THE WANTED 18

During the 1987 Palestinian uprising, residents of a West Bank town secretly buy 18 cows that are promptly declared "a threat to the State of Israel."

Doc | 75 min | Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali
Intuitive Pictures II Inc. | NFB

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, 2014

UYGHURS, PRISONERS OF THE ABSURD

The incredible odyssey of a group of men from China’s persecuted Uyghur minority, detained in Guantánamo as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic of post–September 11 geopolitical gamemasters who flout international law as they shift their pawns, this documentary is part human drama, part political thriller, and both thought-provoking and moving.

Doc | 90 min | Patricio Henriquez
Macumba DOC inc. | NFB

HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT

From the producing teams behind the acclaimed Searching for Sugar Man and Stories We Tell comes Hadwin’s Judgement, the true story of Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-environmentalist who mysteriously disappeared after singlehandedly destroying North America’s most sacred tree, the Golden Spruce.

Doc | 90 min | Sasha Snow
True West | Passion Pictures | NFB

BUS STORY

This new short comedy from Tali, the animator behind At Home with Mrs. Hen (2006), was inspired by the filmmaker’s misadventures as a school bus driver in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.

Animation | 11 min | Tali
NFB

AWARD WINNER
International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, 2014

THE WEATHERMAN AND THE SHADOWBOXER

In this animation/live-action hybrid short, director Randall Okita looks into the eyes of the two-headed beast that is brotherhood. Two adult siblings, scarred in their own ways by dark events in their childhoods, have grown up and apart, absorbing their histories in very different ways. But when crisis arises, their brotherly bonds pull them back together, for better or worse. Are we ever whole and single individuals, or are we always interconnected pieces or halves of a larger thing?

Animation | 10 min | Randall Okita
NFB

AWARD WINNER
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, 2014