My Piece of the City (Canada, 60 min.) Dir. Moze Mossanen Earlier this year, Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses wowed audiences at Hot Docs and other festivals with its story of youths in Toronto’s Villaways housing community. Officer’s doc centred on one young woman, Francine, and saw through her eyes the transformation and redevelopment of
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Brasilia: Life After Design (Canada, 88min.) Dir. Bart Simpson Through scrutinizing the complexities behind Brasilia’s glossy surface and embracing its politics, economics and social issues, Bart Simpson embarks on a journey through the city’s inventive urban planning and architecture in his new documentary Brasilia: Life After Design. Simpson’s fascination with Brazil’s capital is understandable. The
24 Snow (Russia, 90 min.) Dir. Mikhail Barynin What’s it like to live in a place where temperatures drop to minus 65°C? Ask Sergei, a horse breeder from the Sakha region in Russia and the protagonist in new Mikhail Barynin’s documentary 24 Snow. Yakutia or the Sakha Republic is situated in northeastern Siberia, a land
Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (Sweden/Germany/Finland, 80min.) Dir. Joakim Demmer Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas confronts and redefines the conventional Western understanding of international development by examining the toll this practice has taken on Ethiopia. Known for its fertility and biodiversity, Ethiopia grapples with famine and poverty, while relying on food aid to feed
Sans bruit, les figurants du désert from Collectif MML pays tribute to the actors of Ouarzazate, a cinematic underclass acting out Western fantasies of the Other.
The Wild Frontier (L’héroïque lande, la frontière brûle) takes a different approach to representing migrants in ‘the Jungle’.
Director Michèle Hozer discusses her new documentary Sponsorland about the experiences of Syrian refugees and their sponsors in Prince Edward County.
In Made in Vietnam, Thi Vo embarks on a journey 30 years after he arrived in Canada to meet the father he never knew.
You might be surprised to find out that the story of the Syrian Civil War to date is hotly contested ground. Not the war: the story.
In one of the more emotional moments—and there are many—in Peter Raymont’s often-shattering Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004), Canadian General Roméo Dallaire recounts his rage at Belgium’s withdrawal of its troops in the early days of the Rwandan genocide. This led to the departure of 2,500 UN troops that could have been used to