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Fans hold up lights at a BTS concert. The view shows a crowd of young people bathed in purple light.

BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young Review – An Army that Serves

by Nidhil Vohra
July 31, 2025
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BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young observes the global fandom that mobilizes behind shared values and love for the K-pop boy band.

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A stadium full of fans. They all have their arms over their heads crossed as an X.

Ultras Review: When Enthusiasm Hits the Fan

by Barbara Goslawski
April 30, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

The intense world of soccer fandom receives a captivating portrait in Ultras as love for the game unites ardent fans to extremes.

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Beatles ’64 Review: Revisiting America’s “Beatles Era”

by Pat Mullen
November 28, 2024
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Some newly restored and never-before-seen footage by Albert Maysles and David Maysles is the reason to see Beatles '64, the latest doc on the Fab Four.

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Fanatical: Catfishing Tegan and Sara Review – The Con

by Susan G. Cole
September 14, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara investigates the digital abuse that victimized fans of the rock star sisters.

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Me, Michael, and I Review: 20 Nose Jobs from Stardom

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2024
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Michael Jackson impersonator Freddy Dufour goes all in to transform into the King of Pop and escape Quebec in Me, Michael, and I.

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Nos Amours: The Saga of the Montreal Expos Review — A Swing and a Miss

by Rachel Ho
May 3, 2024
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The possibility of the return of the Montreal Expos to their home city receives new consideration in Nos Amours: The Saga of the Montreal Expos.

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The Hobby Brings the World of Tabletop Gaming Into a Long Overdue Spotlight

by Larry Fried
March 31, 2024June 10, 2025
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An interview with The Hobby director Simon Ennis and subjects Candice Harris and Dan Corbett about bringing tabletop gaming culture to screen.

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How Nickelback Doc Hate to Love Went from EPK to Auteur Rockumentary

by Jason Gorber
September 23, 2023
Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Hate to Love: Nickelback director Leigh Brooks and producer Ben Jones about their six-year journey with the oft-derided band.

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A Disturbance in the Force Review: Disaster in a Galaxy Far Far Away

by Courtney Small
July 29, 2023
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A Disturbance in the Force tells the strange history of a disastrous Star Wars Christmas special that's the stuff of urban legend.

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A Bunch of Amateurs Review: A Cine-Love Letter to Movies

by Allegra Moyle
January 27, 2023
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A Bunch of Amateurs is a fun portrait of the current members of the Bradford Movie Makers, one of England’s oldest filmmaking societies.

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Chef Masaki Saito brings cutting edge realness in Still Single.

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Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a  Hollywood remake. Kate Hudson and director Craig Brewer tell us about reimagining the doc as a movie musical!

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Dec. 25
📽: rent the doc on Vimeo

#SongSungBlue #KateHudson #NeilDiamond #movies #Documentary
How have documentaries captured political divides How have documentaries captured political divides since Oct. 7? @dimwig surveys the field of films about Palestine and Israel.

📖: POV 123
🔗: In bio
📽: Coexistence, My Ass! (Now on TVO)

#Documentary #film #politics #coexistencemyass #nootherland
Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these days, so what does it mean for the field?

@_rachelkh looks at films about Pee-Wee Herman, Pamela Anderson, and Elvis Presley to consider some dos and don'ts of the celebrity doc.

🔗: in profile
📖: Issue 124

#Documentary #film #peeweeherman #elvis #pamelaanderson
Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM “ Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

“The Alabama Solution”
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
“Coexistence, My Ass!”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Cover-Up”
“Cutting through Rocks”
“Folktales”
“Holding Liat”
“Mr. Nobody against Putin”
“Mistress Dispeller”
“My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“Seeds”
“2000 Meters to Andriivka”
“Yanuni” 

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“All the Empty Rooms”
“All the Walls Came Down”
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
“Bad Hostage”
“Cashing Out”
“Chasing Time”
“Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”” 
“Classroom 4”
“The Devil Is Busy”
“Heartbeat”
“Last Days on Lake Trinity”
“On Healing Land, Birds Perch”
“Perfectly a Strangeness”
“Rovina’s Choice”
“We Were the Scenery”

Congrats to all the shortlisted docs! 
#Oscars #Documentary
#awardseason #film #movies
In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_fil In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_film finds a true hero in politician Sara Shahverdi. 💪

📽: @tiff_net 
🔗: in bio
📝: @bgos923 

#CuttingThroughRocks #documentary #film #moviereview
And we have Sundance docs! 📷: Nuisance Bear 🔗: And we have Sundance docs!

📷: Nuisance Bear 

🔗: in bio

#Sundance #Sundance26 #documentary #movies #film
How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? 🦢

Learn more in our interview with director Tamara Kotevska and cinematographer Jean Dakar. Our writers can it one of the best films of 2025!

🔗: in bio. 
📽: now in theatres!

#Documentary #filmmaking #birds #film #movies
POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of 2025. 🥳

This year, @marc.glassman.1 and @mullenpat offer a combined top ten list, plus honourable mentions. 

Read the full story at POV! (Link in bio.)

What are your top docs of 2025?
#Documentary #movies #bestof2025 #moviereview #film #2025wrapped
Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about a Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about adapting #BirthofAFamily into #Meadowlarks. What Cdn doc deserves a dramatic treatment next?

🔗: in bio
📽: Meadowlarks now in theatres. Stream Birth of a Family at @onf_nfb. 

#Documentary #film #cdnfilm #movies #interviews #indigenous
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A man and a woman sing sit together at a keyboard and sing into a microphone on stage. She is on the left and isin a red dress with her hair like Patsy Cline, and he is on the right and is dressed up to resemble Neil Diamond.

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Sushi chef Masaki Saito examines his knife. He is wearing a white hate and looking at the blade intently.

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Chef Masaki Saito brings cutting edge realness in Still Single.

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