Waiting for "Superman"

Davis Guggenheim

USA

From An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim comes Waiting for "Superman", a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories – from a ha...

Wapawekka

Danis Goulet

Canada

Josh and his father visit their family cottage for the last time. They are leaving their traditional Cree territory, but Josh has already adopted an urban lifestyle and finds it hard to relate to his heritage.

Warchild

Caroline Monnet

Canada

On a solitary portage between the barren wilderness and a desolate city, a young man reflects on his troubled past and hopeful future.

Wasted on the Young

Ben C. Lucas

Australia

When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.

Water

Deepa Mehta

Canada

Delving into Indian society of the thirties, Water is a remarkably inspirational film about Chuyia (Sarala), a girl who struggles against the powerful religious customs that turn her into a prisoner without a future. Her refusal ...

Water Lilies

T. Marie

USA

A shimmery, abstract tryptich inspired by Claude Monet.

Wavelengths 1: Soul Of The City

Since the twenties when the city symphony film came into vogue with filmmakers like Walter Ruttmann, Paul Strand and Dziga Vertov seeking to capture the impressionistic velocity and transience of modern life, this lyrical form h...

Wavelengths 2: Plein-Air

As with painting, natural light and colour are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for film artists. Modulations of memory and emotion, like time, can be measured by the changing of the seasons as revealed by some of these perso...

Wavelengths 3: Ruhr

James Benning

Germany

Ruhr is legendary American filmmaker James Benning's monumental meditation on the Ruhr, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. While Ruhr marks Benning's foray into both high-definition video and the European landscape (leav...

Wavelengths 4: Pastourelle

USA

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring." (N. Dorsky)

Wavelengths 5: Blue Mantle

The ocean has always been a mythic source of life, as much as it has a legendary call to death: A programme of paradoxical beauty and the possibility of extinction.

Wavelengths 6: Coming Attractions

The explosive material in cinema’s history is not simply nitrate, the combustible celluloid that once reigned supreme. It is film’s commanding presence, which transports viewers through time and space with thrilling illusionary e...

Waves

Belmin Söylemez

Turkey

This striking short film focuses on the boys and young men who jump into the Bosphorus's to escape the city and the heat.

The Way

Emilio Estevez

USA

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago. Driven by his profound sadness...

West is West

Andy De Emmony

United Kingdom

Manchester, Northern England, 1976. The now much-diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, is under heavy assault both from his father's tyra...

What I Most Want

Delfina Castagnino

Argentina

Maria's four-year relationship is coming to an end while Pilar's father has recently passed away. Though their losses are of a very different nature, the two friends find comfort in each other’s company. Maria stays with Pilar in...

What's Wrong With Virginia

Dustin Lance Black

USA

Jennifer Connelly stars as Virginia, a charming yet mentally ill mother whose greatest love is her protector and illegitimate son, Emmett (Harrison Gilbertson). Richard Tipton (Ed Harris), the local married Mormon sheriff, who is...

When My Child is Born

Guo Jing, Ke Dingding

United Kingdom, Denmark, Japan

When a child is born, nothing is ever going to be the same. A journey into the everyday life of young university teachers and researchers up against an unexpected pregnancy, as well as a brilliant document on the challenges of be...

The Whistleblower

Larysa Kondracki

Canada, Germany

This raw and dizzying political thriller tells the story of a female Nebraska police officer turned peacekeeper who uncovers a disturbing sex-trafficking underworld in Bosnia and its shocking connection to the UN. As Kathryn Bolk...

White Irish Drinkers

John Gray

USA

In this coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime.

Windfall

Laura Israel

USA

After wind turbines are proposed for installation in upstate New York, the community’s excitement turns to suspicion over what the project entails. This eye-opening story exposes the dark side of wind energy development and the p...

Woman Waiting

Antoine Bourges

Canada

A middle-aged woman searches for a place to live in Vancouver. The system should be there to assist her, but amidst all the red tape of applications and waiting periods, she longs for human help.

Womb

Benedek Fliegauf

Germany, Hungary, France

Rebecca has waited twelve long years to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart, only to loose him again in a fatal accident. The only difference is, now she can bring him back from the dead.

Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades

Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki has often emphasized the industrial, machine-like function of the camera. Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (2006) is a horizontal suite of twelve monitors that delves into each decade of film history, b...

Yesno

Brian D. Johnson

Canada

Adapting esteemed poet Dennis Lee’s recent collection of poetry, film-critic-cum- filmmaker Brian Johnson creates a vivid visual language to lift Lee’s words off the page.

You Are Here

Daniel Cockburn

Canada

You Are Here is a smartly-crafted commentary on our modern day existence. Comprised of interconnected mini-narratives, the film’s characters find themselves trapped in bizarre social experiments of their own making. The film feat...

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Woody Allen

United Kingdom, USA, Spain

Woody Allen's latest comic ensemble piece follows a group of Londoners struggling with failing marriages, restless libidos, the perils of aging and desires that drive a series of decisions with unforeseen consequences. The film s...

Zephyr

Belma Bas

Turkey

This shadowy and atmospheric coming-of-age story follows 11-year-old Zephyr. Left in the care of her stoic grandparents, she roams a rural paradise looking for action, trying to figure out who she is and refusing to grow up.