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A black and white photo of Mount Vesuvius and the surrounding landscape of Naples, Italy.

Below the Clouds Review: Rosi’s Travelogue Triptych Visits Napoli

by Barbara Goslawski
September 12, 2025September 24, 2025
Reviews/TIFF

In Below the Clouds, Gianfranco Rosi turns his lens to Italy's Napoli region where Mount Vesuvius looms in a landscape rich with history.

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An Indigenous man in full powwow regalia dances before a crowd.

Powwow People Review: An Immersive Portrait of a Community Institution

by Pat Mullen
September 10, 2025
Reviews/TIFF

Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People provides an immersive cinéma vérité portrait of a three-day powwow and the community that comes together.

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A boy approaches a circus tent at night. The words Circus Arena appear in red on an arch above the entrance.

Circusboy Review: Wisemanesque View of the Big Top

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2025
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Experience life under the big top by going on the road with 11-year-old Santino for one year with Circus Arena in Circusboy.

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How Mistress Dispeller Captures All Side of a Love Triangle

by Pat Mullen
September 4, 2024September 5, 2024
Features/Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Mistress Dispeller director Elizabeth Lo on filming a love triangle in which all sides have equal weight.

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On the Adamant Review: Company Is the Best Medicine

by Pat Mullen
March 15, 2024
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Nicolas Philibert's On the Adamant depicts a day centre aboard a Parisian boat with a holistic community-based approach to mental health.

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The French Is a Cinéma Vérité Grand Slam

by Pat Mullen
August 5, 2022
Reviews

William Klein's 1982 documentary The French screens in a reissued restoration and offers a masterful work of vérité filmmaking.

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Terence Macartney-Filgate Dies at Age 97

by Pat Mullen
July 12, 2022
Features

Canadian filmmaker Terence Macartney-Filgate dies at age 97 following a distinguished and influential career in documentary.

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Jeannette Finds Strength in a Survivor’s Story

by Pat Mullen
May 27, 2022
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with Jeannette director Maris Curran and subject Jeannette Feliciano about finding strength in family and healing in the aftermath of trauma.

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TIFF 2020: 76 Days Review

by Marc Glassman
September 16, 2020August 10, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into

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TIFF Talk: Hao Wu Takes Audiences to the Frontlines of Wuhan in COVID Doc 76 Days

by Pat Mullen
September 10, 2020August 10, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

76 Days director Hao Wu discusses his film that takes audiences to the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic with an urgent cinema verité portrait of the outbreak in Wuhan.

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