Chronicle of the whirlwind life and artistic journey of Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949), one of Canada's most innovative figurative artists. Drawn from personal letters, archival photographs and film footage, film reveals a free-spirited and rebellious personality.

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Here, film is used as a means of letting a family look in on itself, at the differences of outlook, lifestyle and values that separate the parents and two grown sons. Completely unrehearsed, it is a record on film, edited to viewing length, of a few days' visit back home on the part of the older son (the filmmaker) and of the conversations that took place among the four in a genuine though abortive attempt to reach mutual understanding. The film is an example of the communications barrier that divides many families.

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The world of Josée-Anne Desrochers collapsed the day her
11 year old son was killed in the explosion of a car bomb. Waitress Hélène Brunet, she thought the end came when she was hit four times with 357 magnum bullets meant for a biker ... Like them, others are victims of the war being waged between outlaw motorcycle gangs. "Pendant que court l'assassin" tells the struggle of ordinary citizens. Their fight touches us all. An impassioned plea against complacency, this film wants to show courage in the face of the tyranny of mafia, the refusal to be intimidated, the fundamental aspect of individual responsibility and the power of citizen action.

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As the spread of HIV reaches endemic proportions, this documentary proposes a theory on the origins of AIDS, exposing the responsibility of the scientific community.

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Film about the author of "Frankenstein," Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), comprising both documentary sequences and dramatic reconstructions of events in her life.

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Documentary about the 1997 match when Garry Kasparov, the grand chess master, was defeated IBM’s computer, Deep Blue. On their first encounter, one year before, Kasparov had won. By the time of its 1997 rematch with Kasparov, Deep Blue was capable of calculating two hundred million positions a second. It was the nuances of human intelligence against computational brute force.

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