Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
- Director: Marc Levin
- Country: USA
- World Premiere
- Subject: A documentary tour through the history of New York’s garment district, from its heyday as a base for immigrant labour and unions to its recent decline.
Snowblind
- Director: Vikram Jayanti
- Country: United Kingdom
- International Premiere
- Subject: Documenting the extraordinary odyssey of Rachael Scdoris, the blind 23-year-old woman who competes in and completes the grueling Iditarod dogsled race across 1,100 miles of rugged Alaska wilderness.
Stolen
- Director: Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw
- Country: Australia
- International Premiere
- Subject: Following the Saharawi refugees who’ve been iving in Algerian camps for more than 30 years, filmmakers Ayala and Dan Fallshaw discover allegations of modern slavery and find themselves beset with moral quandaries they could never have imagined.
The Sunshine Boy
- Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
- Country: Iceland
- World Premiere
- Subject: A mother’s desperate quest to understand her son’s autism takes her to different countries and cultures and presents a consideration of autism on a global scope.
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
- Director: Leanne Pooley
- Country: New Zealand
- North American Premiere
- Subject: Engaging and musically provocative, the popular Topp Twins are New Zealand’s hottest lesbian country-and-western singers and the country’s greatest cultural export since Lord of the Rings.
Videocracy
- Director: Erik Gandini
- Country: Sweden
- North American Premiere
- Subject: This investigation of Silvio Berlosconi’s media empire shows how the reality TV shows starring bikini-clad beauties enriched the Italian Prime Minister and his friends, while beguiling the nation.
Waking Sleeping Beauty
- Director: Don Hahn
- Country: USA
- World Premiere
- Subject: The real story of how Disney’s animation team went from stagnation in the mid-1980s to rebirth and staggering success with production of a string of hits – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and more – in a decade.
Toronto International Film Festival 2008 - Documentary Films Program