2013 Festival Highlights
Blood Brother
Rocky Braat’s first trip to India was a journey of self-discovery. While there, he visited a care centre for women and children living with HIV and AIDS. It proved to be a life-transforming encounter. Despite never really liking children, Braat returns to Pittsburgh announcing he’ll be moving to India to work at the centre. Bewildered by Braat’s decision, director and best friend Steve Hoover decides to follow him on his journey. Expecting to find him making all the wrong decisions, Hoover discovers a very different story, and both men find their lives and those of the children are changed forever. Winner of...
Dragon Girls
In perfect unison, over 20, 000 students train in the ancient Shaolin Kung Fu discipline at a school outside Beijing. Follow young female warriors-in-training who battle under immense pressure, with...
A Whole Lott More
When the auto crisis hits, Lott Industries has a year to either reinvent or close down. Since all its 1200-plus employees have developmental disabilities, far more than jobs are at stake in this touching...
Muscle Shoals
Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Gregg Allman, Bono and more share how the tiny backwater town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, made them stars in one of the greatest untold American music stories.
When I Walk
Before the sudden onset of Multiple Sclerosis, when he was 25, filmmaker Jason DaSilva travelled the world. Now, he now struggles to stand and share his setbacks and achievements as he fights to live his...
Alphée of the Stars
In a moving declaration of love for his daughter Alphée, filmmaker Hugo Latulippe and his family spend a year abroad to focus on Alphée’s education, hoping she can overcome developmental challenges...
Cloudy Mountains
It’s asbestos mining season in Lop Nur, Western China. Wang Hongbin and his father spend the summer months working in this massive chain of steaming mountains, happy to earn a living despite the...
