“The Safest Way to Be Free”: Géssica Généus on Truth, Transformation and ‘Marie Madeleine’
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Chloe Van Landschoot on the Body Horror and Emotional Unraveling of ‘Son of Sara’
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For producer, director and writer Alexandre Franchi, ‘L’Autre’ began with an experience that nearly claimed his life. Inspired by his own battle with cancer and time in hospital, the film transforms fear, pain, absurdity....
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In ‘Marie Madeleine’, filmmaker and actor Géssica Généus takes an unusually intimate approach to storytelling, stepping into nearly every aspect of the production, from writing and directing to producing and portraying the film’s central....
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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....
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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....
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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,....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
