The National Film Board of Canada presents a gem of a documentary “Undertaker for Life!” at the Toronto Hot Docs Festival. Yes there is a focus on several undertakers and mourners but the documentary is more about how the living navigate death of loved ones through the grieving process. As one undertaker quips about theContinue reading “RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs: “Undertaker for Life!”: More About the Living than the Dead”
Category Archives: Toronto Hot Docs
RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs: “Twice Colonized”: A Familiar Story for Many but not All
“Twice Colonized” will have its Canadian premiere as the opening night film at Toronto Hot Docs. It is a documentary focusing on renowned Inuit activist lawyer Aaju Peter living in Iqaluit in Nunavut. Peter was born in the Danish colony of Greenland and at the wish of her father was sent to Denmark to beContinue reading “RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs: “Twice Colonized”: A Familiar Story for Many but not All”
RKS 2023 Film: “Montreal Girls”: Dangerous Title but Highly Seductive Film!
With a title of “Montreal Girls” you might surmise this is “A Girl’s Gone Wild” subsidiary. Not the case. As a native of Montreal for 30 years before escaping as a political refugee to Toronto down Highway 401 to a then sterile city of Toronto any film better capture my former city of habitation orContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Montreal Girls”: Dangerous Title but Highly Seductive Film!”
RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs Film: “Eat Bitter”: Functional Dysfunctionality and Who is to Blame?
The Central African Republic (CAR) has 76% of its population living below the international poverty line. Its GDP is less than $500 USD per person. In Canada the GDP per person is $52,000 USD. The CAR is more or less in a civil war which has yet to reach its capital of Bangui. Violence, desperateContinue reading “RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs Film: “Eat Bitter”: Functional Dysfunctionality and Who is to Blame?”
RKS 2023 Hot Docs: “Seven Winters in Tehran”: Deadly Iranian Misogyny and Theocracy
Reyhaneh Jabbari was born in Tehran on November 6, 1987, as the first child of Shole Pakravan and Fereydoon Jabbari. Together with her two sisters, she grew up in Tehran in a protected, loving, artistic home. She studied computer science and worked part-time as an interior designer in the office of a family friend. SheContinue reading “RKS 2023 Hot Docs: “Seven Winters in Tehran”: Deadly Iranian Misogyny and Theocracy”
RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “It’s Coming”: Reality Television?
Ashley lives in an old Brooklyn New York apartment with her children. Ashley claims to have been haunted since the age of 11 in the same apartament. Javier her young son has progressed (or regressed) to the point he is playing with a spirit he calls Kitty. He was terrified initially with Kitty who isContinue reading “RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “It’s Coming”: Reality Television?”
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