Eva Neymann imbues ordinary moments and domestic tasks with a magical quality. Yet this sense of wonder is as fragile as shtetl life itself. Read our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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 weekend with women at TIFF15: Saturday Sept. 19
The Seventh Row presents a guide to spending your weekend immersed in films directed by women in our end-of-TIFF series #AWeekendWithWomen (named after #AYearWithWomen because a weekend is a good start). Here’s how we suggest you spend your Saturday. 9:15 a.m. Semana Santa at Scotiabank 9 (85 mins) — Tickets available OR 10 a.m. Body […]
TIFF15: Jack manages to be a boring serial-killer movie
It should be difficult to make Jack Unterweger’s story dull: Austrian prostitute-murderer turned prison poet, he became a literary cause-celèbre. He achieved early release from prison in 1990, only to kill himself four years later after being convicted of nine subsequent murders. Yet Elisabeth Scharang’s Jack manages to make a clock-watcher out of this dramatic material […]
TIFF15: Sherpa is an inside look at the Nepalese people who make climbing Everest possible
With Sherpa, Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom revisits the story of Everest, but in present day and from the Sherpas’ perspective instead of that of the Westerners who hope to conquer it.
TIFF15: Our Loved Ones depicts cycles of family grief
Our Loved Ones wrestles with the path to adulthood, memory, and family obligation.
TIFF15 review: NFB history doc Ninth Floor sheds light on our racial biases
Mina Shum’s taut and accomplished documentary The Ninth Floor is an extremely important film about racial discrimination in Canada. Not only does it retell a crucial part of Canadian history that never made it into the history books I studied in school, but the incident it depicts has continued relevance today. The title refers to the […]