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KDocsFF reviews: Engrossing Backlash unmasks cyberbullying against women; The Cartel Project peels away a cover up; and more

The Doctrine of Recovery spotlights Indigenous resistance; The Happy Worker probes the modern workplace; Navalny unfolds like a thriller

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 22, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 highlights of KDocsFF 2023

The social-justice film festival returns in person with its largest run to date

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 17, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival, KPU

At KDocsFF, The YouTube Effect explores the streaming site’s lack of regulation

Alex Winter’s documentary about the power and perils of the Google-owned tech behemoth has its Canadian premiere at the social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 13, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival

To Kill a Tiger takes a powerful look at one father's fight against sexual violence in India, at VIFF till February 16

Documentary details the struggle for justice in a village where a child was viciously assaulted

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, NFB

La Rockeuse du Désert profiles Algeria's reigning female rocker, at The Cinematheque on February 12

Rendez-Vous French Film Festival matinee features Q&A with Quebec codirector Sarah Nacer

KDocsFF 2023 presents two double features about Indigenous governance, history, and resistance

Films’ directors will take part in discussions at Vancouver’s premier social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2023Partner Content, KDocsFF

Film review: Chien Blanc poses hard questions about white allyship and whether racism can be "unlearned"

Film is based on the true 1960s story of Romain Gary and Jean Seberg, and their struggles to retrain a dog bred to attack Black people

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2023Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, VISIONS OUEST, VIFF

Film reviews: Saint Omer takes an enigmatic look at courtroom drama, while Descendant plunges into a modern-day search for a slave ship

Both films, part of Black History Month screenings at VIFF Centre, untangle true events

KDocsFF 2023 presents Vancouver premiere of Oscar-nominated documentary Navalny

Also showing at Metro Vancouver's premier social justice documentary film festival: Rebellion, nominated for a BAFTA

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 30, 2023Partner Content

Tales From the Gimli Hospital sees 4K redux, plus more Guy Maddin greatness in Celluloid Dreamland, at The Cinematheque to February 20

Essentials like My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music In the World share space with lesser-known oddball triumphs like Careful

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2023The Cinematheque, Guy Maddin

New B.C. documentary Part of the Pack looks at the impacts of human contact with wolves

Those who succumb to the “call of the wild” may be further endangering animals already feeling the squeeze of urban development

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, wolves

In Haiti Betrayed, B.C. documentary filmmaker confronts impacts of Canada's foreign policy

Writer-director-producer Elaine Briere examines the role Canada played in the 2004 coup in the world’s first free Black republic, and much more

SCREENGail JohnsonJanuary 25, 2023documentary, VIFF Centre, Elaine Briere, Haiti

VIFF kicks off PANTHEON greatest film series with Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, January 22

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 feminist masterpiece launches yearlong series of screenings and talks on the third Sunday of each month

SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 19, 2023Partner Content, VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

Film reviews: Michael Roemer retrospective explores broken family bonds, isolation, and civil-rights era

At The Cinematheque, Nothing But a Man and Vengeance Is Mine reveal an overlooked American master

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2023The Cinematheque

Film review: Women Talking takes a stark yet deep look at the power of words

Strong performances as females in a religious colony find their voices amid sexual assaults

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2023Sarah Polley, Women Talking

The Cinematheque presents major Guy Maddin retrospective

Series features all 12 feature-length films by the Canadian cult icon

SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 13, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

In hyper-stylized Door Mouse, Avan Jogia pays tribute to Vancouver's grittier side

Star’s directorial debut sets dark issues of drugs and missing women inside a neo-noir fairy tale

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2023Avan Jogia, VIFF, VIFF Centre

KDocsFF tickets go on sale January 5, with 25 social-justice documentaries on offer

Festival runs February 22 to 26 at VIFF Centre for its biggest festival yet

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 5, 2023KDocsFF, KDOCS, VIFF Centre

2022 in review: Women took a starring role in many of the year's most compelling movies

From complex character portraits like Tár and Emily the Criminal to genre-busting works like The Wonder and Everything Everywhere All at Once, female-centric film ruled

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 30, 20222022 in review

Beyond Hiroshima, Mon Amour: Highlights of The Cinematheque's celebration of French art film original Alain Resnais, to January 4

Seminal documentary Night and Fog, and sci-fi trip Je t’aime, je t’aime amid the offerings

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 28, 2022The Cinematheque

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