Vancouver director Nisha Platzer offers a personal examination of loss and love in back home by looking back at the death of her brother.
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Jennifer Abbott harnesses a new emotion that films about climate change have yet to experience: grief. The Magnitude of All Things moves with the unshakable sensation of grief and loss.
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Keep ReadingThe Whale and the Raven (Canada/Germany, Dir. Mirjam Leuze Recent documentary filmmaking, especially nature documentaries, has been plagued with redundant use of drone images. But when German filmmaker Miriam Leuze uses it
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Keep ReadingWest of the Jordan River (Israel/France, 88 min.) Dir. Amos Gitai In 1982, a renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai visited the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
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Keep ReadingUnarmed Verses (Canada, 85 min.) Dir. Charles Officer The thought experiment called the ship of Theseus asks if a boat remains the same if one removes all of its boards and
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