As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its fiftieth edition, our writers pick fifty documentaries that helped define the festival in its first five decades.
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TIFF Cinematheque marks 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival with TIFF 50, highlight and films that defined the event.
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Has the form of the city symphony changed in the 21st Century? From Manhatta to My Winnipeg, a tour through cities on film.
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Mark National Canadian Film Day and its 10th anniversary by streaming great documentaries like Nahanni, Self-Portrait, and Paperland.
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.
Keep ReadingCommissioned 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
Keep ReadingPOV presents Canada's "Documentary Essentials": a starter guide of ten short docs and ten features that should help readers explore all the non-fiction that this country had to offer.
Keep ReadingVeteran writer and filmmaker Cole analyzes what makes a doc story work and offers a manifesto on how to make one yourself.
Keep ReadingInternationally acclaimed auteur Guy Maddin shares his impressions of a city that has shaped his life and inspired his first doc, My Winnipeg.
Keep ReadingI discovered the first lesson of TIFF: not only can you not see everything, you cannot be interested in everything or you will go insane.
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