POV: Canada's documentary magazine

  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
See the Best Docs on the Big Screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Reel Asian

A train crosses a bridge that stretches over a river.

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.

Keep Reading
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.

Keep Reading

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

by Rachel Ho
November 17, 2024
Festivals/Reviews

Ashima follows young rock climber Ashima Shiraish as she achieves rare feats for a 13-year-old ingenue of the sport.

Keep Reading

Home Court Review: Bouncing From Story to Story

by Rachel Ho
November 16, 2024
Festivals/Reviews

Home Court follows Princeton Tigers basketball star Ashley Crea and the story of her Cambodian family.

Keep Reading

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

by Barbara Goslawski
November 15, 2024
Festivals/Reviews

Keira Loughran examines the ongoing impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Exclusion: Beyond the Silence, premiering at Reel Asian.

Keep Reading
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.

Keep Reading

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

by Rachel Ho
November 22, 2023
Reviews

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.

Keep Reading

Q Review: A Personal Study of Faith and Family

by Alejandra De La Huerta
November 10, 2023
Reviews

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.

Keep Reading

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.

Keep Reading

Some Women Review: A Self-Portrait in Transition

by Rachel Ho
November 16, 2022
Reviews

'emome Women review: director Quen Wong offers a self-portrait of her journey as a transwoman in Singapore as she sees herself anew.

Keep Reading
1 2 Next

Search

E-Newsletter

Advertisement

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 126: Fall/Winter 2026

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

Follow POV

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

On Instagram

pov_magazine

Canada's #documentary magazine

Drink deep with #LowLiesTheLand. Emanuele Gerosa t Drink deep with #LowLiesTheLand. Emanuele Gerosa tells us about "slowly, slowly" observing hard working hands in Piemonte's wine region. 🍇

📽 Premieres at @tiff_net 
🔗 Interview link in bio
🍷Santé!

#TIFF26 #wine #movies #piemonte
Looking good, Brian! 👀 Pick up a copy of #POV126 Looking good, Brian! 👀

Pick up a copy of #POV126 to read while you're in the pass pickup line at the Market! #tiff26 

#magazines #tiff #brianmulroney
After her acclaimed shorts, Carol Nguyễn delivers After her acclaimed shorts, Carol Nguyễn delivers a confident, deeply moving feature debut with STILL NIGHT, BURNING HOUSE. 

📽: premieres at @tiff_net & @viffest 
📖: Read about it in issue 126!
🔗: link in bio

#Documentary #tiff26 #tiff #stillnightburninghouse #cdnfilm
Call it the art of collaboration. 🍃 THE HUMMINGBI Call it the art of collaboration. 🍃

THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS directors Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull tell us about  being inspired by artist Sara Flores. 

📽 premieres at @tiff_net 
🔗 interview link in bio

#tiff26 #saraflores #thehummingbirdpaintsfragrantsongs #film #art
Authentic on and off the field, #Rapinoe captures Authentic on and off the field, #Rapinoe captures the story of a soccer star who fought for women's equity. ⚽️

@susangcole gets the story from director @rebecahuntt ahead of the film's #TIFF26 premiere!

📽: @tiff_net 
🔗: link in bio

#soccer #meganrapinoe #film
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. 🏎 #TheS Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. 🏎

#TheStuntDriver director Michael Dowse tells us about adapting the NFB doc The Devil at Your Heels and giving the Ken Carter story a dramatic spin with Jay Baruchel.

📽 coming to @tiff_net. In theatres Sept. 25.
🔗 interview link in bio

#movies #tiff26 #tiff #Film
📰 Changes! Hot Docs updates leadership team. Diana 📰 Changes! Hot Docs updates leadership team. Diana Sanchez steps up to president while COH:DOX's Gabrielle Gourd-Mercado joins org as executive director.

🔗 Full story in bio. 

#HotDoc26 #film #festivals #documentary #breaking
Remember #Impressions? 📷 This Canadian photograph Remember #Impressions? 📷

This Canadian photography magazine debuted in 1970 and over a decade ran issues full of eclectic images and editorial vision. 

Read more about the history of the mag:
📖 #POV125
🔗 Now online. Link in bio. 

#photography #magazines #art
The only thing scarier than #TheExorcist is the st The only thing scarier than #TheExorcist is the story behind its sequel. But it's also surprisingly inspiring? 

#BoormanAndTheDevil director David Kittredge tells us about finding hope in a notorious disaster. 

📽 Boorman and the Devil opens in select theatres Aug. 28.

🔗 Link in bio

#movies #horror #filmmaking
Follow Us

Categories

  • Essays
  • Features
  • Festivals
  • Hot Docs
  • Industry
  • Interviews
  • Lists
  • News
  • Photography
  • Reviews
  • RIDM
  • Sundance
  • TIFF

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Rapinoe Review: A Fiercely Authentic Portrait of an Activist/Athlete
  • Low Lies the Land Savours the Pace of Piemonte’s Wine Country
  • Gail Review: Nothing Is Denied Seeing the Band through Her Eyes
  • Don’t Look Back in Anger Review: Bombastic Forgiveness on Tour
  • For Carol Nguyễn, Crying Is Back on the Table

See the Best Docs on the Big Screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
CCA
OAC
Government of Ontario

Latest Posts

Soccer player Megan Rapinoe lies on her back on a red couch. Rapinoe is a white woman with short cropped purple/grey hair and she is wearing a dark blue t-shirt and black sweat pants.

Rapinoe Review: A Fiercely Authentic Portrait of an Activist/Athlete

September 10, 2026
A young Italian man with brown curly hair crouches over a dry patch of earth in a vineyard, holding a handful of white clay.

Low Lies the Land Savours the Pace of Piemonte’s Wine Country

September 10, 2026
A white woman wearing a black t-shirt and black baseball cap, with chains around her neck, rocks out to a concert in a stadium. She is recording a concert with her phone and singing along.

Gail Review: Nothing Is Denied Seeing the Band through Her Eyes

September 10, 2026
Two middle-aged male rock stars shake hands on stage. They are both white men holding guitars. The one on the left is wearing a brown jacket and brown bucket hat, and has a tambourine on his head. The man on the right is wearing blue jeans and a grey collared shirt. The large screen behind them has a red pattern.

Don’t Look Back in Anger Review: Bombastic Forgiveness on Tour

September 10, 2026
A dark photo depicts the silhouette of a man as he walks outside a home. The house has a light on and casts a blue glow.

For Carol Nguyễn, Crying Is Back on the Table

September 9, 2026

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 126: Fall/Winter 2026

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

Tags

activism Archive biography Black Stories Canadian film celebrity COVID-19 Documentary Organization of Canada environment experimental family film on film Hot Docs Hot Docs 2016 Hot Docs 2017 Hot Docs 2018 Hot Docs 2019 Hot Docs 2021 Hot Docs 2022 Hot Docs 2023 Hot Docs 2024 Hot Docs 2025 Human Rights hybrid film Indigenous interviews LGBTQ mental health migration music Netflix NFB Oscars Photography politics RIDM Short Docs Sports Sundance TIFF TIFF Docs True Crime TV Women Youth

© All articles copyright Point of View Magazine. No work may be reproduced without our express written consent.
Toronto, ON • Canada

  • Browse Docs By
  • Articles
  • Festivals
  • Issue Archive
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise

Subscribe!

Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest stories from POV.

Go toTop
0 $0.00