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The Bibi Files Review: What’s New on Netanyahu?

by Marc Glassman
September 10, 2024September 17, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

Screening at TIFF as a work in progress , Alexis Bloom's The Bibi Files offers leaked interrogation footage of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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TIFF Adds Doc The Bibi Files Featuring Interrogation Footage of Netanyahu

by Pat Mullen
September 3, 2024
TIFF

TIFF adds The Bibi Files to TIFF Docs slate. Film by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney features never-before-seen interrogation footage of Netanyahu.

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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon Review – Of Ghosts and Empty Sockets

by Jason Gorber
September 16, 2023March 14, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Alex Gibney's sprawling portrait of Paul Simon, is a triumphant celebration and a missed opportunity.

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Swan Song, Nickelback, Paul Simon Lead First TIFF Doc Titles

by Pat Mullen
July 24, 2023
TIFF

TIFF announces first Galas and Special Presentations titles for 2023 festival including films by Chelsea McMullan, Leigh Brooks, and Alex Gibney.

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The Crime of the Century Review: A towering examination of the Opioid Crisis

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

We all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The

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Totally Under Control Review: Trump’s Pandemic of Stupidity

by Pat Mullen
October 16, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Totally Under Control (USA, 124 min.) Dir. Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan Totally Under Control ends with a title card informing viewers that American President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 one

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TIFF 2020: Enemies of the State Review

by Pat Mullen
September 12, 2020August 14, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

One unexpected twist anticipates another in Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State. The film is a jaw-dropper of a wild-but-true tale that leaves a viewer guessing.

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Netflix Reclaims Its True Crime Credence with ‘The Innocence Files’

by Pat Mullen
April 15, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Netflix reclaims its true crime credence with The Innocence Files. After the hugely entertaining, but highly flawed and ethically dubious, quarantine sensation of Tiger King comes this nine-part feat of investigative rigour. The Innocence Files admittedly lacks the

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TIFF Review: ‘Citizen K’

by Daniel Glassman
September 23, 2019August 27, 2021
Reviews

Citizen K (USA, 125 min) Dir. Alex Gibney Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Alex Gibney is a master of the well-made doc. It’s hard to find fault in his films. Everything is in its

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From Aliens to AOC, Sundance Docs Brought Down the House

by Jason Gorber
February 8, 2019August 24, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

Sundance remains the preeminent birthplace for the year’s great works of non-fiction, and more than a few reviewed below will almost certainly be declared the finest works of documentary for 2019.

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What does it mean to graduate from a university wh What does it mean to graduate from a university while students protest for human rights and the institutions issuing their diplomas fail to hear their concerns?

@nidhilvohra offers a personal reflection on #TheEncampments and graduating amid a movement. 

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

📰: Issue 123, on stands now
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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

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Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
- Shelf Life 🧀
- Front Row 🩰

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The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good L The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good Light wins @hotdocs_ Audience Award after holding the #1 spot all festival, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Film. 🗳

Your top five:
1. Come See Me in the Good Light
2. Endless Cookie
3. Antidote
4. Coexistence, My Ass!
5. Saints and Warriors

Visit POV for the full top 20! (Link in stories.)
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Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing? Here Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing?

Here are some recent highlights from our team:
1. Industry - @barri.cohen offers our first dispatch 📋
2. The Longer You Bleed - @mullenpat on Made in Exile highlight 🇺🇦
3. I, Poppy - @filmfest_ca on Best International Feature winner 🏆 
4. They're Here - @smallmind1978 on doc about strange visitors 🛸
5. The Secret Lives of My Three Men - @bgos923 reviews hybrid highlight 🎭
6. I Dreamed His Name - Alexander Mooney looks at a personal journey 🇨🇴
7. Ai Weiwei's Turandot - @marc.glassman on an artist in times of war and COVID 😷
8. Widow Champion - @susangcole looks at sisters in a struggle 🙋‍♀️
9. Circusboy is a Wisemanesque view of the big top 🎪
10. Higher than Acidic Clouds defies censors 🇮🇷

🔗: visit POVmagazine.com for reviews of nearly every feature at the fest!

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