CONTACT 2015: History, Memory and Archives by Vincenzo Pietropaolo Published on May 1, 2015February 3, 2022 Festivals/Photography The Scotiabank CONTACT Festival repositions documentary photography on the high altar of art while connecting it to our past and our present.
REVIEW: A Woman Like Me by Pat Mullen Published on May 1, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews A Woman Like Me is one of the most freeing and cathartic experiences a filmmaker could ever make about death.
REVIEW: Listen to Me Marlon by Maurie Alioff Published on May 1, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews Stevan Riley's Listen to Me Marlon is an acutely intimate film that wants us to experience his subject’s many dimensions.
REVIEW: Love Between the Covers by Maurie Alioff Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews Laurie Kahn’s Love Between the Covers plays as a celebration of the often-maligned world of romance fiction.
REVIEW: The Nightmare by Maurie Alioff Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews Rodney Ascher's The Nightmare is a not-so-terrifying follow-up to Room 237, and ultimately one of the festival's disappointments.
REVIEW: What Happened, Miss Simone? by Pat Mullen Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews What Happened, Miss Simone? is a fascinating study of a music icon and is one of Liz Garbus’s best documentaries.
REVIEW: From This Day Forward by Noelle Elia Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews From This Day Forward succeeds as a contemporary telling of self-acceptance, unpacking family resentments, and enduring spousal love.
REVIEW: Exotica, Erotica, Etc. by Noelle Elia Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews Erotica, Exotica, Etc. is an expressionistic meditation on the sea, the men who work it, and the women who love those men.
REVIEW: Over the Rainbow by Noelle Elia Published on April 30, 2015January 3, 2022 Hot Docs/Reviews Over The Rainbow is a heartwarming, it’s-never-too-late, portrait of Leny, a Dutch woman who discovered her sexual identity at 68.
DOXA 2015 Highlights by Kim Linkein Published on April 30, 2015February 3, 2022 Festivals Highlights from the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver offer a range of non-fiction offerings from around the world.
