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Forbidden Love

Imagining Canada: How the NFB Represents Our Many Stories

by Marc Glassman
March 24, 2025
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Explore a history of Canada on film as the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) captures the diversity of the country's stories over time.

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Pride Guide: A Dozen Docs Spotlighting LGBTQ+ Stories

by Pat Mullen
June 1, 2023
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The POV Pride Guide to documentaries features a baker's dozen LGBTQ+ films to watch this month, including The Queen, A Bigger Splash, The Company of Strangers, and Tramps!

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TIFF 2020: No Ordinary Man Review

by Pat Mullen
September 11, 2020August 14, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

No Ordinary Man brilliantly rewrites the past as directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt and writer Amos Mac correct the story of jazz musician Billy Tipton through voices he inspired.

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Now We Are 80 – NFB Top Tens

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman Andrew McIntosh Dorothy Woodend Judy Wolfe Matthew Hays Maya Gallus Susan G. Cole
December 21, 2019November 1, 2021
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To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada, eight POV writers share their picks for the top ten films in the history of the NFB. From documentary features,

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives’

by Matthew Hays
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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It is certainly one of the most justified criticisms of the NFB’s feminist Studio D that it took so long for the unit to produce a feature-length film about the lives of

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials

by POV Staff
April 7, 2017January 8, 2022
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POV presents Canada's "Documentary Essentials": a starter guide of ten short docs and ten features that should help readers explore all the non-fiction that this country had to offer.

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Goodbye, Ms. Fernie

by Vivian Belik
July 20, 2016January 9, 2022
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An appreciation of programmer and filmmaker Lynne Fernie's contribution to the Canadian scene upon her retirement from Hot Docs.

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DocLit: ‘Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic’

by Julia Higgins
March 17, 2016January 10, 2022
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On Jean Bruce and Gerda Cammaer’s monograph Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic about Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 doc.

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