At TIFF 2025, Alex discusses Nicholas Hytner’s film The Choral on the podcast, starring Ralph Fiennes, and why it’s not a queer film despite having a queer protagonist and queer creatives.
Ep. 182 Couture (with Angelina Jolie) and Alice Winocour’s (TIFF 2025)
At TIFF 2025, Alex discusses Alice Winocour’s film Couture on the podcast, starring Angelia Jolie, and how it fits into Winocour’s body of work about traumatized bodies, outsiders, and backstage stories.
Ep. 181 Between Dreams and Hope and queer and trans survival (TIFF 2025)
At TIFF 2025, Alex discusses the Iranian film Between Dreams and Hope about a trans man seeking gender affirming care, and connects this to other recent international films about the legal and medical barriers for the queer right to exist.
The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2025 (updating throughout the festival)
From Iran’s Between Dreams and Hope to Argentina’s The Currents to Canada’s Meadowlarks, here are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the UK) at TIFF 2025
Ep. 180 Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (TIFF 2025)
On the podcast, Alex Heeney unpacks Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value at TIFF 2025, tracing its echoes of Louder Than Bombs and what it adds to Trier’s ongoing explorations of family, grief, and memory.
Ep. 179 What if we told stories about women beyond their love lives?
Rewatching Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) sparked this podcast where Alex Heeney asks: What happens when women’s stories aren’t built around who they end up with?