Two documentaries screening in Sundance's New Climate program — Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE — shed light on projects to protect land in the …
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Directed by Women
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Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc
Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay's 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really …
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Best of TIFF16: Fien Troch’s Home
In Home, teachers and authority figures don’t skip a beat before upbraiding the teenagers in their charge, but writer-director Fien Troch asks us to …
Yanillys Perez’ TIFF16 Dropbox Award Winner Jeffrey
Yanillys Perez' feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist …
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In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!
Gillian Armstrong's new documentary, Women He's Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind …
Poetry and identity in NFB animated feature Window Horses
In Window Horses, writer-director Ann Marie Fleming gets very specific about the alienation her poet Rosie has experienced as a Chinese-Iranian Canadian, …
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