Superficially, every war is binary in its construction. There is one side versus another, a dialectic of destruction where one side claims the moral high ground. Rules of engagement are often based
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Trust one of the Netherland’s true auteurs, Heddy Honigmann, to create a film title that works both as a life philosophy and a primer for documentary making. A Peruvian Jew by birth
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It’s hard to believe how famous Helen Keller was during her life. She was a medical miracle: a deaf and blind woman who learned how to communicate so well that she enrolled
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An interview with director Courtney Montour about Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again, honouring the Mohawk activist, and drawing upon the work of Alanis Obomsawin.
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An individual’s effort to make the world a better place can often feel like a drop in the ocean. Not in this case. Hell or Clean Water reminds audiences that one drop
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“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks the narrator towards the end of Lost Boys. A similar question passed through this reviewer’s mind multiple times whilst screening the film. Lost Boys
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“Chinese rock ‘n’ roll is like a rolling egg,” says musician Cui Jian at the end of You Are the Days to Come. “Yet, we have not been broken or harmed. I
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“My body stinks of strawberries and work when I wake up,” says Ashley Solis, the teenager at the heart of the new doc Fruits of Labor. The film follows Solis and her
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In Haiti, the term zo reken (meaning “Shark Bone”) refers both to a local cane alcohol and the popular 4×4 Toyota Land Cruiser that can be seen weaving through the congested streets.
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.
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