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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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@gesila.lightplaysociety looks at the complicated historues behind two iconic Vietnam War photos in the documentaries The Stringer and Saigon Story. 

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@imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are @imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are some of the documentary highlights at this year's festival devoted to Indigenous storytellers. 🪶

📽 On now through June 7

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Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast documentary winners! Congratulations to the team and all the winners. 🏆

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Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature!

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The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tom The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tomorrow! Here are some of the #documentary highlights playing at this year's fest, including several Canadian premieres, music docs, and grand adventures. 🏔

📽 May 28 - 31, @bluemtnvillage 

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With purse strings tightening in Canada, must film With purse strings tightening in Canada, must filmmakers look south or to Medici-style patrons to fund their docs?

@adambenzine looks at the Canadian situation in the first of our three-part survey in the state of documentary. 

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WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration of trans boyhood and conversations about mental health. ✨️ 

We chatted with directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos ahead of the film's Canadian premiere at @insideoutfestival. 

📽 in-theatre: May 30; also online

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@insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great li @insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great line up of docs including #Antidiva, which screens May 23.

🔗 Get the full rundown of doc highlights at the fest at POV as #InsideOut runs today through May 31. 🌈

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Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Can Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Cannes docs that @filmfest_ca has been reviewing from the fest. 🌴

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

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