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O Fear, O Night Review: Overcoming that Cotton Candy Monster on Your Back

Festivals/Reviews

Filmmaker Christine Chevarie-Lessard invites audiences to follow along her journey through confronting anxiety and learning to live with it in O Fear, O Night.
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RIDM Announces Full Line-up for 2026 Festival

News/RIDM

Titles in RIDM's Canadian competition include Itilli Gathering, Nowhere Everywhere, My Name Is Tom, and Concrete Turned to Sand.
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Windsor Film Festival Highlights Top Spot for Docs on the Circuit

Festivals

Windsor International Film Festival boasts a huge line-up of documentaries including the Goodfellas film As Far Back as I Can Remember.
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O Fear, O Night Review: Overcoming that Cotton Candy Monster on Your Back

Filmmaker Christine Chevarie-Lessard invites audiences to follow along her journey through confronting anxiety and learning to live with it in O Fear, O Night.
RIDM Announces Full Line-up for 2026 Festival

Titles in RIDM's Canadian competition include Itilli Gathering, Nowhere Everywhere, My Name Is Tom, and Concrete Turned to Sand.
Windsor Film Festival Highlights Top Spot for Docs on the Circuit

Windsor International Film Festival boasts a huge line-up of documentaries including the Goodfellas film As Far Back as I Can Remember.
Ba’s Book and the Search for Home

In Ba's Book, filmmaker Ashley Duong adapts her father's story in a creative fashion that dramatizes his journey from Vietnam to Canada.
The Wind’s Thirst Review: A Tale of River Warriors and Land Defenders

The visually striking The Wind's Thirst observes three members of Colombia's Wayuu community as they defend their land against industrial development.

Reviews

A mountain climer wearing a bright yellow suit ascends a snowy peak on Everest.

Everest: The Other Side Review – For the Love of the Climb

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin offer a personal and breathtaking glimpse at a friend's attempt to do an impossible trek in Everest: The Other Side.

Sitting (left to right): Thomas Harvey, William Patterson, John Henrik Clarke, Mrs. J.B Matthews, Louise Patterson. Standing (left to right): Ernest Chrichlow, Romare Bearden, Ida Mae Cullen. Photo taken in 1972. Credit: Bruce Stanford. Courtesy: William Greaves Productions

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Review: Greaves’ Long-Awaited Documentary Renaissance

by Jason Gorber

William Greaves' long-awaited Once Upon a Time in Harlem gathers luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance for an in-depth conversation about Black life, art, and culture.

An archival image shows Terry Fox running along a rural street, wearing a white t-shirt and jogging shorts.

Run Terry Run Review: Fox’s Marathon Continues to Inspire

by Pat Mullen

The Terry Fox story receives a definitive take in Run Terry Run, Sean Menard's moving all-archival portrait of the Canadian hero.

Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker Ashley Duong and her father, along with the actor portraying him as a young boy, watch a monitor while on location. They are seated in a lush green area with many trees. — Ashley Duong and her father, along with the actor portraying him as a young boy, watch a monitor while on location for *Ba's Book* | Mrinal Desai

Ba’s Book and the Search for Home

by Alice Shih

Published on October 26, 2026

Features/Interviews

In Ba's Book, filmmaker Ashley Duong adapts her father's story in a creative fashion that dramatizes his journey from Vietnam to Canada.

A long shot displays a person walking through a desert and holding a long billowing piece of red fabric that flows in the wind behind them.

The Wind’s Thirst Review: A Tale of River Warriors and Land Defenders

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 25, 2026

Reviews

The visually striking The Wind's Thirst observes three members of Colombia's Wayuu community as they defend their land against industrial development.

Two South Korean women sit and conduct an interview. The woman on the left is wearing a white shirt and faces the camera, and the woman on the right wears a green shirt and sits beside the camera while asking questions. There is a film crew behind her, and a man stands between them in the background observing the interview. They are in a backyard and the sun is setting. — Netflix

Possible Love Review: Class Seen through the Documentary Lens

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 23, 2026

Reviews

A documentary fimmaker explores labour strife but struggles to reckon with her own social privilege in Lee Chang-dong's quietly moving Possible Love.

A team of doctors performs a surgery around an operating table. — *American Doctor* | Game Theory Films/Watermelon Pictures

Cinema Eye Honors Announce Unforgettables, Audience Award Longlist

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 22, 2026

News

Cinema Eye Honors nominees include 17 contenders for the audience prize, plus eight film participants recognizes in the Unforgettables distinction.

A collage of film stills. — Columns from top to bottom - Left: *Récomposée*, *Railfan*; Centre: *The Lake*, *The Perfect Match*, *The Blueberry Blues*; Right: *O Fear, O Night* | All photos courtesy of their respective festivals

Festober Cometh: Doc Highlights on the Circuit

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 20, 2026

Festivals

Documentary highlights at Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, ReelWorld Film Festival, and Rendezvous with Madness film festival.

Elizabeth Holmes stands in front of an elaborate set-up of cameras — VVS Films

Could You Can See Everything Make Oscar History for Documentary?

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 19, 2026

Features

Does the hype for You Can See Everything make it an Oscar contender for categories like Best Picture? No documentary has ever cracked the top category.

A polar bear lies spreadeagle on the ground, sedated, with a large patch of green dye on its back. The bear looks directly into the camera. — *Nuisance Bear* | Gabriela Osio Vanden

Geopolitics and Ecology Heat Up the North

by Gesilayefa Azorbo

Published on October 19, 2026

Essays/Features

How films like Nuisance Bear, Angry Inuk, Time and Water, Tuktuit: Caribou, and Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again capture the environmental and social complexity of the North.

A train crosses a bridge in South Korea — NFB

Now Streaming: There Are No Words Mines a Family’s Painful History

by POV Staff

Published on October 16, 2026

Features

Now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), There Are No Words sees Min Sook Lee examine a personal story that's long haunted her.

A close-up image of Elizabeth Holmes shows a wide-eyed expression and a mysterious smile. She is a blonde white woman with blue eyes, pictured in close-up, speaking to someone who is positioned in front of the camera. — VVS Films

You Can See Everything Review: Or, the Characters We Create for Ourselves

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 15, 2026

Reviews

In You Can See Everything Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim capture the elusive mystery of Elizabeth Holmes in a portrait that proves the truth isn't nearly as interesting as a lie.

Elon Musk stands before a crowed in a stadium. He has both hands raised in the air, and there is an American flag behind him. He is wearing a black jacket and baseball cap. — *Musk* | AP / TIFF

Alex Gibney on Musk and Playing in Elon’s Sandbox

by Pat Mullen

Published on October 14, 2026

Features/Interviews

An interview with Musk director Alex Gibney on charting the rise to power of Elon Musk with hopes to understand how the world got to this point of peril.