Audiences aren’t always right, but the reasons for the audience being wrong are complex, and that’s especially true with the toxic relationship between Indian audiences and the news media they consume, or at least the way While We Watched portrays that relationship. It’s understandable that your average Indian media consumer wants a narrative instead of […]
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Directed by Jub Clerk, Sweet As is a film that lives up to its title. The story of an Indigenous teen who discovers photography on a camping trip for at-risk youth, it’s uplifting without being cloying. Nor does it fall into the trap of popular fare like Dangerous Minds or Finding Forrester – movies that […]
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Some films ask interesting questions. Other films have stunning visuals, while some movies will bowl you over with their performances. Until Branches Bend is the rare film that does all of those things. Directed by Sophie Jarvis, it’s a drama centred around a pregnant cannery worker named Robin (Grace Glowicki) living in the Okanagan Valley. […]
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Lina Rodgriuez populates her film So Much Tenderness with interpreters, government agent, people of different ethnicities in Canada’s complex mosaic. Within that mosaic are refugees who have to shape shift in order to fit in. One of those refugees is Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald), a Colombian who had to smuggle herself to Canada, whose work as […]
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Bones of Crows is a gripping indictment of the abuse of indigenous people’s at residential schools all across Canada which hits home because we allows the viewer to feel it on a personal level It’s the story of Aline Spears and her siblings who are forcibly removed; through threat and other nefarious means by church […]
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Among its many functions, TIFF serves to reveal cinematic secrets from relatively obscure pockets in the world. Now, I’ve seen more than a few films from South Africa, but I’m not everybody, and everybody deserves to see films from over there. Specifically, Cape Town, home to a complex history and for the purposes of The […]
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First time feature writer and director Luis De Filippis tries to craft a story of anguish for her audience told through the lens of a family vacation. But it ultimately falls short of managing to say much of anything, and it just delivers a story that feels you feeling rather empty and pondering the question […]
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The few critics who saw Michael Vinik’s film Valeria is Getting Married in Venice call this a drama, but I’ll call this a comedy in ways that, well, explaining jokes aren’t funny. The titular character (Dasha Tvoronovich), a Jewish Ukrainian, participates in the preamble to the titular sacrament. She sits down to lunch (?) with […]
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My first in person screening is a double bill with a short preceding a mid length feature. These are both Wavelength selections so any interpretation seem like reaches, but I have big hands. EVENTIDE is the short. Polish women try to light up portions of a rocky Swedish beach with the flashlight app on their […]
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