Alanis Obomsawin’s new short film, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, is a powerful presentation preserved on film.
Women Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar is a smart, heartfelt debut from Luàna Bajrami
Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Luàna Bajrami makes a wonderful directorial debut with The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, a coming-of-age tale set in Kosovo.
Good Madam review: A haunted house in post-Apartheid South Africa
In Jenna Cato Bass’s horror film, a Black family’s domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.
TIFF Review: The Mad Women’s Ball is a shallow look at ‘female hysteria’
Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour’s Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological complexity.
‘The more we went inside Lise’s perspective, the better it got’: Tea Lindeburg on As in Heaven
Director Tea Lindeburg discusses her remarkable film As in Heaven about a day in the life of a teenage girl about to lose everything in 1880s Denmark.
TIFF Review: Aloners is a melancholy ode to society’s loners
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people.