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Making ‘The Mission’

by Kevin Nikkel
August 10, 2026
Features

Filmmaker Kevin Nikkel reflects observing the works of Winnipeg's Siloam Mission and seeing the larger picture amid Canada's housing crisis.

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Now Streaming: A Man Imagined Intimately Observes Life on the Streets

by POV Staff
February 6, 2025
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A Man Imagined, now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, offers a vérité portrait of Lloyd, an unhoused man in Montreal.

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A Man Imagined Review: Unhoused in the City

by Matthew Hays
May 7, 2024
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Lloyd, a man living on the streets in Montreal, serves as our guide in the experimental non-fiction character study A Man Imagined.

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A Bullet Pulling Thread Review: Healing One Stitch at a Time

by Pat Mullen
December 7, 2023
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A Bullet Pulling Thread follows quilter Marilyn Farquhar as she raises awareness about her brother's death and conversations about mental health.

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Srđan Keča on Museum of the Revolution and Documenting Paradise Lost

by Pat Mullen
May 16, 2022
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An interview with Museum of the Revolution director Srdan Keca about his documentary that explores an abandoned monument of hope and the lives of those within.

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His Name Is Ray Review: Seen from the Other Side

by Pat Mullen
May 19, 2021
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Meet Raymond Martin, or Ray, as everybody calls him. Ray lives in Toronto. The closest thing to a fixed address that Ray has is the intersection of Lakeshore Boulevard and Jameson Avenue

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‘Theater of Life’: feeding body and soul

by Daniel Glassman
December 1, 2016
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Peter Svatek's Theater of Life takes audiences inside Refettorio Ambrosiano, a soup kitchen in Milan established by internationally renowned chef Massimo Bottura where food waste feeds the homeless with signature gourmet cuisine.

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Review: ‘A Dog’s Life’

by Pat Mullen
May 1, 2016
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Hélène Choquette gives a down-to-earth and sincerely humane portrait of the nation’s homeless in A Dog’s Life.

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On HomelessNation.org

by Peter Wintonick
April 1, 2007
Features

A prime example of ‘docu-cratic’ media making is HomelessNation.org, an interactive documentary engaging several thousand homeless voices across Canada.

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