posted Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Give or Take tells the story of Martin(Jamie Effros), a pragmatist who’s checked the boxes of an acceptable life yet feels disconnected, especially from his father, Kenneth, a distant man Martin could never figure out. Their relationship got more complicated when Kenneth came out after his wife died. For the first time, he was able […]
posted Monday, February 21, 2022
A Night In The Fields takes place a working class town near the French border, Anthony and Dylan, two inseparable and fearless fourteen-year-olds, decide to crash an evening at a nightclub. Young hearts run free with exhilarating consequences for all involved in this roller coaster ride through French suburbia. This piercing debut, a ‘moyen métrage’ […]
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2022
HELP chronicles a painful break up that prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio start the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each […]
posted Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Canada’s largest Black cultural event during Black History Month, the Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF), is celebrating its 10th anniversary, February 16 – 21, with a bigger and stronger ONLINE programming! Created by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, presented by TD Bank Group (TD) in collaboration with Global News, TBFF commemorates this important milestone with a record number of 200 films from 30 countries. Part of the TD 2022 Black History Month Series, […]
posted Friday, February 11, 2022
WORST TO FIRST is a feature-length documentary that portrays the against-all-odds inspirational story of the launch of the iconic and most successful radio station in history, New York City’s Z100. In 1983, Z100 launched from the swamps of New Jersey, where no artist would venture, and the DJs had to buy their own records just to […]
posted Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The Yukon Film Society (YFS) announces it is shifting its 20th annual Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) to online and moving the dates to February 11- 28, 2022. The annual festival will feature 60+ films online, an online industry conference, and other virtual events over the 18 days of the festival. ALFF 2022 highlights Indigenous […]
posted Friday, February 4, 2022
In The Other Me, Irakli (Jim Sturgess) is an aspiring architect thrown into turmoil when diagnosed with a debilitating eye disease. As his condition worsens, a surreal visual world opens up to him causing him to question his life’s choices, his career, and his marriage to an increasingly frustrated Nutsa (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) who struggles with […]
posted Monday, January 31, 2022
In The Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand tells the story of Antonis and Christos, two friends who are down on their luck, disconnected from modern society and surviving mainly on Christos’ unemployment benefit. Their only escape in life is their passion for music and their 8-bit band, called Speed_28. The two friends are united by […]
posted Sunday, January 30, 2022
When adulthood looms, naivety may fade – but the urge to play can take on a disturbing new dimension. These four beguiling stories from Switzerland, North Macedonia, France, and the Czech Republic, explore these years of youthful wonder with a deftness and artistry that lingers. New Queer Visions are the purveyors of awesome gay European […]
posted Thursday, January 27, 2022
A pair of Mississauga guerrilla-style young student filmmakers have beaten the odds, and have been selected to premiere their low-budget indie flick as part of the Narrative Features category at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival, taking place online from January 27 to February 6, 2022. SNAPSHOT REVIEW Therapy Dogs takes viewers inside Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga, […]
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