. For 23 years now, Rendezvous With Madness has
offered illuminating visions of that still largely uncharted territory; projecting stories,
testimonies and personal accounts of what goes on in deepest inner space, and then
inviting us to share our own experiences and journeys through the realms of thought
and feeling. But what has changed in those 23 years is the scale of that shared
experience: there has never been as much conversation, research, personal testimony
and art generated in the names of mental illness, addiction and recovery as there
is now, and the medium of film – always, by its immediate and visceral nature, at
the prow of artistic reflections of the inner experience – has exploded in terms of
reflecting this expanding universe. You will see spectacular proof of this at this year’s
festival, and you will want to talk about it. Good thing that’s as important at RWM as
the movies themselves: the conversation between all of us explorers.
Thank you to Workman Arts for curating such a provocative line-up of films and
discussions. Your courage in exploring fascinating, difficult, otherwise taboo topics
makes me extremely proud that CAMH is a founding partner of Workman Arts.
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after
it is found,” says American poet James Russell Lowell. We hope you enjoy the
23rd Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, and the reflection, understanding and
compassion its films inspire. Geoff Pevere
Program Director
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Dr. Catherine Zahn
President and CEO, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
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A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER
On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to welcome
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I am pleased to extend greetings and a warm welcome to everyone attending the
23rd Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival.
Toronto is a wonderful venue for film and television production. It has set the stage
for music videos, documentaries, award-winning feature films and a longrunning,
internationally acclaimed television series of which we are most proud.
Kathleen Wynne
Premier
Through film, Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival investigates the facts
and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction. The festival enables
filmmakers and artists to showcase their work in a forum that facilitates discussion
and increases awareness and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues.
I would like to thank Workman Arts for making this event possible and for allowing
our city’s residents and visitors to explore the visual stories of mental illness and
addiction.
On behalf of Toronto City Council, please accept my best wishes for an enjoyable
festival and continued success
Yours truly,
David Johnston
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City of Toronto
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LETTERS TO THE FESTIVAL
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Investing in creativity – the path to Canadian prosperity
The future is now. Focusing on innovation is the surest way to stay in step with and
take advantage of our changing world. We all have access to an unlimited, renewable
resource: the ability to create, dream, imagine and re-invent our future. In Canada,
671,000 cultural workers, including 140,000 professional artists, energize our social,
human and economic development. Culture’s contribution to the GDP is close to $50
billion. Investing in creativity is the path to Canadian prosperity.
At the Canada Council for the Arts we are proud to support the Rendezvous With
Madness Film Festival because art is serious business – for individuals, for society, for
the present and for our future.
It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), to welcome all
participants and audience members to the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival.
For more than 20 years, this event has been instrumental in raising the profile
and increasing our understanding of mental health and addiction. Over nine days,
filmmakers from across Canada and around the globe will shine a spotlight on the
complex and thorny subjects related to mental illness and addictions. The festival
not only hosts films and multi-media installations, but includes post-screening
discussions and a full-day symposium.
We wish the festival continued success in exploring the mysteries of the human mind
through art.
Sincerely,
Simon Brault, O.C., O.Q.
Director and CEO
Rita Davies
Chair, Ontario Arts Council
Investir dans la création, c’est investir dans un avenir + prospère
L’avenir, c’est maintenant. Miser sur l’innovation est le moyen le plus sûr de rester en
phase avec l’évolution de notre monde et d’en tirer le meilleur parti. Nous avons à
notre portée une ressource inépuisable et renouvelable : la faculté de créer, de rêver,
d’imaginer et d’inventer notre avenir. Au Canada, 671 000 travailleurs culturels dont
140 000 artistes professionnels dynamisent notre développement social, humain et
économique. La contribution de la culture au produit intérieur brut se chiffre à près
de 50 milliards de dollars. Investir dans la création, c’est investir dans un avenir plus
prospère.
Au Conseil des arts du Canada, nous sommes fiers de soutenir le Rendezvous With
Madness Film Festival parce l’art compte. Il compte pour les personnes, pour les
collectivités, pour le présent et pour notre avenir.
Le directeur et chef de la direction,
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Nova Bhattacharya
President, Toronto Arts Council
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Letter to the Audience
OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6
7:45 PM
I must admit, when Josh Rofé first approached me to do this film, my feeling
was, I’m really not sure this would have any appeal to the general public. My
story has been told before. But, with Josh’s persistence and some further
thought, I realized that people really don’t understand the full impact of
child sexual abuse and early childhood trauma. The lifelong scars it leaves
in its wake, the effect on one’s mental health; addiction, self-harm, suicidal
thoughts, you name it. So that became our goal, trying to make the invisible
damage, visible, for everyone to see and, hopefully, understand.
I had also met both Mikki Decker and Graham Jolicoeur, quite by accident,
at a presentation I did at Durham College. Their childhood experience
with sexual abuse closely mirrored mine and those similarities, which are
fully explored in the film, further emphasize the unending struggles that
victims face in trying to lead a “normal” life. I am really pleased with the
finished product and I see this film being used as a great teaching tool for
the many professionals that have to deal with these issues; doctors, nurses,
psychologists, psychiatrists, police, teachers, etc. Frankly, it’s an eye opening
tool for the public at large! I also think we have shed a very important light
on the fact that, although the journey is tough for victims, there is hope and,
ultimately, a way to get your power back.
- Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL hockey player, the Lead Director
at the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre and co-founder
of Respect Group Inc
OPENING NIGHT VIP RECEPTION
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6
6 PM – 7:15 PM
TICKETS: $35/VIP Reception
Swift Current
JOSHUA ROFÉ
JOSHUA ROFÉ / 2015 / CANADA / 74 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE / 14A
When he was on his game as a
professional hockey player, Sheldon
Kennedy was in complete control:
assured, aggressive, strategic and always
in motion. Off the ice, however, Kennedy
was living a secret nightmare. A victim
of serial sexual abuse perpetrated by
a coach, Kennedy was struggling with
trauma, guilt and anger over something
he kept perilously secret from those
around him. Inevitably it all boiled over.
It would be a journey that would initially
plunge Kennedy from stardom to shame,
but eventually resurrected the tortured
athlete’s career as an internationally
renowned spokesperson for people who
had shared – and were trying to survive
– the same ordeal. Directed by Joshua
Rofé, Swift Current is a propulsive
documentary account of Sheldon
Kennedy’s extraordinary escape from
darkness.
Following the screening, there will a
Q&A session and discussion about the
film. Director Joshua Rofé and Sheldon
Kennedy in attendance.
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Following the reception, we will be screening SWIFT CURRENT, the electrifying saga of former
hockey star Sheldon Kennedy. With special guests Director Joshua Rofé and Sheldon Kennedy
in attendance, this is one party you don’t want to miss!
RESCREEN:
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
11 AM
WORKMAN THEATRE
TICKETS ARE PAY WHAT YOU CAN
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
PTSD; Addiction; Recovery; Sports;
Advocacy
SEE ALSO IN THE FESTIVAL:
Of Men and War; My Skinny
Sister
SIMILAR FILMS:
Hurt (2015); Out to Win (2015);
Murderball (2005); Hoop Dreams
(1994) $15/Screening Only
Rendezvous With Madness will open with a VIP Reception at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Kick
back and celebrate the launch with hors d’oeuvres and exciting conversation.
A cash bar is available.
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Lost For Life (2013)
Brooklyn Battery (2005)
The Gray in Between (2002)
RESCREEN CO-PRESENTED BY
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7
7 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
Geoff Pevere’s Madness in
Movies Top 20
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Clean Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1975)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)
Warrendale (Allan King, 1967)
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A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
A Minor Leap Down
HAMED RAJABI / 2015 / IRAN/FRANCE / 88 MINUTES / FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES /
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE / 14A
Leaving her gynecologist’s office with
the terrible news about her pregnancy,
Nahal (Negar Javaherian) seems
strangely offside in her reaction. Instead
of being saddened or stricken, she
appears not only resigned but resolved.
When she walks back into the world –
keeping the state of her pregnancy to
herself – we begin to understand why:
Nahal has a history of depression and
everyone in her life relates to her as a
kind of walking, helpless clinical problem
in need of constant monitoring. And
so Nahal begins to assert her own life
and independence in the only way she
knows, which is to quietly undermine
everything that’s expected of her. A
film of keen observation and enormous
empathy, director-screenwriter Hamed
Rajabi’s feature debut is at once rooted
very specifically in an upper middleCO-PRESENTED BY
class Iranian urban milieu and the more
universal context of living in a world that
just doesn’t get it.
SEE FARSI TRANSLATION PAGE 53
Following the screening, there will
be a discussion in Farsi with English
translation about the film.
PANELISTS : Dr. Nazilla Khanloo, York
University Chair, Office of Women’s
Health Research in Mental Health
Dr. Mahdieh Dastjerdi Professor,
Faculty of Health, York University
Mr. Aref Mohammadi, Journalist &
Producer Iranian Cinema and Film Critic
Afie Mardukhi, Moderator Mental
Health Counsellor
HAMED RAJABI
A Minor Leap Down is his first
feature film.
AWARDS:
Berlin International Film Festival,
FIPRESCI Prize - A Minor Leap
Down (2015)
GENRE:
Drama
KEYWORDS:
Depression; Gender Roles
Décor; An Autobiography of
Michelle Maren; Hedi Schneider is
Stuck
SIMILAR FILMS:
Obvious Child (2014); Deux Jours,
Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)
(2014); A Separation (2011)
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
6 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
ERMINIA COLUCCI
Breaking the Chains is her first
feature film.
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
Treatment; Stigma; Advocacy;
Reform
The Mighty Angel; A Short
History of Madness; Pink Like
Salmon
SIMILAR FILMS:
The Magdalene Sisters (2002);
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(1975); Warrendale (1967); Titicut
Follies (1967)
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
8 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
Breaking the Chains
Juanicas
KARINA GARCIA
CASANOVA
ERMINIA COLUCCI / 2014 / INDONESIA/UK/AUSTRALIA/ITALY / 63 MINUTES /
BAHASA INDONESIA/SUDANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE / 14A
KARINA GARCIA CASANOVA / 2014 / CANADA/MEXICO / 78 MINUTES /
SPANISH/FRENCH/ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / TORONTO PREMIERE / 14A
Juanicas is her first feature film
In Indonesia, a small team of mental
health workers are attempting the
impossible: to find and rescue the
possible hundreds of people living
chained in cages, an illegal but traditional
practice for dealing with mental illness
called ‘pasung’. But the country is dense
with vegetation, roads practically nonexistent, and the level of superstition
high. For some of these families, the
practice of pasung is based in the belief
that that mentally ill are possessed
by demons. For some of the victims,
the cage and chains are all they have
known. Following one of these teams
on their seemingly insurmountable task,
CO-PRESENTED BY
filmmaker Erminia Colucci plunges us
literally into the incremental struggle
to bring light, life and knowledge into a
world of darkness.
Screening with HEART OF DUST
(Louise Keay Bell) (see page 36)
a panel discussion about the film.
Director Erminia Colucci will be
participating via Skype.
On the day that her brother Juan returns
to his family home in Montréal from a
trip to Mexico, Karina Garcia Casanova
begins filming. But this is no incidental
home movie. Like his mother, Juan
has a history of mental illness that has
occasionally tilted into violence. The
real-life drama that unfolds turns out
to be a singularly heartbreaking and
riveting account of living with bipolar
disorder as a family disease. Complicating
matters further is Casanova’s own
unsettled history as Spanish-speaking
child who grew up with a difficult
single mother in Montréal and whose
own identity has been inextricably
CO-PRESENTED BY
presented by
defined by circumstances she could do
nothing about. Juanicas, Casanova’s
extraordinary first film, is at once an
unflinching testament to that legacy and
a moving document of surviving it.
Screening with SCRAPBOOK (Mike
Hoolboom) (see page 36)
Following the screening, there
will a Q&A session and discussion
about the film. Filmmakers Karina
Garcia Casanova (Juanicas) and Mike
Hoolboom (Scrapbook) will be in
attendance.
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
Family; Bipolar Disorder;
Immigration; Displacement
My Skinny Sister; Paul Sharits; A
Light Beneath Their Feet
SIMILAR FILMS:
Stories We Tell (2012); The Nine
Muses (2010); Grey Gardens
(1975)
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
8 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Top Ten Experimental Works
in the Form’s History
By François Miron, Director of Paul Sharits
1. T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G. (Paul Sharits, 1969)
2. Dog Star Man. (Stan Brakhage, 1961 – 1964)
3. LSD (Jordan Belson, 1962)
4. A Colour Box (Len Lye, 1935)
5. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
6. Invocation of my Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969)
7. 7362 (Pat O’Neill, 1967)
8. Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer, 1972)
9. Artificial Light (Hollis Frampton, 1969)
10. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
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Paul Sharits
FRANÇOIS MIRON
FRANÇOIS MIRON / 2015 / CANADA / 85 MINUTES / ENGLISH / TORONTO PREMIERE / 14A
Despite the mountains of theoretical
and intellectual interpretation they
have generated, the most palpable
characteristic of the experimental
movies of the late Paul Sharits (1943 1993) is that, before anything else, you
feel them. They have a power to enter
the brain and engage directly with
the process of perception itself. This is
why, more than twenty years after the
filmmaker’s death, Paul Sharits still has
such power to astonish. Years in the
making, François Miron’s documentary
about Sharits is a remarkable feat on
many fronts: one part biography of a
deeply troubled man – Sharits, who
suffered from bipolar disorder, once
claimed to live in “inescapable anxiety”
– another a meticulous but accessible
CO-PRESENTED BY
appreciation, and finally a celebration
of the profound expressive potential
of the so-called ‘disordered’ mind. In
this sense, Paul Sharits is a vital and
fascinating contribution to the growing
public understanding of the intricate and
symbiotic relationship between art and
the troubled mind.
Screening with MER DEPRE (Margaret
Orr) & ECHOES (Jaimz Asmundson)
(see page 37)
film. Director François Miron will be in
attendance.
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Hydromorphone 8mg (2009)
Crepitus (2008)
The 4th Life (2006)
Resolving Power (2001)
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
Bipolar Disorder; Filmmaking
Décor; Juanicas
SIMILAR FILMS:
Amy (2015); Cobain: Montage of
Heck (2014); Pollock (2000)
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10
6:30 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
MICHEL NEGROPONTE
PREVIOUS FILMS:
I’m Dangerous in Love (2009)
Methadonia (2005)
Jupiter’s Wife (1995)
AWARDS:
Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury
Prize - Jupiter’s Wife (1995)
MICHELLE MAREN
This is her first feature film.
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
Bipolar Disorder; PTSD
Of Men and War; Juanicas;
A Light Beneath Their Feet
SIMILAR FILMS:
Tarnation (2003); David
Holzman’s Diary (1967)
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10
9 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
An Autobiography of
Michelle Maren
MICHEL NEGROPONTE & MICHELLE MAREN / 2015 / USA / 79 MINUTES / ENGLISH /
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE / 14A
When the filmmaker Michel Negroponte
(Jupiter’s Wife) received an e-mail from
a woman who thought she might be a
promising subject for a documentary,
a process of collaboration began that
would result in one of the most revealing
self-portraits of living with mental illness
ever made. Michelle Maren, this movie’s
titular subject and eventual co-director
of the movie, has lived enough lives to fill
several movies: she’s been a professional
actress, go-go dancer, nightclub
performer and porn star. But she also
suffers from borderline personality
disorder, eating disorders, clinical
depression, childhood trauma and a
CO-PRESENTED BY
daily struggle just to get by. By handing
her the camera, Negroponte effectively
empowers Maren to tell her own story
– or stories – and what emerges is as
compelling and unfiltered an immersion
into a complicated mind as any you have
ever seen.
a panel discussion about the film.
Filmmakers Michel Negroponte
& Michelle Maren and Dr. Shelley
McMain, Clinical Psychologist and
Head of the Borderline Personality
Clinic at CAMH, will be in attendance.
Eight
PETER BLACKBURN
PETER BLACKBURN / 2014 / AUSTRALIA / 81 MINUTES / ENGLISH / CANADIAN PREMIERE / 18A
As it does for most people, Sarah’s day
begins with the sound of the bedside
alarm. But that’s where the similarity
ends. For Sarah (Libby Munro), the
beginning of the day marks the start
of another ordeal, wherein no task is
easy, time trickles by in oppressive
minutes and panic presses down on
every action and thought. Sarah suffers
from obsessive-compulsive disorder
and Peter Blackburn’s extraordinary
Eight – a remarkable expression of both
filmmaking style and humane empathy
– will allow us to experience the world
from Sarah’s point of view. But because
it puts us inside Sarah’s experience of
starting the day, Eight is not an easy film
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to watch. Unflinching and innovative,
unfolding in a single take for its entire
running time, this is a movie that insists
you can’t know what it’s like unless
you’ve felt it.
Screening with DAYDREAMS OF
WILDERNESS (Amaya Han)
(see page 38)
film. Director Peter Blackburn will be
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Dragon Noi (2012)
GENRE:
Experimental; Drama
KEYWORDS:
Agoraphobia; Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder; Recovery
Homesick; The Mighty Angel;
An Autobiography of Michelle
Maren
SIMILAR FILMS:
Buried (2010); Enter the Void
(2009); Russian Ark (2002);
PI (1998)
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11
6 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
SONJA HEISS
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Hotel Very Welcome (2007)
Karma Cowboy (2002)
AWARDS:
Berlin International Film Festival ,
DIALOGUE en Perspective - Hotel
Very Welcome (2007)
GENRE:
Drama; Comedy
KEYWORDS:
Family; Depression; Anxiety;
Recovery
SEE ALSO IN FESTIVAL:
My Skinny Sister; Décor
SIMILAR FILMS:
Infinitely Polar Bear (2015); Force
Majeure (2014); A Woman Under
the Influence (1974)
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11
8:30 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Hedi Schneider is Stuck /
Hedi Schneider steckt fest
SONJA HEISS / 2015 / GERMANY / 90 MINUTES / GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES /
CANADIAN PREMIERE / 18A
At first, Hedi Schneider’s behavioural
peculiarities may strike you as simply
quirky: she’s slightly distracted, prone
to random conversations about the
strangest things with perfect strangers
and generally seems to function slightly
offside the main playing field of life. Hedi
(Laura Toke) works at a travel agency,
is married to a loving husband (Hans
Low) who signs for the hearing-impaired
and has a precociously curious young
son. But Hedi’s quirks are about to take
a sharper, deeper twist: toward panic,
anxiety and ultimately depression. As
her family stands by concerned but
largely confused and helpless, Hedi
CO-PRESENTED BY
withdraws so deeply into her own
psychic shadows that, were it not for
that certain irrepressible spark in her not to mention this movie’s impressive
ability to keep things funny and hopeful
- you’d wonder if she’d ever make it
out. Directed with an impressive flair for
balancing frankness with humor and
warmth, Sonja Heiss’s Hedi Schneider is
Stuck is a quirky thing in its own right: a
very funny movie about depression.
Q&A session and discussion about
the film. Director Sonja Heiss will be
Décor
AHMAD ABDALLA
AHMAD ABDALLA / 2014 / EGYPT / 116 MINUTES / ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES /
TORONTO PREMIERE / PG
In this beguiling, seductive and
sumptuously beautiful movie, the
celebrated Egyptian filmmaker Ahmad
Abdalla probes the profoundly alienating
experience of mental illness by way of
a singularly apt metaphor: the making
of movies and the blurring of the
boundaries between the cinematic frame
and so-called ‘real life’. As a production
designer on a big budget movie, Maha
(Horeya Farghali) must try to imagine
the intimate daily details of her fictional
character’s lives: this is how she brings
authenticity to the fictional world of the
movie. But when Maha herself starts
slipping between her life as a production
CO-PRESENTED BY
designer and another as a clinically
depressed housewife, those details come
to life in the most vividly unnerving way.
Unsure which of the two lives is the ‘real’
one, Maha must learn to navigate them
both. At once a boldly ravishing blackand-white formal exercise, an evocation
of classic melodramas of the 1950s and
a sensitive portrait of an identity in
crisis, Décor is an intoxicating feat of
filmmaking.
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Bags & Tatters (2013)
8 Days (2011)
Microphone (2010)
Heliopolis (2009)
AWARDS:
Cairo International Film Festival,
Best Arabic Film – Microphone
(2010)
GENRE:
Drama
KEYWORDS:
Depression; Gender Roles;
Disassociation
A Minor Leap Down; An
Autobiography of Michelle
Maren; Homesick
SIMILAR FILMS:
Wings of Desire (1987); Opening
Night (1977); All That Heaven
Allows (1955)
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12
6:30 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Letters to the Audience
You would think this would be a hard film for many people to watch, but it’s
not. This is not a film about child abuse or even about a potential abuser: It’s
a film about how to prevent the sexual abuse of children. As a psychologist
and sexual behaviour scientist, I have met and studied thousands of
pedophiles and sex offenders. There do exist psychopathic pedophiles
who seriously hurt children, but there are others who pose no danger
at all—and if we are going to improve in protecting children, then we are
going to have to learn how to help pedophiles who are dangerous become
pedophiles like Daniel. All the current scientific evidence points to pedophilia
being an innate, life-long, and unchangeable condition. No one chooses
to be attracted to children. Daniel has shown amazing courage in publicly
disclosing his condition. The public needs the courage to listen.
- Dr. James Cantor
Dr. James Cantor is a Clinical Psychologist in the Law and Mental Health Program at
CAMH and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at U of T. Dr. Cantor
leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers from CAMH and other Toronto-based
hospitals studying the role of the brain in causing pedophilia and other sexual atypicalities
since 1999.
“The biggest change of view for me came during the preparation to filming.
All it took was to read something about pedophilia, meet with experts and
people from the community and listen to their stories. I would be happy if
the movie managed to facilitate and open a debate. We urge the public to
find relevant information on pedophilia. The aim of the film is not to deny
that there are those who pose a real danger among pedophiles. We do not
want to downplay the issue. Rather, the point is to show that there is no
link between pedophilia and sexual abuse of children in 90% of cases and
that that form of love has a number of other connotations given to it. The
greatest number of sexual offenses against children is committed by their
relatives, who in the great majority are not pedophile oriented; a child is only
the easiest subject of abuse. I think this is pretty vital information for both
the public and pedophiles who are still coping with their orientation.“
- Veronika Lišková, Director of Daniel’s World
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Daniel’s World / Danielův svět
VERONIKA LIŠKOVÁ / 2014 / CZECH REPUBLIC / 72 MINUTES / CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES /
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE / 18A
As challenging, illuminating and
controversial a film as you’ll see
anywhere this year, Veronika Lišková’s
Daniel’s World is a portrait of a young
man living with one of the most
stigmatized forms of mental illness
there is: Daniel suffers from pedophilia.
But where the term itself is enough
to inspire revulsion and loathing in so
many people, for Lišková it’s a condition
that has sentenced a man to a life of
permanent celibacy, constant clinical
and judicial monitoring and a constant
struggle to be accepted for what he is.
For Daniel, the whole point to being
public with his illness is an act of social
responsibility: by being transparent
about his desires, he does not act on
them. But what Daniel has accepted and
what the world accepts are two vastly
separate spheres and Daniel’s World is
an account of one man’s lonely campaign
to navigate and bridge that distance.
Q&A session and discussion about
the film. Filmmaker Veronika Lišková
will be participating via Skype with Dr.
James Cantor, Clinic Psychologist in
the Law and Mental Health Program at
CAMH, in attendance.
VERONIKA LIŠKOVÁ
Daniel’s World is her first
feature film.
AWARDS:
Jihlava International Documentary
Film Festival, Audience Award Daniel’s World (2014)
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
Pedophilia; Stigma; Recovery;
Advocacy
Swift Current
SIMILAR FILMS:
The Woodsman (2004);
Happiness (1998); Crumb (1994)
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
7 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
SANNA LENKEN
My Skinny Sister is her first
feature film.
AWARDS:
Göteborg Film Festival, Dragon
Award for Best Nordic Film – My
Skinny Sister (2015)
GENRE:
Drama
KEYWORDS:
Eating Disorder; Family; Sports;
Recovery
An Autobiography of Michelle
Maren; Whale Valley; Flush
SIMILAR FILMS:
Starving in Suburbia (2014); Thin
(2006); Superstar: The Karen
Carpenter Story (1989)
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
9:30 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
My Skinny Sister /
Min lilla syster
SANNA LENKEN / 2015 / SWEDEN / 92 MINUTES / SWEDISH/ENGLISH WITH
ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 14A
Like most younger siblings, Stella
(Rebecka Josephson) wishes she had
her older sister’s life. Where Stella
is awkward, self-conscious and a
little on the heavier side, Katja (Amy
Daesismont) seems to have it all going
on: she’s pretty, outwardly confident,
a competitive figure skater and she’s
skinny. But this last fact is the gateway
to Amy’s secret world, a place Stella
will penetrate to devastating effect for
her entire family: Amy has a serious
eating disorder and when she holds her
younger sister to secrecy, the pattern of
deceit, denial and helplessness that the
family experiences will be all too familiar
to anyone who has lived through it. The
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result is one of the very first movies to
fully understand the domestic impact
of this is all-too-common condition. A
family movie in all senses of the word,
My Skinny Sister is that rare film that
captivates your emotions and stimulates
conversation.
Screening with HAPPY WITH BEAR
(Yianni Warnock) (see page 38)
a panel discussion with filmmaker
Nadine Espinoza (Flush) and Dr.
Paul Garfinkel, Founder and Former
President & CEO of CAMH.
HomeSick
JAKOB M. ERWA
JAKOB M. ERWA / 2015 / GERMANY/ AUSTRIA / 97 MINUTES / GERMAN WITH
ENGLISH SUBTITLES / TORONTO PREMIERE / 14A
At first glance, the new apartment seems
perfect: spacious, tastefully colourcoordinated, and quiet. The perfect spot
for Jessica (Esther Maria Pietsch) and
Lorenz (Matthias Lier) to nurture their
relationship and ideal for the young
woman’s honing of her musical skills as a
cellist. But when Jessica is left alone, and
must practice diligently for a prestigious
international competition, the new flat
begins to take on a rather different
personality. It becomes sinister, cold and
more than vaguely threatening. Or at
least it does to Jessica. The problem is,
no one else seems to know what she’s
talking about. A methodically paranoid
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perceptual thriller in the grand tradition
of Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby –
with carefully articulated references to
Michael Haneke and Darren Aronofsky
– HomeSick is a pitch-black horror
comedy about not knowing whose mind
is being lost: yours or the world you
live in.
PREVIOUS FILMS:
All the Invisible Things (2007)
AWARDS:
Oldenburg Film Festival, German
Independence Award - All the
Invisible Things (2007)
GENRE:
Drama, Psychological Thriller
KEYWORDS:
Psychosis; Anxiety; Paranoia
Eight; Paul Sharits
SIMILAR FILMS:
Black Swan (2010); The Seventh
Continent (1989); The Shining
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
1 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
LAURENT
BÉCUE-RENARD
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Living Afterwards: Words of
Women (2001)
AWARDS:
Berlin International Film Festival,
Peace Film Award - Words of
Women (2001)
GENRE:
Documentary
KEYWORDS:
PTSD; Recovery; Stigma; Gender
Roles
Swift Current; The Mighty Angel;
Bloedhond
SIMILAR FILMS:
American Sniper (2014); Beer is
Cheaper Than Therapy (2011);
The Deer Hunter (1978)
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4 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Of Men and War /
Des hommes et de la guerre
The Mighty Angel /
Pod mocnym aniolem
LAURENT BÉCUE-RENARD / 2014 / FRANCE / 141 MINUTES / ENGLISH /
CANADIAN PREMIERE / 14A
WOJCIECH SMARZOWSKI / 2014 / POLAND / 109 MINUTES / POLISH/ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH
SUBTITLES / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE / 18A
Everything in war is armoured, including
the human heart. But that doesn’t
prevent damage. It only means treating
the damage is a matter of cutting
through the armour to treat the pain.
At the Pathway Home in California,
therapist and Vietnam veteran Fred
Gusman works on removing the thick
layers of denial and defensiveness
guarding his internally wounded
patients, a group of combat-hardened
Iraq vets who harbour horrors they can
barely speak of. This is the condition we
call PTSD and for veterans of battle it can
be a life sentence. With an intimacy and
CO-PRESENTED BY
empathy that indicates just how much
time filmmaker Laurent Bécue-Renard
has spent gaining his subjects’ trust,
Of Men and War chronicles the painful
process by which the past is confronted
and released in the present.
For all the cinematic and televisual
treatments of alcoholism that have
come before, rarely has the affliction
been treated with such harrowing
frankness and sheer expressive brilliance
as on display Wojtek Smarzowski’s The
Mighty Angel. Based on Jerzy Pilch’s
celebrated novel, the movie tells the
story of Jerzy (an all-too-convincingly
debauched Robert Wiekiewicz) a writer,
wit, celebrity, ladies’ man and raconteur
with a drinking problem. But that’s a very
polite way of putting it. Robert doesn’t
just get drunk: he plunges headfirst into
the deepest darkest wells of bingedrinking, until his memory collapses, his
body revolts and time itself shatters into
CO-PRESENTED BY
fleeting glimpses and impressions of his
life circling the drain. In and out of rehab
almost as often as consciousness, Robert
is stuck in a full-blown alcoholic cycle
of hell. We are proud to present this:
The Mighty Angel might well be a new
masterpiece in the cinema of madness,
addiction and recovery.
panel discussion about the film. Author
Jowita Bydlowska (Drunk Mom) and
filmmaker Jim Shedden (Michael Snow
Up Close, Brakhage, I Drink) will be in
attendance.
WOJCIECH SMARZOWSKI
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Traffic Department (2013)
The Dark Horse (2009)
AWARDS:
Polish Film Awards, Best Director Traffic Department (2013)
GENRE:
Drama
KEYWORDS:
Alcoholism; Addiction; Creativity
Breaking the Chains; Of Men and
War; Eight
SIMILAR FILMS:
Requiem for a Dream (2000);
Leaving Las Vegas (1995); Days of
Wine and Roses (1962)
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CLOSING NIGHT
8 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Letter to the Audience
We shot a scene for the film that unfortunately didn’t make it into the final
cut, but definitely was a highlight of my time on set. The scene was of
Gloria (Taryn Manning) having a manic episode to the Laura Branigan song
of the same name. Gloria is in such a hypermanic state that she thinks the
mailman brought the song to her via the radio as a gift and she explodes in
a euphoric, exultant dance in her living room. We were all fired up for this
scene, especially because Taryn is such a tremendous musician and dancer;
she was even accepted to Julliard for ballet but decided to pursue acting
instead. We did several takes of Taryn dancing and they were sensational.
I also had some very specific moves in my mind that I just couldn’t verbalize
and after I demonstrated them, Taryn told me that I HAD to double her
Flashdance-style. She didn’t have to say it twice. I hopped into wardrobe and
hair and with Taryn’s urgent blessing, I did a raucous and impassioned take
of Gloria for the scene. I don’t know if it was any good, but it fulfilled a lifelong fantasy of mine. It even made it into our editor’s cut, but that might just
have been because she didn’t want to get fired.
- Valerie Weiss, Director of A Light Beneath Their Feet.
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A Light Beneath Their Feet
VALERIE WEISS / 2015 / USA / 90 MINUTES / ENGLISH / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE / 14A
The passage from high school to higher
education is one of those particularly
tricky intersections in life, but for Beth
(Madison Davenport) it might be the
most difficult decision of her young life.
Does she go away to college and start a
life on her own terms? Or does she stay
home to continue caring for her mother
Gloria (Taryn Manning)? For anyone
who has lived with a family member
experiencing a mental illness, Valerie
Weiss’s A Light Beneath Their Feet
will resonate powerfully. Even though
Gloria (a superbly cast Manning) wishes
nothing but the best and most for her
daughter, Beth is tortured by the idea of
what might happen if her mother loses
control – an idea that’s unfortunately all
too imaginable. In so carefully exploring
the complexities of the family dynamic,
and in its profound sensitivity to the
collateral impact of mental illness,
A Light Beneath Their Feet is a movie
that delivers a critical message in the
most direct dramatic and emotional
terms. No way around it: recovery is a
family affair.
film. Director Valerie Weiss will be in
attendance.
CO-PRESENTED BY
FAMILY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH EVERYWHERE
VALERIE WEISS
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Losing Control (2011)
I Love You (2006)
Transgression (2004)
GENRE:
Drama
KEYWORDS:
Bipolar Disorder; Family
Juanicas, My Skinny Sister,
Paul Sharits
SIMILAR FILMS:
Mommy (2014); Sitting on the
Edge of Marlene (2014); Thirteen
(2003)
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
8 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
6 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
LOUISE KEAY BELL
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Off Girl Out (2014)
Heart of Dust
Mer Depré
LOUISE KEAY BELL / 2015 / UK / 6 MINUTES / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE / 14A
MARGARET ORR / 2015 / USA / 6 MINUTES / TORONTO PREMIERE / PG
A man locked away in a decrepit institution paces and thinks, his mind carrying him
to other places in the hospital where music was once made and a woman brought joy
with her fingers at the piano. Will his imagination carry him where his
body cannot?
The inside of the mind of a person suffering from depression may not be a pretty
place, but it can be a revelation. In this extraordinary film, which immerses us so
deeply in those depths, we understand why the real world seems so far,
far away.
Screening with BREAKING THE CHAINS (see page 20)
Screening with PAUL SHARITS (see page 23)
MARGARET ORR
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
8 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
MONDAY NOVEMBER 8
8 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
MIKE HOOLBOOM
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Buffalo Death Mask (2013)
Fascination (2006)
Imitations of Life (2003)
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Harmony (2013)
Teddy (2012)
Scrapbook
Echoes
MIKE HOOLBOOM / 2015 / CANADA / 19 MINUTES / ENGLISH / CANADIAN PREMIERE / PG
JAIMZ ASMUNDSON / 2015 / CANADA / 6 MINUTES / ENGLISH / CANADIAN PREMIERE / PG
In the 1960s, Toronto filmmaker Jeffrey Paull shot footage of children and teenagers
in a so-called ‘development center’ in Ohio. It was part of a process whereby the
children, experiencing a range of mental disorders, were to learn how to make
images. Fifty years later, the internationally renowned Canadian avant-garde
filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, re-visits Paull’s work to astonishingly immediate and
powerful effect.
The foundation is a dream that foretells the passing of a mother. Images projected
on various material surfaces enhance the sense of memory’s fleeting and ephemeral
nature, of how the mind becomes a kind of screen itself on which the past flickers,
plays and passes by.
JAIMZ ASMUNDSON
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Blow Me (2005)
Liquid Lunch (2004)
Screening with PAUL SHARITS (see page 23)
Screening with JUANICAS (see page 21)
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10
9 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
AMAYA HAN
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Mga Patay Nga Bitoon (Dead Stars)
(2014)
Baybayong Birhen (The Virgin
Shore) (2013)
Daydreams of Wilderness /
Mga Handuraw Sa Kahilitan
AMAYA HAN / 2015 / PHILIPPINES / 13 MINUTES / FILIPINO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES /
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE/ 14A
Joy suffers from anthropophobia, a paralyzing fear of people. She is institutionalized
and trembles at every approach. Her only friend is her stuffed eagle toy Chickie who
gently encourages her to be brave. As Joy’s birthday approaches, Chickie conspires to
present the girl with a surprise.
Screening with EIGHT (see page 25)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
7 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
ART RENTAL AND SALES
Workman Arts’ online art rental and sales gallery promotes and supports member
artists’ work to public and private sector clients. The program includes work by both
emerging and established artists in a wide variety of mediums and sizes – suitable for
display in an office environment. Rental fees are affordable, with rentals starting at
$15/month and purchase prices starting at $100.
100% of rental and sales fees directly support individual participating artists.
LIVEN UP YOUR WORKPLACE
Original artworks provide a sophisticated finishing touch for workplaces. Renting
art allows our corporate clients to enhance their offices with the work of some of
Toronto’s finest emerging artists.
TRY BEFORE YOUR BUY
YIANNI WARNOCK
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Man on Earth (2012)
Playpals (2012)
Happy With Bear
YIANNI WARNOCK / 2015 / AUSTRALIA / 6 MINUTES / ENGLISH / CANADIAN PREMIERE / 14A
Alone in her student dorm, an exchange student from Singapore leads two lives.
Offline she struggles with a compulsive eating disorder and a terrifying isolation.
Online, everything is fine. A film about the perfect disguise in the social media world.
Screening with MY SKINNY SISTER (see page 30)
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We want you to be certain you love the work you select. Renting from Workman Arts
lets you live with artwork before making the commitment to purchase it. Although
you can rent any artwork for as many twelve-month rental terms as you like; at the
end of each rental term you have the option to buy the work. Workman Arts will
apply up to six months of the rental fees paid toward the purchase price.
CREATE NEW VIEWS
Who doesn’t need a change of scenery now and then? Renting art lets you change
the look of your office or workspace very easily.
To inquire about renting or purchasing work visit www. Workmanarts.com/art-rentaland-sales/ or contact:
Sarah Turner
Visual Arts Coordinator
416.583.4339 ext. 3
[email protected]
SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 8
1:30 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
Teenland: Global Youth Shorts
SHORTS PROGRAM
Adolescence and madness. Adolescence as madness. Adolescence against madness. A diverse and captivating dramatic
shorts program showcasing the spectrum of ways teenagers around the world struggle with identity, reality, recovery and
looming adulthood. Program rated 14A.
Bloedhond
Ineffaçable
Teenland
MEES PEIJNENBURG / 2014 / NETHERLANDS / 8 MINUTES / DUTCH
WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / TORONTO PREMIERE
Whale Valley /
Hvalfjordur
GRÉGORY LECOCQ / 2015 / BELGIUM / 23 MINUTES / FRENCH WITH
ENGLISH SUBTITLES / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
MARIE GRAHTØ SØRENSEN / 2014 / DENMARK / 31 MINUTES /
DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / CANADIAN PREMIERE
An alarming account of a young man seething with anger,
seeking – and needing – something to hate and destroy
everywhere he goes. And finding it.
GUÐMUNDUR ARNAR GUÐMUNDSSON /ICELAND/ 2013 /
DENMARK/ICELANDIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 15 MINUTES /
TORONTO PREMIERE
A young man bolts from his psychiatric hospital to return to
the streets and his art. But he learns that spray-painting a wall,
no matter how beautifully, won’t tear it down.
In a dystopian fantasy world where emotional disturbance
means having superpowers that must be locked away and
monitored in a pink prison, the seeds of revolt are sown when
Sally meets Ting-E-Ling.
On a remote Icelandic coast, a boy looks to his older brother as
boys often do: upward, with admiration and envy. But when
the older sibling shows signs of disturbance, the younger’s
perspective dramatically shifts.
MEES PEIJNENBURG
GUÐMUNDUR ARNAR GUÐMUNDSSON
GRÉGORY LECOCQ
MARIE GRAHTØ SØRENSEN
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Even Cowboys get to Cry (2013)
AWARDS:
Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Special Distinction
Ex-aequo – Whale Valley
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Premiers pas (2012)
Harragas (2008)
PREVIOUS FILMS:
YOLO (2013)
Daimi (2012)
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
4 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
Madness in Motion:
The Dance of Disorders
SHORTS PROGRAM
Sometimes, the best way to express what’s trapped in the mind is by releasing the body. Here are four films that put madness in
motion. Through movement, the soul speaks. Following the screenings, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers
about the films. Program rated 14A.
Twitch
Dance RX
Ruptura
JULES DE NIVERVILLE / 2015 / CANADA / 5 MINUTES
TK WORKMAN / 2013 / CANADA / 11 MINUTES / ENGLISH
ALEJANDRO VALBUENA / 2013 / CANADA / 14 MINUTES
The mind will reel at how the body spins, contorts, flexes and
speaks the language – of fear and desire -- beyond words.
There is talk therapy and there is this: the body speaking
for itself.
How can dance heal the troubled mind? An instructor of the
belly dance, and survivor of mental illness, explains.
A ravishing and unnerving wordless vision of an urban couple’s
relationship cracking beneath the strain of secrecy. A visually
mind-bending modern musical film noir.
Une courte histoire de
la folie / A Short
History Of Madness
ISABELLE HAYEUR / 2014 / CANADA / 27 MINUTES
The dubious march of institutional history relating to mental
health treatment, unfolding in spectacularly choreographed
episodes performed in authentic settings.
JULES DE NIVERVILLE
TK WORKMAN
ALEJANDRO VALBUENA
ISABELLE HAYEUR
Twitch is his first film as Director
TK Workman is a multimedia artist who is committed
to exploring environmentalism and social issues in her
artwork.
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Deep T.V. (2011)
Burnt (2009)
PREVIOUS FILMS:
Le golem de Montréal (2004)
La bête de foire (1992)
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
6 PM
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Thoughts I Left Behind
SHORTS PROGRAM
Workman Artists on Film
EMILY ENG / 2015 / CANADA / 9 MINUTES / ENGLISH
A simple trip on public transit carries intimations of violence and danger. This is
how the world can feel to so many who live with fear. Emily Eng is a Toronto-based
interdisciplinary artist.
For nearly thirty years, Rendezvous’s umbrella organization Workman Arts has provided artists living with mental illness and
addiction issues the opportunity to share their visions through art. Some have turned to film. We are proud to present this
program of our members’ work. Following the screenings, there will a Q&A session and discussion about the films. All
Workman Artists will be in attendance. Program rated 14A.
A Celebration of Darkness
Collision of an Eagle and
a Butterfly
JAENE F. CASTRILLON / 2015 / CANADA / 6 MINUTES / ENGLISH
By engaging with the pain and struggles of her younger self, an adult woman finds
healing and the recovery of the spirit. Jaene F. Castrillon is a multidisciplinary artist
utilizing art and intersecting it with activism. Through art she explores the brilliance
and heart-break of living a life less ordinary.
ROBIN JONES / 2007 / CANADA / 1 MINUTE / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
The title would seem to say it all, until you see the movie. Here is nature on an
airborne date with destiny. Robin Jones is a Toronto-based visual artist. You can find
out more about his work here: www.robinjonesart.ca
Count On Karaoke
Cup
LUCY DRUMONDE / 2015 / CANADA / 7 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
GEORGE S. K. HARDY / 2010 / CANADA / 1 MINUTE / ENGLISH
When Ray first picked up a microphone in a karaoke bar, he never expected he’d
be grasping a new lease on life. For Ray, otherwise shy and withdrawn, singing like
Johnny Cash, Elvis and George Jones is a transcendent act. Lucy Drumonde is a mixed
media artist that specializes in cartoon and illustration. She is based in Toronto.
Depending on your day, your mood and state of mind, the half-filled cup will mean
precisely what you pour into it. George Hardy is a photographer, actor and filmmaker
based in Scarborough.
Pink Like Salmon
To Heather With Love
FIONA SETH / 2014 / CANADA / 8 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
GRACE CHERIAN / 2015 / CANADA / 3 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
The filmmaker, who has lived experience with mental health issues, describes her
incarceration in solitary confinement and wonders if the justice system isn’t the
truly unhealthy one. Fiona Seth is a self-taught illustrator, writer, photographer and
filmmaker born in Toronto. To find out more about her work, visit: www.fionaseth.ca
In which filmmaker Grace Cherian does something far too few of us ever get around
to: express gratitude to a teacher whose lessons changed, empowered and altered
the direction of her life. It is one thing for an instructor to teach us about life, quite
another to be guided toward fresh ways of living it. Grace Cherian is a freelance writer,
editor and professional artist. She is also an avid mental health advocate.
Flush
My Bones Bleached White
NADINE ESPINOZA / 2015 / CANADA / 35 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
CATHERINE JONES / 2015 / CANADA / 4 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE
A young woman named Abigail checks into a medical facility to treat her eating
disorder. Although the story she tells is intensely intimate and personal, it speaks to
the experience of thousands. Nadine Espinoza is an emerging visual art and media
artist living in Toronto.
Memory, trauma, the body and the mind itself are evoked as inextricably
co-dependent factors in what see, feel and understand. Catherine Jones is a
Toronto-based photographer and collage artist committed to both traditional
darkroom and digital techniques. For more info, visit: www.catherinejones.format.com
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7
9:30 AM – 4 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
THE PUBLIC ADDICT:
It is a common wisdom of recovery that staying clean and sober
requires contemplation, honesty and release from the ego. But
it is a common practice of celebrity to magnify one’s experience
into a 24/7 form of constant spectacle. And being a star -- even
if only in your own life -- has never been a more tantalizing
ambition. What is it like to face addiction and recovery under
the unblinking eye of media scrutiny, when the whole world
is watching? Our panel shares personal reflections and
testimonies.
SYMPOSIUM
PANELISTS
Sheldon Kennedy – Sheldon Kennedy is a Canadian former
professional ice hockey player and is the Lead Director at the
Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre and co-founder of
Respect Group Inc.
Steve Leckie - A foundational figure in the Toronto punk and
Queen West art scene, Steven Leckie is an artist, musician,
songwriter and lead singer of the Viletones
Jowita Brydlowska - Jowita is a journalist and an author of
a bestselling memoir Drunk Mom. Her next book, GUY (Why
Women Love Me), a novel, is coming out Fall 2016.
IMAGE: THEA JONES
TRANSFIXED: TV AND ADDICTION
These days, you can’t turn on a TV show without confronting
addiction. Moreover, you can’t turn on a screen -- laptop,
computer, phone, tablet -- without watching TV. This is an
age when screens beckon everywhere and every moment of
our waking lives and the impact on our behaviour, brains and
relationship with the world has shifted more dramatically than
we know. We may have more choice than ever in terms of
what we watch, but what about whether we watch? Hosted
by critic, author and RWM Program Director Geoff Pevere,
this year Rendezvous will devote an entire day to discussion
how this has happened, why it has happened and what it
means. From a first-person discussion of what it’s like to be
dealing with addiction under TV’s hot spotlight, to case studies
in the dramatic representation of the addicted character, to
the increasingly pressing digital-age question of whether
TV itself is an addictive substance, TRANSFIXED: TV AND
ADDICTION symposium will scan the gamut of pop culture’s
primary fixation.
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MODERATOR:
Geoff Pevere is the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival
Program Director. He has been writing, teaching and
broadcasting about movies, media and popular culture for
more than thirty years. A former movie critic with the Toronto
Star and columnist with the Globe and Mail, he is also the
author of several books about film, music and pop culture,
and has acted as movie critic on many TV and radio programs
over the years. Geoff’s teaching experience extends to several
Canadian universities and campuses and he remains as
transfixed as ever.
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
9:30 – 10 AM Breakfast
10 – 11:30 AM Panel: The Public Addict
11:30 – 12:30 PM Lunch
12:30 – 2 PM
Panel: Affliction Fiction
2
– 2:30 PM Break
2:30 – 4 PM
Panel: Net Fix
AFFLICTION FICTION:
Time was, the only people on TV who had substance issues
were jovial drunks teetering on bar stools or singing behind the
bars of a drunk tank. And drugs? Those were what were either
advertised as good for you during commercial breaks or what
turned long-haired kids into drooling lunatics on all those cop
shows. What a world away that seems. Today you can’t tune in
to a show without confronting somebody’s fictional version of
an addict. Recovery and addiction are everywhere and entire
shows -- The Wire, Nurse Jackie, Weeds, Breaking Bad, Mad
Men, Shameless, Mr. Robot -- have been built on the foundation
of dependency. But how accurate are these depictions and what
impact do they have?
PANELISTS
Norma Coates – Norma Coates is an Associate Professor
of Music and Media Studies at Western University and a
recovering alcoholic.
Ken Rogers – Kenneth Rogers is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media,
Performance & Design at York University.
Sarah Matheson – Sarah Matheson is an Associate Professor
in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at
Brock University and co-editor of Canadian Television Text
and Context.
NET FIX:
We now have TV anywhere, any time and as much as we
want. There is nowhere to turn without being confronted by
screens, and if they’re not staring us in the face, they’re right
there in our pocket. There are no longer any limits on our
access to distraction and the very idea of doing without is,
for many, unthinkable. What has that constant presence of
choice, amusement and instant gratification done to our brain
chemistry? Or to our expectation of being gratified immediately?
Distraction is at our fingertips, satisfaction a second away. Are
we digitally addicted?
PANELISTS
Nigel Turner – Nigel E. Turner, Ph.D. is an independent scientist
at CAMH. He has spent the past 20 years conducting research
on addictions, mostly focusing on behavioral addiction such as
gambling and video gaming.
Scott Henderson – Scott Henderson is Chair of the Department
of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University,
and co-editor of Canadian Television: Texts and Contexts.
Bruce Ballon – Dr. Bruce Ballon is an Associate Professor of
Public Health and Psychiatry for the U of T’s Faculty of Medicine
and Adjunct Professor for the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology’s Faculty of Health Sciences.
CO-PRESENTED BY
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SCHOOL OF IMAGE ARTS
Master Class: Karina Garcia Casanova on
Making ‘Juanicas’
Karina Garcia Casanova’s first film is a remarkable achievement. While indisputably an intensely personal account of mental illness
as a family experience, Juanicas is also universal in its scope and resonance. By deciding to film her troubled brother from the
moment he returns to the family home in Montreal from a visit to his birthplace in Mexico, Casanova demonstrates the power of
filmmaking as a form of personal testimony and means of survival. In this session, Casanova will discuss the challenges of making
of the film and the process of shedding light on family history. For more information on how to register, please visit us online
at http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com/master-class/ or contact Cara Spooner at [email protected].
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
12 PM – 4 PM
WORKMAN THEATRE
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ART INSTALLATION: we now return you to
your perpetual pleasure programming
OUTDOOR OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7
6 - 7:30 PM
Workman Arts Pop Up Gallery
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Jaene Castrillon, Claro Cosco, Joey DAMMIT!
and Thea Jones
we now return you to your perpetual pleasure
programming is a collaborative installation that responds
to the 2015 festival symposium TRANSFIXED: TV AND
ADDICTION. This multifaceted artistic interpretation of how
our brain works, survives and suffers through addiction
reframes the excess of substance abuse seen on TV. In order
to portray how normalized we have become to the viral image
of addiction, images of mainstream television addictions and
addicts flash on the monitors alongside an overabundance of
content gathered from the internet, movies and TV’s history.
In creating the construct of a giant aggregate mind, this
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installation presents viewers with a snippet of the bliss and
banality in the face of addiction. Furthermore, you can’t stop
watching!
A multimedia installation at the Workman Arts Pop Up Gallery,
located on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health, 1001 Queen Street West (at Gordon Bell Road, west
of the TD Bank) and at a window gallery space at Shoppers
Drug Mart at Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue. The
exhibition will be on view from November 6 through December
6. A video/animation component will be displayed on digital
screens at theatre entrances prior to film screenings.
WHEN: Friday November 6 – Sunday December 6, 2015
Video/Animation Component: November 6 – 14, 2015
WHERE: Workman Arts Pop Up Gallery
Queen Street West and Gordon Bell Road
Shoppers Drug Mart Window Gallery
Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue
ARTIST BIOS
Jaene Castrillon is a multidisciplinary artist who utilizes her art
practice to show the brilliance and the heart-break of living a
life less ordinary. Through performance art, dance, poetry, film
making and activism she creates an environment for further
dialogue between ideas of wellness and illness. She is the
recipient of the 11th annual LIFT/imagineNATIVE Mentorship
through which she completed a film for premiere at the 2015
imagineNATIVE festival. Jaene is currently Media Artist-inResidence at Workman Arts.
Claro Cosco is an artist and letterpress printer. Working
primarily in drawing, printmaking, video, and sculpture, he is
interested in exploring embodiment and imaginative reality.
He has exhibited in both Winnipeg and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche,
the Harbourfront Centre, the AGO and group video and print
exhibitions that are touring inter/nationally.
Thea Jones is a video and textile artist based in Toronto
Canada. Jones received her BFA from Concordia University
in Montréal where she worked at Hexagram Institute for
Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies; and her
MFA from York University. She has been an artist in residence
at the Banff Centre, Broken City Lab in Windsor, Oboro in
Montréal and Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art in
Winnipeg. Jones’ video work focuses on uncovering gestures of
memorialization; her video work reinvents demarcations of the
past in the landscape and explores the activation of ritual in
repetition. While her textile practice includes a life-long project
titled I will save the world by mending where she attempts to
solve bigger issues by mending clothes.
Joey DAMMIT! is an award winning mixed media Pop artist
with a self-described obsession with the darker side of the
cult of celebrity. His art has been described by the Toronto
Star as, “Warhol in a head-on collision with David Lynch.” He
was chosen by Inside Entertainment magazine as one of the
“Six Canadian Artists To Watch”. His work is held in private and
corporate collections. www.joeydammit.com
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‫ ﭘﺭرﻳﯾﺩدﻥن ﺍاﺯز ﺍاﺭرﺗﻔﺎﻉع ﮐﻡم‬ A MINOR LEAP DOWN
“I have seen many mental health presentations and this is by far the best one”
- Golnar Zia, Teacher, East York Alternative Secondary School
RENDEZVOUS IN THE CLASSROOM is a mental health, arts and education initiative
designed for high schools, colleges, universities, organizations and conferences. From
highlighting feature length films and shorts programs or presenting a master class to
students from well-known directors, each film presentation is followed with a panel
discussion or Q&A with a rtists, film programmers and/or specialists in the field! The
program is built to stimulate interest in mental health issues, increase understanding
of people with mental illness and addiction issues and combat the stigma associated
with it.
Recent events include collaborative screenings with:
Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors,
Mindfest with University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry.
Hart House, University of Toronto
Ontario College of Art and Design
Stratford Festival
‫ ﻧﻬﮭﺎﻝل )ﻧﮕﺎﺭر ﺟﻭوﺍاﻫﮬﮪھﺭرﻳﯾﺎﻥن( ﺑﺎ‬،٬(‫ )ﺍاﺯز ﺩدﺳﺕت ﺩدﺍاﺩدﻥن ﺟﻧﻳﯾﻥن‬،٬‫ﭘﺱس ﺍاﺯز ﺗﺭرﮎک ﻣﻁطﺏب ﭘﺯزﺷﮏ ﺯزﻧﺎﻥن ﻭو ﺑﺎ ﺷﻧﻳﯾﺩدﻥن ﺧﺑﺭر ﺑﺳﻳﯾﺎﺭر ﻧﺎﮔﻭوﺍاﺭر ﺩدﺭر ﻣﻭوﺭرﺩد ﺑﺎﺭرﺩدﺍاﺭرﻳﯾﺵش‬
.‫ ﺑﻪﮫ ﻧﻅظﺭر ﻣﯽ ﺭرﺳﺩد ﮐﻪﮫ ﺧﺑﺭر ﺭرﺍا ﺑﺎ ﺁآﺭرﺍاﻣﺵش ﭘﺫذﻳﯾﺭرﻓﺗﻪﮫ ﺍاﺳﺕت‬،٬‫ ﺍاﻭو ﺑﺟﺎﯼی ﺍاﺣﺳﺎﺱس ﺍاﻧﺩدﻭوﻩه ﻭو ﻳﯾﺎ ﺷﻭوﮎک‬:‫ﻭوﺍاﮐﻧﺵش ﺑﺳﻳﯾﺎﺭر ﻧﺎ ﻣﺗﻌﺎﺭرﻓﯽ ﺭرﻭوﺑﺭرﻭوﺳﺕت‬
‫ﻭوﯼی ﻭوﻗﺗﯽ ﺑﻪﮫ ﺩدﻧﻳﯾﺎﯼی ﻭوﺍاﻗﻌﯽ ﺑﺎﺯز ﻣﯽ ﮔﺭرﺩدﺩد ﻭو ﺧﺑﺭر ﺷﺭرﺍاﻳﯾﻁط ﺑﺎﺭرﺩدﺍاﺭرﻳﯾﺵش ﺭرﺍا ﺩدﺭر ﺩدﻝل ﻧﮕﺎﻩه ﻣﯽ ﺩدﺍاﺭرﺩد ﻣﺎ ﻣﺗﻭوﺟﻪﮫ ﻣﻳﯾﺷﻭوﻳﯾﻡم ﮐﻪﮫ ﺷﺭرﺍاﻳﯾﻁط ﻭوﯼی ﭼﮕﻭوﻧﻪﮫ‬
.‫ ﺍاﻭو ﺗﺎﺭرﻳﯾﺧﭼﻪﮫ ﺍاﻓﺳﺭرﺩدﮔﯽ ﺩدﺍاﺭرﺩد ﻭو ﻫﮬﮪھﻣﻪﮫ ﺍاﻓﺭرﺍاﺩد ﺩدﺭر ﺯزﻧﺩدﮔﯽ ﺍاﺵش ﺑﻪﮫ ﻭوﯼی ﺑﻪﮫ ﮔﻭوﻧﻪﮫ ﻳﯾﮏ ﺍاﻧﺳﺎﻥن ﻧﻳﯾﺎﺯزﻣﻧﺩد ﺑﻪﮫ ﻣﺭرﺍاﻗﺑﺕت ﺩدﺍاﺋﻣﯽ ﻭو ﻭوﺍاﺑﺳﺗﻪﮫ ﻣﯽ ﻧﮕﺭرﻧﺩد‬:‫ﺍاﻧﺩد‬
‫ﺑﻧﺎﺑﺭرﺍاﻳﯾﻥن ﻧﻬﮭﺎﻝل ﺟﺎﻳﯾﮕﺎﻩه ﻣﺳﺗﻘﻝل ﻓﮑﺭرﯼی ﺧﻭوﺩد ﺭرﺍا ﺑﻪﮫ ﺗﻧﻬﮭﺎ ﻁطﺭرﻳﯾﻘﯽ ﮐﻪﮫ ﻣﯽ ﺷﻧﺎﺳﺩد ﺑﻪﮫ ﻣﺭرﺣﻠﻪﮫ ﺍاﺟﺭرﺍا ﻣﯽ ﮔﺫذﺍاﺭرﺩد )ﮐﻡم ﺍاﻫﮬﮪھﻣﻳﯾﺕت ﺩدﺍاﺩدﻥن ﺑﻪﮫ ﺍاﻧﺗﻅظﺎﺭرﺍاﺕت‬
.(‫ﭘﺭرﺍاﺭرﺯزﺵش‬
‫ ﺩدﺍاﺳﺗﺎﻥن ﻁطﺑﻘﻪﮫ ﻣﺗﻭوﺳﻁط ﺷﻬﮭﺭرﯼی ﺭرﺍا ﺩدﺭر ﻓﺿﺎﻳﯾﯽ‬،٬‫ﺩدﻳﯾﺩدﻥن ﺍاﻳﯾﻥن ﻓﻳﯾﻠﻡم ﺑﺎ ﻧﮑﺗﻪﮫ ﺳﻧﺟﯽ ﻭو ﻫﮬﮪھﻣﺩدﻟﯽ ﻓﺭرﺍاﻭوﺍاﻧﯽ ﺗﻭوﺳﻁط ﻧﻭوﻳﯾﺳﻧﺩدﻩه ﻭو ﮐﺎﺭرﮔﺭرﺩدﺍاﻥن ﺣﺎﻣﺩد ﺭرﺟﺑﯽ‬
.‫ﻣﻁطﺭرﺡح ﻣﯽ ﮐﻧﺩد ﮐﻪﮫ ﺍاﻁطﺭرﺍاﻓﻳﯾﺎﻥن ﻧﻬﮭﺎﻝل ﺩدﺭر ﺩدﻧﻳﯾﺎﯼی ﺧﻭوﺩد ﺷﻧﺎﻭوﺭرﺍاﻧﺩد ﻭو ﺍاﺯز ﻟﻣﺱس ﺭرﻭوﺯزﻫﮬﮪھﺎﯼی ﺍاﻭو ﺑﺩدﻭوﺭر‬
See page 19 for more screening details.
Film presentations are designed on a case-by-case basis dependent on needs of the
group and the subject matter. For more information please contact Cara Spooner,
Education and Training Manager at 416 583 4339 or [email protected]
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WORKMAN ARTS
PATRONS
Her Excellency, Sharon Johnston, C.C.
Dr. Barbara Dorian & Dr. Paul Garfinkel
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Patrick Manley, Chair
Mark Goldbloom, Vice-Chair & Secretary
Brenda Arsenault, Treasurer
Adrienne Alison
Kaye Beeston
BECOMING A WORKMAN
ARTS MEMBER
Professional training has been an integral part of Workman Arts’ offerings since the
organization’s inception in 1987. Workman Arts offers high caliber training in Media
Arts, Literary Arts, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts delivered by artists and working
arts professionals. These programs support members to reach their potential by
honing their artistic skills and practice. Training programs are presented in a variety of
formats and durations including multi-week courses, workshop intensives, seminars
and one-on-one mentoring. All training programs are free of charge to members.
Members are artists who have received services for mental health or addiction and
wishes to develop or refine their art form. Joining Workman Arts is free. Anyone
interested in becoming a Workman Artist and have specific artistic goals they wish to
achieve will attend an interview and orientation with the Membership Manager. The
interview will ascertain suitability of the artist to the company, assess creative goals
and how Workman Arts can help the individual achieve them. The orientation will
include an overview of the programs and services available.
“I feel safe, supported and understood at Workman Arts. I have learned much
over the years by taking the various courses offered. I feel that I am back
involved in the arts now, because of the opportunities here. That is really what I
want and need as an artist.”
WA Artist, 2014 Member Survey
Melissa Bender
Miles Cohen
Jenna Leblanc
Juniper Locilento
STAFF
Lori Spadorcia
ADMINISTRATION
PROGRAMMING
Lisa Brown, Founder & Artistic Executive Director
Chris Mitchell, Program Director
Scott Miller Berry, Managing Director
Geoff Pevere, RWM Festival Program Director
Danica Brown, Membership & Hospital Liaison
Sarah Turner, Visual arts Coordinator
Cara Spooner, Education & Training Manager
Steve Lewis, Visual Artist-In-Residence
Jennifer Li, Office Administrator & Outreach Coordinator
David Sweeney, Technical Director
SPECIAL PROJECTS
INTERNS
Leslie Dolman, Research & Development Consultant
Elena Paglierello, Scaling Intern
Nena Pendevska, Scaling Project Manager
Cassandra Rowbothan, Scaling Intern
Andrea Mateka, Digital Archivist
Heather Fulton, Scaling Intern
Seerat Siddique, Development Volunteer
George Hardy, Scaling Intern
Kayla Wemp, RWM Intern
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Gillian Arnold, Donor Development Intern
Lascelle Wingate, Financial Officer
Cate Hopkins, IAPP Intern
Joanne Smale, Publicist
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Breaking the Chains
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Décor
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My Skinny Sister
Homesick
Of Men and War
The Might Angel
Light Beneath Their Feet
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A Minor Leap Down
Breaking
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Juanicas
Paul Sharits
Michelle Maren
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Décor
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Across:
1. Slave to a vice
5. Social _____
7. A nerve cell
8. Fear the dead
10. Regard or consideration for others
12.One flew over this bird’s nest
13. Famous artist with mental illness
15. Obsessions & compulsions
18. “Livin’ la Vida _______”
20. “Breaking Bad” channel
22. Upper part of brain; coordinates thought, memory, &
learned behaviors.
23. Ailurophobia
24. Reprimand in a movie theatre
25. “The Ego and the Id” author
26. Name of a Workman Artist Short
27. What’s often left hanging?
28. Name of short film screening with “Paul Sharits”
29. Serious and thoughtful
32. A mood disorder characterized by extended periods of
sadness, fatigue.
34. Sound powers of mind
35. Director of “A Minor Leap Down” (first name)
36. Sheldon’s sport.
37. Actor’s workplace.
39. Workman Arts’ installation space
40. TV Nurse played by actress Edie Falco
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2. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
3. Hitchhiker catchphrase, “Don’t _____”
4. The act of physical restraining people living with mental
illnesses (Breaking the Chains)
7. A substance that dulls or soothes the senses.
8. Academy Award winner, Jack ____
9. Having two poles, as the earth
11. Small screen
14. Twelve-step organization
16. Winner of Best Picture in 1978 (2 words)
17. Agoraphobia (2 words)
19. Sense of dread
20. An extreme, pathological form of shyness and timidity (see
Daydreams of Wilderness)
21. An anxiety disorder occurring after a trauma.
29. Common thing?
30. “Décor”’s country
31. Workman Arts’ namesake (first name)
33. Main character in “My Skinny Sister”
38. Festival location
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RESOURCES
INDEX BY TITLE
Al-Anon/Alateenhttp://www.al-anon.org/
TITLE
FILM TYPE
DIRECTOR
PAGE #
Alcoholics Anonymous
https://aatoronto.org | http://www.aa.org/
A CELEBRATION OF DARKNESS
Short
Jaene F. Castrillon
45
Artist Health Network of Canada
http://artshealthnetwork.ca/
A LIGHT BENEATH THEIR FEET
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
Assaulted Women’s Helpline
http://www.awhl.org/
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
19
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)
http://www.ccsa.ca/Pages/default.aspx
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHELLE MAREN
Feature
Michel Negroponte & Michelle Maren 24
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) http://www.cmha.ca/
BLOEDHOND
Short
Mees Peijnenburg
40
Centre for ADD/ADHD Advocacy Canada
http://www.caddac.ca/
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
Centre for Addiction & Mental Heatlh (CAMH)
http://www.camh.ca
COLLISION OF AN EAGLE AND A BUTTERFLY
Short
Robin Jones
44
Distress Centres of Ontario
http://www.dcontario.org/
COUNT ON KARAOKE
Short
Lucy Drumonde
45
Empowerment Council
http://www.empowermentcouncil.ca/
CUP
Short
George S K Hardy
44
Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre
http://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=frederick-thomp
DANCE RX
Short
TK Workman
42
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
son-anxiety-disorders-centre
Gerstein Crisis Centre http://gersteincentre.org/
DAYDREAMS OF WILDERNESS
Short
Amaya Han
38
Kids Help Phone
http://org.kidshelpphone.ca/
DÉCOR
Feature
Ahmad Abdalla
27
Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line
http://www.youthline.ca/
LifeRing Secular Recovery - Self-Help Support Group
ECHOES
Short
Jaimz Asmundson
37
EIGHT
Feature
Peter Blackburn
25
FLUSH
Short
Nadine Espinoza
45
For People In Recovery
http://lifering.org/
Making Choices Guide
http://www.crct.org/choices/
HAPPY WITH BEAR Short
Yianni Warnock
38
Mental Health Commission of Canada
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/
HEART OF DUST
Short
Louise Keay Bell. 36
Mind Your Mind
http://www.mindyourmind.ca
HEDI SCHNEIDER is Stuck
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
Mood Disorders Association of Ontario
https://www.mooddisorders.ca/
HOMESICK
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
31
Mood Disorders Society of Canada
http://www.mooddisorderscanada.ca/
INEFFAÇABLE Short
Grégory Lecocq
41
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC)
http://www.nedic.ca/
JUANICAS
Feature
Karina Garcia Casanova
21
Obsessive Complusive Disorder Anonymous
http://obsessivecompulsiveanonymous.org/
MER DEPRE
Short
Margaret Orr
37
Ontario Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Network (OCDOntario)
http://www.ocdontario.org/
MY BONES BLEACHED WHITE
Short
Catherine Jones
44
Ontario Peer Development Initiative (OPDI)
http://www.opdi.org/
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
Ontario Psychiatric Association
https://eopa.ca/
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
Laurent Bécue-Renard
32
Ontario Psychological Association
http://www.psych.on.ca/
PAUL SHARITS
Feature
François Miron
23
Ontario Suicide Prevention Network
http://ospn.ca/
PINK LIKE SALMON
Short
Fiona Seth
45
Parents for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH)
http://www.pcmh.ca/
RUPTURA
Short
Alejandro Valbuena
43
Psychiatric Patient Advocate’s Office (PPAO)
http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/mohltc/ppao/default.aspx
SCRAPBOOK
Short
Mike Hoolboom
36
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
Renascenthttp://renascent.ca/
Schizophrenia Society of Ontario
http://www.schizophrenia.on.ca/
TEENLAND
Short
Marie Grahtø Sørensen
41
Self-Help Resource Centre
http://www.selfhelp.on.ca/
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
33
Sheena’s Place
http://sheenasplace.org/
THOUGHTS I LEFT BEHIND
Short
Emily Eng
45
The Centre for Suicide Prevention
http://www.suicideinfo.ca/
TO HEATHER WITH LOVE
Short
Grace Cherian
44
The Family Association for Mental Health Everywhere (FAME)
http://fameforfamilies.com/
TWITCH Short
Jules de Niverville
42
Toronto Psychology Centre
http://torontopsychologycentre.com/
UNE COURTE HISTOIRE DE LA FOLIE /
Short
Isabelle Hayeur
43
Women for Sobriety
http://www.womenforsobriety.org/
A SHORT HISTORY OF MADNESS
Virtuous Pedophile http://www.virped.org/
WHALE VALLEY
Short
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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INDEX BY COUNTRY
TITLE
FILM TYPE
DIRECTOR
PAGE #
COUNTRY
TITLE
FILM TYPE
DIRECTOR
PAGE #
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
Australia EIGHT
Feature
Peter Blackburn
25
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
19
Australia
Yianni Warnock
38
Feature
Belgium/France
INEFFAÇABLE Short
Grégory Lecocq
41
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
Canada
Short
Jaene F. Castrillon
45
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
Canada
Short
Robin Jones
44
DÉCOR
Feature
Ahmad Abdalla
27
Canada
COUNT ON KARAOKE
Short
Lucy Drumonde
45
EIGHT
Feature
Peter Blackburn
25
Canada
CUP
Short
George S K Hardy
44
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
Canada
DANCE RX
Short
TK Workman
42
HOMESICK
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
31
Canada
ECHOES
Short
Jaimz Asmundson
37
JUANICAS
Feature
21
Canada
FLUSH
Short
Nadine Espinoza
45
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
Canada
Short
Catherine Jones
44
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
Canada
PAUL SHARITS
Feature
François Miron
23
PAUL SHARITS
Feature
François Miron
23
Canada
PINK LIKE SALMON
Short
Fiona Seth
45
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
Canada
RUPTURA
Short
Alejandro Valbuena
43
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
33
Canada SCRAPBOOK
Short
Mike Hoolboom
36
Short
Jaene F. Castrillon
45
Canada
Short
Emily Eng
45
BLOEDHOND
Short
Mees Peijnenburg
40
Canada
Short
Grace Cherian
44
Short
Robin Jones
44
Canada
TWITCH Short
Jules de Niverville
42
Short
Isabelle Hayeur
43
Feature
21
COUNT ON KARAOKE
Short
Lucy Drumonde
45
Canada
UNE COURTE HISTOIRE DE LA FOLIE / CUP
Short
George S K Hardy
44
DANCE RX
Short
TK Workman
42
Canada/Mexico
JUANICAS
Short
Amaya Han
38
Czech Republic
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
ECHOES
Short
Jaimz Asmundson
37
Denmark TEENLAND
Short
41
FLUSH
Short
Nadine Espinoza
45
Egypt
DÉCOR
Feature
Ahmad Abdalla
27
Yianni Warnock
38
France
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
HEART OF DUST
Short
Germany
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
INEFFAÇABLE Short
Grégory Lecocq
41
Germany/Austria
HOMESICK
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
31
MER DEPRE
Short
Margaret Orr
37
Iceland/Denmark
WHALE VALLEY
Short
Guðmundur Arnar
40
Short
Catherine Jones
44
Guðmundsson
PINK LIKE SALMON
Short
Fiona Seth
45
Indonesia/UK/
RUPTURA
Short
Alejandro Valbuena
43
Australia/Italy
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
SCRAPBOOK
Short
Mike Hoolboom
36
Iran
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
19
TEENLAND
Short
41
Netherlands
BLOEDHOND
Short
Mees Peijnenburg
40
Short
Emily Eng
45
Philippines
Short
Amaya Han
38
Short
Grace Cherian
44
Poland
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
33
TWITCH Short
Jules de Niverville
42
Sweden
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
UNE COURTE HISTOIRE DE LA FOLIE /
Short
Isabelle Hayeur
43
WHALE VALLEY
60
Short
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
40
UK
HEART OF DUST
Short
USA A LIGHT BENEATH THEIR FEET
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
USA AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHELLE MAREN
Feature
Michel Negroponte & 24
Michelle Maren
USA MER DEPRE
Short
Margaret Orr
37
USA SWIFT CURRENT Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
61
INDEX BY THEME
FILM TYPE
DIRECTOR
PAGE #
FILM TYPE
DIRECTOR
PAGE #
ADVOCACY
ADDICTION
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
33
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
ANXIETY
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
ALCOHOLISM
HOMESICK
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
31
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
EATING DISORDER
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
JUANICAS
Feature
21
OBSESSIVE COMPLUSIVE DISORDER
PAUL SHARITS
Feature
François Miron
23
EIGHT
Feature
Feature
Sanna Lenken
Peter Blackburn
DEPRESSION
PARANOIA
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
DÉCOR
Feature
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
Ahmad Abdalla
33
19
HOMESICK
27
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
30
25
31
PTSD
Feature
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
26
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
FAMILY
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
Feature
Sonja Heiss
JUANICAS
Feature
21
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
DOCUMENTARY
Feature
GENDER ROLES
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
19
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
Feature
21
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
DÉCOR
Feature
Ahmad Abdalla
27
JUANICAS
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
PAUL SHARITS
Feature
François Miron
23
RECOVERY
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
EIGHT
Feature
Peter Blackburn
25
DRAMA
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
Feature
Valerie Weiss
35
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
A MINOR LEAP DOWN
Feature
Hamed Rajabi
19
OF MEN AND WAR
Feature
32
DÉCOR
Feature
Ahmad Abdalla
27
SWIFT CURRENT
Feature
Joshua Rofé
17
EIGHT
Feature
Peter Blackburn
25
Feature
Sonja Heiss
26
STIGMA
HOMESICK
Feature
Jakob M. Erwa
31
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Feature
Erminia Colucci
20
MY SKINNY SISTER
Feature
Sanna Lenken
30
DANIEL’S WORLD
Feature
Veronika Lišková
29
THE MIGHTY ANGEL
Feature
Wojciech Smarzowski
33
62
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