Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.
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Film Review: Pauline Loquès’s Nino at Cannes
Alex Heeney reviews Pauline Loquès’s feature debut, Nino, starring Théodore Pellerin, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a twentysomething man’s nervewrecking weekend after he’s diagnosed with c
ancer and before he starts treatment.
Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters
Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.
Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story
In Kamila Andini’s Yuni, teenage Yuni tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Katalin Moldovai’s Without Air
In Katalin Moldovai’s feature debut, Without Air, a beloved literature teacher stands to lose her job after she recommends Agnieszka Holland’s gay romance Total Eclipse (1995) to her class.
Falcon Lake explores the threshold between childhood and adolescence
Charlotte Lebon’s feature debut is a sensitive look at a pair of teenagers caught between childhood and adulthood, friendship and romance.