A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit…
A Chilean journalist struggles to hold onto his identity as he suffers from Alzheimer’s in The Eternal Memory. Augusto Góngora was one of the most important journalists in Chile, covering important events in the country’s history. In the late 1990s, he began a relationship with Paulina Urrutia, a well-known actress who became Chile’s first Minster…
Two sisters reconcile past trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tautuktavuk (What We See). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Saqpinak (Carol Kunnuk), who lives in Igloolik, regularly has Zoom conversations with her younger sister Uyarak (Lucy Tulugarjuk) in Montreal. Uyarak has been dealing with a past traumatic event that resulted in her having to leave Nunavut. With…
Wim Wenders uses 3D to document the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer in Anselm. Over his career of more than five decades, Anselm Kiefer has become known for his large-scale paintings and sculptures, many of which provide commentary on Germany’s dark past. With the help of archival interviews and reenactments, featuring Wim Wenders’ young…
The history and impact of “The Nation’s Music Station” MuchMusic is explored in 299 Queen Street West. MuchMusic was launched in 1984 as a Canadian counterpart of MTV in the United States. The station was the brainchild of CityTV founder Moses Znaimer, with the VJs hosting in open-concept street-level environments at the ChumCity Building at…
Errol Morris gives the final interview to David Cornwell, a.k.a. spy novelist John le Carré, in The Pidgeon Tunnel. At one time, David Cornwell worked for the spy agencies MI5 and MI5, where he was invited to dupe other people. These experiences fueled his writing career under the pseudonym John le Carré, whose famous works…
Journalist David Ferrier enters a cat-and-mouse game with a cunning con man in Mister Organ. In 2016, New Zealand journalist David Ferrier began covering clamping incidents at Bashford Antiques in Auckland, where the owner, Jillian Bashford-Evans, would have a man clamp the cars who illegally parked at the store, charging exorbitant fees to release the…
Taylor Swift‘s career-encompassing Eras Tour is presented in an epic new concert film in Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. Filmed during three shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, Taylor Swift performs a show encompassing songs from each of her ten albums. Each of these different eras encompasses the different musical styles Swift explored during…
A24 presents a 4K restoration to mark the 40th anniversary of Talking Heads‘ iconic concert film with Stop Making Sense: 2023 Remaster. At the peak of their career, in support of their 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues,” the core members of Talking Heads, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, are joined by…
The participants of a late-1990s Japanese reality series look back on their experience in The Contestant. In 1998, Nasubi was chosen to participate in producer Toshio Tsuchiya‘s spinoff of his hit show Denpa Shonen, called Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes. Nasubi was forced to strip naked before being locked in a small apartment. His…
