Attica Review: A Vital Doc
Stanley Nelson looks back at the 1971 Attica Prison riot and massive case of police brutality that followed. The doc is a vital contribution that speaks to the ongoing fight against systemic racism.
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Stanley Nelson looks back at the 1971 Attica Prison riot and massive case of police brutality that followed. The doc is a vital contribution that speaks to the ongoing fight against systemic racism.
Highlights from the documentary side of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival include Flee, Julia, The Rescue, Comala, Becoming Cousteau, Attica, and Listening to Kenny G.
Heather Hatch confronts the devastating effects of the Site C dam in British Columbia's Peace River, and the consequences that First Nations communities in the region will suffer at the expense of its creation.
Beba, Rebeca Huntt's raw, tender, and poetic celebration of selfhood, is now streaming on MUBI.
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi win the TIFF People's Choice Award for Documentary again after scooping the prize for Free Solo.
Alanis Obomsawin's Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair salutes the man tasked with chairing the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, and shares his message of hope and peace.
Penny Lane discusses her documentary Listening to Kenny G and the question of who has the right to judge another person's taste.
Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher tour Italy to ask youths how they feel about the life ahead in Futura, a refreshingly open debate about where we want to go.
Academy Award winner Eva Orner chronicles the 2019-2020 Australian wildfires in Burning and asks what we'll do when the world goes up in flames.
Rosana Matecki's Saturday Night explores the tango of alienation and inclusion in urban life as the director visits a dance hall through the perspectives of two immigrants.