…I was making a film called Play that was about really young boys robbing other young boys in the city where I lived. These robberies were kind of special because…
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Ferit Karahan revisited his time at a Turkish boarding school for the chilling Brother’s Keeper
…Keeper, eleven-year-old Kurdish boys are treated more like prisoners than students at an Eastern Anatolian boarding school. They’re not allowed to joke around and express themselves; instead, they are expected…
Bright Young Things: Geraldine Viswanathan’s intelligent young women
…plays Becky, a kind of straight-man teenage girl whose comedic force derives from clever digs and sarcastic comebacks. In her first scene, when Becky crashes her brother’s all-boys camping trip,…
Best of TIFF14: Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club explores the darker side of privilege
…a hotel before sleeping with his barely consenting step-sister. Like Chuck Bass, these boys were raised in the lap of luxury and privilege. As they say in Britain, they’re posh,…
Danis Goulet on her Indigenous sci-fi thriller Night Raiders
…feature debut, Night Raiders, sounds eerily familiar: “In a post-apocalyptic future, children are considered state property. Separated from their parents, they are trained in boarding schools to fight for the…
The 30 best films of 2021
…one of the best films of 2021. From the introduction to our interview with Oliver Hermanus: “South Africa, 1981: at seventeen, all white boys are conscripted into the army for…