Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountanous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens their way of life.
Film Festivals
TIFF 23 Film Review: Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain whether newer is necessarily better.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard
Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just for animals but other humans
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 UK) at TIFF 2023
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 often funny genre-inflected character dramas.
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.