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Toronto International Film Festival

Female directors TIFF, Sami Blood

Alex Heeney / May 31, 2017

Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds

Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. Read our interview with writer-director Amanda Kernell. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.

Heal the Living, Katell Quillévéré

Alex Heeney / May 10, 2017

Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight

Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a hospital’s halls like blood coursing through the veins.

Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson

Alex Heeney / March 23, 2017

Director Susan Johnson talks Carrie Pilby

Director Susan Johnson discusses her female Holden Caulfield film, Carrie Pilby, one of the highlights of TIFF 2016, and working with her star Bel Powley.

Hope Dickson Leach, Leveling, London Film Festival

Elena Lazic / March 20, 2017

Interview: Hope Dickson Leach discusses her astonishing debut The Levelling

One of the highlights of last year’s TIFF, The Levelling announces a new talent on the film scene in writer-director Hope Dickson Leach. She talks to Elena Lazic about developing and designing the film, which opens in North America on March 24.

Raw, Julia Ducournau

Mary Angela Rowe / March 10, 2017

Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror

Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.

Little Wing, Selma Vilhuven

Alex Heeney / February 22, 2017

Writer-director Selma Vilhunen talks Little Wing

Finnish writer-director Selma Vilhunen discusses her feature debut, Little Wing, dysfunctional families, and working with child actors.

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