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Come See Me in the Good Light Review: You’ll Feel Many Goosebumps

by Pat Mullen
January 29, 2025April 22, 2025
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Spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's cancer diagnosis fuels Ryan White's deeply moving and intimate Come See Me in the Good Light.

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André Is an Idiot Review: When Cancer Is a Pain in the Butt

by Jason Gorber
January 27, 2025
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André Is an Idiot, the story of André Ricciardi and his rude awakening after an overly delayed colonoscopy, is both tragic and hilarious.

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Undertaker for Life! Asks the Big Questions About What Comes Next

by POV Staff
October 31, 2023
Features

Undertaker for Life, now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, is a humorous study of life, death, and what happens in between.

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Making Last Respects

by Megan Durnford
May 18, 2023
Features/Hot Docs

Megan Durnford reflects on the process of making her short documentary Last Respects, which won Best Canadian short at Hot Docs 2023.

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Jackie the Wolf’s Tuki Jencquel Talks Sex, Death, and Mother

by Jason Gorber
April 29, 2023
Hot Docs/Interviews

Jackie the Wolf director Tuki Jencquel discusses his documentary portrait of his mother and her activism for choosing the date of her death.

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Death Becomes Him: Georges Hannan Talks Undertaker for Life!

by Pat Mullen
April 28, 2023April 29, 2023
Hot Docs/Interviews

An interview with Undertaker for Life! director Georges Hannan about his NFB documentary that asks all the big questions on life and death.

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Who We Will Have Been Review: Grief, Millennial Style

by Pat Mullen
May 7, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

In Who We Will Have Been, Erec Brehmer explores the death of his girlfriend, Angelina Zeidler, by reflecting upon photos and videos.

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Last Flight Home Review: The Power of Goodbye

by Pat Mullen
February 1, 2022
Reviews/Sundance

In Last Flight Home, Ondi Timoner offers a moving portrait of her family's journey navigating the end-of-life process with her father, Eli.

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It Is Not Over Yet Pictures A New Kind of Nursing Home

by Madeline Lines
April 29, 2021August 9, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

An elderly woman stitches tangles of red yarn into tight little knots. While her muscle memory whirs away, her memory falters. The nurse beside her does not correct her, as is the

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The Magnitude of All Things Review: Grieving for Our Planet

by Pat Mullen
September 30, 2020April 21, 2022
Reviews

Jennifer Abbott harnesses a new emotion that films about climate change have yet to experience: grief. The Magnitude of All Things moves with the unshakable sensation of grief and loss.

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