POV Magazine

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POV MagazineCanadaLadies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney Wins WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney is this year’s winner of the WIFF Prize in Canadian Film at the Windsor International Film Festival.

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POV MagazineCanadaIl Paese: The Village Review – The Tomatoes Are Always Redder Il Paese: The Village (Canada, 75 min.) Dir/Prod. Shelley Tepperman The Italians have a word that holds significance for the diaspora: la spartenza .

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POV MagazineCanadaCaptain Newfoundland Review: Keeping Canada Weird Since 1955 Captain Newfoundland (Canada, 95 min.) Dir. Mike Feehan, Jamie Miller Prod. Jamie Miller, Sam Sutherland, Justin Taylor Take a gander at a wacky Newfoundlander in this breezy documentary about a…

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POV MagazineCanadaSCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve [Hopefully] Heard Of Review SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of (USA, 88 min.) Dir. Jason Hehir Prod. Chapman Downes Ignore the patronizing title and get ready to laugh.

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POV MagazineCanadaO Fear, O Night Review: Overcoming that Cotton Candy Monster on Your Back O Fear, O Night (Canada, 70 min.) Dir. Christine Chevarie-Lessard Prod. Pierre-Mathieu Fortin Filmmaker Christine Chevarie-Lessard makes a peculiar friend in O Fear, O Night.

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POV MagazineCanadaRIDM Announces Full Line-up for 2026 Festival Seven Canadian documentaries will compete in the National Competition at Montreal’s RIDM. The festival unveiled the full slate for its robust 2026 edition this year, including its competition…

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POV MagazineCanadaWindsor Film Festival Highlights Top Spot for Docs on the Circuit It’s a big year for documentaries at the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF). The festival has a whopping tally of over 60 documentaries within its feature film slate, which marks one of the…

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POV MagazineCanadaBa’s Book and the Search for Home Ba’s Book ? Who’s Ba? The first thing you should know is that “Ba” means “father” in Vietnamese. More specifically, “Ba” is the venerable writer and subject Anh Duong, who is seen through the eyes of…

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POV MagazineCanadaThe Wind’s Thirst Review: A Tale of River Warriors and Land Defenders The Wind’s Thirst (Canada/Colombia, 84 min.) Dir./Prod. Alejandro Valbuena In the La Guajira desert of northern Colombia spans a land now known as El Cerrejón.

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POV MagazineCanadaPossible Love Review: Class Seen through the Documentary Lens Possible Love (South Korea, 160 min.) Dir. Lee Chang-dong Prod. Lee Joon-dong, David Levine, Chadwick Pritchard A documentary camera serves as the mediator of and catalyst for deeply rooted class…

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo