contemporary world cinema

TIFF 15 – A HEAVY HEART – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 3:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Also known as Herbert. A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when […]

TIFF 15 – MUCH LOVED – North American Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 16, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Second Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 12:00 PM at The Bell Lightbox Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 9:30 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Four sex workers turn to each other for support as they struggle to […]

TIFF 15 – STORY OF JUDAS – North American Premiere

This film is also known as Histoire de Judas. First Festival Screening – September 16, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Second Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:45 AM at The Scotiabank Theatre Director and star […]

TIFF 15 – THE WAITING ROOM – North American Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 15, 2015 @ 9:30 pm – TIFF Lightbox Theatre 2 Last Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 4:30 pm @ The AGO Once a celebrated actor in pre-war Yugoslavia, a Sarajevo-born immigrant struggles to find work in his new life in Toronto, in the second feature from Toronto-based director […]

TIFF 15 – JACK – North American Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 15, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 9:00 AM at The Scotiabank Theatre A riveting biopic of notorious Austrian convict Jack Unterweger, who became a literary superstar while serving a 15-year sentence for murder. Director – Elisabeth Scharang –The Toronto […]

TIFF 15 – INCIDENT LIGHT – World Premiere

This film is also known as La Luz Incidente. First Festival Screening – September 14, 2015 @ 4:15 PM at AGO Jackman Hall Last Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 3:15 PM at AGO Jackman Hall In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman struggling to raise her twin daughters […]

TIFF 15 – AN – North American Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 14, 2015 @ 4:45 PM at The Isabel Bader Last Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 12:15 PM at AGO Jackman Hall A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman with an uncanny culinary skill and a mysterious communion with nature, in […]

A71 Entertainment Takes Canadian Rights to Igor DrlJaca’s THE WAITING ROOM

Toronto – On the eve of its North American Premiere at the 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto-based A71 Entertainment has picked up Canadian rights to The Waiting Room, director Igor Drljaca’s sophomore feature. The film recently had its world debut at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival, in Switzerland, to critical acclaim. Drljaca’s […]

Canadian Perspectives Pack a Powerful Punch at TIFF

Canadian Perspectives Pack a Powerful Punch at TIFF

Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® revealed a lineup of bold Canadian works by filmmakers including Patricia Rozema, André Turpin, Anne Émond, Kazik Radwanski and Guy Édoin, documentarians Mina Shum and Avi Lewis, trailblazers Bruce McDonald, Guy Maddin and Philippe Falardeau, promising new work from Andrew Cividino, Adam Garnet Jones and Stephen Dunn, and […]

DOTS & HOOPS – Experimental and Nonfiction Cinema

<em>DOTS & HOOPS</em> –  Experimental and Nonfiction Cinema

From The Brooklin Rail by Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes Experimental film seems to occupy an increasingly marginal place in contemporary cinema. Even as microcinemas and local scenes and collaboratives continue to proliferate, what should be cinema’s most vital form remains, for most, the sideshow attraction to commercial cinema’s decaying mainstage. Running against this current, […]