Jawad Rhalib's powerful documentary When Arabs Danced is a joyous celebration of women and the impact of positive representation.
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Keep ReadingShasha Nakhai’s feature documentary debut Take Light is an absorbing character-driven study of the country’s fight for sustainability amidst post-colonial corruption. Nakhai’s film highlights ordinary citizens caught within a power struggle both
Keep ReadingVictory Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, takes place in the present and serves as a sort of companion piece to Austerlitz.
Keep ReadingWatching powerful films and talking about sexual violence as a longstanding institutional problem, we can hope to reach a more forthright way to understand, and bring about change.
Keep ReadingOn a cold day in December 2016 in Toronto, I headed into the apartment of Mandi Gray, carrying a used camera from Craigslist, a tripod, a borrowed lavalier microphone and a Zoom
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