加拿大HOTDOCS电影节是北美较成熟和享有盛名的国际纪录片节之一，每年组织国际纪录片的市场交易活动，包括：纪录片方案预售、国际买家见面会、纪录片商店、专业论坛；以及纪录片展映等活动。2014HOTDOCS电影节将于2014年4月24日至5月4日在加拿大多伦多市举行。下面是由National Film Board选送的影片播放时间表，其中华裔Julia Kwan的影片Everything Will Be尤其引人注目。
Everything Will Be
A film by Julia Kwan
Producer: David Christensen (NFB)
Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse neighbourhood-Vancouver’s once-thriving Chinatown-in the midst of transformation. The community’s oldest and newest members offer their intimate perspectives on the shifting landscape as they reflect on change, memory and legacy.
2014, 85 min
World Premiere – Canadian Spectrum
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Tuesday, Apr. 29th / 7:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Wednesday, Apr. 30th / 1:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Friday, May 2nd / 1:00PM / Hart House Theatre
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
A film by John Kastner
Producers: John Kastner (JS Kastner Productions), Deborah Parks (JS Kastner Productions), Silva Basmajian (NFB)
Executive Producer: Silva Basmajian (NFB)
What happens to people who suffer from mental illnesses and commit violent crimes? Where do they go? How are they treated? Some patients are sent to forensic psychiatric hospitals-once called asylums for the criminally insane-where they disappear from public view for years. In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, John Kastner gained unprecedented access to one such facility. He follows the treatment of four patients, who share, with stunning frankness, their struggle to gain control over their lives, so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.
2014, 88 min
World Premiere – Canadian Spectrum
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Sunday, Apr. 27th / 6:30PM / Isabel Bader Theatre
Wednesday, Apr. 30th / 1:30PM / Isabel Bader Theatre
Sunday, May 4th / 1:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Guidelines
A film by Jean-François Caissy
Producer: Johanne Bergeron (NFB) Executive Producer: Colette Loumède (NFB)
Guidelines explores the world of adolescence through a series of tableaux that illustrate the occasionally trying existence of young people at a rural secondary school. During closed-door meetings, the teens interact with various authority figures whose job it is to “set them straight.” Outside classroom hours, though, they regain control of their world, the natural surroundings becoming a playground where they can test the limits of their temporary freedom. Guidelines emphasizes the contrasts between the regulated environment of the classroom and the beckoning freedom of the great outdoors.
2014, 75 min 48 s
North American Premiere – Canadian Spectrum
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Monday, Apr. 28th / 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Tuesday, Apr. 29th / 4:30PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Monday, Apr. 28th / 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Where I’m From
A film by Claude Demers
Producer: Colette Loumède (NFB)
Where I’m From is an intimate chronicle that unfolds in the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun, where the filmmaker grew up. It features Bastien and Cédric, two young boys who are discovering the world around them and who serve as the narrator’s alter egos. The town and the magical banks of the Saint Lawrence River serve as a backdrop for this coming-of-age story that is also a profound inner journey.
2014, 82 min
North American Premiere – World Showcase
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Monday, Apr. 28th / 8:30PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Tuesday, Apr. 29th / 3:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Sunday, May 4th / 6:30PM / Scotiabank Theatre 7
Jutra
A film by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Producers: Marc Bertrand (NFB), Dana Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre (MJSTP Films)
Executive Producer: René Chénier (NFB)
With an ingenious assembly of archival footage and animated sequences, Jutra brings us a clever and astute cinephile portrait of Claude Jutra. Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from family films, interviews, and clips from some of Jutra’s well-known works are intertwined with these sequences, forming a portrait of a man whose life was devoted to creativity.
2014, 13 min 24s
Ontario Premiere – Shorts
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Monday, Apr. 28th / 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Tuesday, Apr. 29th / 4:30PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Monday, Apr. 28th / 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Absences
A film by Carole Laganière
Producer: Colette Loumède (NFB)
Absences was inspired by Laganière’s own personal story, of the inevitable estrangement of her mother, whose memory is slowly being consumed by Alzheimer’s disease. This “anticipated separation” serves as a bridge to the film’s other subjects as they pursue their own personal quests: Ines, an immigrant who returns to her country of birth, Croatia, to find the mother who abandoned her; Deni, an American author who is finally able to search for his Quebec roots; and Nathalie, who is desperately looking for her missing sister. Through their stories, Absences explores the deepest regions of the psyche, where our sense of loss and resiliency co-exist.
2013, 74 min 39 s
Ontario Premiere – World Showcase
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Friday, Apr. 25th / 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Saturday, Apr. 26th / 1:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 Saturday,
May 3rd / 9:00PM / Scotiabank Theatre 7
Self(less) Portrait
A film by Danic Champoux
Producer: Colette Loumède (NFB)
In an age of social media, when the boundaries between private and public are constantly being redrawn, 50 people share some of their most intimate experiences and thoughts on camera. Self(less) Portrait offers a complex patchwork of intertwining themes, ultimately reflecting a collective spirit we can all identify with. Taken as a whole, these confessions—sometimes sombre, sometimes comical-compose a rich but disjointed plotline, a human mosaic that slowly takes shape in front of our very eyes, telling a story: our story.
2014, 98 min 9 s
Ontario Premiere -Canadian Spectrum
DATE/TIME/VENUE
Sunday, Apr. 27th / 6:30PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Monday, Apr. 28th / 8:45PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Sunday, May 4th / 3:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
