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 halls like blood coursing through the veins.
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All These Sleepless Nights is a mesmerizing look at youth culture in post-communist Poland
All These Sleepless Nights explores loneliness and liberation in a Poland finally free after decades of occupation and war.
Director Susan Johnson talks Carrie Pilby
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.
Interview: Hope Dickson Leach discusses her astonishing debut The Levelling
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 Elena Lazic about developing and designing the film, which opens in North America on March 24.
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.
Writer-director Selma Vilhunen talks Little Wing
Finnish writer-director Selma Vilhunen discusses her feature debut, Little Wing, dysfunctional families, and working with child actors.