In Katalin Moldovai’s feature debut, Without Air, a beloved literature teacher stands to lose her job after she recommends Agnieszka Holland’s gay romance Total Eclipse (1995) to her class.
Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF 23 Film Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s creative nonfiction documentary Pictures of Ghosts is an ode to the public and private spaces where we live our lives and how they hold our memories.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Kim Taeyang’s Mimang
Kim Taeyang’s film Mimang features a series of short, momentary encounters between a man, a woman, and people they know that they know can’t last.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Ivan Sen’s Limbo
Ivan Sen’s latest foray into the detective genre, Limbo, places a white cop at the centre of an investigation to re-open a twenty-year-old case about the disappearance of an Indigenous teenage girl.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom drama about how we can never fully understand people’s private lives because we only see them through fragments of their public lives.
TIFF 23 Film Review: A Happy Day
Hisham Zaman’s film A Happy Day follows a group of teenagers in a remote refugee centre on the cusp of adulthood and thus, deportation.