With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is Kanopy. The platform is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films ─ titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers.You can use it for free for example through many public library cards in Canada and elsewhere. Download the Kanopy app, log in with your library account, and a portal of high-quality global content awaits.
To sift through the catalogue, I am curating a little series of personal film recommendations here and on social media #MyKanopyKanon. #Docs #features #shorts #femalefilmmakers #arthouse #mainstream ... Let me know your favourites and film viewing experiences and let's turn social distancing into social connecting.
☆ Vicky Krieps before "Phantom Thread" fame! Frederick Lau fresh off the success of one-shot wonder "Victoria"! Here he is back again as a hapless bank robber. If you missed "Gutland" in the TIFF17 Discovery section, here's your chance to catch up on this surreal Luxemburghish-German rural noir. Official submission of Luxembourg for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, and you can learn some German & Letzeburgesch too. Continue reading "#MyKanopyKanon streaming tips 7" »
With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is 
In October, we introduced you to Toronto filmmaker 
With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is 
Congratulations to filmmaker Marc Wiese, who just won the FACT:AWARD at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, with this new documentary "We Hold the Line", which had its world premiere at the prestigious Danish festival.
With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is 
With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is 
With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is 
Interview reposted from May 2017 on the occasion of the 61st DOK Leipzig 2018: North America's biggest documentary film festival Hot Docs brings hundreds of films to Canadian audiences each spring. The Goethe-Institut added a coda to the 2017 festival with selected German documentaries that won the Goethe Documentary Prize at DOK Leipzig Festival over recent years. A conversation about cultural specificity in documentary filmmaking and international vs. national festival programming that we kicked off with DOK Leipzig's new-ish lead programmer Ralph Eue:
