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RIDM 2016

Review: ‘Brothers of the Night’

by Maurie Alioff
January 19, 2017December 12, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Brothers of the Night immerses you in an off-centre world offering a frank look at young men trying to stay afloat in a sea of contradictions.

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Review: ‘Dark Night’

by Maurie Alioff
January 19, 2017December 27, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, Tim Sutton’s Dark Night is a trance film inspired by mass murder.

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Review: ‘Swagger’

by Maurie Alioff
January 17, 2017December 27, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Swagger isn’t about music, but it features musical moments and highlights a mélange of genres from hip-hop to samba.

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Review: ‘The Great Wall’

by Tyler Prozeniuk
January 4, 2017December 12, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Tadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall provokes curiosity as a doc about the migrant crisis and the fortification European borders, based on a 1917 story by Franz Kafka

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Deborah Stratman: Beneath the visible world

by Tyler Prozeniuk
January 4, 2017December 12, 2021
Features/RIDM

RIDM 2016's retrospective of the films of Deborah Stratman displayed a breadth of techno-aesthetic approaches about landscapes and systems.

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Review: ‘Mrs. B, a North Korean Woman’

by Maurie Alioff
January 4, 2017June 5, 2022
Reviews/RIDM

Korean filmmaker and artist Jero Yun’s Mrs. B, a North Korean Woman traces the complicated, dangerous life of its eponymous protagonist.

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Review: ‘Havarie’

by Tyler Prozeniuk
January 3, 2017January 7, 2022
Reviews/RIDM

Havarie belongs within a broadly defined notion of the essay film genre, and also exhibits a true experimentalism, all while never compromising documentary integrity.

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Review: ‘Raving Iran’

by Maurie Alioff
January 3, 2017June 5, 2022
Reviews/RIDM

Raving Iran gets very touching when we see Anoosh and Arash ecstatically releasing themselves and partygoers during the desert rave and, after a big story turn, in Switzerland. They are “floating,” as

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Review: ‘Cinema Novo’

by Maurie Alioff
January 3, 2017December 18, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Eryk Rocha’s Cinema Novo avoids a pedagogical, talking heads approach to documenting the Brazilian New Wave filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s.

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We chatted with director Michèle Hozer at @windsorfilmfest about her documentary hitting the circuit. 

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@vancityreynolds and @clinhanks tell us why John Candy: I Like Me invites an important conversation about mental health and captures the star's iconic Canadianness. 🇨🇦

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"She was the host of Church St." @therealgoldelox "She was the host of Church St." @therealgoldelox tells us about her #documentary Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon and remembering the life and work of Toronto's beloved drag artist. 

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