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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Toronto International Film Festival
Ep. 109: TIFF 2021, part 1
On the first of our TIFF 2021 podcasts, we discuss the films we saw before the festival began. This includes the new film from site favourite Joachim Trier, …
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. In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s …
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Holocaust drama The Survivor is a showcase for Ben Foster
Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in Barry Levinson's The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101. In 1999, Barry Levinson …
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TIFF Review: The Mad Women’s Ball is a shallow look at ‘female hysteria’
Mélanie Laurent's The Mad Women's Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour's Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological …
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