Take a break from the everyday narrative: catch these amazing, inspiring, unbelievable, and engaging docs that are screening as part of TIFF.

The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
Everyone’s favourite Detroit rockers take to the small and wonderful towns of rural Canada to play unexpected shows all over the country. The grainy, not-even-a-minute-long trailer suggests a haunted piece in tune with the band’s mysterious mystique and stark aesthetic. Exciting.

The Topp Twins
In the North American Premiere of this documntary, New Zealand’s finest lesbian country and western singers delight, amaze, and…yodel?

Good Hair
After his daughter asked him why she didn’t have ‘good hair,’ Chris Rock explored the 9 billion dollar industry of relaxers, weave sex, layaway plans, creamy crack, and the lengths black women go to for perfect hair-travelling from Crenshaw (where he tries to sell bags of black hair) to India (where human hair is the largest natural export) to explore this cultural phenomenon.

Google Baby
The latest trend in outsourcing? Babies. This doc follows an entrepreneur who proposes Indian women produce babies for Western customers.