Last Call at Maud's

Director Eisha Marjara's story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay, India, where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara's real world--her unsettling youth, life-threatening anorexia, and the d...

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Eisha Marjara

Cast

Helen

Tapestries of Hope is the story of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley who traveled to Zimbabwe to document the work of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network. The film exposes an issue that continues to be ignored: the rape and abuse of thousands of young girls in Zimbabwe by men who believe it will cure their HIV/AIDS.

Runtime

1h 18m

Director

Michealene Cristini Risley

Cast

Betty Makoni

A cinéma vérité documentary observing the Fischer family of Aberdeen, South Dakota, following the 1963 birth of the first surviving American quintuplets. Filmed shortly after the event, the film contrasts civic promotion, media attention, and commercial interest with the private fatigue and quiet suffering of Mrs. Fischer, revealing th...

Runtime

26m

Director

Richard Leacock, Joyce Chopra

Cast

Ed McCurdy

Directed and narrated by Maja Borg, Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Maja Borg

Cast

Daniel Bedford, Colin D. Calway, Orlando Capote

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes th...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Cast

David Kato, Christopher Senyonjo, David Bahati