Violeta Salama’s warm and sensitive feature debut, Alegría, is exactly the kind of film you look for at a Jewish Film Festival: a travelogue and a story of …
History and Memory
Explore the blurry line between history and memory on screen.
Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis
Marie Kreutzer's film Corsage, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, reframes the story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria …
Run Woman Run is a feel good movie about recovering from trauma
Zoe Leigh Hopkins's Run Woman Run is a thirty-something coming-of-ager about learning to love and care for yourself amidst a lot of trauma. The film is …
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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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Holocaust drama The Survivor is a showcase for Ben Foster
Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in Barry Levinson's The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101. In 1999, Barry Levinson …
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Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men
Benediction may be Terence Davies's gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace. Jack Lowden was on …
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