Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, “Doc” Paskowitz, at Los Angeles’s ...

If you thought your “peeps” were dysfunctional, just wait until you get a load of the Paskowitz kin in “Surfwise.” About what some consider to be the first family of surfing, director Doug Pray’s ...

Defying tradition both openly and while hiding are at the root of two films screening here this week in Toronto. Parvez Sharma’s “A Jihad for Love” takes a look at a segment of the planet’s gays who ...