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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.

A still from Point and Line to Plane and an image of director Sofia Bohdanowicz

Justine Smith / September 17, 2020

TIFF Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz on grief and magical thinking in Point and Line to Plane

Sofia Bohdanowicz’s short Point and Line to Plane is her most personal film to date, a meditation on grief that marks a formal shift for the director. Read her insights…

Aida stares at the camera in Quo Vadis, Aida?

Orla Smith / September 16, 2020

TIFF Review: Bosnian genocide drama Quo Vadis, Aida? grapples with complicity

Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, a harrowing drama about the 1995 Bosnian genocide, is one of the best films of TIFF 2020. Find out why…

A still from the TIFF film Violation.

Alex Heeney / September 14, 2020

TIFF Review: Violation starts out well but disappoints

Violation is a cottage-country-Canada twist on the rape-revenge genre, which explores consent and the limits of revenge.

Alex Heeney / September 13, 2020

TIFF Review: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is romantic to a fault

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is her most technically accomplished, accessible, and sadly, conventional and sentimental work to date.

Director Sophy Romvari in front of a still from her film Still Processing. This is an interview from TIFF.

Justine Smith / September 12, 2020

TIFF Interview: Sophy Romvari on Still Processing and personal cinema

Sophy Romvari’s deeply personal documentary short, Still Processing, is a triumph of personal cinema. Read about how Romvari made the film…

Directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt are pictured in front a black and white still of jazz musician Billy Tipton. The image features text that states this is an interview at TIFF.

Orla Smith / September 12, 2020

TIFF Interview: Reclaiming transmasculine history in No Ordinary Man

Transgender jazz musician Billy Tipton’s life was distorted by the media after his death. No Ordinary Man aims to correct that narrative.

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