Giving you our points of view on the latest docs in release and on the circuit.
Films this personal are often tricky feats, but Sopy Romvari’s willingness to be vulnerable takes Still Processing to unexpected places as she reflects upon her responsibility with images and the power they hold.
Great documentaries are often created through amazing real life characters and Mayye Zayed's Lift Like a Girl has one for the ages in Captain Ramadan.
I Am Greta adds little to the story of courageous youth activist Greta Thunberg. Despite the film's good intentions, it's a PR puff piece.
Inconvenient Indian (Canada, 90min.) Dir. Michelle Latimer Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Given the deserved attention that Michelle Latimer has garnered during this festival season, it’s important to realize the she chose to work in the most difficult form of documentary, the essay film, for her high profile feature Inconvenient Indian. It’s hard to foreground any film with a thesis when audiences want narrative and compelling characters. How do you keep people engaged when your concerns are far graver than the mistreatment of a single individual? Latimer has made a film that rose to the challenge of making largely white audiences understand the tragic history
The Truffle Hunters is a feast for the senses. The best food on the planet just got better.
Tommy Oliver's incendiary and deeply personal 40 Years a Prisoner chronicles systemic racism, the revolutionary group MOVE, and a family’s search for justice.
Pete Souza, the protagonist of The Way I See It, surely practiced his craft that way for 40 years. The White House photographer for Ronald Reagan in the Eighties and Barack Obama during his entire eight years as President, he learned how to be “the guy who disappears” while taking shots of each President during their terms in office.
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is a must-see if only to remind us to avoid the empty messages of hope provided by slick corporate entities.
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer look to the stars in Fireball, the duo's latest collaboration after Into the Inferno and Encounters at the End of the World.
King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.
