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Alex Heeney / September 20, 2024

TIFF 2024 Film Review: Tumpal Tampubolon’s Crocodile Tears

Alex Heeney reviews Crocodile Tears, a genre-inflected debut feature about a toxic mother-son relationship, from Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon. The film is one of the best sales titles at TIFF 2024.

Alex Heeney / September 9, 2024

TIFF 2024 Film Review: Koya Kamura’s Winter in Sokcho

Alex Heeney reviews Japanese-French filmmaker Koya Kamura’s impressive debut film, Winter in Sokcho, screening in the TIFF Platform Competition.

Alex Heeney / September 9, 2024

TIFF 2024 Film Review: Egil Pederson’s My Father’s Daughter

Alex Heeney reviews Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s tennis-set film Julie Keeps Quiet about a teenage girl re-learning the importance of boundaries after a possible sexual assault.

Alex Heeney / September 6, 2024

TIFF 2024 Review: Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet

Alex Heeney reviews Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s tennis-set film Julie Keeps Quiet about a teenage girl re-learning the importance of boundaries after a possible sexual assault.

Blind Spot, Tuva Novotny, Pia Tjelta

Elena Lazic / September 13, 2018

Director Tuva Novotny and actress Pia Tjelta discuss one-take wonder Blind Spot

Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental illness.

Never Steady Never Still, Kathleen Hepburn

Elena Lazic / September 29, 2017

‘I wanted to show that kind of strength that women have’: Kathleen Hepburn on her debut feature Never Steady, Never Still

Canadian Director Kathleen Hepburn discusses her feature debut,Never Steady, Never Still, which beautifully tackles Parkinson’s disease.

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