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A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

It was a fine day in Masset: August 22, 1969. For the first time in living memory a traditional totem pole was being raised in the community. Surrounded by their...

Standing Up, Standing Out: NFB Brings 23 Films to Hot Docs

Standing Up, Standing Out: NFB Brings 23 Films to Hot Docs

Marking its 80th year, Canada's public producer heads to Hot Docs with 23 films.

Engagé! 21 NFB titles at Hot Docs 2018

Engagé! 21 NFB titles at Hot Docs 2018

While distinct from each other in style and subject, the five new features that the NFB is sending to Hot Docs this year share a common ethical approach to documentary...

Mary Two-Axe Earley: Courtney Montour Investigates Her Fearless Legacy

Mary Two-Axe Earley: Courtney Montour Investigates Her Fearless Legacy

Documentarian Courtney Montour seeks material on Mary Two-Axe Earley and her historic fight on behalf of Indigenous women.

What Walaa Wants

What Walaa Wants

Christy Garland profiles a young female cadet in Palestinian Security Forces in her high-stakes coming-of-age story called What Walaa Wants.

Throat | Tanya Tagaq Meets Dolby Atmos

Throat | Tanya Tagaq Meets Dolby Atmos

Inuk artist Tanya Tagaq possesses one of the fiercest and most arresting voices in contemporary music. Occupying a sonic universe all her own, somewhere between wolf and human, she infuses the throat-singing tradition of her people with fearless new urgency, leaving audiences and critics in a state of gobsmacked awe.

True North: Ryan Sidhoo Explores Canada’s New Game

True North: Ryan Sidhoo Explores Canada’s New Game

Toronto's red-hot youth basketball scene is profiled in True North, an upcoming web series by Ryan Sidhoo.

Ariel Nasr Unspools Afghanistan’s Forbidden Reel

Ariel Nasr Unspools Afghanistan’s Forbidden Reel

The headquarters of Afghan Film occupy unassuming premises, one of many bullet-scared structures in central Kabul, with little indicating its vital role in Afghanistan’s cultural history. Yet it was from...

What is Democracy? Astra Taylor’s Necessary New Doc

What is Democracy? Astra Taylor’s Necessary New Doc

Discover Astra Taylor’s latest project — a documentary essay currently in postproduction at the Ontario Studio under the ambitious title: What is Democracy?

New Voices, Necessary Stories: NFB at Hot Docs 2017

New Voices, Necessary Stories: NFB at Hot Docs 2017

Documentary is Canada’s national art form because the history of our cinema — and, in important ways, the history of our country — has been written in documentary. If you...

Sixties Scoop: The Restorative Power of Documentary

Sixties Scoop: The Restorative Power of Documentary

A collaboration between Saskatoon journalist Betty Ann Adam and director Tasha Hubbard, both Scoop survivors, Birth of a Family chronicles an extraordinary gathering in Banff, where Betty Ann and her three siblings come together for the first time as a family unit.

Hispaniola Mon Amour

Hispaniola Mon Amour

With Hispaniola, a feature doc currently in production, filmmaker Michèle Stephenson returns to the land of her birth to document the fallout of a 2013 ruling by the Dominican courts that retroactively strips citizenship rights from any Haitian-Dominican born after 1929.