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SUGAR BABIES is a groundbreaking documentary that examines the public health epidemic of diabetic children in America. Through archival footage and revealing interviews with children and their families, we bring fresh insights to the ancient disease of type 1 diabetes and to its lifestyle-driven counterpart, type 2 diabetes. The central narrative weaves together five character-driven stories while providing the broader context--social, political, corporate-- of how this crisis came to be. SUGAR BABIES is a call to action, proposing solutions and demanding accountability. Intimate, searing, and inspirational, the documentary will change our country's understanding of this costly and often debilitating condition.

A teenage boy from a small Himalayan villages has to choose between his duty to tend to the family home, and his ambitions to study abroad.

An Australia puppeteer falls for a beautiful Muslim girl during his stay in Pakistan.

With passion, the three members of the Harting family make a living singing a cappella ballads in the Montreal metro. All three are blind and haunted by the tragic drowning death of the only seeing member of their family, Hassan. Enter Russian mystic and cult-like leader Grigori Petrovich Grabovoi, who promises to help his followers regenerate and resurrect the dead. For the Hartings, Hassan's resurrection is their only hope for completing their family once more. With intimate access and unflinching observations, the film chronicles the Hartings' attempts at dealing with their collective grief. What emerges is a highly unusual family portrait of three complex yet lovable characters.

The Finnish Labour Temple opened in March 1910, but it was a temple of a different sort, one where political, rather than religious devotion, was practiced. Under the Red Star tells the story of union organizers, strong minded women, athletic children, actors and even poets. This docu-drama brings to life the lively and dramatic past of the early years of Finnish immigration to Canada.