TIFF Docs

TIFF 2014: The Look of Silence Review

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The Look of Silence TIFF Docs A stunning and even more wrenching companion piece to his incendiary The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence returns to the repressed feelings towards Indonesia’s bloody past and tackles them head on for one of the best films of the year. Instead of a macrocosm of […]

TIFF 2014: Seymour: An Introduction Review

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Seymour: An Introduction TIFF Docs While Ethan Hawke is certainly more well-known for acting work in films from Dead Poets Society to the recent, brilliant Boyhood, in Seymour: An Introduction, he steps behind the camerafor a documentary about pianist Seymour Bernstein as he discusses a career and a life overtaken by music. Bernstein isn’t terribly […]

TIFF 2014: Tales of the Grim Sleeper Review

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Tales of the Grim Sleeper TIFF Docs By now, the Nick Broomfield documentary formula is set in stone. He picks a subject, heads to where it happened with minimal research, shoots everything, and ends up with a movie that is about his discoveries where even the failures are part of the story. Tales of the […]

TIFF 2014: I am Here Review

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I Am Here TIFF Docs Though intended as a dissection of fame and the idol worshiping youth culture of China, I Am Here fails to elevate its subject matter by coming across as dull and lifeless, packing only a handful of real emotion. Millions clamour to their television sets every week for the staggeringly popular […]

TIFF 2014: The Wanted 18 Review

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THE WANTED 18 TIFF Docs A tax rebellion, political clashes, border disputes… and cows? Veteran documentarian Paul Cowan and newcomer Amer Shomali put cattle at the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their collaboration, The Wanted 18. The 18 refers to the 18 cows purchased by the Palestinian residents of Beit Sahour, a suburb of […]

TIFF 2014: The Price We Pay Review

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The Price We Pay TIFF Docs Ever wanted to know how tax shelters and offshore banking works and why you as an average jane or joe could never have enough money to use them? That’s what’s being explored in the latest documentary from Harold Crooks, the man behind The Corporation and one half of the […]

TIFF 2014: Beats of the Antonov Review

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Beats of the Antonov TIFF Docs Politics, identity and music converge in South Sudan in this offering from war reporter and filmmaker Hajooj Kuka. Kuka’s subjects are the Sudanese of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions. The people of this area have long suffered under the Al-Bashir regime out of Khartoum in the north. […]

TIFF 2014: The Yes Men Are Revolting Review

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The Yes Men Are Revolting TIFF Docs Director Laura Nix and The Yes Men tackle climate change in their latest documentary, The Yes Men Are Revolting. The duo of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, activists cum pranksters who stage phony press conferences, impersonate executives and commit various forms of fraud all in the name of […]

TIFF 2014: Merchants of Doubt Review

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Merchants of Doubt TIFF Docs Food, Inc. director Robert Kenner delves into the world of pundits-for-hire with the goal of pulling the metaphorical wool off of our eyes in this powerful documentary. Based on the work of Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, the film investigates how a handful of individuals weave confusion and doubt into […]
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