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The 2021 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival will showcase the talents of visionary filmmakers from across Atlantic Canada, the country and beyond, from September 16 to 23.Award-winning feature-length documentaries by Indigenous and Acadian crea

20/08/2021 - Georgian director Keti Machavariani's documentary puts the viewer in the shoes of a lady doing sociological surveys in Tbilisi

The fifth edition of the Queer North Film Festival kicks off in downtown Sudbury Thursday. The event will take place at the Sudbury Indie Cinema until Sunday.

Winnipeg Free Press Cinematheque programmer fondly remembered as fosterer of filmmakers, champion of local and Canadian cinema Obituary: Dave Barber By: Randall King | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2021 Save to Read Later Belying his gentle demeanour and a scruffy, unmade-bed personal style, Dave Barber was nothing less than a knight in shining armour to Manitoba and Canada film talent. His death Monday night at the ...

37 películas en 9 intensos días, casi a PCR diaria, entre el caos de una excepcional edición veraniega con normas nuevas y otras reinventadas sobre la marcha, el desastre informático de los primeros días en la reserva de tickets y la temible relajación de los asistentes en los últimos, provocando aglomeraciones, ante la desesperación de los que gritábamos por dentro “¡súbete la mascarilla, por favor!”, cierra una de las mejores ediciones del festival más importante del mundo. Co...

MIFF lifts the lid on its 2021 program, featuring a whopping 283 films Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Words by Talia Rinaldo Melbourne International Film Festival is bringing a huge spread of feature and short films to cinemas and screens at home with this year’s program. Celebrating its 69th edition, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has revealed its 2021 program, with an astonishing lineup of 283 international ...

The effort, which is being called Canadian Cinema – Reignited, started taking shape last year after a conversation between Telefilm executive Francesca Accinelli and "Comic Book Confidential" documentarian Ron Mann bemoaned how some of the countrys seminal movies were "starting to disappear" in the digital era and risked being lost to time. Many older Canadian films have never received a proper digital transfer, leaving them to languish on old video cassette transfers from the 1980s and 1990s...

In his new film Zahavi Sanjavi revisits Iraqi Kurdistan and the situation of the Yazidi people in the ISIS-occupied territories after the 2016 IDFA title The Return. The shocking, heart-breaking and eye-opening documentary world-premiered at Hot Docs and is now playing in Docavivs Beyond the Screen competition. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Our hero is five-year-old Yazidi boy Imad, who was captured by ISIS together with his mother Ghazala and little brother Idan in t...

Greek Documentary Assn. Head Marianna Economou on Growing the Local Industry Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail As the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival winds down, filmmaker and Greek Documentary Association (GDA) president Marianna Economou points to great strides taken by the local industry in recent years, while adding that more support is needed to sustain its growth and development. As the head of the GDA, Economou oversees an organization that was founded in 2013 wit...

Our picks for the best things to do in Toronto on the weekend of June 11, including World Naked Bike Ride, Queer Becoming at TIFF and the return of patios