17 June 2025
How Do You Measure A Year? (2022)
For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt (When We Were Bullies) filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions.
In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and sometimes awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an indelible mark. Her responses to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love, acceptance, and ultimately, independence.
How Do You Measure A Year? was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Film Oscar in 2023 and has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Decider hails it as “so very bitter and so very sweet … essential viewing.”
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The Stroll (2023)
When director Kristen Lovell began to transition in the 90s, she was fired from her job. Like many transgender women of colour during this era, she began sex work in an area known as The Stroll.
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The Rehearsal S1-2
In this bizarre HBO docuseries people get a chance to rehearse for their own lives in a world where nothing ever works out as expected.
Tokyo Vice S1-2
In this powerful HBO crime thriller based on true events, a Western journalist working in Tokyo takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses.