The substance-use crisis and drug-poisoning epidemic among the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta is explored in Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Since 2014, the opioid crisis has cost hundreds of lives to members of the Kainai First Nation, which is on top of the ongoing issue of alcoholism and other substance abuse crises. Filmmaker…
A Korean family struggles to make ends meet after starting a farm in Arkansas in Minari. Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) is a Korean immigrant, who has just moved from California to Arkansas with his wife Monica (Yeri Han) and young children David (Alan S. Kim) and Anne (Noel Kate Cho). Jacob hopes to make a better…
Filmmaker Ingrid Veninger make her non-fiction debut with this profile of twin Cuban dancers in The World or Nothing. Rubert and Rubildo Donatien Dinza are twin brother from Cuba, who make up the dancing duo Sensación Gemela. With professional opportunities for the two being non-existent in Cuba, Rubert and Rubildo have just recently relocated themselves…
The wife of a famous author silently suffers after he wins a Nobel prize in The Wife. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is a woman married to acclaimed author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), who receives a call one morning saying that he has won the Nobel prize in literature. Initially Joan seems ecstatic about her husband’s accomplishment,…
The story of a man with autism who learned to communicate through Disney films is told in Life, Animated. At the age of three, Owen Suskind lost the ability to communicate, with his parents finding out that he has a pervasive developmental disorder caused by autism. Owen’s family feared that he would never speak again,…
