Naomi Kawase's Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A avoids the usual tropes and cliches of sports films, focusing instead on how the athletes …
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TIFF Review: Alanis Obomsawin’s Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
Alanis Obomsawin's new short film, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, is a powerful presentation preserved on film. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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The Third Wife Review: A beautiful and bleak portrayal of patriarchy
Ash Mayfair's The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam. The film is now available on …
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TIFF Review: 76 Days provides a new lens on the pandemic
76 Days is an urgent documentary about coronavirus pandemic that humanizes the people behind the PPE. Keep up to date with our TIFF '20 coverage. 76 Days …
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Deceptive Nostalgia: Patricio Guzmán’s Cordillera of Dreams
With Cordillera of Dreams, Documentarian Patricio Guzmán completes his trilogy contrasting the beauty of Chile’s landscapes with the horror of its recent …
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The search for strange: Werner Herzog re-examines Bruce Chatwin’s travels in Nomad
20 years after travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s death, Herzog’s new film Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin serves as both a celebration of Chatwin’s …