Invitation (Nimtoh) (India, 85 min.) Dir. Saurav Rai Director Saurav Rai invites audiences to celebrate slow cinema with his debut feature Nimtoh aka Invitation. This neorealist hybrid drama, which closes Images Festival’s 2020 online edition,
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Keep ReadingDemonic (Australia 28 minutes) Dir. Pia Borg screens with: The Giverny Document (US France 42 minutes) Dir. Ja’Tovia Gary In the International short and medium length competition at RIDM, Demonic and
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Keep ReadingAmidst the various concerns that inform the films of Turkish-born, US-based artist and filmmaker Nazli Dinçel is a recurring curiosity in touch. Her films are often populated by bodies seen most often in
Keep ReadingOver this evening and the next, staunch filmmaker and author Julian Samuel will have two of his major documentaries screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Both take on the subject of libraries: where they’ve been
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"This film tries to project the future, but in doing so, it looks at the past," says Igor Drljača on his documentary The Stone Speakers, which offers an unconventional of Bosnian tourist
Keep ReadingTIFF’s annual Wavelengths programme is one of few opportunities for Torontonians (and Canadians) to see work on the bleeding edge of film aesthetics in such a concentrated burst. It’s also, I would
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