Review: Vancouver: No Fixed Address and Miss Kiet's Children at DOXA
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Two more previews for y'all! Both exciting reads, and both tricky films. I hope your festival Must-See lists are subsequently bulked.
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In Conversation with Cat Mills
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Cat Mills' short film FIXED! is one of our must-sees in this year's DOXA program. If you're invested in urban sustainability and community engagement, here's your film. “Repair Cafés bring together people from all walks of life, sticks them in the same room, and provides an excuse to help one another. People will be drawn to the cafés for financial reasons (it's free!), environmental reasons (keep items out of the landfill) and technical reasons (playing with technology—huzzah!), but regardless of the reasons, it is a safe place to get to know other people. It brings us together.
Read MoreReview: The Road Movie at DOXA
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Another DOXA preview, just in time for the festival's opening night! Quick and to the point, this one is. Writer Ljudmila Petrovic reviews Dmitrii Kalashnikov's latest feature, The Road Movie, and muses over its portrayal of Eastern Europeans and the drama of Russia's icy roads. Dark and comedic? Yes, you can be sure of that.
Read MoreReview: Mump and Smoot in Anything
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Theatre of the absurd, here we come! Karen Hines' Mump and Smoot in Anything mixes horror, comedy, sentiment, and a few genres in between. Sounds like a show to see, if you ask me. “In verbal absurdities and physical slapstick, the show is bonkers—but also fascinating. The performance is like the game Cards Against Humanity; fishing for amusement amongst the nonsense.
Read MoreReview: Dolores and City Voices at DOXA
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It's that time of year again, folks! The stellar DOXA Documentary Film Festival is back with another finely curated line up—a cinematic smorgasbord, if you will. The fest doesn't officially start until May 4, but we've got a few previews in the works, to prime you all for what's to come. If you're at a loss for film picks, look no further! Our first two suggestions are here!
Read MoreReview: Refuge
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“Refuge does the important work of highlighting the uncertainty and suffering that comes with certain types of global circumstance and mobility. The piece was humorous and touching, entertaining in it's own right, but it also solicited from its audience a deeper empathy than perhaps many of us are comfortable getting in touch with. It is vulnerable to open oneself to the hardships that others cannot avoid, to become invested in outcomes over which we have little overall control—but it is worthwhile.”
Read MoreReview: The Refugee Hotel
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“There is trauma and pain, there are memories of imprisonment and unimaginable torture; but there is laughter and dancing, there is family and love. The characters cope in whichever ways they can. The Refugee Hotel is poignant, heavy with pain and history, but it is at many times expertly funny and captures the dark humour that resonates best in the hardest of times.
Read MoreDispatch: Buntzen Lakes
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"We had decided to take public transport and the length of the journey had made us both irritable. I sat, reading, cheek pressed against the window, foot tapping impatiently against the blue plastic. We missed our stop several times and had to run for the connecting bus. The skies hung heavy above our heads and my hand was pressed tightly in yours."
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