Director: Andrew Nisker

From the creator of the award winning film “Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home” comes a shocking tale about the products we use to clean our homes and bodies. “Chemerical” explores the life cycle of everyday householder cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity. The film is at once humorous and informative, as we watch the Goode family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic free home.

75 min.

Director: Vimlendu Jha

Delhi generates about 8000 metric tonnes of solid waste every day. The work of more than 100,000 "Ragpikers" saves the Delhi Municipal District $6,000,000 Cdn annually. The workers and their creative industries deserve our gratitude. "Disposable" is the story of waste and the stories of those who live off it. Both get disposed in the process but they play a crucial role in the environmental and social cycle.

22 min.

Director: Ana Sofia Joanes

Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, the film’s characters offer a practical vision of our food and our planet’s future. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.

72 min.

• Official Selection, Environmental Film Festival, 2009
• Official Selection, Sustainable Living Film Festival, 2009
• Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival, 2009

Director: Maureen Palmer

Statistics reveal that depression in children and youth is on the rise. In fact, it has increased by one-third in the past 30 years. Untreated depression costs a teenager in many ways: lost educational opportunities, lost social opportunities and lost time.

Through the personal stories of three young people, this compelling documentary traces the journey of depression, from early signs and symptoms, to assessment, diagnosis and treatment. The documentary also helps shatter some stereotypes. Depressed kids don't just have a bad attitude--they have an illness. And the illness is treatable. Film Website

57 min.

Director: Andrew Nisker

From the creator of the award winning film “Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home” comes a shocking tale about the products we use to clean our homes and bodies. “Chemerical” explores the life cycle of everyday householder cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity. The film is at once humorous and informative, as we watch the Goode family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic free home.

75 min.

Director: Laura Sky

Home Safe deals with how Canadian families live with threat and the experience of homelessness. In the context of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in southern Ontario, the film reveals the consequences of this “new economy,” where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or on dwindling social assistance, are forced to choose between shelter or putting food on the table.

Heartfelt and provocative, the documentary presents stories of personal challenges while addressing deeper, systemic causes of poverty and homelessness. In the fight for affordable housing, Home Safe Toronto functions as both a powerful experience and an indispensable tool.

96 min.

Director: Anne Aghion

Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local ‘patrols’ massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunals—open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to a decade in a tiny hamlet, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness, and hope for life renewed, she captures the emotional journey to coexistence.

80 min.

• Winner of the Human Rights Watch 2009 Nestor Almendros Prize
• Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
• 2009 Gotham Award nominee

Director: Roger Stahl

Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, andBattlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.Film Website

44 min.