Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French…
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Nevertheless, they are ‘Still Here’
Ukrainian U25 Men’s National Team forward Gleb Krivoshapkin distinctly remembers the day his family learned that the Russian army had invaded their city last February….
Experience the trip of a lifetime at the Cinematheque
A documentary about a stage four cancer patient and her journey with medical psilocybin psychotherapy to treat end-of-life distress is coming to the Cinematheque for…
Gimme Some Truth documentary festival returns
Returning for its 13th run, the Dave Barber Cinematheque plays host to the 2022 Gimme Some Truth documentary film festival held from Dec. 7 to…
A small portrait of Cliff Eyland
Cliff is a dreamy, reflective work that follows a series of interviews Eyland gave during the years before his death in 2020
All hail ‘the Queen of Basketball’
The Queen of Basketball by Canadian filmmaker Ben Proudfoot is the inspiring story of Lusia “Lucy” Harris from her childhood in Minter City, Miss. to her induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
What does it mean to be ‘One of Ours’?
Haitian-Canadian director Yasmine Mathurin’s latest documentary, One of Ours, tackles internalized colonialism within Indigenous communities, particularly when it is wielded against one of their own.
One man’s quest for clean oceans
The equivalent of one truckload of garbage is dumped into the ocean every minute. Currently, plastic can be found in 80 per cent of seabirds and it is estimated by the year 2050 plastic will be found in 99 per cent of them. With statistics this staggering, the award-winning documentary Hell or Clean Water is a much-needed alarm bell for the future of the planet’s health.