Birth of a Family (Canada, 79 min.) Dir. Tasha Hubbard Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere) A revelatory documentary, Birth of a Family is a family-reunion doc unlike any you’ve seen before.
Keep ReadingThe Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is one of the most startling stories in Canadian history, one of high drama and adventure played out in the gorgeous frozen landscape of
Keep ReadingArguably the first Canadian music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot sees Mi’kmaq singersongwriter Willie Dunn setting his own epic protest ballad to visuals. In Dunn’s song, the biography of legendary 19th-century Blackfoot chief
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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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Why Terre Nash's NFB Oscar winner If You Love this Planet is one of Canada's essential documentaries for its portrait of the harms of nuclear war.
Keep ReadingThe 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
Keep ReadingNails 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.
Keep ReadingDocumentaries 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.
Keep ReadingIn the Oscar-winning Ryan, Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin sit together in a computer-generated cafeteria as they go over Larkin’s past: his artistic achievements, his loves, his brief moments of recognition.
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