Stay home with Cinefest: Documentaries available to stream at home

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New theatrical documentaries are available online from Blue Ice Docs and Cinefest Sudbury, with three documentaries available now with more to follow throughout May.

Cinefest Sudbury has collaborated with Blue Ice Docs on its D.O.C @ Home program, presenting new theatrical documentaries to stream at home.

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Titles include The Booksellers, This Is Not a Movie, and Beyond Moving, with more documentaries to follow throughout May.

Find all three films at watch.eventive.org/docs.

The Booksellers is a behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it. Executive produced by Parker Posey and featuring interviews with some of the most important dealers in the business, as well as prominent collectors, auctioneers and writers, The Booksellers is both a loving celebration of book culture and a serious exploration of the future of the book.

For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action — feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. The process of translating raw experience into incisive and passionate dispatches requires the determination to see things first-hand and the tenacity to say what others won’t.

In his relentless pursuit of the facts, Fisk has attracted his share of controversy. But in spite of the danger, he has continued to cover stories as they unfold, talking directly to the people involved. In an era of fake news, when journalists are dubbed “the enemies of the people,” Fisk’s resolve to document reality has become an obsessive war to speak the truth.

Beyond Moving follows the journey of Siphe November, who left his small township in South Africa to follow his dreams at Canada’s National Ballet School. The young dancer pushes the limits of his talents, tackles an intensive training regimen and soars on stages around the world — all the while navigating family relationships back home, reflecting on what it means to be a Black ballet dancer and figuring out how to give back to the community that raised him. Beyond Moving is an uplifting and inspiring story that reveals deeply personal pulses of family, prejudice, expectation, loss and resilience.

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