Also Opening: A celebration of Deepa Mehta, Fabergé jewellery doc, Hamlet

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The National Theatre’s production of Hamlet.

Heaven on Earth: The Films of Deepa Mehta

Coinciding with the upcoming unleashing of her brash Indo-Canadian gangster movie Beeba Boys (Oct. 16), a retrospective celebrates the Toronto-based director's poetic, empathetic oeuvre. Highlights include her epic adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, her Elements trilogy (Fire, Earth, Water) and, on Oct. 10, an onstage conversation between the auteur and TIFF's Piers Handling. (To Nov. 15, TIFF Bell Lightbox; tiff.net)

Fabergé: A Life of Its Own

Although famous for their extravagant oval baubles, the Fabergé jewellery family didn't put all their eggs in one basket, as this British documentary shows. (Bloor Hot Docs)

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

As the poet/bluesologist Gil Scott-Heron made so very clear, "The revolution will not be televised." But that doesn't mean the African-American counterculture movement of the sixties and seventies wasn't filmed. (Bloor Hot Docs)

The Creeping Garden

Here's an improbably charming documentary on the microscopic world of slime moulds, presented as a campy, trippy sci-fi drama. Think Invasion of the Fungi Snatchers. Or not. (TIFF Bell Lightbox)

Eadweard

He made us a film that we couldn't refuse. Eadweard Muybridge (the "godfather of cinema," who in 1872 used a dozen cameras to prove that all four feet of a galloping horse come off the ground simultaneously) is the complex subject of this biopic/psychological drama. (Carlton, with an Oct. 16 opening at the Kingsway)

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

A five-day fandango of works in film, video, audio and digital media (made by Canadian and international indigenous artists) opens with a gala screening of Mekko, a drama about a native American who becomes homeless after his release from two decades behind bars in an Oklahoma prison. (Oct. 14 to 18; various venues; imaginenative.org)

Hamlet – National Theatre Live

Watch the English actor and thinking person's hottie Benedict Cumberbatch take on the title role of Shakespeare's great tragedy, taped live from London's National Theatre. (Oct. 15 and Nov. 7; select Cineplex cinemas)