Contrasting the patriotism of the Olympics with daily struggles in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’Luk’I explores the shallowness of national identity.
Film Festivals
‘I work almost exclusively with women… theirs are the interesting voices’: Limor Shmila on her debut feature Montana
Director Limor Shmila and lead actresses Noa Biron and Netta Shpigelman discuss Montana, which premiered in the Discovery Programme at TIFF.
TIFF17 Interview: Sadaf Foroughi on her feminist coming-of-ager Ava
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi discusses her Discovery Peogramme FIPRESCI winner Ava and making a feminist film.
Top 20 must-see acquisition films at TIFF17
The majority of the films that screen at TIFF have yet to be picked up for distribution in North America — or even elsewhere. Directors bring their films to the festival hoping to find an audience and a distributor to bring the film to an even bigger audience. If a film isn’t picked up for […]
TIFF17 Review: Emma Thompson shines in The Children Act
Richard Eyre’s The Children Act, starring Emma Thompson, is a strong adaptation of one of Ian McEwan’s lesser novels.
TIFF17 Review: Xavier Legrand makes a strong directorial debut with Custody
The first time eight-year-old Julien (Thomas Gioria) must spend the weekend with his father, Antoine (Dénis Ménochet), in Xavier Legrand’s Custody, it’s an ordeal. It’s the start of the new custody agreement between his parents. He doesn’t want to go, and his mother Miriam (Léa Drucker) is sympathetic to his plight, lying to Antoine that […]