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Philippe Lesage discusses Genèse, a coming-of-age story about searching for love in a repressive, violent adult world, and bringing the spirit of a novel into …
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The Splinters ensemble — Sofia Banzhaf, Callum Dunphy, and Shelley Thompson — discuss making the film, finding their characters, collaborating with each other …
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Co-director and Haida artist Gwaai Edenshaw discusses his landmark film Edge of the Knife (Sgaawaay K'uuna), the first feature film made in the Haida language. …
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third film collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. This is an …
[Read more...] about Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destruction
The Canadian films at TIFF this year were especially great, but the festival should have done more to bring them to the attention of critics and audiences. This …
[Read more...] about TIFF should do more for Canadian cinema
At TIFF18, almost all of the best films I saw were Canadian — and that’s not grading on a curve. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook …
[Read more...] about TIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinema
