Lion could have been a sophisticated exploration of identity and alienation but settles for being a disappointingly simple fairy tale.
Immigration
Poetry and identity in NFB animated feature Window Horses
In Window Horses, writer-director Ann Marie Fleming gets very specific about the alienation her poet Rosie has experienced as a Chinese-Iranian Canadian, and in turn, finds something more universal about displacement and the diaspora.
Haya Waseem discusses her TIFF short Shahzad set in Toronto
Pakistan-born, Toronto-based filmmaker Haya Waseem discusses her TIFF short film Shahzad, Seventh Row’s pick for the best Canadian short at the festival.
Mountains May Depart charts the consequences of youthful decisions
Told in three distinct parts over the course of 30 years, it begins as a simple love triangle and expands, along with its aspect ratio, into a story that reverberates through future generations: the country and the film’s protagonist change.
Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land
Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.