A World of Creativity - June 5-14, 2009

Film

A film festival within the Festival.

Luminato and the National Film Board of Canada present free film screenings of documentaries that follow the creation of Luminato presentations, films that inspired the festival programming, and supplementary work from Luminato artists. All films in The Luminato Reel will be preceded by the short film NFB 70 Years, a tribute to the NFB and its 70th anniversary.

Produced in association with the National Film Board.

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Animated Films Based on Children's Books

A series of films based on your favourite children's stories from Robert Munsch, Kwan Ming and others!

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Animated Poe - a quadruple feature of animated Poe films from around the world.

A quadruple feature of Poe films that have been animated from around the world.

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Cirque du Soleil®: A Thrilling Ride Through KOOZA

Cirque du Soleil presents A Thrilling Ride Through KOOZA, a captivating documentary that looks at the creative process of KOOZA, the latest critically acclaimed touring show from Cirque du Soleil.

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Contemporary Communication Shorts

Luminato 2009's exploration of Contemporary Communication is reflected through 11 short films from Bravo!FACT that examine where we are and where we might be going when it comes to language and new media.

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Guitar Festival @ the Luminato Reel

Five diverse films that pick up on the themes explored in Luminato's Guitar Festival. Artists featured in these films include Daniel Lanois, Derek Trucks, Dave Matthews, Yamandu Costa and Romero Lubambo.

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Jiří Kylián’s Car Men

Exactly 20 years separate Jirí Kylián's solo Silent Cries and his black-and white film, Car Men, made in 2006 in collaboration with Dutch filmmaker, Boris Paval Cone.

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Lepage: Breaking a Leg

Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last decade including this year's North American premiere of Lipsynch.

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Nederlands Dans Theater Celebrates Jiři Kylián

This sensational film features the Nederlands Dans Theater commemorating their extraordinarily successful liaison with supreme dance co-ordinator Jirí Kylián with three astounding ballets: Birth-Day, Bella Figura and Sleepless.

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R. Murray Schafer’s Music for Wilderness Lake

In celebration of his new work The Children’s Crusade, Luminato screens R. Murray Schafer’s acclaimed Rhombus collection Music for Wilderness Lake, which traces the development and performance of a piece of environmental music.

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Tales of the Uncanny

After 90 years, Canada finally gets its chance to see one of the seminal masterworks of cinematic horror - with cutting-edge accompaniment by Robert Lippok, Owen Pallett and Do Make Say Think.

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The Genius of Lenny Breau

This feature-length documentary encompasses a story of one of the "true great geniuses of guitar", whose life ended abruptly and mysteriously in Los Angeles in 1984 at the age of 43, inspiring 5 O'Clock Bells (being presented June 10-13).

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Tono: from Seed to Stage

A documentary on the creation of Red Sky Performance’s Tono, a three-country project speaking to the tribal identities of indigenous peoples and their shamanic history.

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Urban Playgound double Feature Roadsworth and RedBall Project

A look at two visual arts projects that have transformed the cities in which they are placed.

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Yiddish Theatre: a Love story

Enjoy the Yiddish theater experience of Zisele?  Enter the funny, larger-than-life world of Yiddish theater with this doc about Zypora Spaisman, the woman who kept the oldest Yiddish theater in the U.S. alive.

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