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New Releases at the Library

Merveilles des mers.

Sur une période de trois ans, des Fidji aux Bahamas, Jean-Michel Cousteau, ses enfants Céline et Fabien et leur équipe, nous entraînent dans un voyage inédit à la découverte des océans, pour en apprendre plus sur les menaces qui pèsent sur la mer.

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Toxic Beauty

In 1982, world-renowned epidemiologist Dr. Daniel Cramer linked Johnson and Johnson's baby powder to ovarian cancer. Since the 1960s, J&J; allegedly knew the risks and did nothing. In 2004, Dr. Philippa Darbre, a UK scientist, found parabens, a chemical preservative in many cosmetics, in breast tissue. In 2018, the National Institute of Health's sister study linked breast cancer to personal care product use. Links to hormonal disruption in baby boys, developmental delays, low sperm count in men, infertility, cancer, diabetes, obesity and skin disease - the cosmetic industry isn't pretty. Top researchers worldwide have the hard science to answer the question: Are cosmetics and personal care products making us sick?

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The Pixar Story

Winning examination of the history of Pixar Animation Studios, the Oscar-winning company that specializes in CGI features such as the "Toy Story" films.

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La Parfaite Victime (Ideal Victim)

Why do sexual assault victims choose to speak out over social media instead of using the justice system? For three years, directors Monic Neron and Emilie Perreault took a journey with victims who chose the path of criminal justice in the wake of #MeToo. The result is a powerful inquiry of the justice system's methods, methods that seem refractory to change. Do these victims stand a chance in our justice system? They all have one thing in common: They must be "ideal victims". A cinematographic investigation that will leave no one indifferent.

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Summer of Soul.

SUMMER OF SOUL is part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten-until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more.

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Voices Across the Water

There is a moment during the construction of a canoe when its true form is revealed. A hull drops into place. The elegant arc of a bow cuts forth. A similar process sometimes occurs in life, when a person finally discovers their true path. Fritz Mueller and Teresa Earle's feature documentary Voices Across the Water follows two master boat builders as they practise their art and find a way back to balance and healing. For Alaskan Tlingit carver Wayne Price, fashioning a dugout canoe from a single massive red cedar tree is a way to reconnect to the Ancestral Knowledge of Indigenous craftspeople. Wayne's long hours of labour are buoyed by silly jokes and deep conversation with a new young apprentice, Violet. Francophone artist Halin de Repentigny hand-makes birchbark canoes, like those once used by the voyageurs. Harvesting raw materials from the Yukon forest, Halin works in painstaking fashion to create his light, strong vessels, lovingly embellished with his fanciful artwork. But what happens when the old ways are lost?

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The Last Tourist.

Travel is at a tipping point. Tourists are unintentionally destroying the very things they have come to see. Overtourism has magnified its impact on the environment, wildlife, and vulnerable communities around the globe. Filmed in over 15 countries and guided by the world's leading tourism and conservation visionaries, THE LAST TOURIST reveals the real conditions and consequences of one of the largest industries worldwide through the forgotten voices of those working in its shadow. The role of the modern tourist is on trial.

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No Accident.

For decades, scientists worldwide have been studying the emergence and paths of killer diseases-often tracing pathogens from animals to people. In Canada, Europe and the United States, an elite group of scientists has been tracking an insidious brain wasting disease that emerged in deer at a research facility in Colorado in the 1960s, Chronic Wasting Disease.

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Final Account

A filmmaker interviews three hundred wartime veterans from Germany and Austria about their experience of the Nazi regime, notably the Hitler Youth Movement. With some as witnesses and others as perpetrators

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In the Heights (D'où l'on vient)

In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks after the aging Cuban lady next door, pines for the gorgeous girl working in the neighboring beauty salon and dreams of winning the lottery and escaping to the shores of his native Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, Nina, a childhood friend of Usnavi's, has returned to the neighborhood from her first year at college with surprising news for her parents, who have spent their life savings on building a better life for their daughter. Ultimately, Usnavi and the residents of the close-knit neighborhood get a dose of what it means to be home.

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Writer Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis

The makers of OxyContin may not have set out to get people addicted to the drug, but "their heads were in the sand" when it came to thinking through its "colossal downsides," says American journalist Patrick Radden Keefe.  "For thousands of years there's been this paradox of opioids, that ... they have therapeutic benefits, but also dangers," said Keefe, a staff writer for The New Yorker who has spent years examining the OxyContin crisis.

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The new corporation : the unfortunately necessary sequel.

Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.

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Framing Agnes.

Framing Agnes turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.

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All light, everywhere.

A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.

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Ever Deadly

Ever Deadly is an immersive, visceral music and cinema experience featuring Tanya Tagaq, avant-garde Inuit throat singer, and created in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Chelsea McMullan. This documentary explores Tagaq's transformation of sound with an eye to colonial fallout, natural freedom and Canadian history. We witness Tagaq's intimate relationship with the Nuna-the Land-a living, breathing organism present in all forms of her improvised performances. Ever Deadly weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph-all through the expressions of one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.

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Ten (Dah)

Ten is a documentary-style film that paints a portrait of contemporary Iran as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers--including her sister, a hitchhiking prostitute, and a jilted bride. These exchanges shed light on the lives and emotions of these women whose voices are seldom heard.

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UpRivers

UpRivers is the story of two women fighting for what they love: their homeland and way of life. In the context of rampant transboundary mining, the stories of two indigenous women on either side of the Alaska / British Columbia border make a compelling, emotional argument for why our two nations should work together to protect our shared rivers and watersheds.

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BioDigital human studio

Visualize anatomy, disease, and treatments in interactive 3D. BioDigital human studio makes health information visual, simple, and engaging. Interactive 3D visualizations: Interactive 3D is a proven way to increase comprehension and speed in anatomy, disease, and treatment education. Scalable content creation and management: Create and manage interactive visualizations to use across all your digital channels, at a fraction of the traditional cost. Highly customizable visualizations: Create custom visualizations using Human Studio, or work with our professional services team to visualize specific conditions and treatments.

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The tribe

An unauthorized, unorthodox history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll. What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, this award-winning film mixes old school narration with a new school style. Weaving together archival footage, animation, Barbie dioramas, and slam poetry, The tribe takes audiences on an electric ride through the complex history of the Jewish people--from Biblical times to present day--through the story of Barbie. The film sheds light on the questions: What does it mean to be an American Jew today? What does it mean to be a member of any tribe in the 21st Century?

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All the beauty and the bloodshed

All the beauty and the bloodshed follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

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