Jason James's feature Exile (starring Adam Beach) and Bruce Miller's short Conviction both tell stories of a previously incarcerated Indigenous man struggling …
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Essays
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 …
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Dr. Jules Koostachin’s Broken Angel, MisTik, and more at ImagineNative 2022
The 2022 ImagineNative Film Festival was a showcase for new talents: Dr. Jules Koostachin's Broken Angel and MisTik, and Gail Maurice's ROSIE.As the world’s …
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Quick Thoughts Film Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Alex Heeney reviews Joanna Hogg's film The Eternal Daughter is an unexpected sequel to her Souvenir duology: a ghost story exploring the creative process and a …
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En roue libre (Freestyle) Film Review
Alex Heeney reviews the film, En roue libre (Freestyle), an absurd French buddy comedy about a woman who can't leave her car and the young man who hijacks it. …
TIFF Review: The Swearing Jar is an existential crisis film with two romances
Alex Heeney reviews Lindsay Mackay's second feature film, The Swearing Jar, an existential crisis film with two romances.There’s a scene in Patricia Rozema’s …
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