At TIFF 2025, Alex discusses Nicholas Hytner’s film The Choral on the podcast, starring Ralph Fiennes, and why it’s not a queer film despite having a queer protagonist and queer creatives.
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The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2025 (updating throughout the festival)
From Iran’s Between Dreams and Hope to Argentina’s The Currents to Canada’s Meadowlarks, here are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the UK) at TIFF 2025
Frameline Capsule Review: Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes
In this capsule review from the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival, Alex Heeney reviews Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes.
InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.
Interview: Lucio Castro on Drunken Noodles
In this interview, Lucio Castro discusses the total freedom of low-budget filmmaking for his queer Cannes ACID film Drunken Noodles.
Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters
Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.