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The Art of Adventure Named Festival Fave at Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival

by POV Staff
June 3, 2026
Festivals

The Art of Adventure, directed by Alison Reid, wins the Festival Fave Award at Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival as voted by the audience.

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Filmmaker Daniel Roher is pictures in close-up. His hand is touching his face and he looks pensive while listening to an interviewee.

How The AI Doc Brings a Human Touch to an Existential Crisis

by Pat Mullen
March 25, 2026
Features/Interviews

An interview with Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell on The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist about confronting the new reality of AI.

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Sundance Announces Documentaries for 2026 Festival

by Pat Mullen
December 10, 2025
News/Sundance

Sundance announces its 2026 line-up including Nuisance Bear by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman and The AI Doc by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell.

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TIFF’s Galas and Special Presentations Slate Spotlights Canadian Cultural History

by Pat Mullen
July 21, 2025
News/TIFF

TIFF announces Galas and Special Presentations including documentaries about Lilith Fair, Degrassi, and the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell.

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Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev stands in pensive thought. The room is very dark. There is some light on his hand and face. He is wearing a white shirt.

Antidote Review: Reporting from Navalny’s Shadow

by Jason Gorber
April 26, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

Antidote, a docu-thriller portrait of Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev, struggles to offer much new after Navalny.

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How Blink Shares a Family’s Quest to See the Wonders of the World

by Pat Mullen
October 2, 2024
Features/Interviews

An interview with Blink director Edmund Stenson about travelling the world with a family as parents prepare their kids for a life without sight.

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Here’s How to See All of Canada’s Best Documentary Oscar Nominees and Winners

by Alejandra De La Huerta
February 21, 2024
Features

Stream the Canadian Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominees and winners as we await To Kill a Tiger's big night at the Academy Awards.

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Toronto’s Daniel Roher Wins Doc Oscar

by Pat Mullen
March 13, 2023
Features

Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Navalny, about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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Oscar Predictions and Picks: Will Win/Should Win

by Marc Glassman Pat Mullen
March 9, 2023
Features

POV offers its picks and predictions for this year's Oscars, which look like a tight race between All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and Navalny.

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Whistler Film Fest Docs Bring Hockey, Rock, and Oscar Frontrunners

by Pat Mullen
November 29, 2022
Festivals

Previewing the 2022 Whistler Film Festival, which features mountain movies, Laura Poitras, Daniel Roher, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and hockey docs.

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! H Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! Here are 10 odysseys, er -- adventure docs to stream for summer. 🌞

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Only Hollywood movies have second takes. 💔 Ross M Only Hollywood movies have second takes. 💔

Ross McElwee tells us about #Remake, a planned adaptation of #ShermansMarch, and revisiting images of family and friends so many years later. 

📽 Remake opens at @tiff_net July 17
📽 Sherman's March screens at @hotdocs_ July 19

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Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast mode Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast models failing filmmakers and audiences?

Find out what Canada can learn from the remapping of European documentary! 🇪🇺

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It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. ✒️

MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD captures the words and spirit of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

📽 now in theatres

🔗 review in bio. 

#movies #moviereview #poetry #maryoliver #Documentary
40 years on, the work of Yungatar Film Collective 40 years on,  the work of Yungatar Film Collective remains a key body of work in Indian activist cinema. ✊️

@nidhilvohra looks at four Yungatar films that document grassroots movements for women’s rights both in domestic spaces and in the workplace.

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Inspired by the release of Ross McElwee's Remake, Inspired by the release of Ross McElwee's Remake, here are some "real movies" (😉) based on documentaries. 

📽 The Eyes of Tammy Faye 
📽 Music of the Heart
📽 Grey Gardens
📽 Loving
📽 The Walk

🔗 Get the full list and where to watch them at the link in our bio. 

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From burning love for volcanoes to histories house From burning love for volcanoes to histories housed within glaciers, don't miss TIME AND WATER from FIRE OF LOVE director Sara Dosa. 🧊

🔗 interview link in bio

📽 @hotdocs_ July 5 & 12; on Disney+ soon if you blink on either of those days. 

#timeandwater #film #movies #nature #moviereview
Grab the poutine and a double-double! Here are 10 Grab the poutine and a double-double! Here are 10 @onf_nfb docs to stream for Canada Day. 🇨🇦

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Two of the most famous rivals in tennis history ra Two of the most famous rivals in tennis history rally against cancer as friends in CHRIS & MARTINA: THE FINAL SET. 🎾

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Summer Adventure Documentaries: 10 Docs that Will Inspire You to Touch Grass

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Ross McElwee on Remake and Second Takes

July 15, 2026
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Fault Lines & Frontiers: Mapping the Evolving Geography of European Documentary

July 13, 2026
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World Review – Observing a World of Poetry

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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