A deeply Canadian tale that comes from one of the most ambitious Canadians to never leave Waterloo, Ontario. Blackberry tells the story of the former corporate giant’s rise and fall as they pioneered the way people interact through their phones and created the sparks...
In the wake of the pandemic, one of America's most influential food writers, Ruth Reichel, starts to interview her many contacts in the food world, taking a look at the volatile nature of farming in America and how COVID only exacerbated the problems. There are many...
Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law is one of many films that have documented the tyranny of China in Hong Kong. This time, it’s presented through the eyes and story of Nathan Law, a man who was barely the age of 19 when he first joined the student movement against...
At first, she became obsessed with the teen counter culture that was thriving in New York and Los Angeles. However, after returning from the UK in 2014, she started to document the resistance to the Chinese control over Hong Kong. The defiance began with thousands of...
You have to see it to believe it. I don’t often say that about films, let alone documentaries, but The American Gladiators makes every second of its 170 minutes into a captivating odyssey. Looking at the hit reality competition series that originally aired...
Shere Hite was a revolutionary, not only through her ideas but also her hard work to reach women across America and give them a platform to discuss sex. The nature of the work is very taboo but Hite was certainly not a subtle person. She openly expressed herself and...
In life, when can we be still? That's the question Michael J. Fox had to face in the wake of his diagnosis with Parkinson's. But, as his new documentary Still reveals it was also a question that he tried to avoid for as long as he could. The film delves into...
Twice Colonized follows Inuit activist Aaju Peter, a lawyer who has been fighting for Indigenous rights on an international level to help peel back the damage of colonization and attempting to find solutions regarding how to move forward in the industrialized...
A Mother, Youngsoon follows a mother and son, a decade after they have escaped North Korea and immigrated to South Korea. They are merely one of around 30,000 families who have left the North to come to the South but life for the mother and son is not much...