2024 DOXA Documentary Film Festival

When & Where May 2 - 12, 2024 | Vancouver Playhouse, VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque & SFU Goldcorp Centre + online

 

Red Fever

Canada, 2024, Dir. Neil Diamond & Catherine Bainbridge, 104 minutes

In English and Cree with English subtitles

In this off-beat documentary, Neil Diamond (not the guy who sang ‘Sweet Caroline’) poses the question “Why is the world so fascinated with Native American culture” – he presumably includes Canadian indigenous culture in his rhetorical question. Diamond was born and raised in Waskaganish (f ormerly Fort Rupert) Quebec. Full Review

 


The Real Superstar

France, 2023, Dir. Cédric Dupire, 69 minutes

In Hindi with English subtitles

“The biggest star in the biggest film industry in the world” is how an anonymous speaker describes Amitabh Bachchan in Cédric Dupire’s documentary. Full Review




The Originals

Canada, 2024, Dir. Niall Patric McNeil & Mike McKinley, 45 minutes

Filmmaker Niall McNeil grew up among the Carney community. He remembers vividly the founding members and the performers and designers connected with Carnival during his childhood. It would therefore seem natural (at least to him) that he would return to interview those that nurtured once him – The Originals. Full Review

 



The Movie Man

Canada, 2024, Dir. Matt Finlin, 89 minutes

Keith Stata is the quintessential movie man – no question! He isn’t a producer, or a director or even an actor. However, he has been the owner of the iconic Highlands Cinema in Kinmount, Ontario for the last forty-plus years, in good times and in bad – and there has been some bad times... Full Review



Paramount Pictures
Bob Marley: One Love

USA, 2024, Director Reinaldo Marcus Green, 104 minutes

Release Date Februart 14, 2024

Reviewer John Jane

Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biographical musical drama explores the last decade of the life and legend of Reggae musician Bob Marley. The film also focuses on his youth and his courtship to Rita Marley in flashbacks. The title is derived from the ska song “One Love” by Bob Marley's original group The Wailers from their 1965 debut album. Marley was raised by a single mother in Trench Town, known as one of the most impoverished and violent neighbourhoods in the western world. Full Review