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There Are No Words Wins Best Documentary at Reel Asian

by Pat Mullen
November 6, 2025
Festivals/News

There Are No Words and Montreal, My Beautiful lead the winners at Toronto's Reel Asian International Film Festival.

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An old photograph of a Korean mother and teen daughter, kneeling together by the water. They are smiling.

Min Sook Lee Seeks Her Mother’s Story

by Jason Gorber
October 25, 2025
Features/Interviews/TIFF

An interview with filmmaker Min Sook Lee on the creative process, political choices, and personal emotions that shaped There Are No Words.

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Ashima Review: A Lesson in Not Taking Family for ‘Granite’

by Rachel Ho
November 17, 2024
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Ashima follows young rock climber Ashima Shiraish as she achieves rare feats for a 13-year-old ingenue of the sport.

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Home Court Review: Bouncing From Story to Story

by Rachel Ho
November 16, 2024
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Home Court follows Princeton Tigers basketball star Ashley Crea and the story of her Cambodian family.

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Exclusion: Beyond the Silence Review – Bridging Communal and Cultural Bonds

by Barbara Goslawski
November 15, 2024
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Keira Loughran examines the ongoing impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Exclusion: Beyond the Silence, premiering at Reel Asian.

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A film still from We Will Be Brave showing eight Good Guise members sitting together in a circle during one of their community sessions. It looks similar to a circle therapy session.

How We Will Be Brave Changes the Conversation About Healthy Masculinity

by Rachel Ho
November 28, 2023
Interviews

An interview with We Will Be Brave director Chrisann Hessing about her award-winning documentary that explores conversations about masculinity and mental health post-#MeToo.

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Relics of Love and War Review: Putting Chinese Canadian History on the Record

by Rachel Ho
November 22, 2023
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Keith Lock traces his family history and, in turn, the stories of other Chinese-Canadian families omitted from records in Relics of Love and War.

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Q Review: A Personal Study of Faith and Family

by Alejandra De La Huerta
November 10, 2023
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In Q, Jude Chehab offers a personal study of her mother's relationship to the women's group Qubaysiat and its effect on their family.

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Previewing Reel Asian International Film Festival 2023

by Alejandra De La Huerta
November 8, 2023
Festivals

Reel Asian Artistic Director Aram Siu Wai Collier tells us about some of the documentary highlights at this year's film festival.

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Some Women Review: A Self-Portrait in Transition

by Rachel Ho
November 16, 2022
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'emome Women review: director Quen Wong offers a self-portrait of her journey as a transwoman in Singapore as she sees herself anew.

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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. 👀

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Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! H Summer movie season includes documentaries, too! Here are 10 odysseys, er -- adventure docs to stream for summer. 🌞

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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

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Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast mode Emphasis on co-production? Outdated broadcast models failing filmmakers and audiences?

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It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. ✒️

MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD captures the words and spirit of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

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40 years on, the work of Yungatar Film Collective 40 years on,  the work of Yungatar Film Collective remains a key body of work in Indian activist cinema. ✊️

@nidhilvohra looks at four Yungatar films that document grassroots movements for women’s rights both in domestic spaces and in the workplace.

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Inspired by the release of Ross McElwee's Remake, Inspired by the release of Ross McElwee's Remake, here are some "real movies" (😉) based on documentaries. 

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From burning love for volcanoes to histories house From burning love for volcanoes to histories housed within glaciers, don't miss TIME AND WATER from FIRE OF LOVE director Sara Dosa. 🧊

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Ross McElwee on Remake and Second Takes

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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.

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