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I Dreamed His Name Review: A Personal, If Muddled, Elegy for the Disappeared

by Alexander Mooney
May 3, 2025
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A daughter goes searching for her father, who vanished 30 years prior amid Colombia's history of forced disappearances in I Dreamed His Name.

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An Indian man and his elderly mother stand in a poppy field. The flowers have not yet bloomed. He has his hand on his chest while speaking to her.

I, Poppy Review: A Mother, a Son, and a History of Corruption

by Jason Gorber
May 2, 2025
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I, Poppy examines a field of historic injustice and corruption in India through one family's struggle.

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Neshoma Review: Letters from Wartime

by Marc Glassman
May 2, 2025
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Fictional letters craft stories of Jewish life during wartime as Neshoma examines Dutch lives lost during the Holocaust.

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An aging Iranian family poses for a portrait. Two elderly parents sit on screen left with the father in a wheelchair and the mother seated beside her daughter and son-in-law. The son stands behind the father with his arms crossed.

Heritage Review: Finding Beauty in Sacrifice

by Rachel Ho
May 2, 2025
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Heritage, a portrait of two Iranian siblings caring for their ailing parents, makes the ordinary extraordinary.

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The Secret Lives of My Three Men Review: A Family Act

by Barbara Goslawski
May 2, 2025
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A filmmaker explores layers of family history and Brazilian history through performance, vérité documentary, photos, and animation in The Secret Lives of My Three Men.

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Sasha Wortzel Talks River of Grass and Dreaming of Marjory Stoneman Douglas

by Pat Mullen
May 1, 2025
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An interview with Sasha Wortzel about her documentary River of Grass and bringing the work of Marjory Stoneman Douglas to screen in this lyrical essay.

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Unwelcomed Review: Documenting a Chilly Reception for Venezuelan Migrants

by Jason Gorber
April 30, 2025
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Unwelcomed shares the plight of Venezuelans escaping to Chile with the promise of better prospects, only to find hostility from locals.

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King Matt the First Review: The Family that Films Together, Grows Together

by Pat Mullen
April 29, 2025
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King Matt the First is a lyrical documentary with free-flowing examination of childhood innocence and what it means to watch your kids grow up.

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Walls – Akinni Inuk Review: Empathy for Life

by Pat Mullen
April 26, 2025
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Filmmaker Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg befriends Ruth, a Greelandic woman serving an indeterminate prison sentence, in Walls – Akinni Inuk.

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Streets Loud with Echoes Review: Activists Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

by Jason Gorber
May 1, 2024
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The death of figure skater Denis Ten sparks a wave of protests against corruption in Kazakhstan in Streets Loud with Echoes.

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Last 'dance! 🌞🕺 @mullenpat & @filmfest_ca report Last 'dance! 🌞🕺

@mullenpat & @filmfest_ca report on the #documentary side of #Sundance as the festival says goodbye to Park City.

Highlights from the festival include @nuisance_bear_film, @onceuponatimeinharlem2026, Time and Water, @americandoctorfilm, and more!

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Our team is still going strong with #Sundance! Vis Our team is still going strong with #Sundance! Visit POV for more highlights, including:

🌞 Time and Water
🌞 Kikuyu Land
🌞 One in a Million
🌞 Closure
🌞 The Lake
🌞 TheyDream
🌞 All About the Money
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Sundance mid-point! 🌞🕺 Our team is reporting on t Sundance mid-point! 🌞🕺

Our team is reporting on the #documentary side from Park City. Visit POV to read about these five (and others!) in our reviews and interviews so far:
📽 American Doctor
📽 Ghost in the Machine
📽 Once Upon a Time in Harlem 
📽 Birds of War
📽 Nuisance Bear 
📽 Barbara Forever
📽 Sentient 
📽 Soul Patrol
📽 To Hold a Mountain
📽 Hanging by a Wire

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They're going for gold! But first, Canada's Olympi They're going for gold! But first, Canada's Olympic duo Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier stop by to discuss their Netflix doc Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing. ⛸️

💻: On Netflix Feb. 1
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#PiperAndPaul #PiperGilles #PaulPoirier #skating  #netflix
How is Fred Wiseman as a scene partner? We asked J How is Fred Wiseman as a scene partner? We asked Jodie Foster to find out!

Read what Foster and her A PRIVATE LIFE director Rebecca Zlotowski had to say about Wiseman's scene-stealing cameo in the French dramedy. 

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📽: A Private Life is now in theatres. 

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Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees! 🏆

Best Documentary Feature:
✉️ The Alabama Solution 
✉️ Come See Me in the Good Light
✉️ Cutting through Rocks
✉️ Mr. Nobody against Putin
✉️ The Perfect Neighbor

Best Documentary Short:
✉️ All the Empty Rooms
✉️ Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
✉️ Children No More: "Were and Gone"
✉️ The Devil Is Busy
✉️ perfectly a strangeness 🫏

Best Song 
✉️ "Dear Me" - Diane Warren: Relentless 
✉️ "Sweet Dreams of Joy" Viva Verdi

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#Oscars #OscarNoms #movies #film
Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch fest Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch festival favourite #TheGardenerAndTheDictator this weekend as Jane Hui Wang shares her family story.

🎟: use HDCxGD20 to save 20% on tickets!
📆: Jan 18, 7:00 PM 
📰: Read more in Liam Lacey's interview with Wang! (Link in bio.)

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Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Rödlöga, Sweden at the world premiere of Sweet Störy at @psfilmfest. Here, they share their favourite sweets in this story of cross-cultural cooking. 🌴

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We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage rolling including the world premiere of Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story! Stay tuned for more. 

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