In Katalin Moldovai’s feature debut, Without Air, a beloved literature teacher stands to lose her job after she recommends Agnieszka Holland’s gay romance Total Eclipse (1995) to her class.
Film Festivals
TIFF 23 Film Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s creative nonfiction documentary Pictures of Ghosts is an ode to the public and private spaces where we live our lives and how they hold our memories.
Film Review: Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See)
Inuk filmmakers Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See) is a film about female friendship and how women talk about and around trauma.
Film Review: Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Cree filmmaker Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) collects testimonials from residential school survivors, their children, and grandchildren to illuminate intergenerational trauma and how Indigenous people are working to heal.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Kim Taeyang’s Mimang
Kim Taeyang’s film Mimang features a series of short, momentary encounters between a man, a woman, and people they know that they know can’t last.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Ivan Sen’s Limbo
Ivan Sen’s latest foray into the detective genre, Limbo, places a white cop at the centre of an investigation to re-open a twenty-year-old case about the disappearance of an Indigenous teenage girl.