Director Limor Shmila and lead actresses Noa Biron and Netta Shpigelman discuss Montana, which premiered in the Discovery Programme at TIFF.
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.
TIFF17 Interview: Sadaf Foroughi on her feminist coming-of-ager Ava
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi discusses her Discovery Peogramme FIPRESCI winner Ava and making a feminist film.
Niki Lindroth von Bahr on The Burden and tap dancing mice
Filmmaker, costume designer, and artist Niki Lindroth von Bahr discusses the making of her short film The Burden, a stop-motion musical with animal puppets who sing about existential despair. The Burden is available to stream on The Criterion Channel and Hoopla in Canada and the US. You can rent or purchase the film on Vimeo […]
Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw
In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine.
Review: Whose Streets? is more the story of a people than of individuals
Whose Streets? is a documentary about on-the-ground activism in the Ferguson uprising by filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis.
Sundance review: An Inconvenient Sequel never proves necessary
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is an unsatisfying followup to An Inconvenient Truth, more interested in Al Gore himself than the multi-faceted approaches needed to mitigate climate change.