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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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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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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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Our new issue is fresh from the printer and coming soon to a mailbox near you! You can also pick up a copy at the @tiff_net Industry Centre starting tomorrow.

Thank you to @telefilm_canada for sponsoring this issue and our #TIFF50 coverage.

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More #documentary highlights for #TIFF50! Our cou More #documentary highlights for #TIFF50!

Our countdown of the great films that defined the festival's first 50 years continues with:

📽: Shut Up and Sing (TIFF '06)
📽: The Square (TIFF '13)
📽: Faces Places (TIFF '17)
📽: Forbidden Love (TIFF '92)
📽: P4W: Prison For Women (TIFF '84)
📽: Hurt (TIFF '15)
📽: 76 Days (TIFF '20)
📽: My Winnipeg (TIFF '07)
📽: Tabloid (TIFF '10)
📽: No Other Land (TIFF '24)

🔗Get the full list here:
https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

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More #documentary highlights in our look back at # More #documentary highlights in our look back at #TIFF50!

📽: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (TIFF '22)
📽: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (TIFF '93)
📽: The Times of Harvey Milk (TIFF '84)
📽: National Gallery (TIFF '14)
📽: Finding Vivian Maier (TIFF '13)
📽: No Ordinary Man (TIFF '20)
📽: The Stairs (TIFF '16)
📽: Jane (TIFF '17
📽: Shake Hands with the Devil (TIFF '06)
📽: Best Boy (TIFF '79)

🔗FULL LIST: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

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@alan.robert.irwin opens the conversation about me @alan.robert.irwin opens the conversation about mental health in his new film #LoveHarold. Get your first look at the trailer for the doc premiering at @ciffcalgary! (Link in stories) @onf_nfb @52mediainc 

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Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs that helped define the festival's  first 50 years:
📽: Sharkwater (TIFF '06)
📽: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (TIFF '92)
📽: Manufactured Landscapes (TIFF '06)
📽: Hoop Dreams (TIFF '94)
📽: Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (TIFF '15)
📽: No Sad Songs (TIFF '85)
📽: From the Sky Down (TIFF '11)
📽: Attica (TIFF '21)
📽: Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (TIFF '23)
📽: Leviathan (TIFF '85)

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📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Pro 📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Programmer, Hot Docs Festival. Doc Soup series is also set to return in Oct. with Sundance hit #TheLibrarians.

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/gabor-pertic-named-lead-programmer-hot-docs-festival/

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As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 d As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 docs that defined the first 50 years of @tiff_net!

Among the highlights:
📽 Harlan County USA (TIFF '76)
📽 Stop Making Sense (TIFF '84 & '23)
📽 Comic Book Confidential (TIFF '88)
📽 Roger & Me (TIFF '89)
📽 Pina (TIFF '11)
📽 The Act of Killing (TIFF '12)
📽 I Am Not Your Negro (TIFF '16)
📽 @freesolofilm (TIFF '18)
📽 @thebandfilm (TIFF '19)
📽 @tokillatigerdoc (TIFF '22)

What are some of your favourites?

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

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How does a community come together amid tragedy? How does a community come together amid tragedy?

@ibopwebop tells @truedaley about telling the story of Nicholas Gibbs and shedding light on local issues in Montreal. 

Now online from issue #123!

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/night-watches-us-a-father-remembered/

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Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mea Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mean for #documentary? 

@nidhilvohra looks at Gen AI in filmmaking and considers it from the pov of ethics, labour, and environmental impact. 🖲

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/does-generative-artificial-intelligence-represent-reality-in-filmmaking/

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