Lina from Lima is one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19. Director María Paz González talks making the film part realist drama about the immigrant working experience and part flamboyant musical.
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TIFF19 review: Geraldine Viswanathan shines in Hala
Minhal Baig’s Hala is an observant character study of a young and curious woman trying to find her identity, torn between a devoutly religious Pakistani family and her life as an American-born teen in high school.
TIFF19: Maria Sødahl, Andrea Bræin Hovig, and Stellan Skarsgård on Hope
Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl discusses her remarkable marital/cancer drama, Hope, with lead actors Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård.
TIFF19 review: Comets , a lovely film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves
Tamar Shavgulidze’s quiet, lovely Comets is a film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves.
TIFF19 review: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open uses real-time duration for poignant effect
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open explores difficulties in communication between two Indigenous women with very different viewpoints and life experiences
TIFF19 review: Hind Meddeb’s documentary Paris Stalingrad captures a particular political moment
Hind Meddah’s Paris Stalingrad questions the spectacle of authoritarian xenophobia.