Beginning, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature, announces its director’s arrival on the arthouse scene with several bangs. In a lengthy opening shot, a group o...
In the new Azerbaijani film In Between Dying, a man goes on the run after shooting a low-end criminal. Over the course of a day, he encounters a number of wome...
Naomi Kawase is a divisive name on the festival circuit, though you might be surprised that’s the case when actually watching her work. A mainstay at the Canne...
“Scenes filmed in 13 French cities between November 2018 and February 2020. During that period we counted 2 deaths, 5 hands amputated, and 27 eyes lost during ...
Anxiety
is high at the start of Jesse Noah Klein's Like
a House on Fire. We hear Dara (Sarah Sutherland) breathing heavily in the
bathroom of a train car befor...
It doesn’t take long for Memory House to dive right into politics. Within minutes, dairy factory worker Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga) finds himself sitting acros...
“I was blind, now I see. I was deaf, now I hear. I was dumb, now I speak,” said Helen Keller in one of her most quoted orations, in a speech telling how the “m...
There is a moment of surreal wonder near the start of Concrete Cowboy, the TIFF premiere co-starring Idris Elba, that is never equaled again, a sequence of une...
It takes great maturity and confidence to make a film about the emergence of a young woman’s sexuality that also dares to ask complex, provocative questions wh...
Like every industry built under the watchful eye of a global patriarchy, the EDM scene is grossly tilted in favor of its male artists. And like many of those s...
