Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli's Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to …
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The Wound explores masculinity and colonialism
John Trengove’s debut feature explores how colonization subtly re-defined an ancient Xhosa rite of passage into manhood. …
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‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin discusses depicting community, gaining the trust of her subjects, and centering their voices in her 50th film on contemporary …
TIFF Review: In Luk’Luk’I, Vancouver plays itself, but the Olympics don’t
Contrasting the patriotism of the Olympics with daily struggles in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’Luk’I explores the …
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A tyrant and control freak: the patriarch in Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives prefigures the father figures in his later films
In Terence Davies’ films, fathers tend to control the domestic sphere: the abusive patriarch in Distant Voices, Still Lives, based on Davies’ own father, …
Hello Destroyer explores the thin line between hockey menace and model
Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer is a hockey movie where the drama is not in the game, but in how its violence has consequences that ripple off the ice.To access …
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Unlearning toxic masculinity in the Dardennes’ La Promesse
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s 1996 film, La Promesse (The Promise), examines how a teenage boy unlearns patriarchal values through his relationship with an …
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