Making 'Toy Story'

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

1996

The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America.

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

2015

Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

Akiko's Piano: Chords Played by the Surviving Piano

2020

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favourite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping out the war efforts. On the morning of August 6, 1945, she disobeys her father and heads into the centre of town for work. In Hiroshima 75 years later, her favourite piano remains, restored and playable following its survival of the atomic bombing

Bela

2021

Prantik Basu paints a sensorial portrait of a village located in East India and its traditional rites.

Farhad's Fridays

2012

This documentary takes a view on the life of famous Iranian musician and singer, Farhad Mehrad, one of the most important figures of Iranian rock music in 20th century.

heroes

2020

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.

Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître

2012

Victoria Wood In Her Own Words

2020

A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria.

Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo

1997

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.