In Kamila Andini’s Yuni, teenage Yuni tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures.
Gender and Sexuality
Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.
Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture
Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.
Film Review: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers
Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is part ghost story and part romance, and it feels like a warm hug.
Review: Other People’s Children is Rebecca Zlotowski’s best film
Alex Heeney reviews Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film Other People’s Children, about a woman approaching forty, trying to figure out how to be a parent when she may no longer be able to be a biological one.
TIFF Review: The Swearing Jar is an existential crisis film with two romances
Lindsay Mackay’s second feature film, The Swearing Jar, is an existential crisis film with two romances.
Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review
Sinéad O’Shea’s Pray for Our Sinners is a heart-wrenching and important documentary about the quiet resistance to Catholic rule in Ireland.