We take a look at some of the best Canadian shorts from the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, which are now available to screen online via FestivalScope.
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Review: God’s Own Country is a swoon-worthy romance
Francis Lee’s feature debut, God’s Own Country, is a moving coming-of-age story and a swoon-worthy romance about small gestures that signal major changes. This review of God’s Own Country is an excerpt from our ebook God’s Own Country: A Special Issue, which is available for purchase here.
‘I’m fascinated by the industrialization of the birthing process’: Director Heather Young on Milk
Canadian writer-director-editor Heather Young discusses her short, Milk. Watch the film for free here. Young has since made a great feature debut, Murmur, which we interviewed her about here.
‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin discusses depicting community, gaining the trust of her subjects, and centering their voices in her 50th film on contemporary indigenous issues in Canada.
Ruben Östlund: ‘It’s more interesting to have someone do something stupid or amoral out of pure candour or naivety’
Ruben Östlund on his Palme d’Or winner The Square, the mechanisms of empathy, the state of contemporary art, and the pleasures of tragi-comedy.
‘Cutting at right angles’: Frederick Wiseman on Ex Libris: New York Public Library
Frederick Wiseman on the making of his exquisite Ex Libris: New York Public Library, which is about the role of the library in society.