Highlights from the 2018 TIFF Doc Conference included talks with Werner Herzog, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Maxin Pozdorovkin, and more.
Keep Reading93Queen (USA, 85 minutes) Dir: Paula Eiselt Programme: World Showcase (World Premiere) Movies about underdogs fighting for their rightful place have built-in appeal. 93Queen expertly takes you into trials and tribulations,
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One of the highlights of Hot Docs 2018 was the International Premiere of director-producer’s Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, an ambitious exploration of The New York Times as the publication’s staff grapples
Keep ReadingMore Human than Human (Netherlands, USA, Belgium, 79 min.) Dir: Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting Programme: Special Presentations. (International Premiere) Tommy Pallotta, a Richard Linklater collaborator who worked on Waking Life and
Keep ReadingGolden Dawn Girls (Norway, Denmark, Finland, 92 minutes) Dir: Håvard Bustnes Programme: World Showcase. (North American Premiere) Once on a tiny Aegean island called Koufonissi, an Athenian friend said to me,
Keep ReadingActive Measures (USA, 112 minutes) Dir: Jack Bryan Programme: Special Presentations. (World Premiere) Active Measures is so loaded with information that Jack Bryan and his producers considered telling the story in
Keep ReadingTiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (USA, 90 minutes) Dir: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins Programme: Special Presentations (International Premiere) An involving doc operating on various levels, Tiny Shoulders reveals surprising facts about one of
Keep ReadingBehind the Curve (USA, 96 minutes) Dir: Daniel J. Clark Programme: Special Presentations. (World Premiere) In Behind the Curve, director Daniel Clark could have gone for savage mockery in the depiction
Keep ReadingOur New President (USA, 77 min.) Dir: Maxim Pozdorovkin Programme: Special Presentations .(Canadian Premiere) With its relentless montages of 21st century Russian propaganda, Our New President plays like a fever dream
Keep ReadingAlt-Right: Age of Rage (USA, 104 minutes) Dir: Adam Bhala Lough Programme: Special Presentations. (Canadian Premiere) “The best lack all conviction,” wrote WB Yeats, “while the worst are full of passionate
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