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Planet in Focus is Canada’s most acclaimed International Environmental Film and Video festival. Our annual film fest showcases compelling documentaries, animation, dramatic features, shorts, and experimental works that celebrate, question, and establish varied ways of viewing the state of our world.

Planet in Focus’ 7th annual festival will be held November 1 to November 5, 2006 presenting films from across Canada and around the world. This year we are launching a new “Spotlight Programme,” beginning with “Toronto in the Moving Image from the Dawn of Cinema to the Present.

Submit your film for Planet in Focus 2006. Earlybird Deadline: April 15. Final Date for submissions: June 1, 2006.


The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Opening night (USA)

An epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer, castigated as a pariah in his community and committed to free expression and revolutionary farming.
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Rio Arriba
Closing Night (Argentina)

A personal, reflective journey of history, self-discovery and recovery. Filmmaker Ulises de la Orden explores the economic, cultural political impact of European focused monoculture on the land and people of the Andean hillsides of Argentina.
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Birdpeople
(Germany)

Over four years, twenty biologists, dropouts and adventurers raised the birds in Jacques Perrin’s Winged Migration. Can one call this arrangement nature, art, or artifice?
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Travels By Tricycle
(China)

A charming and fabulist adventure borne out of love. 74-year-old Wang Yimin is cycling across China on a custom-built tricycle trailer with his 98-year-old mother sitting in the back. For over a year, Wang and his mother trek across their country in a simple tour motored by filial devotion.
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Heavy Metal
(Canada)

In Northern Quebec a major mining disaster has been secretly devastating the people and the environment for over forty years. A Cree environmentalist and an American geologist attempt to put a stop to the lethal pollution.
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