As TIFF ’18 draws to a close, the 7R team looks back at the festival’s best films that are still searching for distribution. Check out our lists of the top 20 acquisition titles of 2017 and 2016.
Toronto International Film Festival
Director Tuva Novotny and actress Pia Tjelta discuss one-take wonder Blind Spot
Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental illness.
Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
Interview: Carmel Winters on her TIFF Discovery film Float Like a Butterfly
Irish writer-director Carmel Winters discusses her second feature, Float Like a Butterfly, a female coming-of-age story set in the 1970s amongst the Irish Travellers community.
TIFF 2018’s most exciting young actors to watch
To mark the start of TIFF 2018, we delve into the budding careers of 16 of our favourite emerging actors who have films at the festival. Read all our TIFF coverage here.
‘We are at war with ourselves’: Benedikt Erlingsson discusses Woman at War
Benedikt Erlingsson discusses his highly entertaining yet deeply moving and sincere second feature Woman at War, about an eco-warrior who also wants to be a mother.