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Documentary

Invisible Beauty

Fashion docs tend to be fawning anyway, but this one has a subject worthy of fawning over.

Lift

Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.

Viva Varda! | TIFF 2023

Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.

In the Rearview | TIFF 2023

In the week of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, director Maciek Hamela sits behind the steering wheel as a volunteer transporting displaced refugees fleeing the frontlines.

Stamped from the Beginning | TIFF 2023

If Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 bestseller has been banned from your local library, Netflix has come to the rescue.

The Eternal Memory

A wife tries to keep her husband’s memory afloat in Maite Alberdi’s remarkable documentary.

King on Screen

A documentary made with a clear reverence for Stephen King’s legacy, told straight from the mouths of those who have adapted his stories.

A Compassionate Spy

Why did physicist Ted Hall share nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union as World War II was winding down?

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

A Ugandan pop star turned politician takes on the country’s authoritarian president, the 76-year-old Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.