Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival programs so many wonderful queer films — like Gugu’s World and Black Burns Fast — about children for children, if only they could reach them.
Directed by Women
Explore films by directors who identify as women.
Cannes Review: Blerta Basholli’s Dua
Alex Heeney reviews Blerta Basholli’s Cannes Critics Week film, Dua, about the Kosova War through the lens of a young teenage girl.
Cannes Review: Mahsa Karampour’s Into the Jaws of the Orge
Mahsa Karampour’s Cannes ACID documentary Into the Jaws of the Orge is a thoughtful story of exile and tentative reconnection.
Review: Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend
Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is one of the best films of the year.
InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
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.
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.