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Toronto International Film Festival

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Hanna Slak’s Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Solitude

Hanna Slak’s Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Solitude are predictable films about intergenerational connections between lonely people but are elevated by thoughtful, sensitive direction by their first-time filmmakers.

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Nabin Subba’s A Road to a Village

Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountanous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens their way of life.

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun

Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain whether newer is necessarily better.

Alex Heeney / September 7, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard

Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just for animals but other humans

Alex Heeney / September 6, 2023

The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2023 (updating throughout the festival)

From Snow Leopard to The Tundra Within Me to Without Air, these are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the UK) at TIFF 2023

Alex Heeney / December 11, 2022

Review: Other People’s Children is Rebecca Zlotowski’s best film

Alex Heeney reviews Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film Other People’s Children, about a woman approaching forty, trying to figure out how to be a parent when she may no longer be able to be a biological one.

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