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Special Presentation: Cairo Time
Though Cairo Time is her first feature at TIFF, Ruba Nadda is no neophyte. Sabah, the 36-year-old director’s drama starring Arsinée Khanjian and produced by Atom Egoyan, had a successful international festival run.
Masters: La donation
Montreal producer Bernadette Payeur plans to use La Donation’s TIFF screening as a weapon to lobby for the survival of auteur films.
Real to Reel: Reel Injun
Given how ever-present native peoples were in Hollywood movies, it’s odd how epically misrepresented they were.
Real to Reel: Petropolis
What happens when a visionary filmmaker makes a documentary on an important environmental issue?
Real to Reel: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Piano virtuoso Glenn Gould was a sensation in the late 1950s, a genuine Canadian icon who hit the heights of international acclaim after his recording of The Goldberg Variations became a best-selling classical disc.
Contemporary World Cinema: Suck
In a seedy motel somewhere along Mississauga’s lakeshore, director Rob Stefaniuk is shooting a scene in which a sleazy rocker is about to be fellated by a goth princess.
Contemporary World Cinema: Passenger Side
As I’m chatting on the telephone with Passenger Side writer/director Matt Bissonnette, he is conveniently sitting on the passenger side of his producer Corey Marr’s vehicle.
Contemporary World Cinema: A Gun to the Head
Last December, during the typical winter production slowdown, Vancouver producer Oliver Linsley and some filmmaking friends were bored. So they decided to make an ultra-low-budget indie just for fun.
Contemporary World Cinema: Excited
‘It’s not autobiographical,’ Bruce Sweeney says of his latest film. It’s a statement he’ll probably be making a lot, given the storyline in his new low-budget feature, Excited.
Contemporary World Cinema: High Life
Gary Yates’ latest film is a crowd-pleasing, crazy heist movie, about four hapless outsiders who decide to feed their morphine habit by knocking over a couple of ATM machines.
Contemporary World Cinema: Cole
Coming-of-age drama Cole is Carl Bessai’s seventh film to premiere at the Toronto festival.
Canada First! Year of the Carnivore
Well-known CBC Radio host, actor, writer and musician Sook-Yin Lee has added feature film director to her multitude of talent hats. The Toronto-based media personality’s directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, is the opening film in the Canada First! program.
Canada First! Crackie
We all can recognize the Newfoundland dog. A hirsute, enormous beast, webbing between its pads and gentle in temperament. If you’re not from the province, you may not know about the crackie, however.
Canada First! All Fall Down
Though he is in the Canada First! program, Philip Hoffman is no newbie.
Canada First! Hungry Hills
Based on a novel by George Ryga, Hungry Hills follows the story of a young ’50s-era orphan who returns to his hometown after a three-year stint in a boys home.
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