Brigitte Berman’s latest documentary, The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent, gives us a personal glimpse at Gordon Pinsent’s life as an artist, actor, poet, painter, husband, and father. READ MORE
Prison Dogs
Dirs. Geeta Gandbhir & Perri Peltz
This documentary focuses on 5 inmates in the Puppies Behind Bars program, which involves New York convicts raise and train service dogs for up to three years. Living with the puppies 24/7, the inmates teach the dogs 99 commands, after which the dogs go on to help war veterans with PTSD. READ MORE
Based on real people and events, The People vs. Fritz Bauer focuses on Bauer (Burghart Klaußner) — a German Jew, serving as an attorney general in West Germany in 1957. As attorney general, Bauer’s work included tracking down former Nazi officials. In the process, he is constantly undermined by superiors and colleagues who are still sympathetic to the Third Reich. READ MORE
Theater Of Life
World renowned culinary artist and humanist Massimo Bottura, whose restaurant Osteria Francescana has been voted number one in the world, decided to create a soup kitchen during Milan’s World Fair in 2015. Director Peter Svatek documented the proceedings as sixty of the world’s best chefs joined him to cook for refugees and the homeless of Milan out of the waste food of the Expo. READ MORE
Off The Rails introduces us to Darius McCollum, a New York City man who has been jailed 32 times for impersonating NYC bus drivers and subway conductors. The issue: He was taught the ins and outs of the subway system from childhood by transit workers who adopted him as a sort of ‘mascot’. READ MORE
Orry-Kelly was a Hollywood legend, his costume designs adored by cinema’s greatest leading ladies – but in his home country of Australia his achievements remained unknown. Now, acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong is bringing the legend home and celebrating the life of this extraordinary Aussie in her new film, Women He’s Undressed. READ MORE
There is something to be said for documetaries that bring out the audience’s imagination. Director Jay Cheel accomplishes this and more in his film How To Make A Time Machine, which premiered at Hot Docs this past May.
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Director Taika Waititi brings us another fun film in Hunt For The Wilderpeople, an enjoyably adventure that offers up many laugh-out-loud moments intermingled with great bonding times. READ MORE
Ingrid Veninger, “Canada’s DIY queen of indie filmmaking” is back with her 5th feature He Hated Pigeons and once again she has created another deliberately intimate film, this time a remarkably well-measured tale of love and loss. Her film opened the 14th annual Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) this past Tuesday. The screening featured a live score performance by the incomparable Jane Siberry; an unforgettable screening… READ MORE
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Artscapes
The film follows famed Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides, who has spent his life documenting death, tragedy, and violence. At the age of 9, he acquired his first camera. At that time, he became curiously fixated on capturing crime scenes and accidents. This curiosity led him to a role as an unpaid assistant at a Mexican tabloid when he was 13. Being a fan of American and Mexican cinema, the visuals on-screen shaped his way of seeing the world around him. READ MORE
