posted Saturday, March 18, 2023
Ithaka is a strange and convoluted documentary about the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, While it does divulge some inside information and background on the details that led to the detainment of Assange, it comes across as more a feature on his […]
posted Friday, March 17, 2023
Were you the one that waited until the last minute to study for a test, then had the Cram everything in last minute? We all do what we gotta do to pass – except Marc. Desperate to finish his final paper, he struggles to cram all night in the library. After dozing off, Marc awakens […]
posted Friday, March 17, 2023
Egghead and Twinkie tells the story of seventeen-year-old Twinkie, who takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the help of her nerdy best friend, Egghead, after coming out to her parents. As they make their way across the country, Egghead wrestles with his unrequited feelings for Twinkie, while Twinkie learns […]
posted Sunday, March 12, 2023
Blue Jean tells the story of Jean, a gym teacher who is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity. At the 1987 Conservative Party Conference in Britain, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated, […]
posted Friday, March 10, 2023
Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life in New Zealand. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little […]
posted Friday, March 10, 2023
Super Channel offers four diverse channels – Fuse, Heart & Home, Vault, and GINX Esports TV Canada – plus, access to Super Channel On Demand where available by service provider. They’ve always had a long standing support for independent productions, with a strong focus on Canadian content. Below are three new additions to their programming […]
posted Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Lonesome is a new feature film by Award Winning Australian director, Craig Boreham, exploring sexuality, loneliness and isolation in a world that has never been more connected. Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in the big smoke of Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, […]
posted Monday, March 6, 2023
The 20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be held from March 8 to 19, 2023; March 8-12 in-person at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and March 13-19 on Hot Docs digital platform. Following the tradition of past festivals, all tickets for both in-person and digital screenings are […]
posted Monday, March 6, 2023
Love is love… across genders and geography, communities and conflict, as five young films prove with verve and wonder – and a lot of (coming-of-age) love. Between Grindr dates and raves, No Hard Feelings, Faraz Shariat’s Berlinale feature debut, delves into the queer Iranian-German underground. In the award-winning documentary Zuhur’s Daughters, Laurentia Genske and Robin […]
posted Friday, March 3, 2023
There’s Always Hope tells the story of successful author, Jonathan Stack has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus. He’s let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner Luke, a hapless OCD control […]
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