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Comedian Baron Vaughn (Grace & Frankie, Mystery Science 3000) grew up without a father. At 35, this is the first time he is asking hard questions and digging into his family’s past. With the support of his mother and his girlfriend – and with the help of a private investigator – he sets out to meet his father for the first time. On this journey he explores what it means to be a black man who grew up without a father and the importance of the village that raised him while cracking a few jokes along the way.
When you’ve been to hell and back, how do you shake off the memories? This question has haunted Canadian General Roméo Dallaire since 1994, when he commanded the UN force during the Rwandan genocide, watching helplessly as the slaughter went on. Today, Dallaire has found a reason to live, focusing the rest of his life to eradicate the use of children as instruments of war.
White Pine Pictures
‘A Fine Line’ explores why less than 7% of Head Chef’s and restaurant owners are women, when traditionally women have always held the central role in the kitchen. Hearing perspectives and experiences from world-renowned chefs, including: World’s Best Female Chef Dominique Crenn, Emmy Award Winning TV Host Lidia Bastianich, Two Michelin Star Chef April Bloomfield, One of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People Barbara Lynch, First Female Iron Chef Cat Cora, World’s Best Chef Daniel Humm and many more.. Zoel Productions
Fouad’s Dream is a documentary about Montreal civic leader Fouad Sahyoun’s return journey to Haifa in Israel, the city of his birth and early childhood. Fouad’s dream is to establish business and cultural links between his world and Haifa, but is fraught with difficulties. However he believes that entrepreneurship can succeed where diplomacy and war have failed.
Fatherless
1 x 60’, 2017, HD
Fusion Original Production
Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children
1 x 60’ or 1 x 80’, 2012, HD
The Vaghri are the gypsies of India, descendants of the great tribes of north India to whom the gypsies of the world owe their origin. Filmed over ten years, we reveal the story of Karthik, the only member of his tribe who goes to school, and Ravi, the hustler, whose charm can part any tourist from their money.
Bang Productions
People have always searched for a key to the future, and explanations for the past. But does mysticism and fortune-telling belong to history, or is there still something in it for us today? Intrepid but uncertain presenter Brendan McDonnell tries astrology; chiromancy; face, feet, tea-leaf and even genital reading, among many more in an worldwide search for the truth about the past, present, and future.
The Final Sacrifice
1 x 60’, 2007, SD
A Fine Line
1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2019, HD
A Fortune Teller Told Me
6 x 60’, 2012, HD
Nadi Films
Productions Grand Nord
Fouad’s Dream
1 x 60’, 2012, HD
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