Issue 105 - Spring 2017
POV’s biggest issue ever offers an in-depth look at the history of Canada’s national art form: documentary! Generously sponsored by Reel Canada / National Canadian Film Day, the OMDC, the NFB and Henry’s Camera.
If you want to understand the Canadian psyche, you have to watch Canadian documentaries.
Read MorePOV presents Canada's "Documentary Essentials": a starter guide of ten short docs and ten features that should help readers explore all the non-fiction that this country had to offer.
Read MoreA characteristically intimate study of an experimental psychiatric centre for adolescents in Etobicoke, Ontario, Warrendale is both King’s most provocative film bearing a family resemblance to Frederick Wiseman’s devastating Titicut Follies
Read MoreMemory and truth, it turns out, don’t always match up. That is what Sarah Polley discovered in the five years it took her to make Stories We Tell, a deep dive into her family’s past.
Read MoreIn the Oscar-winning Ryan, Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin sit together in a computer-generated cafeteria as they go over Larkin’s past: his artistic achievements, his loves, his brief moments of recognition.
Read MoreLes raquetteurs by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx became one of the early salvos from a new generation who were about to unleash the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
Read MoreDocumentaries may record quotidian reality but, at their best, they aspire to poetry. There’s an image in Pour la suite du monde, which achieves the clarity and vision of truly transcendent cinema.
Read MoreTo make the mesmerising Picture of Light, Peter Mettler undertook a quixotic quest to capture one of the natural world’s most famous and dazzling spectacles, the northern lights.
Read MoreUnderstanding the value of a first impression, Graeme Ferguson ensured that IMAX made a doozy of one. This groundbreaking short doc is a true Canadian thrill ride.
Read MoreIn New Shoes, Ann Marie Fleming points a camera at her subject, seated at the kitchen table with some tea. The woman swiftly tells her story of physical and emotional harassment with candour, but also detachment.
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