The film depicts the multi-faceted aspects of the music therapy profession and all it provides to its wide variety of clients. From Montreal to Victoria, from Winnipeg to Whitehorse, music is used to enhance the quality of life of Canadians. A blind baby learns to her use her other senses, a dying man writes a story of his life-long love for his wife, and a disabled man overcomes life’s many challenges to make music his career. These stories and others will touch hearts and open minds. Director: Scott Rondeau

A reformed criminal escapes his wife’s dinner party for a quick beer with his cousin and former partner in crime. Over the course of one wild night, he is dragged back into a world of drugs, women, guns and gangsters, endangering the lives of those he loves the most. Director: Blaine Thurier

The film tells the story of the Notting Hill Carnival which takes over the notable west London neighbourhood every August. Carnival! presents a visual mosaic of colour and music of the largest street festival in the world outside of Trinidad & Tobago. Including interviews with Sir Trevor McDonald, Paul Simonon, Norman Jay and Jazzie B. Director: Don Letts

This documentary focuses on the personal experiences and motivations of Michael Franti, Fat Mike, Paris and Anti-Flag as they face a post-9/11 environment where dissent is silenced and media outlets either ignore or self-censor material before it’s released. Features interviews with Pete Seeger, The Dixie Chicks, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Jello Biafra, Ani DiFranco and Wayne Kramer. Director: Summer Preney

Johnny Cash’s America was not red, white or blue, but black. This Grammy-nominated documentary explains how Cash was able to navigate some of America’s most contentious issues without losing his audience. Featuring interviews with Rosanne Cash, Bob Dylan, Snoop Dogg, Loretta Lynn and many more. Directors: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon

A journey through the Argentinian music scene. Enjoy the trip. Director: Mauro Andrizzi

Uncovers historic and previously unseen footage of the Doors. Narrated by Johnny Depp.

Music videos from the NE, Inc, featuring Die Mannequin, Tokyo Police Club and K’Naan.

This 40-piece Japanese art collective creates art somewhere between free jazz, traditional gagaku, funk and Balkan polka.

One day a woman told me the story of her mother, getting out from poverty and fighting tooth and nail, becoming the Lady Music Hall in Paris. A couple: She and her theatre. She, the boldness; her theatre, the most beautiful, the biggest,and somehow the most frightening and desirable. In 1967 she left us and the theatre fell. Should it has been destroyed? I wrote this movie looking for an answer from the french artists. But, most of them had just questions and overcome by feelings of nostalgia and no end memories…. I just discovered some secrets of intensive moments of creation. Director: Cecilia Pagliarani

The fate of a legendary Colombian baritone intertwines with the fate of the country’s culture in this fantastic doc.

A beautiful, funny short about relationships and breakups. Director: Mateo Gil

An audience sensation at film festivals worldwide, I Bring What I Love takes viewers behind the scenes and into the world of Africa’s most famous musician: Youssou N’Dour. This never-before- told story follows N’Dour at a turning point in his life and career, as he releases his most personal and controversial album Egypt. Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhe

Documents The Wachman’s triumphant 2008 return to the Horseshoe Tavern. Director: Reil Murro

In the span of one year, the Diodes opened Toronto’s first punk club, Crash ‘n’ Burn, released Canada’s first punk album on a major label and helped instigate an explosive punk scene. Interviews with John Catto, Paul Robinson, John Hamilton and Ian Mackay. Director: Aldo Erdic

Don Letts is an unsung hero of British music. “Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread” is a documentary about Letts’ family legacy, which mirrors the history of BASS in the UK from Dub, Reggae and Punk to 80s pop, Hip Hop and Dubstep – a musical, cultural and personal link between past and present. Over his long film career, Letts has told the story of countless lives, and now this film spotlights his own history. Includes music by Jet Letts, Driving Music, ManFame and Pama International. Director: Raphael Erichsen

Graffiti art and hip hop allow a teen to escape from the harsh reality of homelessness and drug addiction in Belgrade.

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a daring project to commission new works from contemporary composers around the world. The Commissioning Project grew far beyond expectations. Featuring music by Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Joan Tower, Norman Dello Joio, and Harold Shapero. Directors: Owsley Brown III, Jerome Hiler

A visually arresting short from the band Haushka. Director: Jeff Desom

A 1976 doc on punk’s birth in New York with rare footage of Television, Talking Heads, the Ramones. Director: Ivan Kral

Don McKellar’s script explores a miraculous relationship, using Broken Social Scene as a lynchpin to the event that might just save the day…. and the romance. Director: Bruce McDonald

It’s the WORLD PREMIER of the short film THE ADVENTURES OF SPAGHETTI COWBOY!  Directed by: Chris Cunningham. Written by: Spookey Ruben and Chris Cunningham. Starring: Leslie Feist, Spookey Ruben, Steve ‘Doc’ Holliday, David Dineen-Porter + O.T. Biggs. Narrated by: Alan Cross. IN THE SHORT FILM ‘THE ADVENTURES OF SPAGHETTI COWBOY’ GRAMMY NOMINATED CHANTEUSE LESLIE FEIST PLAYS THE MOUSTACHED OUTLAW ‘EL BANDIDO’ – WHILE SPOOKEY RUBEN PLAYS THE SPAGHETTI-EATIN’, CRIME FIGHTIN’ HERO: ‘SPAGHETTI COWBOY’, HOT ON HER TRAIL. YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE OLD WEST LIKE THIS!

Romantic comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she’s bad in bed… so she goes out to get more “experience.” Director: Sook-Yin Lee

Award-winning Canadian filmmaker’s quirky version of a “creepy little story” by Sook-Yin Lee.” Director: Ann Marie Fleming

The Magnetic Man is a film about people who have found strength in their own individuality and acquired powerful means for personal development, through the songs of virtually unknown Finnish musician Pekka Streng.

A film about the cult author Thomas Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow), who for 30 years has avoided public appearances, giving no interviews, and not even allowing himself to be photographed. Featuring the music of The Residents.

In what he describes as a “documentary musical hallucination,” Jem Cohen brings together film, text, and musical performance to create a unique meditation on a central question of our time: what are the effects of Empire? The core of the film is a performance by the incomparable Vic Chesnutt, playing with members of Canada’s Silver Mt. Zion, Guy Picciotto (from Fugazi and Rites of Spring), and T.Griffin with Catherine McRae.

A feature-length tour documentary featuring Canadian band The Weakerthans. Director: Caelum Vatnsdal

Try getting up on stage every night with a name like ‘Handsome’ Ned!” In Toronto in the 1980’s Handsome Ned Masyk’s powerful voice and cowboy persona left no doubt that he could command the stage at the Cameron House like no other. Ned played country music with an ‘edge to it’. The film follows Ned from backroom gigs to headliner status, through to the tragic details of his death at 27 years old in 1987. Twenty years after his death as friends and family continue to celebrate his life and music his brother Jim still thinks of him, “…every day. Director: Ross Edmunds and Chris Terry

The critically acclaimed rock’ n roll vampire flick. A wild ride down a highway to hell, with a killer cast including Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins, Moby, and Dave Foley – and a rockin’ soundtrack. Not to be missed.

Narrated by Lemmy from Motorhead, this punk adaptation of the Bard promises “Body Piercing, Kinky Sex, Dismemberment. The Things That Made Shakespeare Great.” Director: Lloyd Kaufman

One of the most important bands to ever emerge from Los Angeles, X changed the face of punk music with their raw, original style. This film captures the band at its peak. Director: W.T. Morgan

The making of the 1973’s seminal album Raw Power. Features new interviews with Iggy Pop, Chrissie Hynde, Henry Rollins, and Stooges James Williamson and Scott Asheton. Director: Morgan Neville

Electronic musician, painter, and 70s proto-punk Alan Vega’s universe is revealed through video.

Joe Strummer’s untimely death in December 2002 sent shockwaves around the world of music and beyond. Yet friends and family were determined that his spirit would live on. In this documentary, Grammy award-winning filmmaker Don Letts shows how Joe’s unique contribution to the music world is manifesting itself through a charity set up in his memory – Strummerville. The film features performance footage and interviews with exciting Strummerville artists such as Riff Raff and Smokey Angle Shades. There are also contributions from supporters and founders of the charity, including Billy Bragg and Damien Hirst, plus wonderful footage of Strummer himself. The film documents the work of the Strummerville charity, set up to enable young musicians to get their art and music out to the world in the spirit and attitude of Joe Strummer. Director: Don Letts

Original footage, photos, and studio and live cameras capture Mick, Keith, and the boys as they hole up in the south of France to create one of the greatest records of their career. Director: Stephen Kijak