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- This is a documentary about Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage. it takes a unique approach where it tells the story of the expedition but also the making of the film itself.
- Born into a world of wealth and privilege, he devotes his life to eliminating poverty and inequality. A religious leader who traces his ancestry back to the Prophet Muhammad, he struggles to balance the traditional with the modern. His Highness the Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, a Shia sect with 15 million followers around the world. At a time when Islam is at odds with itself and with the West, the Aga Khan represents a voice of moderation, speaking out for pluralism and diversity, and promoting dialogue between civilizations. But will he be heard? The Film: The Ismailis are a people without a homeland. An oft-persecuted minority within Islam, they are scattered across more than 30 countries. The program shows how many Ismailis came to the West when they were forced out of Uganda by Idi Amin. It was the current Aga Khan's grandfather, Sultan Muhammed Shah Aga Khan, who created the Ismaili community as we know it today. Though a reputation for high living often overshadowed his achievements, he encouraged Ismailis to build modern institutions, promoted the education of women, and built a network of charities, schools and hospitals in the developing world. In his will, he named his 20-year-old grandson, Prince Karim, as his successor, believing that Ismailis needed a leader who had grown up in the modern world - an Imam for "the atomic age." The Aga Khan prefers to let his development work speak for itself. He has resisted participating in documentaries for over forty-five years and has rarely given interviews. This documentary secured both. AN ISLAMIC CONSCIENCE reveals how this shy and studious young man became one of the world's most respected faith leaders, tending to the spiritual lives of his followers while also operating one of the most important aid organizations in the world: the Aga Khan Development Foundation, which employs 70,000 people and invests more than $400 million in development aid every year. For the Aga Khan, social improvement, pluralism and intellectual advancement are integral aspects of the Islamic faith but his message is being drowned out by the rise of militant fundamentalist Islam. He struggles to act as a force for moderation, and to establish bridges between Islam and the West. It remains to be seen if this battle can be won.
- The filmmaker¹s encounter, at the age of 30, with her biological mother is the springboard for a humourous and bittersweet journey past biology to other alternative notions of destiny. Her family of origin is opposite to her experience and the difference shakes her to her foundation. Left waiting to meet her biological father and sister, the filmmaker tries to sort through the opposites of rural versus urban, Christian versus atheist, and legitimacy versus illegitimacy. Funny and painful by turns, the film is part coming of age and part detective story as it slides effortlessly from personal perspective to universal ideas. Not just an adoption story, Relativity breaks into ideas of separateness and kinship, identity and experience, to arrive at the meaning and mystery of belonging.
- Raising Cassidy is a dramatic, troubling, and at times heroic story of a woman's battle with addiction, when the stakes are the highest. Cheryl is a 33-year old stripper and crack addict who has had three children, but raised none of them. Her first child she gave up through private adoption, while the second and third were both taken before their first birthday by the Ontario Children's Aid Society (CAS). Now Cassidy, Cheryl's fourth child, has also been apprehended by CAS after Cheryl gave birth high on crack. This documentary records Cheryl's battle to regain custody and raise her fourth daughter, Cassidy. An inspirational and provocative story; it is a defining example of the struggle to break cycles of abuse and poverty. Narrated by the director, the film offers an intimate account of a woman torn between motherhood and addiction.
- A film crew follows the first 30 days of relief efforts in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The crew returns in six months to find out how the recovery is proceeding.
- Quirky, highly original live-action/animated documentary about a guy with three dreams, inspired by dreamers who went before him.
- Is the famous story really true? Did young David actually slay the giant Goliath with a slingshot? Did giants actually walk the earth? Find out in Footsteps of Goliath. The filmmakers themselves pieced together clues from the Lands of the Bible and brought them together in the most complete view on the giant Goliath ever presented.
- Letters to God is a talk show-type television series in which children discuss their ideas of God and of their world view which they wrote down in letter format with host Louis Ferreira (Justin Louis).
- Floating Doctors is an organization that brings critical medical supplies--and a unique "floating clinic"--to remote communities desperately in need of help.