Real to Reel Programme Announcement

The documentaries at TIFF 2006 are:

• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing (Barbara Kopple and Cecila Peck)
• Kurt Cobain: About a Son (AJ Schnack)
• The US vs. John Lennon (David Leaf and John Scheinfeld)
• Made in Jamaica (Jerome Laperrouraz)
• American Hardcore (Paul Rachman)
• Ghosts of Cite Soleil (Asger Leth)
• Blindsight (Lucy Walker)
• The Killer Within (Macky Alston)
• Yokohama Mary (Takayuki Nakamura)
• The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker)
• The Sugar Curtain (Camila Guzma Uzua)
• Primo Levi's Journey (Davide Ferrario)
• My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein (Alexander Oey)
• Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
• Shame (Mohammed Naqvi)
• The Session is Open (Vincenzo Marra)
• This Filthy World Starring John Waters (Jeff Garlin)
• Office Tigers (Liz Mermin)
• Summercamp! (Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price)
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (Sophie Fiennes)
• Iran: Une Revolution Cinematographique (Nader Takmil Homayoun)

The selections seem pretty decent, especially compared to last year's. Granted, I only caught one doc in 2005, the fascinating and depressing The Smell of Paradise, but nothing else caught my attention. This year's slate seems richer and more varied (at least to my philistine eyes).