Jessea Lu is a shadow under the sea, trying to swim back up to the surface. Yuqi Kang’s new documentary depicts that moment, one of many that captures her participation within the sport that is freestyle diving. Yes, this is not the first documentary about the sport, coming out of the shadow of The Deepest […]
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Lisa Jackson’s latest documentary Wilfred Buck captures several moments in the life of its subject, a Cree astronomer. Taking bits from his memoir, reenactments show moments like a wolf scaring him away so he won’t be part of the Scoop. The general segments showing his past life show him persevering through losing his family members. […]
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Evolution always finds a way… Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that […]
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“We have the songs, we have the stories, but we don’t have the Buffalo” In Indigenous traditions, the Buffalo symbolizes respect, as it gives all parts of itself to sustain the lives of the people, as not to limit its own value, but rather to find balance between itself and the needs of others. Tasha […]
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Many people, I assume, live many lifetimes in one, but that is especially true about poet and mother Staceyann Chin. As a university student in Kingston, Jamaica, she experienced intimidation that targets her as a 2SLGBT+ woman. After that harrowing experience, she moved to New York, eventually writing and performing poetry for people like the […]
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Palestinians, especially according to European colonists in the Apartheid State, are a collective with a political mind. This runs in contrast with films that actually give Palestinians a voice like Firas Khoury’s Alam. The film’s elevator pitch is that its protagonist, Tamer (Mahmood Bakri), starts out as an apolitical person. The teen then wakes up […]
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A female Afghan MP, Zefnoon Safi, looks out the window of her comfortable hotel room in Calgary, Alberta. She watches a flock of birds fly away, an image viewers might associate with a freedom humans don’t have. She is one of a few female Afghan politicians and journalists who had to leave Afghanistan after its […]
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Prepare to unravel more mysteries of The Big Door Prize! The Big Door Prize is the critically acclaimed series from Emmy Award-winning creator and Torontonian David West Read (Schitt’s Creek). Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, The Big Door Prize‘s second season follows the residents of Deerfield. This tima around, the Morpho machine gets them ready […]
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Sometimes love takes a little more than a leap to make it come to fruition… He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track […]
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A favourite from festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, Radu Jude’s new film Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World is a masterclass of multitasking. The film incorporates clips from Communist Era Romanian film Angela Moves On. There, that titular taxi driver (Dorina Lazăr) eats on the road and drives […]
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