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Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental …
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Sundance highlight White Rabbit is the rare truly intersectional film about LA artists and adult friendship. Director Daryl Wein and breakout star Vivian Bang …
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Alex Heeney picks the six most exciting breakout actors at Sundance 2018. Each gave a detailed, astute, and fully committed performance that announced the …
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Director Michael Pearce discusses directing actors and developing the eerie tone of his directorial debut Beast, a psychological thriller with formal ambition. …
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Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, "a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife," and how it illuminates South Sami …
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Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. Every …
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Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a hospital’s …
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All These Sleepless Nights explores loneliness and liberation in a Poland finally free after decades of occupation and war. To access this post, you must …
Director Susan Johnson discusses her female Holden Caulfield film, Carrie Pilby, one of the highlights of TIFF 2016, and working with her star Bel Powley. The …
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One of the highlights of last year’s TIFF, The Levelling announces a new talent on the film scene in writer-director Hope Dickson Leach. She talks to …
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