Alex Heeney reviews Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s tennis-set film Julie Keeps Quiet about a teenage girl re-learning the importance of boundaries after a possible sexual assault.
Film Festivals
TIFF 2024 Ep. 2: Palestinian Films: No Other Land, To a Land Unknown, and more
On the podcast, Alex discusses four Palestinian films at TIFF 2024: No Other Land, To a Land Unknown, Happy Holidays, and From Ground Zero.
TIFF 2024 Review: To a Land Unknown
Alex Heeney reviews Mahdi Fleifel’s films To a Land Unknown about Palestinian refugees stuck in limbo in Athens, trying to go to Europe.
TIFF 2024 Ep. 1: Why this season is for you, even if you aren’t attending
In this episode, Alex Heeney introduces our new TIFF 2024 podcast season
Interview: Patricia Rozema on filmmaking, social safety nets, and dog resurrection
In this interview, legendary indie filmmaker Patricia Rozema sits down with us to discuss her works, from Cannes award winner I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing to her lesbian romance When Night is Falling to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.
HotDocs 2024: Animated documentaries are here to stay
Alex Heeney takes a look at some of the animated documentaries that screened at HotDocs 2024, including Pelikan Blue, The Day Iceland Stood Still, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Silent Trees.