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2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival WHEN & WHERE May 4 - 14, 2023 | VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque & SFU Goldcorp Centre + online
Canada/USA, 2022, Director Karen Cho, 88 minutes In English and Cantonese with English subtitles Chinese-Canadian
director Karen Cho’s informative documentary Big Fight
in Little Chinatown opens this year’s DOXA, Vancouver's
documentary festival. Cho, who was born in DOXA, Vancouver's documentary
festival focuses her lens on four cities with essentially similar
problems: Vancouver, Toronto, New York City and her home base Montreal.
Full
review USA, 2021, Director Rebecca Huntt, 79 minutes Rebecca Huntt, who makes the cover of this year’s DOXA Program Guide, is a proud born and bred New Yorker. When her nickname is the title of her first feature documentary, it doesn’t leave much doubt that it’s an autobiographical work. Except that Huntt goes deeper than what is typical for a cinematic memoire. The thirty-two year old Afro-Latina film-maker takes no prisoners in a brutally honest portrait of not only herself, but her entire family. Full review
Spain/Germany, 2022, Director Paloma Zapata, 95 minutes In Spanish and German with English subtitles Originally titled En busca de La Singla (In search of La Singla), Paloma Zapata’s fascinating hybrid documentary features the renowned flamenco dancer Antoñita Singla, who came to be known as simply La Singla. Much of the film includes archival black and white film footage of when Singla started dancing as a child in the Barcelona Romani neighbourhood of Somorrostro. Full review
Ukraine/Poland/France, 2023, Director Alisa Kovalenko, 100 minutes In Ukrainian with English subtitles Ukrainian award-winning
documentary filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko takes a cynical, yet a simultaneously
hopeful look at life in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine
in her new documentary We Will Not Fade Away. Full
review
Canada, 2023, Director Khoa Lê , 100 minutes In Vietnamese with English subtitles Paris of the
Orient and Uncle Ho Chi Minh are nicknames afforded to Ho Chi Minh
City, but apparently many of its ten million residents still affectionately
call it Mother Saigon. Full
review
Columbia/Romania/France/Germany, 2023, Director Theo Montoya, 75 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles The curious title comes from the Instagram moniker of Camilo Najar, the director’s anti-hero in his film within a film – a film that was never completed. Colombian director Theo Montoya has to rethink his film-making strategy when his intended protagonist suddenly dies of a heroin overdose. Full review
Canada, 2023, Director Amy Miller, 85 minutes In English and French with English subtitles Manufacturing the Threat is Amy Miller’s engaging exposé into the RCMP’s handling of the so-called Project Souvenir and other such clandestine operations that involve targeting individuals and gathering evidence through suspect methods. Full review
Canada, 2023, Directors Robert Mentov & Karl Kai, 20 minutes In Ukrainian with English subtitles There are a number of films making it into the DOXA Film Festival this year that centre on the ongoing invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Troika (Russian word meaning threesome) is a short film that is part of an assemblage of seven films.....Full review
Philippines, 2022, Director Karl Malakunas, 94 minutes In Tagalog and English with English subtitles
Karl Malakunas’ eco-documentary Delikado certainly
doesn’t pull any punches as it looks for both heroes and villains
in Palawan’s, an archipelagic province in the Philippines,
war on illegal logging and fishing. El Nido Mayor Nieves Rosento
and local lawyer Bobby Chan and his squad of para-enforcers who
go about confiscating chainsaws are very much the heroes. Full
review
USA, 2023, Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, 122 minutes Release Date March 10, 2023 Reviewer John Jane Neve Campbell as primary protagonist Sidney Prescott has not returned for this sixth installment, but the good news is that Jenna Ortega, recently seen as Wednesday Addams in the new Netflix series, delivers a nuanced performance as Tara Carpenter. Courteney Cox is back again in more of a cameo role, reprising her character of investigative journalist Gale Weathers. Full review
USA, 2023, Dir. Kyle Marvin, 98 minutes Sound Dolby Digital,, Aspect 1.85 : 1 widescreen Reviewer John Jane Kyle Marvin’s rambunctious sports comedy, however, is not about the durable Mr. Brady. Sure, it’s his name in the film’s title and does have a prominent cameo role, but he is really the subject of adoration of four gals older enough to know better. The four elderly women: Lou, Trish, Maura and Betty are played by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field respectively......Full review
Sweden/UK/USA/France/Greece, 2022, Director: Ruben Östlund, 149 minutes Date and Venue October 3 & 9, 2022 | Centre for Performing Arts
Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s latest satire will likely
appeal to those people that it happily disparages; that is, the
obscenely rich, the ridiculously entitled and followers of social
media influencers. Full
review
Canada, - director: Marie Clements, 2022, 127 mins Date and Venue 29 September 2022, 6.30pm at the Centre for Performing Arts In English and Cree with occasional English subtitles Vancouver-born Indigenous director Marie Clements’ beautifully made, though at times disturbing, film follows the fictional story of Aline Spears, a Cree woman growing up in the Canadian Prairies, in the backdrop of the Indian Residential Schools system. Full review
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Big
Fight in Little Chinatown 
Beba
La
Singla 
We
Will Not Fade Away 
Má
Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
Anhell69
Manufacturing
the Threat
Troika
Delikado
Paramount
Pictures and Spyglass Media Group 
Paramount
Pictures
Vancouver
International Film Festival
Vancouver
International Film Festival