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Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 speakers pursuing social justice to catch at KDocsFF

Joel Bakan, Alexander von Bismarck among those taking part in talks at the 2021 documentary-film festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMarch 14, 2021Screen, KDocsFF, KDOCS, Kdocs, docum, Joel Bakan, Film Festival

Film review: And Then They Came for Us, with George Takei, tells the human experience of Japanese imprisonment during World War II

The documentary features newly discovered black-and-white images by photojournalist Dorothea Lange

SCREENGail JohnsonMarch 11, 2021KDocsFF, KDOCS, George Takei, Documentary, Kdocs

Film reviews: From South Africa to the Philippines, dissidence and political truth-shaping at KDocsFF

The films Influence, Hong Kong Moments, and A Thousand Cuts wade into the murky stew of misinformation

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 9, 2021KDOCS, KDocsFF, Duterte, HongKong, Documentary, Kdocs

Modern Construction series retraces a decade of boundary-pushing Canadian filmmaking, at The Cinematheque to April 1

Bold yet naturalistic new visions, from the “Downtown Eastside Trilogy” to Anne at 13,000 Ft.

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 9, 2021The Cinematheque

Themes of resistance, freedom, and justice run through KDocsFF

Witnessing the power of documentaries to spur people to action, Janice Morris founded the KPU film festival on social justice

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021Screen, Fests, KDOCS, KDocsFF, KPU, Documentary, Kdocs

Film review: Winter Journey's story of survival in Nazi Germany pushes the documentary form

Authentic-feeling re-enactments meet digitally altered archival footage and photographs

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 7, 2021VJFF

Film review: My Salinger Year flashes back to New York City's romantic literary world, in a pre-online era

Memoir of young woman’s work at an agency has surface charms, but lacks deeper interior life

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 6, 2021VIFF

Passages, about five women on a gruelling Nunavik expedition, screens at VIWFF, to March 14

The feature-length documentary follows a journey of adversity, discovery

Film review: Subversively fun Kiss Me Kosher sets love amid a powder keg

Israeli-Palestinian tensions and intergenerational trauma set the unlikely backdrop to romantic comedy at VJFF

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 3, 2021VJFF

Film review: They Ain't Ready for Me paints a vivid portrait of Tamar Manasseh's fight to save her neighbourhood

Heartwarming story of rabbinical student puts viewer at street level in Chicago’s South Side

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 3, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

Film review: Here We Are crafts tender, layered story of father-and-son bond

Exploring autism, the parental role, and the need to let go

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 2, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

Jessie Anthony's Brother, I Cry continues to make an impact at Vancouver Women in Film Festival

Breakout Indigenous filmmaker drew from personal experience for film about drug addiction

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 2, 2021VIFF, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

Breaking Bread documentary digs into food as a bridge between Arabs and Jews

Playing at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, the film hears from chefs behind Israel’s A-Sham Arab Food Festival

Film review: Asia's quietly devastating story of a teen and her mother is Vancouver Jewish Film Festival standout

Strong performances drive aching tale of two people who don’t realize they need each other

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 1, 2021VJFF, Vancouver Jewish Film Festival

Film review: You Will Die at Twenty takes a poetically allegorical journey into remote Sudan

Strong performances and dreamlike cinematography bring to life a story about fate

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 1, 2021The Cinematheque

BC cultural leaders put forward suggestions to provincial government for safe re-opening of cinemas, theatres amid pandemic restrictions

Professional Performing Arts Venues and Independent Cinemas hopes for reclassification, cooperative approach to operating safely anew

Film review: Test Pattern takes a taut and riveting look at the fallout from sexual assault

Race, class, and gender play subtly into a film that forces us to readjust our preconceptions

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 22, 2021The Cinematheque

Film review: Supernova takes a beautifully nuanced look at aging, loyalty, and love

Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth find a quiet honesty around the subject of dementia

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2021VIFF, Screen

Us: A Black Peoples Month Festival premieres "Legacy", about the migrant crisis

Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist Mariam Barry’s work centres on modern African youth

Creators of new animated TV show The Great North to speak at VIFF, February 23 at 6 pm

Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin were the writing forces behind Bob’s Burgers

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2021VIFF, what's stirring

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