My English Cousin (Switzerland/Qatar) Dir. Karim Sayad Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Meet Fahed Mameri. He’s the cousin of director Karim Sayad. Fahed’s life fuels his cousin’s documentary and his dull, tedious routine provides
Keep ReadingThe Physics of Sorrow is Theodore Ushev's most ambitious and significant project to date as it offers a time capsule for a generation told using an unprecedented animation technique.
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Keep ReadingVarda By Agnès (France, 115 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda Programme: Special Events (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda’s final film is a bittersweet farewell. It’s difficult to avoid watching Varda By Agnès, which premiered earlier
Keep ReadingHeather Young discusses her hybrid drama Murmur, which brings the story of a recovering addict who volunteers at an animal shelter to this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Keep ReadingYung Chang's This Is Not a Movie follows Robert Fisk to the front lines of journalism to observe how a seasoned reporter seeks the truth in an era of 'Fake News'.
Keep ReadingOnce Were Brothers tells the story of Robbie Robertson and The Band in Daniel Roher's music doc that salutes a Canadian icon.
Keep ReadingOnsite at BAM (Bogotá Audiovisual Market) 2019, it’s clear that extensive investment in changing the country’s story culturally and economically through benefits and business opportunities is certainly stimulating the film and television
Keep ReadingIn fifteen years Colombia has built a thriving film and television industry, making it and Bogotá in particular, the new hot spot in the Americas for filmmaking. 27 foreign-directed films were shot
Keep ReadingMalcom Ingram has collaborated with Sean Stanley on a new doc, The Phantom of Winnipeg, which gives Brian De Palma's cult hit Phantom of the Paradise an appreciation it deserves.
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