Canadian-born musician James Carson, a gifted child piano prodigy and award-winning filmmaker, will premiere his visually rich and immersive musical documentary Cabin Music at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival (PIF) this week.
TIFF came and went in a whirlwind… This year, I had the opportunity to view 24 features and 5 short films from Canada and around the world. I enjoyed the energy of the festival and albeit the SAG-WGA strikes, we had wonderful international guests in attendance.
Once festival closes, it is always difficult to create a list of favourites. Nevertheless, here are some standouts for me at this year’s TIFF.
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto 2023 (TIFF) ha terminado. Pero la jornada de muchas películas que se presentaron en el festival aún comienza.
Aqui les comparto unos detalles de dos películas que se estrenaron en TIFF y que captivaron al publico y bueno, a mi también.
Being the first all-Latino horror anthology, Satanic Hispanics, features five short films from some of the leading Latino filmmakers in the genre.
Produced by Patrick Ewald, Mike Mendez (The Convent) and Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), the team of directors includes Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell), Demián Rugna (Terrified), Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) with Brugués also directing one of the stories.
Boil Alert is a hybrid, border-crossing documentary featuring activist Layla Staats as our guide to the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right — drinkable water.
In Tautuktavuk (What We See), the lines between narrative and non-fiction connect to bring us the story of Uyarak and her eldest sister Saqpinak. The sisters begin a difficult healing journey that reminds them of the importance of community, culture, and family.
What happens to the collective memory of an oppressed country if the ones who report on the oppression fail to remember? This is the question Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory asks of its main subjects: renowned journalist Augusto Góngora, who is in late-stage dementia; and Paulina Urrutia, a culture minister and Góngora’s life partner of 25 years.
Traffic tickets can be utterly irritating, especially when you know you did nothing wrong… according to your version of events, that is.
It is often said religion and politics should not mix. However, this is easier said than done.
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that reveals the power and influence of United States fundamentalist Evangelicals, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy.
In 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the American soap opera Santa Barbara became a window into the western way of life for ordinary Russians. The show became hugely popular with the entire nation.
Thirty years later, director Gaukur Úlfarsson takes us along with Icelandic contemporary artist, Ragnar Kjartansson to Moscow as he brings the series to life as a living sculpture set to open an oligarch’s private museum.
