lex Heeney picks 8 must-see short films at TIFF 2024 from around the world.
Canadian cinema
Interview: Patricia Rozema on filmmaking, social safety nets, and dog resurrection
In this interview, legendary indie filmmaker Patricia Rozema sits down with us to discuss her works, from Cannes award winner I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing to her lesbian romance When Night is Falling to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.
Film Review: Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane
We review Caitlin Cronenberg’s directorial debut, Humane, a huis clos horror film set in a near future of highly encouraged assisted death finds a rich family of awful pepole tring to decide who among them to kill.
Film Review: M. H. Murray’s I Don’t Know Who You Are
M. H. Murray’s directorial debut, I Don’t Know Who You Are, does for access to PEP what Never Rarely Sometimes Always did for abortion access.
Film Review: Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See)
Inuk filmmakers Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See) is a film about female friendship and how women talk about and around trauma.
Film Review: Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Cree filmmaker Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) collects testimonials from residential school survivors, their children, and grandchildren to illuminate intergenerational trauma and how Indigenous people are working to heal.