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Sona Mohapatra makes an assertion early in Shut Up Sona, filmmaker Deepti Gupta’s gripping profile of her. The singer says she’s a performer first, and an activist second.
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Two Canadian institutions collide in Mike Hoolboom’s heartfelt Judy Rebick doc Judy Versus Capitalism
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Tiger King is the perfect series for our times. A show about narcissists with no sense of self-awareness, rampant cruelty masquerading as morality and law and order, all soaking in a philosophy
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To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada, eight POV writers share their picks for the top ten films in the history of the NFB. From documentary features,
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It is perhaps impossible to assess the impact of the body of work created by Canada’s National Film Board (NFB; ONF en français) on our national culture—or, indeed, on international cinematic culture.
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In Killing Patient Zero, Toronto filmmaker Laurie Lynd unravels the twisted story of Gaetan Dugas, the Quebecois flight attendant who was wrongly labelled the man who brought HIV to North America.
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