Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden's final film Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just …
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Film Festivals
The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2023 (updating throughout the festival)
From Snow Leopard to The Tundra Within Me to Without Air, these are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the …
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Good Condition and The Event: Short films by Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa
Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa's short films Good Condition and The Event are genre-inflected psychological studies of characters in existential crises, in …
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I Used to Be Funny is a thoughtful dramedy about PTSD
Ally Pankiw’s I Used to Be Funny addresses coping with PTSD with a light touch, in this story of a struggling female comic. The film had its world premiere at …
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Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter and women in the Criterion Collection
Alex Heeney reviews the new Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release of Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter.Despite (or perhaps because of) the Criterion …
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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