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TIFF21 Best Acquisition Titles

Alex Heeney / March 22, 2024

Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story

In Kamila Andini’s Yuni, teenage Yuni tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2021

Arsalan Amiri on making a realistic genre film, Zalava, in Iran

Writer-director Arsalan Amiri and co-writer Ida Panahandeh discuss their first foray into genre territory, Zalava, which won prizes at the Venice International Film Festival.

A collage of the best acquisition titles at TIFF 2021.

Seventh Row Editors / September 15, 2021

The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2021 (updating throughout the festival)

From Benediction to The Hill Where Lionesses Roar to Good Madam, these are the best acquisition titles at TIFF 2021.

Alex Heeney / September 14, 2021

The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life

The Gravedigger’s Wife follows a Somali gravedigger’s desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith’s interview with the film’s director here In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s first feature, The Gravedigger’s Wife, which premiered in Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the great irony is that Guled (Omar Abdi) earns his […]

Alex Heeney / September 12, 2021

Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men

Benediction may be Terence Davies’s gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace.

Alex Heeney / September 12, 2021

‘The more we went inside Lise’s perspective, the better it got’: Tea Lindeburg on As in Heaven

Director Tea Lindeburg discusses her remarkable film As in Heaven about a day in the life of a teenage girl about to lose everything in 1880s Denmark.

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