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Reviews and interviews from the film festival circuit, including reports from TIFF, Hot Docs, Sundance, and Cannes.
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A crowded audience sits in a conference room where four panelists discuss a topic. The screen behind them advertises the topic of "Truth or Bias".

Hot Docs Industry Conference: Truth and Bias in the Age of Trump, Influencers, and AI

by Tom White Marc Glassman
May 10, 2025
Hot Docs/Industry

Highlights from the Hot Docs Industry Conference included conversations about navigating truth and bias in the Trump era, and artificial intelligence.

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POV Presents Speak at Inside Out: Win Tickets!

by POV Staff
May 8, 2025
Festivals

POV co-presents Speak at Toronto's Toronto's Inside Out LGBTQ+ Film Festival on Saturday, May 24 at 1:00pm at TIFF Lightbox.

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A group of protesters marches together. There are many men holding signs. At the front is a man in a red jacket and light pink shirt, and one with a tan shirt, green ballcap, and sunglasses.

TIFF 50 Spotlights a History of Toronto Festival Favourites

by Pat Mullen
May 7, 2025
News/TIFF

TIFF Cinematheque marks 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival with TIFF 50, highlight and films that defined the event.

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A mosaic of documentary highlights from this year's Hot Docs film festival.

The 2025 Hot Docs Report: A Confident Return

by Pat Mullen
May 5, 2025May 9, 2025
Features/Hot Docs

Hot Docs 2025 proved a confident return for the documentary festival with full screenings, engaged audiences, and some strong titles, especially Canadian ones.

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A woman and her partner are lying on a blanket with their three dogs. They are are both laughing and the dogs are snuggled up against them in a sunbeam.

Come See Me in the Good Light Wins Hot Docs Audience Award

by Pat Mullen
May 5, 2025
Hot Docs/News

Come See Me in the Good Light wins Hot Docs Audience Award, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary.

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A boy approaches a circus tent at night. The words Circus Arena appear in red on an arch above the entrance.

Circusboy Review: Wisemanesque View of the Big Top

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

Experience life under the big top by going on the road with 11-year-old Santino for one year with Circus Arena in Circusboy.

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A woman and her partner are lying on a blanket with their three dogs. They are are both laughing and the dogs are snuggled up against them in a sunbeam.

Come See Me in the Good Light Holds Hot Docs Lead Heading Into Final Weekend

by Pat Mullen
May 3, 2025
Hot Docs/News

Come See Me in the Good Light rounds out a week atop the Hot Docs Audience Award leaderboard as Cutting Through Rocks debuts at number five.

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I Dreamed His Name Review: A Personal, If Muddled, Elegy for the Disappeared

by Alexander Mooney
May 3, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

A daughter goes searching for her father, who vanished 30 years prior amid Colombia's history of forced disappearances in I Dreamed His Name.

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Throwbacks, Money & Speed:  Dipping into 2025’s Hot Docs Industry Conference

by Barri Cohen
May 3, 2025May 6, 2025
Hot Docs/Industry

The 2025 Hot Doc Industry Conference was an intimate affair where Trump's threats to freedom of speech and the 'reality' of reality TV resonated.

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They’re Here Review: Connection is Out There

by Courtney Small
May 2, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

They're Here introduces audiences to everyday people who recall their alien encounters and abductions.

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

#EndlessCookie #movies #dogs #film #animation #documentary #Shamattawa
Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
- Shelf Life 🧀
- Front Row 🩰

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The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

#InsideOut #Speak #movies #Toronto #LGBTQ #gaytoronto #film #contests #queer #documentary
The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good L The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good Light wins @hotdocs_ Audience Award after holding the #1 spot all festival, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Film. 🗳

Your top five:
1. Come See Me in the Good Light
2. Endless Cookie
3. Antidote
4. Coexistence, My Ass!
5. Saints and Warriors

Visit POV for the full top 20! (Link in stories.)
#hotdocs25 #hotdocs #Documentary #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #EndlessCookie
Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing? Here Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing?

Here are some recent highlights from our team:
1. Industry - @barri.cohen offers our first dispatch 📋
2. The Longer You Bleed - @mullenpat on Made in Exile highlight 🇺🇦
3. I, Poppy - @filmfest_ca on Best International Feature winner 🏆 
4. They're Here - @smallmind1978 on doc about strange visitors 🛸
5. The Secret Lives of My Three Men - @bgos923 reviews hybrid highlight 🎭
6. I Dreamed His Name - Alexander Mooney looks at a personal journey 🇨🇴
7. Ai Weiwei's Turandot - @marc.glassman on an artist in times of war and COVID 😷
8. Widow Champion - @susangcole looks at sisters in a struggle 🙋‍♀️
9. Circusboy is a Wisemanesque view of the big top 🎪
10. Higher than Acidic Clouds defies censors 🇮🇷

🔗: visit POVmagazine.com for reviews of nearly every feature at the fest!

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