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Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. Oct. 20 - 25.

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Thousands of South Koreans protest together. They are holding signs and banners.

The Seoul Guardians Review: I’ve Got Soul But I’m Not a Soldier

by David Cuevas
May 5, 2026
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Citizen journalists capture the 2024 protests in South Korea inThe Seoul Guardians while looking to a 1980 massacre as inspiration to fight for democracy.

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Women in red dresses walk down a sand dune.

Scarlet Girls Review: Women Heard, But Not Seen, in the Abortion Debate

by Susan G. Cole
May 2, 2026
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The voices of women who survived sexual assaults and other traumas lend their voices to a conversation about abortion rights in Scarlet Girls.

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Starseed Arcturus Ra meditates in a desert. He is a bald Brown man and is wearing a blue robe with yellow markings. The terrain surrounding him is red sand and rock.

Gimme Truth Review: The Truth Is Out There — Like, Really Out There

by Victor Stiff
April 29, 2026
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Gimme Truth explores the traumas and beliefs that lead people to become conspiracists--while letting the audiences make up their own minds.

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Let Our Mountains Live Review: Sámi Herders Stand Strong

by Courtney Small
April 24, 2026
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Sámi reindeer herders go toe to toe with the Norwegian government in Let Our Mountains Live when an energy project sets up shop on their land.

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A boy approaches a circus tent at night. The words Circus Arena appear in red on an arch above the entrance.

Circusboy Review: Wisemanesque View of the Big Top

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2025
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Experience life under the big top by going on the road with 11-year-old Santino for one year with Circus Arena in Circusboy.

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A person is seen from the shoulder up wearing a nuclear radiation protective gear and a breathing mask. There is a blue sky with clouds behind them.

We Live Here Review: Probing Generational Fallout

by Rachel Ho
May 2, 2025
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The lingering effects of nuclear fallout across generations from Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site is considered in the well-meaning documentary We Live Here.

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Two nude men stand on a mountainside with their backsides to the camera. They are looking at a mountain and the man on the right has his hand on the other's buttocks.

My Boyfriend, the Fascist Review: Do Political Opposites Attract?

by Pat Mullen
May 1, 2025
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Matthias Lintner puts his relationship with his boyfriend Sadiel under the microscope to see how politics fare in the game of love in My Boyfriend, the Fascist.

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A man sits facing the sunset. His back is to the camera and he is wearing a white shirt.

Betrayal Review: The Price of Doing What’s Right

by Courtney Small
April 29, 2025
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The downfall of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is told in Betrayal with the story of Cindor Reeves, a family member who fought for peace at a personal cost.

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A Palestinian family sits around a grain milling stone. They are under a tree. The mother and daughter are wearing black and the son in the middle has a yellow shirt.

Aisha’s Story Review: Doc Portrait Coasts on Its Key Ingredient

by Alexander Mooney
April 29, 2025
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Aisha's Story is a personable if slight documentary that observes a Palestinian woman in Baqa’a refugee camp as she makes food from home.

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A man in a neon yellow long-sleeved shirt looks through binoculars in the desert.

Jonah Malak Talks Desert Eagles and Coyotes

by Alexander Mooney
April 29, 2025
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An interview with Spare My Bones, Coyote! director Jonah Malak about capturing the story of a couple that recovers the remains of lost migrants.

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@jess_earnshaw's family viewing: with JACINTA and @jess_earnshaw's family viewing: with JACINTA and now @babydoefilm, the director is developing a fine eye for complicated and nuanced family stories.

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#RunTerryRun opens across Canada today. Our critics say it's a slice of our history that never ceases to inspire. 

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