The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs.
Women Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Visions du Réel Review: Pauline Julier’s documentary Way Beyond goes inside CERN
Pauline Julier’s 60-minute documentary Way Beyond takes us inside CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) to follow the planning process for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) projec
Grace Glowicki on the strange experiments of her directorial debut, Tito
After her Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best First Feature, we spoke with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about Tito, her oddball directorial debut.
HotDocs Review: Who We Are: Chronicle of Racism in America
In the documentary Who We Are: Chronicle of Racism in America, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffrey Robinson guides us through the history of racism in America through primary documents and site visits both personal and political.
HotDocs Review: One of Ours explores identity under colonialism
One of Ours is the story of Josiah Wilson, a Black twentysomething born in Haiti where he was adopted by a pair of Canadians — a white mother and an Indigenous father — as he navigates his identity.
Everything in the End: Mylissa Fitzsimmons on making her no-budget feature debut
Mylissa Fitzsimmons tells us how she made her beautiful, apocalyptic debut feature, Everything in the End, in Iceland with four crew members and only $30,000.