The Secret Disco Revolution
Co-Presentation with Open Roof
Thurs. June 27
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The disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood. Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks and women. The Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes disco revisionists against revealing new interviews with the era’s biggest stars: The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang.
This quietly hilarious doc-satire also features an unreliable Nabokovian narrator; “reenactments” that are speculative to the point of complete fantasy; and a unique tone of sustained irony that both presents a fresh look at a well-known era, and compels audiences to question it, without ever allowing them off the dancefloor.
Outing
Co-Presentation with Italian Contemporary Film Festival
Thurs. June 27
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Nicolas Vaporidis (actor) in attendance
Federico and Riccardo are friends from Puglia who are extremely different but connected by a brotherly relationship rooted in their infancy.
Federico is a suburban playboy on the loose who lives in Puglia, while Riccardo is a talented fashion designer who lives in Milan and works at a dead-end job. Once they find out about the possibility of obtaining a grant from the region of Puglia in support of entrepreneurial activities in the fashion field, the two friends decide to attempt taking on this great adventure.
Soon they learn that the grant is given only to common law couples. At that point the only way to forestall ruin is to pretend they are gay and fulfill Riccardo’s dream of opening a fashion house.
Margarita
(Official Selection - 2012 Inside Out)
Opens June 21
Carlton Cinema
20 Carlton St. Toronto
When illegal Mexican nanny Margarita is fired by her cash-strapped employers, it sets in motion a chain of events that leaves her torn between loyalties and the law. Desperately in love but feeling rejected by her commitment-phobic girlfriend, Margarita resigns to start a new life back home in Mexico. However, the family quickly discovers that Margarita’s modest salary is the only good investment they’ve ever made and begins the discovery of exactly how much Margarita actually does for the family that falls well outside her job description as a nanny. The well-meaning but hapless couple desperately conceives a series of schemes to keep her in the country.
My Brother the Devil
(Official Selection - 2012 Inside Out)
Opens June 28
Carlton Cinema
20 Carlton St. Toronto
Mo (Fady Elsayed) is a young boy growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest London flat is a completely different world—the streets of Hackney. The impressionable Mo idolizes his handsome and charismatic older brother Rashid (James Floyd) and wants to follow in his footsteps. However, Rashid wants a different life for his little brother and will do whatever it takes to put him through college. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons.
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