POV: Canada's documentary magazine

  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
See the Best Docs on the Big Screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Lawrence Kasdan

Actor Martin Short is a white man in his 70s with red hair. He is seated for an interview, smiling and leaning in towards the camera, and wearing a dark suit.

Marty, Life Is Short Review: The Art of Lightening Up

by Pat Mullen
May 12, 2026
Reviews

Actor Martin Short receives a surprisingly serious documentary profile in Marty, Life Is Short, which looks at laughter's ability to push through hard times.

Keep Reading

Search

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

E-Newsletter

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

Follow POV

Advertisement

On Instagram

pov_magazine

Canada's #documentary magazine
Cats 🤝 Chris Marker Subscribe for more cat fancy Cats 🤝 Chris Marker Subscribe for more cat fancy in #POV126 coming this fall! 😻 #cats #chrismarker #movies #film
You won't find a deeper dive this summer than @ali You won't find a deeper dive this summer than @alifeilluminatedfilm 🦑 🔗 Link to @filmfest_ca's interview with @tashavanzandt & Dr. Edie Widder in bio. 📽 A Life Illuminated is now playing in select theatres. #ALifeIlluminated #movies #science #oceans #documentary
"Who doesn't like cashmere? Find me one person in "Who doesn't like cashmere? Find me one person in the world that doesn't like cashmere. It's too expensive." - George Costanza, Seinfeld We found one! 🙋‍♂️ 🔗 review link in bio 📽 Brunello: The Gracious Visionary opens in theatres July 24. #moviereview #cashmere #documentary #film #seinfeld
📢 Call out! What are your-must see Cdn docs? Help 📢 Call out! What are your-must see Cdn docs? Help us build a @letterboxd list by adding your favourite Canadian documentary in the comments. (And give as a follow while you're at it!) 📽 🔗 link in bio #cdnfilm #movies #letterboxd #documentary #Canada *this list is a work in progress and is constantly being revised. In some cases, shorts or early broadcast works may simply not be listed on the platform. 🫡
After a career in documentary, @shelleysaywell ope After a career in documentary, @shelleysaywell opens up in her memoir #IfOnlyLove about relationships and experiences that fuelled her passion. @barri.cohen reports on what happens when you start taking stock and seeing patterns in your own life. 📖 Issue 125 🔗 link in bio 📚 Find If Only Love in libraries and bookstores. 📷: Deborah Samuel #books #reading #documentary #interviews
We have our first TIFF docs as athletes like Terry We have our first TIFF docs as athletes like Terry Fox, Rick Hansen, and Tenzing Norgay headline the Galas and Special Presentations, while Lusa and The Pretenders rep music docs. 👀 🔗 link in bio 📷 : Run Terry Run #tiff #tiff26 #Documentary #movies #film
Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! H Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! Here are 10 odysseys, er -- adventure docs to stream for summer. 🌞 #film #movies #documentary #summer #streaming
Only Hollywood movies have second takes. 💔 Ross M Only Hollywood movies have second takes. 💔 Ross McElwee tells us about #Remake, a planned adaptation of #ShermansMarch, and revisiting images of family and friends so many years later. 📽 Remake opens at @tiff_net July 17 📽 Sherman's March screens at @hotdocs_ July 19 🔗 link to interview in bio. #film #movies #documentary
Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast mode Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast models failing filmmakers and audiences? Find out what Canada can learn from the remapping of European documentary! 🇪🇺 ✍️ @d.abbatescianni 📖 Issue 125, out now 🔗 link in bio #filmmaking #documentary #film #movies #Europe
Follow Us

Categories

  • Essays
  • Features
  • Festivals
  • Hot Docs
  • Industry
  • Interviews
  • Lists
  • News
  • Photography
  • Reviews
  • RIDM
  • Sundance
  • TIFF

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund Supports Five Music Docs
  • A Cinematic Road Trip: 10 Docs About Canadian Cities
  • Brunello: The Gracious Visionary Review – Self-Congratulation Is So Last Season
  • TIFF Announces Primetime Line-up Highlighting Episodic Works
  • You Had to Be There Trailer Highlights the Year’s Funniest Doc
See the Best Docs on the Big Screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
CCA
OAC
Government of Ontario

Latest Posts

A woman holds a film clapper and is viewed in silhouette standing before a sunset.

Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund Supports Five Music Docs

July 29, 2026
An archival image shows a group of people standing in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The shot is from a low angle as it observes the people talking and shaking hands as the Peace Tower looms behind them.

A Cinematic Road Trip: 10 Docs About Canadian Cities

July 28, 2026
Fashion mogul Brunello Cucinelli is an Italian man in his early 70s. He is pictured sitting on a bale of hay surrounded by a herd of goats. He is wearing a beige jacket and grey sweater with tan pants. He has grey hair and is smiling.

Brunello: The Gracious Visionary Review – Self-Congratulation Is So Last Season

July 23, 2026

TIFF Announces Primetime Line-up Highlighting Episodic Works

July 23, 2026
A splitscreen image shows an archival image of a 1970s stage production on the left. There are actors crouched together wearing colourful hippie costumes. On the right side, the screen is split into quadrants with four actors giving interviews with a different coloured background, going clockwise as red, yellow, green, and blue.

You Had to Be There Trailer Highlights the Year’s Funniest Doc

July 22, 2026

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

Tags

activism Archive biography Black Stories Canadian film celebrity COVID-19 Documentary Organization of Canada environment experimental family film on film Hot Docs Hot Docs 2016 Hot Docs 2017 Hot Docs 2018 Hot Docs 2019 Hot Docs 2021 Hot Docs 2022 Hot Docs 2023 Hot Docs 2024 Hot Docs 2025 Human Rights hybrid film Indigenous interviews LGBTQ mental health migration music Netflix NFB Oscars Photography politics RIDM Short Docs Sports Sundance TIFF TIFF Docs True Crime TV Women Youth

© All articles copyright Point of View Magazine. No work may be reproduced without our express written consent.
Toronto, ON • Canada

  • Browse Docs By
  • Articles
  • Festivals
  • Issue Archive
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
Go toTop
0 $0.00