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The film's director purposefully avoids the subjects’ faces in order to keep viewers' attention on their tone and memories of past experiences.

10/05/2022 - Shameela Seedat follows a group of aspiring lawyers competing at the annual African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

10/05/2022 - Hot Docs’ Emerging International Filmmaker Award winner takes a brief look at the past and swiftly moves on to the future

10/05/2022 - The third film by Pauline Beugnies is a documentary that looks at the effects of the infamous Dutroux case on Belgian society, especially people who were kids at the time

The 2022 Hot Docs festival wrapped up yesterday (May 9) with the announcement of this year’s audience award winners, following the juried awards presentation on May 6. Jason Loftus‘ feature-length documentary Eternal Spring ...

Newly released emails provide fresh insight into how some of the highest ranking members of the RCMP viewed the work of journalists covering a conflict on Wetsuweten territory.

Roe vs. Wade in danger, watching ‘Still Working 9 to 5’ is like déjà what the effing hell?

After announcing its intention to put an added focus on original Canadian productions, Amazon highlighted its north-of-the-border slate with its newest docuseries, The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith, which premiered at this year’s ...

04/05/2022 - Marek Kozakiewicz’s documentary follows the discreet struggle of a couple living in a prying and viscerally homophobic society

03/05/2022 - Lithuanian director Emilija Škarnulytė's immersive, highly technological documentary deals with nuclear waste in juxtaposition with what humanity has already buried throughout the millennia