Documentaries for Thinkers

 

Saturday April 19, 2025
There Are No Fakes | 1hr 54 mins | 2020

When a Norval Morrisseau painting is bought by musician Kevin Hearn, doubts about its authenticity raises controversial questions about authorship and ownership. There Are No Fakes traces the provenance of Hearn’s painting, unraveling a complex, stranger-than-fiction tale that leads to a lucrative art forgery ring in Thunder Bay (TVODocs).

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she’s travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.

When a Norval Morrisseau painting is bought by musician Kevin Hearn, doubts about its authenticity raises controversial questions about authorship and ownership. There Are No Fakes traces the provenance of Hearn’s painting, unraveling a complex, stranger-than-fiction tale that leads to a lucrative art forgery ring in Thunder Bay.