Despair and devotion: a review of Fairy Creek

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer The year is 2025, and the world is in chaos: marked by economic instability, growing authoritarianism, ecological collapse, and an...

Peliplat and the patchwork future of film discourse

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Once, reviews were handed down from the altars of broadsheets and bylines. Today, film opinions are filtered by algorithms,...

From the campus to the big screen: SFU student film goes global

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer What started as a class project has since turned into a creative awakening for Kitty Cheung, SFU alum and...

Film and literature tell the story of The Nickel Boys from different angles

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: this piece talks in-depth about slavery and racial segregation.  Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys tells the story of...

A map of Indigenous history, scenic surroundings, and unmatched eateries

By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor The Lower Mainland’s nature and cultural scenes are some of the best in the world. Not everyone can...

MAUVEY TO A BAWAH: A name, legacy, and cinematic journey

By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer On a bone-chillingly cold Friday night, I made my way down to the VIFF Centre to watch the film premiere...

No Other Land takes a haunting look at the horrors of Israeli occupation

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of genocide.  No Other Land had been on my watch list since the day I heard about it....

Tezeta, a dive into Ethiopia’s music scene and its Armenian influences

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: brief mention of genocide. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) film festival, held at the VIFF centre, has...

Love, intimacy, and more in The Peak’s February TV picks

By: Karly Burns, Fact Checker; Mason Mattu, News Writer; Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor; Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief A love letter to XO, Kitty —...

Malartic, a town suffering at the hands of the Canadian mining industry

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The documentary, Malartic (2024), presents us with the story of the titular soul-stripped town. Located in Quebec, it has suffered...