The Dark Side of Family: Jesse Noah Klein on ‘Best Boy’
Family rivalry has long been a staple of cinema, but few films push it to the darkly absurd extremes of ‘Best Boy’. Written and directed by Montréal filmmaker Jesse Noah Klein, the Canadian black comedy-psychological thriller follows three estranged siblings who reunite after their father’s death to compete in a series of increasingly outrageous challenges […]
Chloe Van Landschoot on the Body Horror and Emotional Unraveling of ‘Son of Sara’
Screened at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Son of Sara: Volume 1’ is a bold Canadian horror film that blends supernatural terror with dark humour. Written and directed by Houston Bone, the independent feature stars Chloe Van Landschoot as Sara, a heavily pregnant woman whose already difficult pregnancy takes a nightmarish turn after reconnecting […]
Chasing & Healing: The Quiet Courage Behind Teresa Alfeld and Cassidy Waring’s documentary ‘Hearse Chasing’
The first images feel almost deceptive. A grainy home video flickers across the screen. A mother embraces her child as they turn the pages of a family album, children dance before a tape recorder, tiny hands grip their parents’ hands as they glide across an ice rink, and laughter echoes from playground swings. These are […]
Mark Myers Explores the Legacy of the CN Tower in ‘The Tower That Built a City’
The Tower that Built a City mixes archival footage with new conversations engaging the tower’s innovative engineers and many Toronto notables. This 50th-anniversary celebration beams with civic pride and connects this singular structure to many of the 6ix’s defining moments over the past half-century. Screened at Hot Docs on May 1st, 2026, Shwayta Sharma chats […]
How ‘Lucid’ Turns Artistic Burnout Into Psychological Horror
With LUCID, co-directors Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall have crafted a striking debut feature that transforms artistic burnout into a surreal and deeply personal psychological horror experience. Shot in Victoria, B.C., and blending 35mm film, Super 8, and DIY punk aesthetics, the film follows a struggling art student whose search for creative inspiration unleashes the […]
Indivisum: Legacies Adrift: A Family Story By Katia Café-Fébrissy Rooted in Land, Legacy, and Colonial Law
In Indivisum: Legacies Adrift, filmmaker Katia Cafe-Febrissy turns a deeply personal family conflict into a powerful exploration of history, identity, and systemic injustice. What begins as an attempt to understand a dispute over inherited land in Guadeloupe expands into a broader investigation of colonial legal structures that continue to shape generations of families across the […]
Banchi Hanuse on Tracing Loss, Memory, and Indigenous Resilience in ‘Ceremony’
Fresh from winning the Audience Award at SXSW, Canadian Documentary Ceremony is a story of Indigenous resilience and awakening. Ceremony centres around a remote Nuxalk radio station in British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley. The story unfolds when the radio station reports on the disappearance of the ooligan, a sacred fish, which uncovers a deeper history […]
More of a Chat with Brishkay Ahmed
Brishkay Ahmed is a rare and vital presence in Canadian documentary filmmaking. An Afghan – Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, Ahmed has spent over a decade venturing where few dare to go. Her work is driven by an unwavering commitment to the women whose stories the world has too often chosen to ignore. Trained in […]
Venturing into the ‘Art of Adventure’ with Filmmaker Alison Reid
‘The Art of Adventure’ is a film which opens a vivid window onto a planet once wild and unscarred. It is also a testament to a bond formed through curiosity, courage and love of nature through the lens of an extraordinary lifelong friendship between world-renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and fearless biologist Bristol Foster. Through […]