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 …
Canadian cinema
Adam Garnet Jones on Fire Song: ‘A film about a feeling’
Writer-director Adam Garnet Jones discusses his debut film Fire Song the first Canadian film about a Two-Spirited character, a Queer Native. It opens in Toronto …
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With The Demons, Québécois Filmmaker Philippe Lesage defies convention
Québécois writer-director Philippe Lesage discusses how he upended our expectations about sound design, framing, and editing in his first feature The Demons. …
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Anne Émond talks family intimacy in Our Loved Ones
In this interview, Québécois filmmaker Anne Émond talks about depicting suicide, family intimacy, and her hometown in her moving new film Our Loved Ones. Read …
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My Internship in Canada is a smart farce
We review Philippe Falardeau's hilarious political satire My Internship in Canada, which was selected as one of Canada's Top Ten Films of 2015. Read …
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88:88 is a formal and ideological marvel **** 1/2
One of the best films to premiere at TIFF15, 88:88 is an emphatic statement on poverty and debuts an exciting, radical new voice in cinema: Winnipeg-based Isiah …
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