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DOXA Festival to Open with Aisha’s Story

by Pat Mullen
April 4, 2025
Festivals/News

Vancouver's DOXA Documentary Festival announces 2025 line-up, including Aisha's Story as opening night and Saints and Warriors as closing night.

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Gianluca Matarrese Talks GEN_ and the Politics of Intimacy

by Pat Mullen
January 24, 2025
Features/Interviews/Sundance

An interview with Gen_ director Gianluca Matarrese about his Sundance documentary that observes a Milanese doctor dedicated to fertility and trans rights.

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Here Comes Sundance 2025: 10 Docs Atop Our Watch List

by Pat Mullen
January 21, 2025January 25, 2025
Sundance

Documentary highlights at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Come See Me in the Good Light, Endless Cookie, Speak, and 2000 Meters to Andriivka.

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What does it mean to graduate from a university wh What does it mean to graduate from a university while students protest for human rights and the institutions issuing their diplomas fail to hear their concerns? @nidhilvohra offers a personal reflection on #TheEncampments and graduating amid a movement. 🔗: povmagazine.com 📸: Nidhil Vohra #documentary #film #classof2025
If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽 In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction! 📰: Issue 123, on stands now 🔗: povmagazine.com #documentary #vr #gaming #movies #film
Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪 Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_. #EndlessCookie #movies #dogs #film #animation #documentary #Shamattawa
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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 🩰 And more! The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
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. 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question: What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025? a) Cactus Pears b) Baby c) Sauna d) Outerlands Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup! 📨 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. #InsideOut #Speak #movies #Toronto #LGBTQ #gaytoronto #film #contests #queer #documentary
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.) #hotdocs25 #hotdocs #Documentary #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #EndlessCookie
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! #HotDocs25 #hotdocs #Documentary #film #movies
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June 27, 2025
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