RIDM announces five films for its 2021 festival, including the Quebecois docs Upstairs (Dehors Serge Dehors) and Petit Tom. This year's festival will be a hybrid event with live premieres and digital
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In Passage, director Sarah Baril Gaudet’s return to her hometown in small-town Québec is seen through the eyes of two teens on the cusp of leaving it, as she did nearly a
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Night Shot (Visión Nocturna) (Chile, 80 min.) Dir. Carolina Moscoso “I’m very sorry about the situation,” a participant writes, “but I hope your wounds heal outside the law.” This message appears among
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"This is quite a banal story; it’s about the death of a mother. Unfortunately, it’s something that many of us have gone through, and many others will go through. The uniqueness comes
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The Grocer’s Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World (France, 111 min.) Dir. Claire Simon Against the backdrop of Lussas, a small rural community in France, Tënk has been born. Tënk,
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"It is meaningful to me because it was a portrait of something happening in my community, where I was living at the time. I learned a lot about what else I wanted
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Atsushi Sakahara’s Me and the Cult Leader tells of an encounter between a survivor and a member of the cult that harmed him.
Keep ReadingOuvertures (France/Haiti/UK, 132 min.) Dir. Louis Henderson & Olivier Marboeuf In the opening chapters of Ouvertures, directed by Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf, we are far from Haiti. The overwhelming whiteness of a wintry
Keep ReadingThe Two Sights (Canada/UK 87 min.) Dir. Joshua Bonnetta In a 1998 paper entitled The Ghost in the Machine, engineer Vic Tandy drew a line between infrasound and paranormal activity. According to his
Keep ReadingSurveying the festival sidebar devoted to feature debuts by Canadian female filmmakers, including winner Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open.
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