Outtakes Intercepted: Resilience through the Barren 23 Jan 202529 Sep 2025 Intercepted is the latest documentary by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. Recipient of the Grand Prize award for the National Feature Competition at the RIDM 2024, Intercepted shows the destruction left…
Festival Spotlights… Spotlight on International Resistance and Resilience for Hot Docs 2024 17 May 202429 Sep 2025 For the Hot Docs 2024 festival, I focused on documentaries centered around resistance and resilience. Now, more than ever, apathy and detachment has become a mode of being. We’re presented…
Festival Spotlights… Violence, Resistance, and Values: Ukrainian Spotlight for Hot Docs 2023 9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023 This year, in the unfortunate circumstances of ongoing war the world has gained access to the Ukrainian documentary cinema, and one will probably see fiction cinema about the Russian invasion…
Coming of Age Come and See: The Trouble Starts with Kids 1 May 202230 Apr 2022 When you grow up in Russia, the Second World War, or how it is referred to there – A Great Patriotic War, is the most popular subject in the media.…
Honour Honouring Memory & Afrofuturist Legacies in Yasuke 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 In every review I’ve read of Netflix’s new release, Yasuke (LeSean Thomas 2021), none has been able to express the cosmic intertwining of friendship, loyalty, and love that spans across…
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