Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance)

The scouts

A '96 doc about Halifax do-gooders staging benefit rock shows feels like it should be unwatchable pablum, but the fact that it's actually grappling with befriending a former extremist—messy, uncertain, refusing easy answers—suggests d'Entremont found something the consensus narrative would've smoothed over.

The formal choice to weave documentary testimony with musical performance creates a deliberate tension between witness and catharsis, positioning this squarely in the lineage of activist cinema that trusts cinema's capacity to hold contradiction—craft that knows exactly what it's inheriting.

What elevates this from earnest community project to something singular is likely the decision to let the music—those benefit rock shows—function as the emotional spine rather than documentary commentary; that choice either makes the whole thing sing or falls apart entirely, and the 27 minutes suggest d'Entremont committed to finding out which.