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Sundance Announces Short Documentaries in Competition

by Pat Mullen
December 15, 2025
News/Sundance

Sundance shorts line-up includes documentaries by Ben Proudfoot,, Stephen Curry, Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre, and Liza Mandelup.

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Now Streaming: A Community Comes Together in Night Watches Us

by POV Staff
December 12, 2025
Features

Now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, Night Watches Us see members of Montreal's Black community come together in the aftermath of violence.

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Wavelengths’ Slightest Pretense Boasts the Daring Artistry that Festivals Deserve

by Alexander Mooney
September 14, 2025
Reviews/TIFF

TIFF Wavelenghts' Slightest Pretense includes short works by Blake Williams, Fredj Mouassa, Freidl vom Gröller, Eri Saito, Björn Kammerer, and Basma al-Sharif.

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TIFF Wavelengths’ “Into the Blue” Invites Cinephiles to Take the Plunge

by Alexander Mooney
September 11, 2025
Reviews/TIFF

The short film series Into the Blue inspires cinephiles to explore new waters in the Wavelengths series of the Toronto International Film Festival.

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TIFF Wavelengths’ “Maps of Traces” Is a Series of Disjointed Contrasts

by Alexander Mooney
September 8, 2025
Reviews/TIFF

There’s a conceptual gap at the centre of Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces, which feels oddly disjointed for TIFF's experimental programme.

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TIFF Short Cuts Showcases a Diverse Range of Docs

by Pat Mullen
August 8, 2025August 25, 2025
Features/TIFF

TIFF Short Cuts programmers Mariam Zaidi and Sonja Baksa preview the documentary and animated highlights at this year's festival.

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TIFF Announces Wavelengths Experimental Slate for 2025 Festival

by Pat Mullen
August 8, 2025September 24, 2025
News/TIFF

TIFF announces Wavelengths selections for 2025 festival, including Khalil Joseph's BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions and Rhayne Vermette's Levers.

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A speaker addresses an audience from a stage in a darkened theatre. The screen advertises a pitch competition and the logo for Lunenburg Doc Fest appears in lights on the theatre wall.

Lunenburg Doc Fest Opens Applications for $20K Pitch Contest

by Nidhil Vohra
July 24, 2025
Industry

Lunenburg Doc Fest has opened applications for their pitch contest for short documentaries by underrepresented Atlantic Canadians.

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Now Streaming: King’s Court Visualizes the Phrase “Ball Is Life”

by Nidhil Vohra
June 17, 2025
Features

Now streaming from the NFB, King's Court amplifies a Toronto past time where communities gather on the court and the winner keeps the crown by holding court.

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Now Streaming: My Friend the Green Horse Is Alanis Obomsawin’s Ode to Nature

by Nidhil Vohra
June 9, 2025
Features

Now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, Alanis Obomsawin's My Friend the Green Horse inspires us to reconnect with our natural world.

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

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What stories exist outside the frame? 📷 @gesila.l What stories exist outside the frame? 📷

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

📖 Issue 124

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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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🔗 Festival preview/ links to reviews in bio

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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. 🏆

🔗 Get the full list at povmagazine.com 

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

🔗 visit povmagazine.com for the full list of documentary winners. 

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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 

#bmfm2026 #bluemountain #movies #filmfestivals
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

🔗 link in bio

#whatwillibecome #Documentary #film #InsideOut #mentalhealth
@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. 🌈

#film #festivals #Toronto
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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CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

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