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From Benediction to The Hill Where Lionesses Roar to Good Madam, these are the best acquisition titles at TIFF 2021. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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In Kamila Andini's Yuni, the eponymous teenager tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures. Kamila Andini’s coming-of-age …
[Read more...] about Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story
The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s …
[Read more...] about The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life
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. Jack Lowden was on …
[Read more...] about Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men
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. The film …
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people. Click here to find …
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