In Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling, China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses most of her agency along the way.
Film Festivals
Full Time: a heart-pounding thriller from Éric Gravel
Éric Gravel’s second feature film is a heart-pounding thriller about a single working mom pushed to her breaking point.
Fantasia Review: Just Remembering tells a romance in reverse
Japanese writer-director Daigo Matsui’s Just Remembering is a romance told in reverse order that not only acknowledges COVID but incorporates some sense of how it’s changed our lives into the film’s store.
Fantasia Review: Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons
The first animated feature out of Portugal, Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons, uses digital and stop-motion animation to tell a story of intergenerational trauma on the border between reality and fairytale.
Quick Thoughts: Violeta Salama’s sensitive Alegría at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
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 culture, religion, and family.
Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension
Manuela Martelli’s feature debut, 1976, which she co-wrote with Alejandra Moffat, is equal parts character study and taut political drama. The film 1976 screened in the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes 2022.