Giving you our points of view on the latest docs in release and on the circuit.
Four chefs adapt to survive COVID-19’s impact on the hospitality business in Guy Fieri doc Restaurant Hustle: All on the Line
The End of Certainties would be especially valuable for educational purposes, finding its place in curricula on the topic of globalization. Ultimately the film leaves you wondering what these people would be saying in light of all that has happened this year, in our increasingly “uncertain times.”
In Kim O'bomsawin's Call Me Human, Innu artist Joséphine Bacon says, "“I don’t think we needed the word ‘poetry’ or ‘poem’ in our language, because we were poets, simply by living in harmony with the land.”
In As the Crow Flies, director Tess Girard captures a visually stunning journey through the clouds piloted by a group of young recruits of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, many not yet 18, as they grapple with being simultaneously placed in the pilot seat of their lives and a massive machine.
Lennon’s Last Interview (UK, 65 min.) Dir. Brian Grant December 8, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. His murder, a first among rock icons, devastated a generation of fans who saw Lennon and the Beatles change the way that people made and imagined music. The sudden and senseless act meant an ironically violent end for a man who used his platform as an advocate for peace. Before the tragic ending to Lennon’s story, however, he synthesized many of his highs, lows, viewpoints, and contradictions in an expansive interview with Andy Peebles, a radio DJ with the BBC.
2020 has delivered its fair of crazy stories. However, no doc this year quite has a jaw-on-the-floor ick factor like Baby God does. This true crime/#MeToo investigation is further proof that truth is often stranger than fiction.
My Psychedelic Love Story is the latest in what’s getting to be long a line of docs made by Errol Morris, which encourage his central characters to tell their side of what happened in key moments in their lives.
The streets of São Paulo erupt in performance, colour, and conversation in Southern Sorceresses. Less of a cohesive narrative and more of a kaleidoscopic portrait, the film is an invigorating glimpse into Brazil’s LGBTQ+ community amid the country’s current conversations and reckonings.
In Passage, director Sarah Baril Gaudet’s return to her hometown in small-town Québec is seen through the eyes of two teens on the cusp of leaving it, as she did nearly a decade earlier.
Objector tells the story of Atalya Ben-Abba, who was jailed at 19 years of age when she refused to enlist in the Israeli army. Although Ben-Abba is the dominant voice in the documentary, she represents a growing number of young Israelis who are conscientious objectors.
