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With unprecedented access, filmmaker Alba Sotorra @albasotorra brings us face-to-face with a group of Western women who devoted their young lives to ISIS, but who now want to be given the chance to start over back home in the West. Among them is Canadian Kimberly Polman, b. Hamilton, Ontario, raised as a reformed Mennonite. Incredible film! Canadian Premiere @hotdocsfestival

DUET FOR SOLO PIANO a film by Su Rynard, world premiere @festivalinternationaldufilmsurlart 39th edition of the International Festival of Films on Art. All films will be online and avail across Canada, March 17-28. . Duet for Solo Piano is an intimate portrait of a remarkable artist EVE EGOYAN @eve.egoyan one of the worlds most sought-after interpreters of contemporary new music and recognized as one of the greatest Canadian classical pianists of all time. Remarkable Eve. Remarkable Film.

This is how we're kicking off our March.

Congratulations to Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli on their 3 nominations from @VancouverFilmCritics for best in Canadian film. VIOLATION received noms in Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Actor - Female.

PRISON X, animated vr experience, now premiereing at Sundance Film Festival

Great read from Pov Mag https://bit.ly/2L4XzxQ about Violeta Ayala and the Power of Documentary-Inspired Virtual Reality. The Quechua artist discusses her new VR project, Prison X, now available to view as part of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival.

Biggest year yet in Oscar race for best doc feature

The first documentary of its kind, Connecting The Dots @connectingthedotsfilm a film by Noemi Weis, takes on the subject of mental health through the voices of young people. From Edmonton and New York to Nigeria and Australia, youth talk openly about their experiences in a way you have never seen or heard before. Intimate and heartfelt the film brings the crisis of mental health to the surface while shedding light on the inspiring ways we can break through barriers and take action. Free screening @HotDocsCinema presented by @BellLetsTalk @WorkmanArts.

TONITE: REBELLION is the season premiere of The Nature of Things 9pm ET on cbc.ca/docs David Suzuki joins the front lines with the young protesters who are demanding action against the impending #ClimateCatastrophe. The film is produced and directed by Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starowicz. A generation rises up in the face of political inaction Change is coming.

For 40 million years - yeah, 40 million - these amazing glass sponge reefs have been existing deep below Howe Sound in British Columbia. 'Citizen Scientists' are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to protect them. Watch the stunning Moonless Oasis - Documentary from Nate J Slaco and Bryce Zimmerman on CBC Docs this weekend. It streams on GEM too.

There are some flowers that shouldn’t be together" . The fantastical absurdist "dream wedding" plays out for an ambivalent bride in this irreverent reverie of a short film, JOEY, written by Jessica Hinkson, and directed by Jessica and Laura Nordin And coming to Super Channel on November 18 at 11pm. Can you believe we're already promoting things in November? . Starring Lucie Guest, Daniel Stolfi, Jessica Huras, Katie Messina, Ronnie Rowe, Teagan Vincze. Produced by the incredible Film Coop and Clique Pictures

Did somebody say Living Dinosaurs off the coast of B.C.? More people have been to the Moon than to places the Glass Sponge Research Team has been. Moonless Oasis - Documentary is the stunning new film from Vancouver-based filmmakers Nathan Slaco and Bryce Zimmerman who follow a rag-tag group of citizen scientists with day jobs and scuba gear, who have come together after the discovery of glass sponge reefs off the coast of B.C. in Howe Sound. World Broadcast Premiere Oct 31 on CBC's Absolutely Canadian in British Columbia and Alberta, and don't worry you other provinces, everyone in Canada can stream the film on GEM, from that date forward

TONITE There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace the awesome film directed by Lulu Wei and produced by Ali Weinstein that got sold out at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this past spring, makes its broadcast premiere on CBC Docs at 8pm.

Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman who once sought enlightenment at the Maharishi’s ashram - relives his magical mystery tour in this personal documentary, MEETING THE BEATLES IN INDIA, starting to screen and stream across Canada today. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Saltzman retraces his tracks and retells his stories, through archival footage, illustrations and the memories of some who were there (including legendary journalist Lewis Lapham, who’d been assigned to follow the Beatles on their voyage). Insights are also contributed by executive producer and TM practitioner David Lynch, Oscar-nominated soundtrack composer Laurence Rosenthal and Indian musicians Hariprasad Chaurasia and Suresh Bhojwani. Read more here https://buff.ly/34jxktc