Looking for Grace director Sue Brooks sat down at TIFF15 to discuss how she approached aesthetic, what inspired her to make the film, and the lack of funding for female-helmed films.
Film Festivals
TIFF15: Johnnie To’s Office combines corporate intrigue with musical theatre
Johnnie To borrows from the conventions of theatre, especially in his set design, to craft a satirical corporate musical.
TIFF15 shorts showcase emerging female directors
According to the Data Visualization firm Silk, only 27% of the films screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — 69 of the 400+ films — were directed by women. The numbers get worse if you exclude short films entirely. Worse, only 9% of the films in TIFF’s Discovery section, a program dedicated to […]
TIFF15: Unearthing the dead past in Demon
There’s a troubling absence in Marcin Wrona’s Demon: there are very few Jews in this adaptation of a Jewish story. Protagonist Piotr (Itay Tiran) is a gentile, his intended bride (Agnieszka Zulewska) is a gentile, and all the people in their nameless Polish town are gentiles, too. There are only two Jews in the entire […]
TIFF15: Young love and dying tradition in Song of Songs
Eva Neymann imbues ordinary moments and domestic tasks with a magical quality. Yet this sense of wonder is as fragile as shtetl life itself. Read our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival.
A weekend with women at TIFF15: Saturday Sept. 19
The Seventh Row presents a guide to spending your weekend immersed in films directed by women in our end-of-TIFF series #AWeekendWithWomen (named after #AYearWithWomen because a weekend is a good start). Here’s how we suggest you spend your Saturday. 9:15 a.m. Semana Santa at Scotiabank 9 (85 mins) — Tickets available OR 10 a.m. Body […]