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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance’

by Marc Glassman
April 20, 2017September 7, 2021
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In Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Alanis Obomsawin skillfully presents the tense situation behind the lines with compassion towards the Indigenous people while not demonising the police and armed forces.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Lonely Boy’

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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The girls just go crazy for Canuck crooner Paul Anka in Lonely Boy. Drawing upon the observational practices of the NFB’s Candid Eye series and appearing within the global movement of cinema

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Manufactured Landscapes’

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes opens with a cinematic coup. An eight-minute tracking shot slowly sweeps across a factory floor in China.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam’

by Jason Anderson
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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s the first Vietnam documentary of its kind, Beryl Fox's The Mills of the Gods inevitably met a divisive reaction, yet the impact of her work can be measured in the prizes

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘My Winnipeg’

by Tyler Prozeniuk
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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Commissioned as a documentary about the director’s prairie hometown, My Winnipeg proceeds from the simple premise that a city is nothing without its ghosts: the mass of memories, legends and fictions that

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Nails’

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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Nails is a doc in four movements. This gorgeously shot and edited Oscar-nominated short by Phillip Borsos tracks the life of a spike in the preindustrial and industrial periods.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘New Shoes’

by Olena Decock
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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In New Shoes, Ann Marie Fleming points a camera at her subject, seated at the kitchen table with some tea. The woman swiftly tells her story of physical and emotional harassment with

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘North of Superior’

by Jason Anderson
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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Understanding the value of a first impression, Graeme Ferguson ensured that IMAX made a doozy of one. This groundbreaking short doc is a true Canadian thrill ride.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Picture of Light’

by Jason Anderson
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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To make the mesmerising Picture of Light, Peter Mettler undertook a quixotic quest to capture one of the natural world’s most famous and dazzling spectacles, the northern lights.

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Pour la suite du monde’

by Marc Glassman
April 20, 2017September 6, 2021
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Documentaries may record quotidian reality but, at their best, they aspire to poetry. There’s an image in Pour la suite du monde, which achieves the clarity and vision of truly transcendent cinema.

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