WATCH.
Screen films from around the world about food. What more can we ask for?
Oh yes, curated snacks on the menu. Oh. Yes.
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All screenings take place at The Royal Cinema, 608 College Street (College/Clinton).
Friday, Oct 4th
Canadian Premiere
Yoshizumi Nagaya, a Japanese sushi chef, sits at his table at home in the evening. It is raining outside. Suddenly someone knocks at the door and there is this young woman.
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Time: 5:00-6:45pm
NOSE TO TAIL stars Aaron Abrams (HANNIBAL, BLINDSPOT) as a talented but abrasive chef struggling mightily with his personal demons and the relentless pressures of running a high-end restaurant. Over the course of one increasingly frantic day and night, he faces a rash of private trials and professional tribulations in a desperate bid to beat the odds and save the business that he's sacrificed virtually everything in his life to build.
Time: 5:00-6:45pm
From the beginning of time, to the creation of a dish, a Visual Ode to a Hare in the Woods (in six acts) takes the audience through a visionary journey inside of what is the essence of one of Massimo Bottura’s most controversial dish.
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Time: 7:30-9:30pm
North American Premiere
A GOD IN EACH LENTIL is an indispensable and delightful view of the gastronomic universe of the inland parts of Alicante by chef Kiko Moya and his family.
Time: 7:30-9:30pm
SATURDAY, Oct 5th
Canadian Premiere
A Vietnamese family discusses working in their restaurant as a way of preserving their culture and how they cope with the passing of its founder, a loving husband and father of four children.
Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
World Premiere
It's about all little fishes in the world.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Canadian Premiere
An Asian American finally learns to embrace her ethnic heritage while growing up in America.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
North American Premiere
Food Play is the joyful & experimental juxtaposition of food & sports. We created it because we love to play,
and we love to eat.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Canadian Premiere
DONUT SHOP is a portrait of a donut shop owner whose inspiring story of survival reveals a connection between an American comfort food and California’s Cambodian immigrant community.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Canadian Premiere
Salt beef? Two feckless men attempt to complete a tabloid crossword in an old-school greasy spoon cafe in north east London.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Canadian Premiere
This is the story of Nadia and Mamba, a refugee couple from Burundi pursuing their dream of bringing African food to the heart of Detroit.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
PLANT SOME TREES AND GO FROM THERE presents forest-gardening through the work of Martin Crawford, and makes the case for resilient food production systems based on trees and other perennial plants.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
North American Premiere
Yasumi didn’t have a good relationship with his father who one day suddenly died. Taking over his father’s café leads him to discover how much his father cared about him the entire time.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
A man, despite his inadequacies with anything tool-related, he comically stumbles forth into the absurd unknown in the hopes of emerging as victor and fixer of a fridge.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Meet Karen Washington, an award-winning urban gardener, community activist, farmer and co-owner of Rise and Shoot Farm. Here, she shares a garden-to-table recipe made with Swiss chard harvested from the community garden she co-founded in the Bronx, NY.
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Time: 11:55am-1:45pm
Indigenous cuisine is being reclaimed and reinvented by a new guard of chefs. Follow New York Times featured, Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist, Rich Francis and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand as they discover their people’s story on a plate.
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Time: 2:30pm-4:05pm
Canadian Premiere of "Hiro's Table"
HIRO'S TABLE is a documentary portrait of master chef Hiroji Obayashi and his wife Yasuyo over a sixteen-year year span as they managed the day to day operation of their intimate Mom and Pop restaurant,
Hirozen Gourmet, nestled in the unlikely corner of a West Hollywood strip mall.
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Time: 2:30pm-4:05pm
Mourning the death of her mother, Laila Mistry invites family for a traditional Indo-Persian feast. Instead of finding solace in the rituals of cooking, she has an identity crisis that threatens her marriage. Only the unraveling of a family secret restores harmony to her household.
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Time: 4:50pm-6:50pm
A prodigious Chef works feverishly to re-establish his career, opening his restaurant ode to handmade pasta on the most competitive street in America.
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Time: 4:50pm-6:50pm
World Premiere of "Advances"
To secure her promotion, Nancy just needs to make it through a dinner party but office gossip makes every word take on a double meaning.
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Time: 7:35pm-9:20pm
Stage: The Culinary Internship - Canada
Toronto Premiere of "Stage: The Culinary Internship"
STAGE, the documentary, follows five culinary interns as they navigate their way through one of the best Michelin-starred kitchens, Mugaritz.
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Time: 7:35pm-9:20pm
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