Canada
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Spotlight: Documentary
Visions du Réel 2024: Okurimono | Review
Quebec filmmaker Laurence Lévesque unveils a delicate balance between past trauma and present resilience, crafting a poetic ode to the…
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Made Here Film Festival 2024
Made Here Film Festival 2024: Thirty Second Season | Review
Director Charles-Émile LaFrance delicately captures the poignant journey of a man's resilience and rediscovery of life's beauty following the loss…
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Courts d'un soir 2024
Courts d’un soir 2024: Nittaituq | Review
"Nittaituq" delivers a striking and anxious plea, exploring an Inuit community's struggle to preserve its cultural identity amidst the encroaching…
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CPH:DOX 2024
CPH:DOX 2024: Wilfred Buck | Review
"Wilfred Buck," directed by Lisa Jackson, powerfully illuminates the resilient journey of a member of the Opaskwayak Cree people, while…
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Spotlight: Female and Non-Binary Filmmakers
SXSW 2024: Hunting Daze (Jour de Chasse) | Review
Premiering at SXSW 2024, this shocking and head-spinning ‘cabin in the woods’ horror is the directorial debut feature of Who…
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Berlinale 2024
Berlinale 2024: Teaches of Peaches (Panorama) | Review
Teaches of Peaches is a polished homage to the electro-punk trailblazer, offering an intimate glimpse into her life, though it…
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Berlinale 2024
Berlinale 2024: Who By Fire (Generation 14plus) | Review
Philippe Lesage’s new film Who By Fire, presented at the 74th Berlinale in the Generation strand, is a cunning, complex…
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Spotlight: Documentary
Plein(s) Écran(s) 2024: Madeleine (by Raquel Sancinetti) | Review
In a film filled with tenderness and poetry about intergenerational friendship, Raquel Sancinetti transforms her weekly encounters with a centenarian…
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RIDM 2023
RIDM 2023: Afterwards (by Romane Garant Chartrand) | Review
Afterwards, a masterfully executed short film by Romane Garant Chartrand, which premiered at RIDM 2023, sheds light on the brutal…
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RIDM 2023
RIDM 2023: WaaPaKe (Demain) | Review
WaaPaKe, directed by Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin, offers a compelling exploration of the intergenerational impact of residential schools on Indigenous…
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