100 min.
WHY HAVEL?
The film is an intimate look at one of the most extraordinary figures of our time, Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who became the first freely-elected President of Czechoslovakia in almost 55 years.
50 min.
THE MAKING OF
TOMMY TRICKER
Discovering the ins and outs of movie making, Tommy takes the viewer on a journey behind the scenes both in Canada and in the exotic Cook Islands, and expresses his own feelings about this new experience.
50 min.
BALINESE SHADOW PLAY
Four musicians and a master puppeteer from the island of Bali in a special presentation of the Indonesian art of Wayang Kulit, a Balinese shadow puppet play. A unique, traditional art form that blends exotic music with an amazing performance by one of the most popular Bali’s storytellers, I Wajan Wija.
101.48 min.
GLADYS
On June 27th, 1998, Gladys celebrated her 104th birthday in New York. Vojtech Jasny presents an extraordinary woman whose life has been a long journey filled with love.
90 min.
UNDYING LOVE
The film tells the poignant, enduring and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War. Using searing testimonies, poetic dramatization, never-seen-before archives and images of romantic love from the pre-and- post Holocaust era, the film is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerge “out of the ashes”.
60 min.
MOVING SANDS
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, out in the Atlantic Ocean, lies a fragile, crescent-shaped island under whose sands a mystery is buried. We propose to uncover it. Invited along on a veritable treasure hunt, viewers will follow us as we decipher clues and use a map to guide us over the sand of time, across the magnificent landscape of Sable Island.
52 min.
BEING DOROTHY
The film focuses on the lives of the young women in Liberal Kansas who are employed as “part-time Dorothys” in the Land of Oz display of the Seward County Historical Museum. Presenting events in their lives over a six months shooting period, the film paints a portrait of teenage maturation within the context of the mytical Land of Oz.
