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My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow streams on MUBI beginning April 3.

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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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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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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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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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by Alexander Mooney
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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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by Alexander Mooney
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How Deep Is Your Love Review: A Resonant Dive into Undersea Mining

by Susan G. Cole
April 27, 2025
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How Deep Is Your Love tracks an exploration designed to determine the impact of resource extraction from the ocean floor.

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Always Review: Meetings with a Young Poet

by Pat Mullen
April 26, 2025
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Always is a years in the making documentary that observes the life of Chinese poet and child prodigy Youbin Gong as he faces his fate.

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Making The Gardener and the Dictator: Love, Guilt, and Family

by Liam Lacey
April 25, 2025
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An interview with The Gardener and the Dictator director Jane Hui Wang about bringing a family story to screen in her documentary.

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by Susan G. Cole
April 24, 2025
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@susangcole chats with @carole_pope and @meemama ahead of @antidivathemovie's premiere at @hotdocs_.

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Do comedy and documentary impulses go hand in hand Do comedy and documentary impulses go hand in hand?

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Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

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