Nabin Subba's film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountainous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens …
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TIFF 23 Film Review: Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain …
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TIFF 23 Film Review: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard
Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden's final film Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just …
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The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2023 (updating throughout the festival)
From Snow Leopard to The Tundra Within Me to Without Air, these are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the …
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Bank of Dave is a heartwarming showcase for Rory Kinnear
Chris Foggin's film Bank of Dave is a showcase for the great theatre actor Rory Kinnear who proves he can also play a Tom Hanks-esque leading man. Bank of Dave …
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Good Condition and The Event: Short films by Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa
Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa's short films Good Condition and The Event are genre-inflected psychological studies of characters in existential crises, in …
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