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Toronto International Film Festival

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2015

TIFF 15 review: Muntean’s One Floor Below feels like a pointless exercise

Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s entirely skippable One Floor Below follows a car insurance salesman whose nosiness gets the better of him. After eavesdropping too deliberately on the couple downstairs’ fight one night, he discovers that the woman is dead.

How Heavy This Hammer

Mary Angela Rowe / September 6, 2015

TIFF15: How Heavy This Hammer explores masculinity in crisis ****

Mary Angela Rowe reviews one of the best films of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival from Canadian director Kazik Radwanski. To discover more great Canadian Cinema, take the Canadian Cinema Challenge and get a copy of our ebook on Canadian film, The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook here.

Willow Maclay / September 6, 2015

NFB short Rock The Box **1/2: unclear intentions in promising feminist short

Rhiannon Rozier has a degree in political science and Latin American history, but her true passion is connecting to people through music. She is a DJ and creates electronic dance music (EDM), but she’s also a woman, working in a male-dominated genre. Katherine Monk’s National Film Board of Canada documentary short Rock the Box begins with […]

Alex Heeney / September 4, 2015

What do we mean when we talk about Canadian cinema?

Where is Canadian cinema going? What is its purpose? And what can we say about how the country is being reflected back at us through this year’s TIFF15 crop of Canadian films?

Ville-Marie

Mary Angela Rowe / September 4, 2015

Ville-Marie is gorgeously dispassionate ***1/2

Guy Édoin’s Ville-Marie is a visually striking film with a curiously dispassionate core. The film, co-written by Édoin, tells the stories of four individuals whose lives intersect one night at Ville-Marie Hospital in Montreal. A European actress (Monica Belucci) is filming in Montreal to reconnect with her son (Aliocha Schneider), who is trying to finally learn […]

Alex Heeney / September 2, 2015

TIFF15 interview: Ninth Floor director Mina Shum discusses Canadian racism

Ninth Floor director Mina Shum: In Canada, “We’re racist but we like to apologize about our racism.” Shum discusses Canadian racism and her new documentary. 

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