TIFF 2013
The Dick Knost Show
Bruce Sweeney
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2013
In the late '90s, when Todd Solondz was shocking audiences by skewering the upper-middle-class with Happiness, Bruce Sweeney was making sim...
Exit Marrakech
Caroline Link
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2013
Ben (Samuel Schneider), an affluent German teenager with a less than stellar report card, is, as intended, a bit of a blank canvas during t...
Watermark
Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2013
While the world has been focused on oil, gold and various other natural resource commodities, water is the one thing we continue to take fo...
Break Loose
Aleksey Uchitel
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2013
Knowingly, director Aleksey Uchitel opens his latest politically motivated thriller with an infinity symbol flashing and twisting on screen...
Qissa
Anup Singh
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013
Though it's initially set in 1947, during the partition of the British Indian Empire, Qissa eschews the biopic format, making it clear from...
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Donovan Marsh
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013
One of the most regularly recycled set ups for filmmakers that lack creativity when it comes to framing a story turns up in South African h...
Parkland
Peter Landesman
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013
Peter Landesman (the journalist that wrote the allegedly fictitious New York Times article that inspired sex slave drama Trade) is again di...
Philomena
Stephen Frears
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013
Ever the master of juxtaposing contrary lifestyles or ideologies and shaking them around until they either blend or, more often, explode, S...