Alice Lowe discusses the making of Prevenge, her wickedly funny directorial debut, from conception through to completion. Shot when she was seven months pregnant, the film is a revenge movie in which a foul-mouthed fetus sends its mother, Ruth (Alice Lowe), on a killing spree.
Toronto International Film Festival
Yanillys Perez’ TIFF16 Dropbox Award Winner Jeffrey
Yanillys Perez’ feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist voiceover with a social realist approach to its optimistic, clear-eyed, and poetic subject: Jeffrey, a charming and driven 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a famous reggaeton & dembow singer.
TIFF16 Interview: Director Peter Monsaert and his stars talk Le Ciel Flamand
In Conversation with Director Peter Monsaert, and actors Sara Vertongen and Wim Willaert from Le Ciel Flamand.
TIFF16 Review: Riz Ahmed stars in City of Tiny Lights
City of Tiny Lights, a modern noir story set in London, is a great showcase for Riz Ahmed’s talents. However, its ambition of addressing the immigrant experience and islamophobia prove more admirable than the execution.
TIFF16 Review: Killed into art? Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype
Kioyshi Kurosawa’s latest eerie offering, Daguerrotype, is a well-crafted aesthetic effort with little actual resonance screening in the TIFF Platform competition.
TIFF 16 Review: I Am Not Madame Bovary
Feng Xiaogang experiments with new aspect ratios in I Am Not Madame Bovary, his caustically funny satire of Chinese bureaucracy. Starring Fan Bingbing, the film feels more like a fable than a realistic tale.