Directors Hubert Caron-Guay and Serge-Olivier Rondeau capture life in limbo with portraits of migrants in a slaughterhouse in Resources
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Kim’s Video Review: Behold the New Cult Favourite
Sundance doc Kim's Video should delight film geeks with its salute to physical media and a story so wild it could only exist in the movies.
The Sundance Documentary Short Films Get Personal
Sundance documentary shorts include Will You Look at Me, Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles, Kylie, Call Me Mommy, and Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers.
Make Me Famous Review: The Value of Obscurity
Make Me Famous profiles Edward Brezinski and the stories of artists who never quite achieved fame or fortune despite having many of the right ingredients for which their contemporaries found success.
Backlash Review: Get Riled-Up with Stories of Cyber-Sexism
four women share their experiences with online harassment in Lea Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist's documentary Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age.
Children of the Mist Review: Stolen Lives, Stolen Dreams
Ha Le Diem's Children of the Mist is a powerful observational documentary about the practice of bride-kidnapping in Vietman's Hmong community.
Far Beyond the Pasturelands Review: The Gold Rush
Far Beyond the Pasturelands is an observational portrait of Lalita, a young Nepali woman who embarks on the annual harvest for the coveted fungus yarsagumba.
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter Review – Pursuing Perfection
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter profiles the original taskmaster chef and his fatalist pursuit of perfection.
Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World Review – Toronto’s Ragtag Revue
Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World revisits the making of a 1969 Toronto festival that featured the first public appearance of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band.
Loudmouth Review: Straight from the Reverend’s Mouth
Loudmouth smartly examines the Black Lives Matter movement through a look back at Reverend Al Sharpton's outspokenness while campaigning for the rights of Black Americans.
J’ai placé ma mère Review: Love as Lifeblood
In J'ai placé ma mère, Denys Desjardins documents his mother's experience with the negligence to which Quebec's healthcare system subjects the elderly.