TIFF

Short Cuts Canada Programme 1

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2013

Amidst the thematic backdrop of the first Short Cuts program screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, sexuality, identity...

The Daughter

Thanos Anastopoulos

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2013

The first few minutes of The Daughter, an unequivocal allegory about Greece's economic crisis, are fine, poetic and pointed: shots of fores...

Hi-Ho Mistahey!

Alanis Obomsawin

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Similar to her 2012 documentary, The People of the Kattawapiskak River, which detailed the housing crisis of the Awattapiskak First Nation'...

Empire of Dirt

Peter Stebbings

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

The main problem with Peter Stebbings' first film since intimate vigilante deconstruction piece Defendor is that, more than anything, it fe...

The Invisible Woman

Ralph Fiennes

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

As outlined in Claire Tomalin's 1990 biography, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, the titular "woman," Ne...

For No Good Reason

Charlie Paul

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

When celebrities get together to celebrate one of their own, it can often be a self-congratulatory softball fest. Simply admiring the work...

Borgman

Alex van Warmerdam

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Just as he did with previous efforts like Grimm and The Last Days of Emma Blank, Dutch raconteur Alex van Warmerdam throws a few darkly com...

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Frank Pavich

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Frank Pavich's documentary on the widely speculated and discussed topic of Jodorowsky's planned version of Dune has a straightforward, line...