In Window Horses, writer-director Ann Marie Fleming gets very specific about the alienation her poet Rosie has experienced as a Chinese-Iranian Canadian, …
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TIFF 2016: 10 must-see Canadian shorts
Oft-overlooked, TIFF Short Cuts is the place to look for new talent, and among the Canadian shorts, particularly resonant national stories. For every amateurish …
Fantasy and identity collide in Zoom
You haven’t seen everything until you’ve seen a tiny lady stuffing dime bags into a RealDoll. This is Zoom, Canadian screenwriter Matt Hansen’s absurdist …
Review: April and the Extraordinary World is a wonder
April and the Extraordinary World is an immersive science fiction narrative and a thoughtful reflection on our own world. …
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Penny Lane on NUTS!: a gullible audience
Penny Lane (Our Nixon) discusses NUTS!, the importance of pacing in her creative nonfiction exploration of pseudoscience, why they used animated …
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Granny’s Dancing On The Table is a great debut
Easily the winner of the “most evocative title of the festival” award, Granny’s Dancing on the Table tells two stories: the present-day struggles of …
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