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Welcome to the Belleville Downtown DocFest 2021 Virtual Festival!
Explore our on-demand catalog here and pre-order your films so you won't miss them.
Playing March 5th-8th
Call Me Human is a journey in direct cinema and animation in the imagination - and in the real world - of the worlds of the Innu woman of letters Joséphine Bacon. Between heaven and earth, city and territory, traditional spirituality and Catholicism, between memory of the past and its contemporary expression.
53 min | 2020 | Canada
Fri Mar 5th
Call Me Human & Rematriate: Passing the Seeds
The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never- before-seen footage in this documentary following her rise to prominence and her global impact as she sparks school strikes and protests around the world.
98 min | 2020 | Sweden
Fri Mar 5th
I Am Greta
The film explores Georgia representative's, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.
98 min | 2020 | United States
Fri Mar 5th
John Lewis : Good Trouble
The Life of Ronnie Scott and his world famous jazz club.
103 min | 2020 | United Kingdom
Fri Mar 5th
Ronnie's
Opening Gala (7pm)
Meeting The Beatles In India & Mark Rashotte & Andy Forgie: “Music From Rishikesh”
Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.
Coming Sat Mar 6th
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Playing March 6th-9th
Aggie is a feature-length documentary that explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes “Aggie” Gund’s life.
92 min | 2020 | United States
Sat Mar 6th
Aggie
Bread: An Everyday Miracle – a film that shows bread in a whole new light.
95 min | 2020 | Germany, Austria
Sat Mar 6th
Bread: An Everyday Miracle & Love In Quarantine
A Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously, renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall.
93 min | 2020 | United Kingdom
Sat Mar 6th
The Great Green Wall & The Winding Farmland
Sat Mar 6th
Kusasa & The Arctics
Saturday Night Feature
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
A celebration of Linda Ronstadt ’s remarkable musical career beginning with the Stone Poneys (1965-68), through her breakthrough solo album Heart Like a Wheel (1974), later ventures into jazz, Broadway, and traditional Mariachi music up to her retirement in 2009. Her powerful and expressive voice shines through it all.
Coming Sat Mar 6th
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Playing March 7th-10th
The Australian Dream uses the remarkable and inspirational story of AFL legend and passionate advocate for Indigenous causes, Adam Goodes, as the prism through which to tell a deeper and more powerful story about race, identity and belonging.
106 min | 2020 | Australia
Sun Mar 7th
The Australian Dream & The Trip
War veteran Jon Hancock wrestles with his demons while walking 5,800 miles across the United States.
99 min | 2020 | United States
Sun Mar 7th
Bastards Road & Embracing the Stars
Heroic filmmakers risk their lives to save the destruction of reels in Afghanistan.
121 min | 2019 | Canada
Sun Mar 7th
The Forbidden Reel
Behind rusty doors everything can be found, except cars.
97 min | 2020 | Germany
Sun Mar 7th
Garage People & How To Be At Home
Sunday Night Feature
Billie & The Commodores Orchestra: Dance of the Decades
Crafted from extraordinary unheard interviews, and restoring key performances into color for the first time, BILLIE is the story of the singer who changed the face of American music, and the journalist who died trying to tell it.
Coming Sun Mar 7th
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Playing March 8th-11th
Mon Mar 8th
Company Town & Sisterhood
A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of kilometres away, that continues to affect their lives.
74 min | 2020 | Canada
Mon Mar 8th
Far From Bashar
Single women in China come under strong pressure to marry young or face the consequences of being considered a "leftover” woman. This film follows three single women as they try to define love on their own terms and find a partner who supports their goal.
85 min | 2019 | Israel, United States
Mon Mar 8th
Left Over Women & Where Were You?
The front line told through the lens of fourteen photojournalists, who with their shots showed the hell, the horrors, the suffering and the indelible scars of war.
86 min | 2020 | Italy
Mon Mar 8th
On the Front Line
Monday Night Feature
After So Many Days
A raw personal account of Jim and Sam, a singer-songwriter duo, who uproot their lives by attempting to play one show every day for a year –putting their music, health, career, and first year of marriage to the test.
Coming Mon Mar 8th
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Playing March 9th-12th
An orchestra and its famous conductor go on tour in the great northern tundra of Quebec to visit the Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share with them an Aboriginal chamber opera.
123 min | 2019 | Canada
Tue Mar 9th
Chaakapesh
In 1821 Ironmaster Charles Hays creates the first company town in Upper Canada, Marmora.
68 min | 2020 | Canada
Tue Mar 9th
Loyalist College Short Docs, The Camp, The Granite Man Of Gilmour, Iron Masters of Upper Canada
n October 1970, members of the Front de Liberation du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Québec. Fifty years later, Felix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The film revisits key events in Quebec history and provide some perspective on the unprecedented crisis.
129 min | 2020 | Canada
Tue Mar 9th
The Rose Family
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. A labyrinth of makeshift shelters, home to 700,000 Rohingya exiles. In this place out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?
89 min | 2020 | Canada
Tue Mar 9th
Wandering, A Rohingya Story & The Brother
Tuesday Night Feature
The Mole Agent
Part comedy, this charming film set in Chile tells the story of Sergio, a 83-year old widower hired by a private investigator to monitor the care of an elderly patient in a retirement home. Sergio’s increasing involvement in the lives of other residents in the home makes for a touching film on the nature of aging and friendship and our treatment of the elderly.
Coming Tue Mar 9th
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Playing March 10th-13th
The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan's documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.
93 min | 2019 | United States, Germany, France
Wed Mar 10th
Cunningham & A Long Way To Kansas
Filmmaker Cheryl Foggo re-examines the story of John Ware, the Black cowboy who settled in Alberta, Canada, prior to the turn of the 20th century.
73 min | 2020 | Canada
Wed Mar 10th
John Ware Reclaimed & Ice Breakers
Amidst the global uprising against police violence, No Visible Trauma is a searing investigation of the Calgary police. From the kidnapping and beating of a young African immigrant, to a “wellness check” turned fatal, the film exposes extreme police brutality and a justice system that refuses to hold officers accountable.
99 min | 2020 | Canada
Wed Mar 10th
No Visible Trauma
The searing documentary Welcome To Chechnya chronicles the current anti-LGBTQ campaign raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya and shadows the LGBTQ activists who risk unimaginable peril to rescue victims from a targeted campaign of torture and brutality.
108 min | 2020 | United States
Wed Mar 10th
Welcome To Chechnya
Wednesday Night Feature
Assassins
An account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The film follows the women's trials in an attempt to understand whether they are trained killers or simply pawns.
Coming Wed Mar 10th
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Playing March 11th-14th
An affectionate, behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating characters who inhabit it. Featuring interviews with prominent dealers, collectors, auctioneers, and writers, the film is both a celebration of the book and a reflection on its likely future. After the credits run, watch for Fran Leibowitz describing what happened when she loaned a book to David Bowie.
96 min | 2019 | United States
Thu Mar 11th
The Booksellers
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians — and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
110 min | 2020 | Romania
Thu Mar 11th
Collective
In a breathtaking journey across four continents, three extraordinary people practice the ancient art of hunting with birds to connect with the natural world and feed their inner wild.
106 min | 2020 | United States
Thu Mar 11th
Overland & Mountain Wool
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world.This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.
109 min | 2019 | Canada, Germany
Thu Mar 11th
This Is Not A Movie
Youth Unstoppable follows the evolution of a global network of youth refusing to let their future slip away. From age 15 till now, Slater Jewell-Kemker takes us to the front lines of the Global Youth Climate Movement.
89 min | 2020 | Canada
Thu Mar 11th
Youth Unstoppable
Closing Finale Film
Keyboard Fantasies & Harvesting Dreams
Coming Thu Mar 11th
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Coming Soon
Keyboard Fantasies & Harvesting Dreams
Thu Mar 11th
Overland & Mountain Wool
Thu Mar 11th
This Is Not A Movie
Thu Mar 11th
Youth Unstoppable
Thu Mar 11th
Call Me Human & Rematriate: Passing the Seeds
Fri Mar 5th
I Am Greta
Fri Mar 5th
John Lewis : Good Trouble
Fri Mar 5th
Ronnie's
Fri Mar 5th
Meeting The Beatles In India & Mark Rashotte & Andy Forgie: “Music From Rishikesh”
Sat Mar 6th
Aggie
Sat Mar 6th
Bread: An Everyday Miracle & Love In Quarantine
Sat Mar 6th
The Great Green Wall & The Winding Farmland
Sat Mar 6th
Kusasa & The Arctics
Sat Mar 6th
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Sat Mar 6th
The Australian Dream & The Trip
Sun Mar 7th
Bastards Road & Embracing the Stars
Sun Mar 7th
Billie & The Commodores Orchestra: Dance of the Decades
Sun Mar 7th
The Forbidden Reel
Sun Mar 7th
Garage People & How To Be At Home
Sun Mar 7th
After So Many Days
Mon Mar 8th
Company Town & Sisterhood
Mon Mar 8th
Far From Bashar
Mon Mar 8th
Left Over Women & Where Were You?
Mon Mar 8th
On the Front Line
Mon Mar 8th
Chaakapesh
Tue Mar 9th
Loyalist College Short Docs, The Camp, The Granite Man Of Gilmour, Iron Masters of Upper Canada
Tue Mar 9th
The Mole Agent
Tue Mar 9th
The Rose Family
Tue Mar 9th
Wandering, A Rohingya Story & The Brother
Tue Mar 9th
Assassins
Wed Mar 10th
Cunningham & A Long Way To Kansas
Wed Mar 10th
John Ware Reclaimed & Ice Breakers
Wed Mar 10th
No Visible Trauma
Wed Mar 10th
Welcome To Chechnya
Wed Mar 10th
The Booksellers
Thu Mar 11th
Collective
Thu Mar 11th
Keyboard Fantasies & Harvesting Dreams
Thu Mar 11th
Overland & Mountain Wool
Thu Mar 11th
This Is Not A Movie
Thu Mar 11th
Youth Unstoppable
Thu Mar 11th
Call Me Human & Rematriate: Passing the Seeds
Fri Mar 5th
I Am Greta
Fri Mar 5th
John Lewis : Good Trouble
Fri Mar 5th
Ronnie's
Fri Mar 5th
Meeting The Beatles In India & Mark Rashotte & Andy Forgie: “Music From Rishikesh”
Sat Mar 6th
Aggie
Sat Mar 6th
Bread: An Everyday Miracle & Love In Quarantine
Sat Mar 6th
The Great Green Wall & The Winding Farmland
Sat Mar 6th
Kusasa & The Arctics
Sat Mar 6th
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Sat Mar 6th
The Australian Dream & The Trip
Sun Mar 7th
Bastards Road & Embracing the Stars
Sun Mar 7th
Billie & The Commodores Orchestra: Dance of the Decades
Sun Mar 7th
The Forbidden Reel
Sun Mar 7th
Garage People & How To Be At Home
Sun Mar 7th
After So Many Days
Mon Mar 8th
Company Town & Sisterhood
Mon Mar 8th
Far From Bashar
Mon Mar 8th
Left Over Women & Where Were You?
Mon Mar 8th
On the Front Line
Mon Mar 8th
Chaakapesh
Tue Mar 9th
Loyalist College Short Docs, The Camp, The Granite Man Of Gilmour, Iron Masters of Upper Canada
Tue Mar 9th
The Mole Agent
Tue Mar 9th
The Rose Family
Tue Mar 9th
Wandering, A Rohingya Story & The Brother
Tue Mar 9th
Assassins
Wed Mar 10th
Cunningham & A Long Way To Kansas
Wed Mar 10th
John Ware Reclaimed & Ice Breakers
Wed Mar 10th
No Visible Trauma
Wed Mar 10th
Welcome To Chechnya
Wed Mar 10th
The Booksellers
Thu Mar 11th
Collective
Thu Mar 11th
Keyboard Fantasies & Harvesting Dreams
Thu Mar 11th
Overland & Mountain Wool
Thu Mar 11th
This Is Not A Movie
Thu Mar 11th
Youth Unstoppable
Thu Mar 11th