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2022 DOXA Documentary Film Festival WHEN & WHERE May 5-15, 2022 | in theatres SFU Goldcorp Centre, VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque, The Playhouse + online Reviewer John Jane
Lebanon/USA, 2022, Director, Rita Baghdadi 78 minutes In Lebanese and English with English subtitles Los Angeles based
Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi’s latest venture is
a rockumentary about Lebanese all-female metal band Slave to Sirens
– likely the first ever in the complex Middle East region. What
makes this film different from other profiles of female music groups
is the band’s lead guitarist Shery Bechara and rhythm guitarist
Lilas Mayassi. Full
review
Canada, 2021, Director Caitlin Durlak, 57 minutes In regional English with subtitles
Dropstones is a simple, yet personal portrayal of Sonya Foley
and her two young sons Sean and Luke (Walbourne) as they return to
their roots on Fogo Island. Fogo is an island off the Northern coast
of the Island Province of Newfoundland, roughly 25 kilometres east
of Twillingate – an area known as Iceberg Alley. Full
review
Poland, 2021, Director Tomasz Wolski, 70 minutes In Polish with English subtitles 1970 is
Tomasz Wolski’s gritty documentary that serves as a stark reminder
of what life in Poland was like under the Polish United Workers' Party
(Poland’s version of the Communist Party). Full
review
Canada, 2022, Director Jeremiah Hayes, 89 minutes Jeremiah Hayes’s NFB/Cineflix film Dear Audrey focuses on Canadian cinematographer Martin Duckworth’s relationship with his wife and soul-mate of forty years, Audrey Schirmer. Duckworth himself narrates throughout the film, providing sensitive storytelling to the film’s intimacy. Full review
Canada, 2022, Director Teresa Alfeld, 105 minutes Growing up in East Vancouver, filmmaker Teresa Alfeld just happened to live next door to Doug Bennett and his family. As a close friend of Bennett’s daughter Shea, she was constantly in and out of the Bennett household. Anyone living outside Western Canada could be forgiven for not knowing Doug Bennett. Full review
Canada, 2022, Director Colin Askey, 85 minutes Love in the Time of Fentanyl is a non-linear documentary that focuses on the working class heroes who volunteers much of their time at the Overdose Prevention Society on Columbia Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Full review
USA, 2022, Director Adam Nee, 112 minutes When & Where March 21, 2022 at 7pm | Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, 900 Burrard St. Reviewer John Jane Adam Nee borrows much from Robert Zemeckis’ 1984 film Romancing the Stone for his own action-adventure romantic comedy The Lost City. After all it includes the requisite elements of a romance novelist finding herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure and being rescued by a mercenary rogue. Set mostly in the Dominion Republic, Adam Nee’s film shows how much cinematography and special effects have advanced since the mid-eighties. Full review |
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