Writer-director Arsalan Amiri and co-writer Ida Panahandeh discuss their first foray into genre territory, Zalava, which won prizes at the Venice International …
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TIFF21 Best Acquisition Titles
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. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story
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 …
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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 …
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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. Jack Lowden was on …
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‘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. The film …