Short documentaries at DOXA include On Falling, Clebs/Mutts, Lichen, Red Robinson, Home Cooking, The Return, and HIV: Healing Inner Voices.
"The great virtue of the program is that the counsellors step back and let the boys run the show, which is why it went off the rails in 2017. We’d done that just before as a country. We’re actually off the rails right now. To what extent is that a function of a two party
In 2020, in the midst of one the worst health crises ever to assault the modern world, Hot Docs was one of the first film festivals to come through with a full slate of films and a wide range of industry events, all online.
The 2020 edition of Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Festival follows on the heels of Toronto’s Hot Docs by shifting its annual gathering into a streaming event.
Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.
Stage: The Culinary Internship (Canada, 78 min.) Dir. Abby Ainsworth Foodies eager for fine dining likely won’t be hitting restaurants any time soon. For sophisticated eaters who crave one elaborate and delicately tweezer-placed edible objet d’art after another, take out simply doesn’t do. Fortunately, the world of food documentaries offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of food porn to
Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
For the Love of Rutland is a powerful observation of the divisions in Trump-era America, but ultimately a hopeful study of a community hungry for change.
Under The Same Sun (Canada, 97 min.) Dir. François Jacob Program: Canadian Spectrum One of the highlights of the recent Human Rights Watch Film Festival was the Armenian documentary, I Am Not Alone, using television and coverage live-streamed via cell phones to capture the country’s 2018 anti-autocratic revolution when journalist-turned-prime minister Nikol Pashinyan toppled the country’s
Immortal (Estonia, 60 min.) Dir. Ksenia Okhapkina Programme: The Changing Face of Europe Set in an industrial town of post-Soviet Russia, Immortal is glued together by a hypnotic stream of moving train units and long shadows on snowy surfaces. Every image bathes in the blue haze of a permanent night. Shot during winter, the debut documentary feature