Get Excited for the 2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival

The Cinematheque, Photo: Isaac Li

The 22nd annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, returns with films screening in theatres from May 4-14. DOXA 2023 features a roster of crucial and thought-provoking documentaries in theatrical venues across the city, bringing filmmakers and audiences together for a communal cinema experience.

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Get Excited for the 2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival

DOXA Documentary Film Festival Announces 2021 Festival Line-Up

Twenty years after it began screening some of the world’s most crucial and thought-provoking documentaries for Vancouver filmgoers, DOXA Documentary Film Festival is back to celebrate its platinum anniversary in a way audiences could never have imagined two decades ago—streaming directly into their homes. Continue reading:
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Announces 2021 Festival Line-Up

Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend

This weekend the DOXA Documentary Film Festival opens, there’s an operatic family day, a famously beautiful marathon along the Seawall and, of course, the Space Centre is celebrating “may the 4th be with you”.

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Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend

Five films to see at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Still from Co-Creators, one of the docs screening at this year’s DOXA Film Festival.

A Vancouver radical, a Japanese contemporary artist, and autistic Finnish punk musicians are among the people whom audiences at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival will meet.

This year’s DOXA features 93 films (shorts and features). Spotlight series include Press Play and Quietute, about the power of music and the benefits of silence and observation, respectively. Guest curated programs look at the rise of the rightwing and environmental crises facing Tibetan China. are autistic are among the people.

The DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 3 –13. For more info on tickets and some of the films, see below.

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Five films to see at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend: May 11, 2017

Feast on a festival of spot prawns, marvel at a program of ballet, revel in a talk from an astronaut, and learn to weave from a Coast Salish Chief. You could to absolutely every one of these things this weekend – and more. This is also the last weekend of the Opera Festival, Vancouver Bird Week, and DOXA – so catch them while you can!

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Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend: May 11, 2017

Vancouver Screen Scene: Seth Rogen and Supergirl, Japanese stars, and more

Comedic Seth Rogen is returning to his hometown to shoot The Something.

Comedic Seth Rogen is returning to his hometown to shoot The Something.

Survival is a recurring theme in this week’s roundup of screen-related news in Vancouver, cropping up both as the subject of storylines and a TV series that might need to find ways to avoid the chopping block.

First up, let’s start on a note of levity with a hometown connection.

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Vancouver Screen Scene: Seth Rogen and Supergirl, Japanese stars, and more