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DOXA Documentary Festival runs April 30 to May 10

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A black and white image of three Wayana on a boat in the Lawa River, South America. The travellers include an adult mother, a small child in a diaper, and an older man at the back of the boat steering the motor.

Parasisi Trailer: First Look at Hot Docs Film Premiering in Competition

by Pat Mullen
April 14, 2026
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Watch the trailer for Parasisi ahead of its world premiere in Hot Docs International Spectrum Competition on April 24.

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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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Some films demand discussion. #Speechless invites Some films demand discussion. #Speechless invites everyone in. 

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Sometimes you have to make a horror movie to fund Sometimes you have to make a horror movie to fund a documentary. 😱

#SilverScreamers offers a meta look at the state of film financing, plus another reminder that you're never too old to try new things. 

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An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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