Calgary Underground Film Festival

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  CUFF Docs Review: 'Rodents of Unusual Size' Offers the Pro and Anti Giant Rat Perspective

  Directed by Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

  Nutria are immediately memorable if you get a look at their faces. The rodent's size is noteworthy — about the size of a beaver. The thing,...

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  CUFF Docs Review: 'People's Republic of Desire' Exposes the Dark Side of Chinese Social Media

  Directed by Hao Wu

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

  Obsolescence is the threat looming over every streaming host in People's Republic of Desire, the same that hangs over many content producer...

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  Jack of All Trades

  Directed by Stuart Stone and Harvey Glazer

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018

  Stuart Stone and Harvey Glazer's documentary Jack of All Trades balances being an exposé of the baseball-card bubble of the '80s and '90s w...

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  Slave to the Grind: A Film About Grindcore

  Directed by Doug Brown

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018

  It's almost hard to believe that, until now, a documentary on grindcore hadn't been made, given its multiple decades of existence and the i...

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  Roller Dreams

  Directed by Kate Hickey

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

  Roller Dreams sneaks in a darker message underneath a veneer of candy-coloured '80s workout gear and breezy Californian nostalgia. It break...

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  Paper Year

  Directed by Rebecca Addelman

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

  Paper Year tells the story of young newlyweds Dan Delaney (Avan Jogia) and Franny Winters (Eve Hewson) moving through their first year of m...

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  Pin Cushion

  Directed by Deborah Haywood

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

  Deborah Haywood's Pin Cushion moves between gauzy fantasy and harsh reality, even as the stark real world doesn't always feel recognizably...

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  Vampire Clay

  Directed by Sôichi Umezawa

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

  Vampire Clay introduces a monster peculiar enough to carry the movie on his own; in some ways, he could be an odd version of Terminator 2:...