We Bury the Dead, written and directed by Zak Hilditch, first presents as a zombie thriller, but it unfolds into something quieter and more introspective.
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We Bury the Dead, written and directed by Zak Hilditch, first presents as a zombie thriller, but it unfolds into something quieter and more introspective.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film that asks us to listen; not passively, not briefly, but with direct attention. Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, the film centres on the final emergency call of six-year-old Hind Rajab, trapped in a car under fire in Gaza on January 29, 2024. Built from real emergency recordings and thoughtful dramatization, the film creates space for a voice that the world heard, and then failed to answer.
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The Criterion Channel will exclusively premiere Blossoms Shanghai, the long-awaited television series from visionary director Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood for Love). The 30-episode series opened in China to phenomenal success, topping TV ratings for its entire run and becoming the most-streamed television series nationwide.
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The Breakthroughs Film Festival (BFF) is the only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films by emerging women and gender-diverse filmmakers.
BFF’s mission to program independent films by emerging artists whose voices, perspectives, and artistic approaches counter dominant mainstream narratives continues to drive this year’s lineup. This year’s festival theme addresses Resistance, which can be explored through varied stories.
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In There Are No Words, filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns inward to confront and explore silence, memory, and grief across continents in a poetic meditation on personal and communal loss and family legacy.
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Finch and Midland is an intersection in Scarborough. Like other intersections in the suburbs of Canada’s largest city, this intersection also has many a story to tell. In Finch & Midland, writer/director Timothy Yeung focuses on four stories from the wave of Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s hoping for a new life.
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In the grand expanse of cinematic history, few movements are known as rebelliously as the French New Wave. In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater gives us more than homage: he offers a genuine tribute to filmmaking itself and to the youthful spirit of Jean‑Luc Godard’s 1960 debut, À Bout de Souffle (Breathless).
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Workman Arts’ 33rd edition of the Rendezvous With Madness (RWM) Festival, the largest and longest-running arts festival in the world dedicated to the intersection of mental health and artistic expression, returns to Toronto, Canada this week.
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The time spent at TIFF each year always feels like a blur once the festival wraps up.
This year, I met fellow media friend Emmanuel Akanbi who was covering TIFF for the first time. Emmanuel is a writer and editor with Antler River Media Co-Op, based in London, Ontario, Canada.
We managed to see one film together during the festival but decided to catch up after it wrapped up to discuss our festival experience and some of the films we covered as well.
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Heroes Will Rise. Undead Will Fall.
ZombieCON Vol. 1 is a wild horror-comedy where fan convention chaos spirals into a full-blown apocalypse.
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