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20 Days in Mariupol Captures History from the Front Lines

by Jason Gorber
January 27, 2023July 20, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

20 Days in Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov urgently captures Ukraine's unfolding war.

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In Her Hands Directors Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen Capture Afghan Women’s Strength

by Pat Mullen
November 16, 2022
Interviews/TIFF

An interview with In Her Hands directors Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen about profiling young mayor Zarifa Ghafari as she fights for the rights of Afghan women amid the Taliban's resurgence.

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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Review – Film History Revisited

by Pat Mullen
September 18, 2022
Reviews/TIFF

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels sees director Mila Turajic revisit the resistance to the French Occupation in Algeria through an archive of newsreels.

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Shooting War Review: Photographing the Front Lines

by Rachel Ho
May 24, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Patrick Dell observes the art and weight of photojournalism in Shooting War by sharing the experiences of visual reporters who document the atrocities of war.

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Mariupolis 2 Review: Fragments of a Film

by Jason Gorber
May 20, 2022
Festivals/Reviews

Mantas Kvedaravičius's Mariupolis 2, presented at the Cannes Film Festival mere weeks after the director's death, is a collection of the rough footage he left behind.

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A House Made of Splinters Review: Humanity and Heartache

by Pat Mullen
January 26, 2022January 23, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

In A House Made of Splinters, Simon Lereng Wilmont offers a companion to The Distant Barking of Dogs with his look at Ukraine's children.

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The Return: Life After ISIS Review – Or, the Fog of War

by Jason Gorber
May 6, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

Superficially, every war is binary in its construction. There is one side versus another, a dialectic of destruction where one side claims the moral high ground. Rules of engagement are often based

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The Colonel’s Stray Dogs Review: Papa Rambo

by Liam Lacey
April 29, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

Growing up in the “nice leafy London suburb” of Croydon, filmmaker Khalid Shamis says he was uncertain about his ex-pat Libyan father’s work, travel schedule and especially the contents of his off-limits

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Five Short Docs on the Oscar Shortlist

by Pat Mullen Madeline Lines
February 17, 2021August 9, 2021
Reviews

Reviews of the Oscar-shortlisted short docs Hunger Ward, Colette, A Concerto Is a Conversation, Hysterical Girl, and Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa.

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TIFF 2020: Notturno Review

by Pat Mullen
September 14, 2020August 14, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

Notturno is observational cinema at in its most provocative and poetic form. A film doesn’t need any words when the images are so strong.

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