The 2019 Iran floods are the backdrop of director Manijeh Hekmat’s often lighthearted film, Bandar Band.
Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz on grief and magical thinking in Point and Line to Plane
Sofia Bohdanowicz’s short Point and Line to Plane is her most personal film to date, a meditation on grief that marks a formal shift for the director. Read her insights…
TIFF Review: Bosnian genocide drama Quo Vadis, Aida? grapples with complicity
Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, a harrowing drama about the 1995 Bosnian genocide, is one of the best films of TIFF 2020. Find out why…
TIFF Review: The shallow politics of Michel Franco’s New Order
Michel Franco’s latest provocation, New Order, is a grossly tone deaf bloodbath. Find out why we hated it…
TIFF Review: 76 Days provides a new lens on the pandemic
76 Days is an urgent documentary about coronavirus pandemic that humanizes the people behind the PPE.
TIFF Review: Sweat is one of the first great films about an influencer
Magnus von Horn’s Sweat avoids the cliche of portraying an Instagram influencer as shallow and instead extends empathy to her and her fans.