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Film review: The Free Ones finds humanity at a wood-processing training program for inmates

The Quebec documentary brings a deep empathy and poetic lensing to a story of hard work and redemption

SCREENJanet SmithMay 14, 2021The Cinematheque, Homepage feature

The Cinematheque offers film lovers free Canadian premiere of Monographs: Video Essays on Asian Cinema, May 14 to 27

Audiovisual film criticism delves into everything from Indonesian horror movies to Vietnamese war movies

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 14, 2021The Cinematheque

DOXA Documentary Film Festival announces 2021 award winners

Here are top docs to take in over the fest’s final weekend

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 14, 2021DOXA, documentary, film, film festival, fests, Homepage feature

REEL Crafted film festival meets the makers

Audiences get to know those who wholly devote their lives to craft-based work at Crafted Vancouver’s online fest

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 12, 2021Crafted Vancouver, REEL Crafted, film, Film Festival, Homepage feature

Film review: Wuhan Wuhan focuses on the humanity at the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak

Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang’s gently paced documentary, now streaming at DOXA, avoids sensationalism

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 11, 2021DOXA, documentary, COVID-19

Film review: Sisters With Transistors celebrates the early female trailblazers of electronic music, at DOXA

Musical mavericks like Daphne Oram, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel laid the groundwork for today’s IDM and ambient sounds

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 10, 2021DOXA

Film review: At DOXA, Summer of Soul's look back at "Black Woodstock" rocks

Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, and more, as Questlove fashions a breathlessly exciting tribute to a concert in Harlem ’69

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2021DOXA

Film review: First Woman is a quietly moving story of a person straining to atone

At the DOXA fest, a recovered drug addict struggles to return to the world

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2021DOXA

Wandering, a Rohingya Story captures daily life in the world’s largest refugee camp, to May 13

The poetic, sobering documentary hears from families forced to flee Myanmar, streams for free at the Cinematheque

SCREENGail JohnsonMay 7, 2021Documentary, The Cinematheque

Les Cowboys Fringants road movie L'Amerique Pleure, as Le Printemps des Rendez-vous streams new francophone films

The Quebec folk-rock group’s new concert-event joins a roster of cinema from around the world

Vancouver filmmakers put epic effort into queer-refugee-sponsorship tale Someone Like Me, at DOXA

Directing duo Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams followed every aspect of their subjects’ lives—right into a pandemic

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 6, 2021DOXA

Film review: Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy takes a compassionate eye to the fentanyl crisis

Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers shares stories of people from her homeland of the Blood Reserve in the new documentary streaming at DOXA

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 6, 2021DOXA, Kímmapiiyipitssini, Tailfeathers, fentanyl

Film review: DOXA’s The Gig Is Up puts a human face to soulless ghost work and the platform economy

Vancouver-based director Shannon Walsh’s documentary reveals the exploitation of global gig workers

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 6, 2021DOXA, Documentary

Stir Q&A: Love: The Last Chapter director moved right into longterm care home to film subjects

Dominique Keller walked the walk to take on ageism with moving new NFB documentary at DOXA

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 6, 2021DOXA

The Big Scary “S” Word traces the stigmatization of socialism in America

At DOXA, filmmaker Yael Bridge takes a deep dive into the U.S.’s most publicly reviled political philosophy

SCREENJanet SmithMay 4, 2021DOXA

Vancouver’s Livona Ellis, Gabrielle Martin, and Kevin Fraser join other leading Black artists from across Canada for new collaborative dance film

TESSEL, a co-commission of Fall For Dance North and Harbourfront Centre, is a national show of unity

SCREEN, DANCEGail JohnsonMay 4, 2021dance, screen, film, Ballet BC, Black artists

In Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche, a daughter crafts a rich and loving audio-visual memorial to a true punk original

At DOXA, director Celeste Bell takes a look back at the late, charismatic X-Ray Spex frontwoman

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 1, 2021DOXA

Koto: The Last Service, a new short documentary showing at DOXA, captures the end of a restaurant's era

The Maeda family’s Japanese eatery in Campbell River was open for 39 years—and was an anchor in the community

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonApril 30, 2021fests, DOXA, Documentary, restaurants, Japanese food, Homepage feature

This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection offers a rare and poetic view into Lesotho, to May 6 via The Cinematheque

Mary Twala hands in her final powerful performance as a woman standing her ground against a dam

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithApril 28, 2021The Cinematheque

Mom Vs. Machine cooks up a mix of biryani, special FX, and brawlin' at Crazy8s

The show manages to go on amid pandemic restrictions at the eight-day filmmaking challenge

SCREENJanet SmithApril 27, 2021Crazy8s, Homepage feature

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