An interview with Saint Omer director Alice Diop on creating a new cinematic language between fiction and non-fiction.
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Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres), directed by Ivan Grbovic and co-written/shot by Sara Mishara, will represent Canada in this year's Oscar race for Best International Feature.
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How many love stories can say they’ve spanned decades, crossed borders, and traversed genres? A tender tale of migration and belonging fuels Heidi Ewing's hybrid drama I Carry You with Me.
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Musical Dear Evan Hansen, starring Blen Platt, Julianne Moore, and Amy Adams, is this year’s TIFF opening night Gala.
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As documentary filmmakers increasingly adopted the narrative structure and storytelling strategies of fiction films, fiction filmmakers reciprocated, borrowing heavily from the documentary form to imbue their works with a greater sense of
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Philippe Falardeau opens the 70th Berlin International Film Festival with the world premiere of his coming-of-age film My Salinger Year — “based on a true story,” a recurring disclaimer on Berlinale screens.
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Anne at 13,000 ft is bracingly and kinetically edited to convey the maddening rush of the dive from the air and, as the pieces fall into place, Radwanski and Campbell leave a
Keep ReadingAn Elephant Sitting Still (China, 234 min.) Dir. Hu Bo Sometimes criticism is beside the point. An Elephant Sitting Still is Chinese director Hu Bo’s first feature film. It’s also his last: he
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