Coming out: The largest hurdle in sports? Paul Émile d’Entremont’s NFB doc Standing on the Line makes its Quebec premiere in Montreal.

While continuing to screen at festivals across Canada, the NFB-produced feature documentary Standing on the Line (Franchir la ligne) by Paul Émile d’Entremont will have its Quebec premiere in Montreal on Saturday, November 30, at 3 p.m. at Concordia University’s Alexandre-de-Sève Cinema, in its original English and French version with French subtitles. The screening will be attended by the filmmaker and one of the film’s subjects, former hockey player Brock McGillis. Standing on the Line is part of this year’s lineup for the city’s LGBTQ+ festival Image+Nation, which runs from November 21 to December 1, 2019.

Assholes: A Theory has the answers, beginning November 13. John Walker’s entertaining and oh-so-timely feature doc starts national theatrical tour this fall.

With venomous social media, resurgent authoritarianism and rampant narcissism threatening to trash civilization as we know it, the time has come for Assholes: A Theory (John Walker Productions/NFB in association with CBC documentary Channel), acclaimed director John Walker’s latest feature doc, opening theatrically in cities across Canada beginning November 13.