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Sabbath Queen Review: When Orthodoxy Is a Drag

by Pat Mullen
May 29, 2025
Reviews

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie navigates his life as a spiritual leader with his drag persona as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross in Sabbath Queen.

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A Mohawk woman in an orange shirt bangs a drum and leads a march. She is walking beside a uniformed police officer.

Hot Docs’ Citizen Minutes Series Inspires Tales of Public Service

by Pat Mullen
April 30, 2025
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Hot Docs' Citizen Minutes series returns with tales of public service and individuals inspiring meaningful change in their communities.

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Lady Like Review: From the Ballet to the Runaway

by Pat Mullen
January 2, 2025
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Drag Race star Lady Camden shares her journey from the ballet in London to the main stage of RuPaul's hit show with the fun doc portrait Lady Like.

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Absolutely Fabulous: Pierre Dalpé’s Wigstock

by Matthew Hays
December 30, 2024
Photography

Photographer Pierre Dalpé captures the legendary New York drag event Wigstock in his new book that documents drag artists in their element and faces in the crowd.

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Coming Soon: POV Issue #122!

by POV Staff
July 29, 2024
Features

Highlights in POV Magazine's Fall/Winter 2024 issue (#122) include Morgan Neville's Piece by Piece, new Canadian docs on the circuit, an anatomy of an Oscar campaign, hip hop, Beyoncé, and more!

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Last Year of Darkness Is a Vomit-Soaked Ode to China’s Club Scene

by Pat Mullen
March 14, 2024June 3, 2024
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Last Year of Darkness director Ben Mullinkosson about filming the club kids of Chengdu, China and a party that lives on.

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Queendom Review: Radical Acts of Queer Visibility

by Pat Mullen
January 24, 2024
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Queendom profiles drag artist Gena Marvin, whose avant-garde looks underscore the bravery of being visibly queer in Russia.

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On Mother Saigon and Making Dreams a Reality

by Justine Smith
November 14, 2023
Features/Festivals

Khoa Lê's Mother Saigon evocatively depicts family, life, and love for the LGBTQ community in Vietnam with a collaborative lens.

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Boylesque Review: Queen of the Night

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Boylesque, directed by Bogna Kowalczyk, profiles Andrzej Szwan, who performs as Poland’s eldest drag queen Lulla La Polaca at 82 years young.

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Being BeBe Review: The Queen of Cameroon

by Pat Mullen
November 30, 2021June 21, 2022
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Being BeBe chronicles the rise and fight of BeBe Zahara Benet, the first winner of RuPaul's Drag Race.

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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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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.

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

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

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b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

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📨 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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Last weekend of @hotdocs_! Don't sleep on some gre Last weekend of @hotdocs_! Don't sleep on some great docs. Lots more this and stories on the site. Highlights include:
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3. Unwelcomed 🇻🇪
4. Heritage 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
5. Queer as Punk 👩‍🎤
6. Betrayal 👨‍⚖️
7. Apocalypse in the Tropics 🤲
8. Casas Muertas 🇻🇪
9. The Last Ambassador 🇦🇫
10. My Boyfriend, the Fascist 🍑
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