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A World of Creative Documentaries at IDFA 2025

by Megan Durnford
November 21, 2025
Festivals

Highlights from IDFA 2025 include documentaries like A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Synthetic Sincerity, Flood, All My Sisters, and Memory.

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A husband and wife sit together on a bus. She is resting her head on his shoulder and he looks out the window. They are both white and wearing glasses and in their early 60s.

Walk with Me Review: A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s

by Nidhil Vohra
July 28, 2025
Reviews

Walk with Me documents the life of Charlie Hess after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease when his wife Heidi Levitt becomes his primary caregiver.

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Tamara Segura Opens Familial Wounds in Seguridad

by Rachel Ho
April 25, 2024
Hot Docs/Interviews

An interview with Seguridad director Tamara Segura about revisiting her past and getting her family to discuss painful memories of her father.

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Hiam Abbass and Lina Soualem Explore Family and Memory in Bye Bye Tiberias

by Pat Mullen
September 16, 2023January 9, 2024
Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Bye Bye Tiberias director Lina Soualem and star Hiam Abbass about their documentary on family, memory, and finding home.

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Maite Alberdi on The Eternal Memory: The Year’s Best Love Story

by Pat Mullen
August 17, 2023
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Eternal Memory director Maite Alberdi on telling the enduring love story of Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora.

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The Eternal Memory Review: A Portrait of Unwavering Love

by Pat Mullen
January 23, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

The Mole Agent's Maite Alberdi delivers another touching portrait of aging with a golden years love story in The Eternal Memory.

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Tantura Director Alon Schwarz Talks Memory and Healing

by Jason Gorber
January 24, 2022January 23, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

Tantura offers a metaphorical dig through Israel's painful history and national mythology.

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Night Shot Review: Poetic Justice

by Pat Mullen
November 26, 2020August 22, 2021
Reviews

Night Shot (Visión Nocturna) (Chile, 80 min.) Dir. Carolina Moscoso “I’m very sorry about the situation,” a participant writes, “but I hope your wounds heal outside the law.” This message appears among

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Waxing Poetic

by Pat Mullen
September 6, 2019August 28, 2021
Features/Interviews/TIFF

The Physics of Sorrow is Theodore Ushev's most ambitious and significant project to date as it offers a time capsule for a generation told using an unprecedented animation technique.

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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ is the ‘Seinfeld’ of Documentaries

by Pat Mullen
June 11, 2019August 22, 2021
Reviews

If Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue was about nothing, then Martin Scorsese has made the Seinfeld of documentaries by chronicling it. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is at

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Chef Masaki Saito brings cutting edge realness in Still Single.

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Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about a Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about adapting #BirthofAFamily into #Meadowlarks. What Cdn doc deserves a dramatic treatment next?

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Amanda Parris, Yasmin Mathurin, and Alison Duke talk Black travel and dating in episodes 1 & 2 of the doc series debuting Nov. 28 on @cbcgem. 💻 #documentary #series
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How did they capture the love and laughter of poet How did they capture the love and laughter of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight? We chatted with the team to find out!

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The kids are alright! @nidhilvohra looks at the ar The kids are alright! @nidhilvohra looks at the art of student protest in @theencampments & A Night of kKowing Nothing in our current issue. ✊️

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@adambenzine looks at @cbcdocs' hit series at a moment of transition. 

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Want the story behind the @northernsuperleague? @t Want the story behind the @northernsuperleague? @thepitchdoc_nsl follows the fight to establish a women's pro soccer league in Canada. ⚽️

We chatted with director Michèle Hozer at @windsorfilmfest about her documentary hitting the circuit. 

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Catch LOVE, HAROLD at festivals including @workmanartsto & @windsorfilmfest this week. 

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