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.
Toronto International Film Festival
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.
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.
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.
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.
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