Category: Woman documents the long history of demeaning sex checks and now testosterone level tests that have put labels on female athletes with naturally high androgen levels. Like A Common Goal, it uses the sport of track to look at the athletes who have been diminished and questioned because of the unique abilities that help…
Just because two people are from the same place, it does not mean they?ve shared the same experience. Set in Toronto, Ontario, Tehranto tells the story of Sharon (Mo Zeighami), an artist in Richmond Hill, Ontario who has been forced into a real estate job by her parents. Having grown up in Canada, Sharon has become impartial…
A Common Goal is a documentary film following the Arab players on the Israel National Football team. The film, like the others premiering at the Canadian Sport Film Festival, uses the fame and excitement of sport to analyze the deeper systematic issues they highlight. For A Common Goal, this involves looking at Israel?s history of…
What do you do with eleven drunken sailors ear-lai in the morning? when they wake up in the modern world? Directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, Fisherman?s Friends: One and All is a joyful musical experience that anyone can enjoy. Based on the amazing true story of this band of shantyman that achieves unexpected success, there…
This Black Friday, the best holiday deal you’re going to find is on Disney+. Written and directed by James Gunn, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special begins as the Guardians wonder how they can help Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). As the Terran celebration known as ?Christmas? approaches, they notice that he?s hardly in the holiday spirit….
?It?s white women?s niceness that is killing us all.? A group of women sit around a dining room table to break bread and talk. But it won?t be an easy or pleasant conversation. That is because it will strive to be an honest conversation about race in America. Deconstructing Karen, a documentary by director Patty…
?I?m full of shit. Pray for me.? Godland, written and directed by Hlynur P?lmason, has an interesting ?inspired by? designation. We?re told that a box of old photographic plates was found in Iceland, and the story is inspired by those early photos. The story that develops from those plates is filled with light and darkness,…
Death comes to us all throughout our lives. It can be frightening. It can be a time of sharing love. It can also be one of the most intimate times in people?s lives. In Last Flight Home, documentarian Ondi Timoner turns her camera on her family during the final days of her father Eli?s life….
Based on the book,?Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice?by Adam Makos, Devotion is a true story about fighter pilots Jesse Brown (Johnathan Majors) and Tom Hudner (Glen Powell) on their missions during the Korean War. The film highlights the camaraderie between the pilots (one of whom includes Joe Jonas!), and we see…
Featuring the voice talent of Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union and Lucy Liu, Strange World follows three generations of an explorer family, the Clades, as they try to improve, and then save, their land of Avalonia. Jaeger Clade (Quaid) is the brawny, always-looking-for-an-adventure, OG Clade explorer who has made it his sole…
