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
    • 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

Riceboy Sleeps

Riceboy Sleeps Wins Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from TFCA

by Pat Mullen
March 7, 2023January 22, 2026
Features

Riceboy Sleeps, directed by Anthony Shim, wins the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Keep Reading

Kingston Canadian Film Festival Announces 2023 Line-up

by Pat Mullen
February 3, 2023
Festivals

Docs at the 2023 Kingston Canadian Film Festival include The Colour of Ink, To Kill a Tiger, Shelter, Black Ice, and Family of the Forest.

Keep Reading

Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc

by Pat Mullen
January 8, 2023
Industry

Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed wins the Allan King Documentary Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Keep Reading

Eternal Spring to Open Available Light Film Fest

by Pat Mullen
December 21, 2022
Festivals

Eternal Spring to open the 2023 Available Light Film Festival. Whitehorse fest will screen Pleistocene Park, Bones of Crows, and more.

Keep Reading

Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten

by Pat Mullen
December 8, 2022
TIFF

TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list for 2022 includes To Kill a Tiger, Black Ice, and This House on the documentary front along with short docs from Alanis Obomsawin, Claire Sanford, and Guillaume

Keep Reading

Windsor Film Fest Returns as a Cinephile’s Haven

by Pat Mullen
November 2, 2022November 7, 2022
Festivals

Highlights from the 2022 Windsor International Film Festival as the event returns to in-theatre screenings with something for everyone.

Keep Reading

Award Winning Docs Come to Reel Asian Film Fest

by Pat Mullen
October 21, 2022
Festivals

Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival announces films for 2022 line-up including The Grizzlie Truth, All that Breathes, and Riceboy Sleeps.

Keep Reading

Search

Advertisement

E-Newsletter

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

Follow POV


POV is Canada's premiere documentary magazine in print and online.

Advertisement

On Instagram

pov_magazine

Canada's #documentary magazine

Why is #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow the ultimate cul Why is #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow the ultimate cult film? @rockyhorrordocumentary looks at how Rocky Horror became the longest running theatrical release of all time. 

📽 at @tiff_net this week; VOD June 1

🔗 review in bio

#moviereview #documentary #rockyhorror
Fans of #Dahomey will want to keep an eye out for Fans of #Dahomey will want to keep an eye out for #ElephantsAndSquirrels! 🐘🐿

@nidhilvohra reports on this @hotdocs_ selection that follows efforts to repatriate Indigenous Sri Lankan artifacts. 

🔗 review in bio
#moviereview #Documentary #movies
It turns out that soccer can be interesting! ⚽️ F It turns out that soccer can be interesting! ⚽️

From #Cannes, @filmfest_ca reviews #TheMatch about the tense 1986 World Cup showdown between Argentina and England that had implications beyond the field. 

🔗 in bio
📽 Cannes

#soccer #moviereview #cannesfilmfestival
🫶 Brampton 🫶 In #ISeeMyselfInYou, @amreenk_ offer 🫶 Brampton 🫶

In #ISeeMyselfInYou, @amreenk_ offers a love letter to the city's immigrant population. @nidhilvohra spoke with her during @hotdocs_ about representing hometown vibes on film. 

📽 up next at @leveragelens & @regentparkfilmfestiva l/ Open Roof Fest
🔗 interview in bio

#Brampton #filmmaking #home #movies
Much like the recent John Candy documentary, Netfl Much like the recent John Candy documentary, Netflix's Martin Short bio is more likely to make you cry than laugh. 😢

But it invites an important lesson about making good use of the time we have. 

🔗 review in bio
📽 Netflix

#martinshort #moviereview #documentary #Netflix #movies
Billie Eilish is in her concert doc era, but how d Billie Eilish is in her concert doc era, but how does #hitmehardandsoft and its snazzy 3D stack up to the competition?

🔗 review in bio
📽 now in theatres

#BillieEilish #music #moviereview #Documentary
Freshly shucked at @hotdocs_ and playing as @doxaf Freshly shucked at @hotdocs_ and playing as @doxafestival's centerpiece, CONCRETE TURNED TO SAND is an immersive environmental film. 🦪

@nireliofidelio talks with Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora about capturing the flows of intertidal life.

📖 Issue 125
🔗 in bio

#concreteturnedtosand #film #documentary #movies #nature
Taking stock of @hotdocs_ now that this year's fes Taking stock of @hotdocs_ now that this year's festival is wrap! How was your #HotDocs26?

🔗 in bio

📷 Concrete Turned to Sand

#Documentary #hotdocs #film #movies
A family tale that spans four generations, @babyja A family tale that spans four generations, @babyjackfruitbabyguava artfully explores the stories we (don't) tell. 

@nongnhatquang tells us about his intimate first feature at @hotdocs_. 👶🍈

#babyjackfruitbabyguava #documentary #hotdocs26 #hotdocs #filmmaking
Follow Us

Categories

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

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Into the Jaws of the Ogre Review: Iranian Sibling Story Is So Punk
  • Democracy Under Siege Review: Illustrating America’s Plight
  • The Story of Documentary Film (The 1970s) Review: Cousins’ Non-Fiction Chronicle Continues
  • Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Review – Let’s Do the Timewarp Again
  • Elephants & Squirrels Review: Investigating Switzerland’s Role as a Colonizer

CCA
OAC
Government of Ontario

Latest Posts

A musician in an Iranian punk bank holds his guitar up in the air.

Into the Jaws of the Ogre Review: Iranian Sibling Story Is So Punk

May 17, 2026
An editorial cartoon depicts four white people in suits covering a mural of the Washington Capitol Building with white paint.

Democracy Under Siege Review: Illustrating America’s Plight

May 16, 2026

The Story of Documentary Film (The 1970s) Review: Cousins’ Non-Fiction Chronicle Continues

May 16, 2026
Actor Tim Curry appears as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as seen in the documentary Strange Journey. He is a young white man in a brown curly-haired wig, posing with his hand raised holding a cigarette, while wearing a black corset, black arm-length globes, a pearl necklace, and heavy make-up.

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Review – Let’s Do the Timewarp Again

May 15, 2026
Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige with an indigenous mask from the Museum of Cultures, Basel (CH)

Elephants & Squirrels Review: Investigating Switzerland’s Role as a Colonizer

May 14, 2026

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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
    • 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
Go toTop
0 $0.00