The 20th ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto featured great Indigenous films from around the world. Highlights included: Vai, Top End Wedding, and Blood …
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History and Memory
Explore the blurry line between history and memory on screen.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was the gold standard at TIFF19
Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful period romance that upends cinematic stereotypes of the artistic muse. Read more TIFF19 coverage …
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TIFF19 review: Our Lady of the Nile , a heartbreaking look at the corruption of innocence
An innocent utopia foreshadows horrific violence in Atiq Rahimi’s Our Lady of the Nile, one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19. Courtesy of …
TIFF19 review: Comets , a lovely film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves
Short and sweet, Tamar Shavgulidze's Comets is one of the best films still seeking distribution at TIFF19. Still from the film Comets. Courtesy of …
Review: Indian Horse and the limits of allyship in adaptation
Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli's Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to …
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Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds
Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two …
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