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 on May 13.
Canadian cinema
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
Anne Émond talks family intimacy in Our Loved Ones
Québécois filmmaker Anne Émond talks about depicting suicide, family intimacy, and her hometown in her moving new film.
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 our interview with director Falardeau here.
88:88 is a formal and ideological marvel **** 1/2
88:88, an emphatic statement on poverty, debuts an exciting, radical new voice in cinema: Winnipeg-based Isiah Medina. The numbers ‘88:88’ flash across alarm clocks when electricity goes out: The accurate time is replaced by these place holders and time essentially stands still. The central philosophical meaning of 88:88 in the film is one of stasis, and how that stasis caused by poverty subjects people to a minimized life.
TIFF15: Our Loved Ones depicts cycles of family grief
Our Loved Ones wrestles with the path to adulthood, memory, and family obligation.