POV Magazine

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POV MagazineCinemaThe Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony Balances the Joys of Girlhood “I remember being one of those girls,” says The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony director Habiba Nosheen.

11.05

POV MagazineCinemaRevisit the Short Doc Nuisance Bear Before Catching the Feature Revisit the doc that started the Nuisance Bear journey before catching the feature. The short film by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden stands up in its own right as the expanded feature version…

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POV MagazineCinemaLadies 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 MagazineCinemaIl 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 MagazineCinemaCaptain 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 MagazineCinemaSCTV: 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 MagazineCinemaO 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 MagazineCinemaRIDM 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 MagazineCinemaWindsor 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 MagazineCinemaBa’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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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo