Tag: documentary
Available Light 2026 Review: CARIBOU COUNTRY (Wədzįh Nəne'), Exemplary Arthouse Activism
There are oh so many, singular, memorable images in Luke Gleeson’s Wədzįh Nəne’ (aka Caribou Country). The film is so beautiful, and meditative in its execution, that it is almost possible to forget that it is a call to action...
Available Light 2026 Review: BEYOND THE LEFT HAND PATH, Or, A Temple of Set Guide in How to Live a Full Life
James C. Kirby was an intense man. He lived not one life, but several: A priest of the Temple of Set, a hotel chef, a social worker for traumatized men, a craft jeweller, and the former owner of Canada’s...
Sundance 2026 Review: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, Collective Presence Stalls the System
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra documents a spontaneous act of civic resistance in Glasgow, examining how collective presence can momentarily disrupt the mechanisms of state authority.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: RIEFENSTAHL Filmmaker Andres Veiel on Myth, Guilt, Fascist Aesthetics
Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.
Opening This Week: Sam Raimi's SEND HELP, Ann Hui's JULY RHAPSODY, Much More
Plus: 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Shelter,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'Arco,' 'Back to the Past,' 'A Poet.'
Friday One Sheet: FIUME O MORTE!
In his review from Rotterdam (where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize & Tiger Award), our own Martin Kudlac described Fiume O Morte! as, "A playful, warning look at history [...] an exploration of collective memory and the reconstruction of historical narratives at...
DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA 4K Review: Barefoot in a Suit
Spike Lee directs an electrifying film that leaps off the stage in Criterion's sterling new release.
EUROPE'S NEW FACES Review: Harrowing Migrant Experiences
Sam Abbas' documentary details a long journey built on hopes for a better life.
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS Interview: Director Peter Mettler Talks Life, Death, and Meaningful Cycles
I sat down with internationally acclaimed Canadian Swiss filmmaker, Peter Mettler, to discuss his latest hybrid documentary, his seven-hour magnum opus, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2025), which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto...
BURDEN OF DREAMS 4K Review: Werner Herzog vs. The Jungle
Les Blank's documentary, made with Maureen Gosling, magnificently captures a tale of a singular filmmaker's obsession. It's endlessly rewatchable.
CORONER TO THE STARS Review: The Story Behind the Most Controversial Chief Medical Examiner of All Time
It’s said that everyone’s life is a story. And naturally, every story has an ending. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the titular “coroner to the stars,” as he’s been called, knows about both aspects of the story. Quite expertly, though far from simply. Having...
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
Friday One Sheet: EUROPE'S NEW FACES
A smoking vessel on an open sea. A literal and metaphoric image dominates the key art for Sam Abbas' documentary, Europe's New Faces, or "An observation of the migrant experience: From crossing the Mediterranean Sea to settling in Paris-based squats."...
Busan 2025 Review: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, Social Stigma of Suicide Takes Center Stage in Measured Korean Indie
Indie cineaste Lee Kwang-kuk returns to Busan with his fifth film, Beautiful Dreamer, a sensitive tale of social stigma that dials down the wry humour that marked earlier works such as A Matter of Interpretation and A Tiger in Winter....
Toronto 2025 Review: COVER-UP, Takes A Closer Look at Seymour Hersh and The Ongoing American Experiment
“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary ,Cover-up, a career retrospective of the iconic journalist....
Toronto 2025 Review: AKI, An Immersive Season in the North
We can get an impression of a place that we move through as a tourist; though of course that is always mediated by the fact that we are a tourist, and actually living in a place, learning and becoming a part...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE TALE OF SILYAN, A Miracle of Filmmaking
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
RIEFENSTAHL Review: Elegant Doc About One of the Most Controversial Directors of All Times
Andres Veiel's documentary goes deep on infamous director Leni Riefenstahl.
THE PAPER Review: Finding Its LOL Rhythm
Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Tim Key, and Oscar Nuñez star in the faux-doc comedy series, debuting on Peacock TV.
