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How True North Captures the Black Power Movement in Canada and Abroad

by Pat Mullen
September 3, 2025
Essays/Interviews/TIFF

An interview with True North director Michèle Stephenson on her documentary about the 1969 occupation at Sir George Williams University and the larger global currents of which it was a part.

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Two people hug amid a rally in the streets of Montreal. Behind them is a street art portrait of Nicholas Gibbs, a 23-year-old Black man.

Night Watches Us – A Father Remembered

by True Daley
August 23, 2025
Features/Interviews

Exploring Night Watches Us and how Stefan Verna sheds light on finding community after loss following the murder of Nicholas Gibbs.

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Absolutely Fabulous: Pierre Dalpé’s Wigstock

by Matthew Hays
December 30, 2024
Photography

Photographer Pierre Dalpé captures the legendary New York drag event Wigstock in his new book that documents drag artists in their element and faces in the crowd.

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Nos Amours: The Saga of the Montreal Expos Review — A Swing and a Miss

by Rachel Ho
May 3, 2024
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The possibility of the return of the Montreal Expos to their home city receives new consideration in Nos Amours: The Saga of the Montreal Expos.

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Dear Jackie Is a Love Letter to Montreal’s Little Burgundy

by Dina Lobo
October 12, 2022
Features

Dear Jackie pays tribute to Black Montrealers with the story of baseball player Jackie Robinson as a hook to explore the community of Little Burgundy.

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Saturday Night Director Rosana Matecki Talks Tango and Leonard Cohen

by Pat Mullen
September 15, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

Rosana Matecki's Saturday Night explores the tango of alienation and inclusion in urban life as the director visits a dance hall through the perspectives of two immigrants.

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Outremont and the Hasidim Review: What’s the Yiddish Word for NIMBY?

by Pat Mullen
October 27, 2020
Reviews

Outremont and the Hasidim (Canada, 52 min.) Dir. Eric Scott What is the Yiddish word for NIMBY? A quick Google search doesn’t quite yield a perfect translation, but “schmuck” captures the term justly. NIMBYs,

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Nostalgia for City Life: Jean-François Lesage on ‘Prayer for a Lost Mitten’

by Pat Mullen
May 29, 2020
Features/Hot Docs

Prayer for a Lost Mitten director Jean-François Lesage discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the forgotten pleasures of urban life, told through the stories of items lost

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RIDM Review: ‘Jongué, A Nomad’s Journey’

by Madeline Lines
November 23, 2019
Reviews

Jongué, A Nomad’s Journey (Jongué, Carnet Nomade) (Canada, 81 min.) Dir. Carlos Ferrand “I wished to make a film like a pop-up book,” said director Carlos Ferrand of his eighth feature film, Jongué, A

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Prime Minster Brian Mulroney appears in a fantastical image. He is pictured from the waist up wearing a flamboyant Liberace-style coat. There is a dazzling background behind him with campaign signs. He looks pale and a bit like a vampire.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney is Matthew Rankin's irreverent docufantasia about Canada's 18th PM.

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