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15 Must-Attend Canadian Film Festivals That Aren't TIFF

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2024

The Toronto International Film Festival has been a fixture on the calendars of movie fans around the world, and while we love booking it fr...

QCFF Review: 'We the Coyotes' Burns with Youthful Fire

Directed by Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2018

It's hard to be a dreamer in a world of parking tickets, shit-hole studio apartments and disapproving families. That's the harsh reality yo...

QCFF Review: 'Carmen & Lola' Explores Lesbian Love in a Spanish Romani Community

Directed by Arantxa Echevarria

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2018

Carmen y Lola (Carman & Lola) tells of a queer awakening between two young women in Madrid's tight-knit Romani community, meaning that it f...

QCFF Review: 'The Girl in the Fog' Is a Brainless Whodunit

Directed by Donato Carrisi

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2018

Let's give La ragazza nella nebbia (The Girl in the Fog) points for truth in advertising. Writer-director Donato Carrisi brings a whole lot...

QCFF Review: '303' Is Fun, Fun, Fun on the Autobahn

Directed by Corynn Egreczky

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2018

There's a famous, likely misattributed Eleanor Roosevelt quote that claims, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small...

QCFF Review: 'A Colony' Is 'Eighth Grade' Without the Redemptive Cuteness

Directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2018

Une Colonie (A Colony) begins, rather bleakly, with a group of hens pecking one of their own to death. Later, teenager Mylia (Émilie Bierre...

QCFF Review: 'Pet Names' Turns Grief into a Boring Camping Trip

Directed by Carol Brandt

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2018

Pet Names is a film about death and grief, but it's not about the harrowing depths of sadness. Rather, it's about the mundane, day-to-day e...

QCFF Review: 'The Night Eats the World' Breathes New Life into the Zombie Genre

Directed by Dominique Rocher

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2018

Talk about a shitty hangover. Sam (Anders Danielsen Lie) passes out after an altercation a party at his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Paris,...