Welcome to POV's destination for coverage from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Bookmark this page for word on the documentary beat at #TIFF21 as our writers deliver reviews, interviews, and more thoughts on the non-fiction slate at the festival.
Academy Award winner Eva Orner chronicles the 2019-2020 Australian wildfires in Burning and asks what we'll do when the world goes up in flames.
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Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin offer another gripping and inspiring adventure as they recount the 2018 Thai cave rescue that had the world in suspense.
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Sam Dunn and Marc Ricciardelli deliver an old-school rock doc that should please fans of the band in Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine -- and hopefully attract some new fans along the way.
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Julia serves comfort food for the soul as RBG directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West chronicle the life and work of an American icon who empowered women through food.
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Alison Klayman revisits Alanis Morisette's groundbreaking album Jagged Little Pill and unpacks the significance and longevity of an album that changed rock.
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Stefan Forbes’ investigative documentary Hold Your Fire recounts the events of the two-day hostage siege and asks questions about racial bias, hostage negotiations, and restorative justice.
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Daniel Carsenty and Mohammed Abugeth's The Devil's Drivers is a high-octane human rights thriller with real world stakes thanks to its portrait of an underground taxi service that navigates the Israel/Palestine border.
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Bianca Stigter asserts the presence of lives lost to the Holocaust in Three Minutes - A Lengthening, which interrogates a snippet of footage shot in Poland in 1938 and considers the history that resides in film frames.
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Penny Lane's Listening to Kenny G playfully debates musical tastes by looking at the career of the iconic jazz man and the fine line between good sax and bad sax.
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Julie Cohen and Betsy West tell all about why they decided to profile cookbook pioneer Julia Child in their new documentary Julia, which has its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Gian Cassini's Comala is a potent true crime family saga as the filmmaker explores his father's life as a hitman. He encounters the victims left to tell the tale in a country in which violence is a part of daily life.
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Terril Calder's Meneath: The Island of Hidden Ethics is a darkly funny film about a baby Métis girl caught between a dance between Jesus's debilitating teachings and the healing wisdom of her ancestors.
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Payal Kapadia makes a poetic and invigorating feature debut in this Cannes winner that charts a young woman's personal and political awakening amid student protests in India.
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Now streaming for free from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), David Curtis's Sovereign Soil shares stories of Canadians living off grid and learning sustainable practices as they thrive off the land.
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In the short documentary Bend or Break, Mitchell Martow recounts his experience
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An interview with In the Same Breath director Nanfu Wang on documenting
