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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
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
Vancouver: No Fixed Address looks at Vancouver’s volatile housing market.
It’s DOXA time again, meaning that you can get your fill of nutritious and delicious documentaries in a ten-day feast. This year, the DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 4-14 and features 87 films, including two world premieres (For Dear Life and Butterfly).
Special programming includes a retrospective of seven rarely screened works by Chris Marker. Long considered the inventor of the film essay, Marker is a master of editing and narration. La Jetée/The Jetty, which is probably his most famous work, ranked third in Sight & Sound’s poll of the greatest documentaries ever made.
Here are six other docs we think might be worth checking out.
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Mermaids, falcons and Link Wray – six picks at this year’s DOXA
