Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
- 3/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
- 3/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers; and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.
“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...
- 3/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has unveiled its slate of public programming for the 2024 spring season, which will include a tribute and retrospective of the work of Marlon Brando, a May the 4th “Star Wars” celebration and a world premiere 4K restoration of “Amadeus,” among others.
The Academy Museum will screen John Waters’ short films “Roman Candles” and “Hag in a Black Leather Jacket” with live commentary by Waters. Exhibitions include a celebration of Oscar-winning music in Indian cinema, a film series focused on queer female lensers in early Hollywood, a retrospective on actor Youn Yuh-Jung, a behind-the-scenes presentation of Dykstraflex, used to film the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
Special guests will include Ed Begley Jr., Cary Elwes, Jane Fonda, Yunte Huang, Nyla Innuksuk, Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Patricia Rozema, Bird Runningwater, Mink Stole, John Waters, Youn Yuh-jung and more.
“This spring, we’re delighted to present an array of one-of-a-kind programming,...
The Academy Museum will screen John Waters’ short films “Roman Candles” and “Hag in a Black Leather Jacket” with live commentary by Waters. Exhibitions include a celebration of Oscar-winning music in Indian cinema, a film series focused on queer female lensers in early Hollywood, a retrospective on actor Youn Yuh-Jung, a behind-the-scenes presentation of Dykstraflex, used to film the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
Special guests will include Ed Begley Jr., Cary Elwes, Jane Fonda, Yunte Huang, Nyla Innuksuk, Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Patricia Rozema, Bird Runningwater, Mink Stole, John Waters, Youn Yuh-jung and more.
“This spring, we’re delighted to present an array of one-of-a-kind programming,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay, Jaden Thompson, Caroline Brew and Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
The film community is mourning the loss of film festival executive Noah Cowan, who died January 25 at his home in Los Angeles after a year-long battle with Glioblastoma multiforme. He was 55.
Cowan was an enthusiastic booster of independent film, a celebrated film programmer who rose from 14-year-old volunteer to co-director at the Toronto International Film Festival, cofounder of the non-profit Global Film Initiative in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art (2002-2004), Artistic Director at TIFF Bell Lightbox (2009-2014), and executive director at Sffilm (2014-2019).
In recent years he consulted for film, media, and visual arts organizations including IFC, the Telluride Film Festival, and Centre for the Moving Image in Edinburgh.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1967, Cowan earned a degree in philosophy at McGill University that informed the way he looked at the world. He was that rare cinephile who not only was a festival programmer who loved to discover new talent,...
Cowan was an enthusiastic booster of independent film, a celebrated film programmer who rose from 14-year-old volunteer to co-director at the Toronto International Film Festival, cofounder of the non-profit Global Film Initiative in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art (2002-2004), Artistic Director at TIFF Bell Lightbox (2009-2014), and executive director at Sffilm (2014-2019).
In recent years he consulted for film, media, and visual arts organizations including IFC, the Telluride Film Festival, and Centre for the Moving Image in Edinburgh.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1967, Cowan earned a degree in philosophy at McGill University that informed the way he looked at the world. He was that rare cinephile who not only was a festival programmer who loved to discover new talent,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Mubi has recently wrapped production on Zia Anger’s feature film debut, My First Film, starring Odessa Young and Devon Ross.
The film is an adaptation of Anger’s critically acclaimed live cinema performance piece of the same name.
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The movie is a deeply personal examination of cinema, body, truth and storytelling, centering on a young filmmaker (Odessa Young) as she recounts the story of struggling to make her first feature. Fact bleeds into fiction, and the past, present, and future converge to create a modern myth that redefines and expands the very act of creation.
The film is an adaptation of Anger’s critically acclaimed live cinema performance piece of the same name.
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The movie is a deeply personal examination of cinema, body, truth and storytelling, centering on a young filmmaker (Odessa Young) as she recounts the story of struggling to make her first feature. Fact bleeds into fiction, and the past, present, and future converge to create a modern myth that redefines and expands the very act of creation.
- 11/21/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Dir: Frances O’Connor. Starring: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma Jones. 15, 130 minutes.
“How did you write it?” asks Charlotte Brontë (Alexandra Dowling) of her sister Emily (Emma Mackey). “How did you write Wuthering Heights?”. This is where actor-turned-director Frances O’Connor begins her feverish reimagining of Emily Brontë’s brief life – not at the start but at the very end, Emily a wasted figure nearly consumed by tuberculosis. For O’Connor knows how tantalising that question of “how” can be to us.
Wuthering Heights was the only novel Emily wrote before her death, aged 30, in 1848. We don’t know much of who she was beyond those pages – she documented little about herself, and even her surviving diary entries diverge frequently into fantasy. The film, written and directed by O’Connor in her feature debut, stays faithful to that fervent sense of imagination. Having...
“How did you write it?” asks Charlotte Brontë (Alexandra Dowling) of her sister Emily (Emma Mackey). “How did you write Wuthering Heights?”. This is where actor-turned-director Frances O’Connor begins her feverish reimagining of Emily Brontë’s brief life – not at the start but at the very end, Emily a wasted figure nearly consumed by tuberculosis. For O’Connor knows how tantalising that question of “how” can be to us.
Wuthering Heights was the only novel Emily wrote before her death, aged 30, in 1848. We don’t know much of who she was beyond those pages – she documented little about herself, and even her surviving diary entries diverge frequently into fantasy. The film, written and directed by O’Connor in her feature debut, stays faithful to that fervent sense of imagination. Having...
- 10/13/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
Canada’s Riceboy Sleeps wins Platform Prize.
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans has bolstered its awards season prospects by winning the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Sunday (September 18).
The award is a highly reliable bellwether of Academy voter attention. In the last ten years every TIFF audience award winner has earned a best picture Oscar nomination and three have gone on to win awards season’s top prize: Nomadland in 2021, Green Book in 2019, and 12 Years A Slave in 2014.
The Fabelmans earned a rapturous reception at its world premiere on September 10 and immediately announced itself in the awards race,...
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans has bolstered its awards season prospects by winning the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Sunday (September 18).
The award is a highly reliable bellwether of Academy voter attention. In the last ten years every TIFF audience award winner has earned a best picture Oscar nomination and three have gone on to win awards season’s top prize: Nomadland in 2021, Green Book in 2019, and 12 Years A Slave in 2014.
The Fabelmans earned a rapturous reception at its world premiere on September 10 and immediately announced itself in the awards race,...
- 9/18/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Montreal-based film sales and marketing consultancy Film Associates International has unveiled a slew of international deals on new 4K restorations of the work of celebrated Canadian director Patricia Rozema.
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S. rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).
Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.
Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S. the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an Nc-17 rating.
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S. rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).
Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.
Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S. the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an Nc-17 rating.
- 8/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Toronto Film Festival has set Canadian director Patricia Rozema as chair of its 2022 Platform competition jury.
Rozema, whose director credits include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park and co-writing HBO’s Grey Gardens, will be joined on the jury by Iram Haq, a Norwegian Pakistani filmmaker, and Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane.
Haq’s feature debut I Am Yours premiered at Toronto in 2013, and her second feature, What Will People Say, competed in the Platform program in 2017. Tamhane’s debut feature film, Court, premiered at Venice in 2014, and his second film, The Disciple, debuted in Venice in 2020, where it won the Golden Osella for best screenplay before landing at Netflix.
This year’s Platform competition will open with the Emily Brontë movie Emily, with Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey playing the author in the movie from writer-director Frances O’Connor and U.S.
The Toronto Film Festival has set Canadian director Patricia Rozema as chair of its 2022 Platform competition jury.
Rozema, whose director credits include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park and co-writing HBO’s Grey Gardens, will be joined on the jury by Iram Haq, a Norwegian Pakistani filmmaker, and Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane.
Haq’s feature debut I Am Yours premiered at Toronto in 2013, and her second feature, What Will People Say, competed in the Platform program in 2017. Tamhane’s debut feature film, Court, premiered at Venice in 2014, and his second film, The Disciple, debuted in Venice in 2020, where it won the Golden Osella for best screenplay before landing at Netflix.
This year’s Platform competition will open with the Emily Brontë movie Emily, with Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey playing the author in the movie from writer-director Frances O’Connor and U.S.
- 8/18/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Look into the series Criterion Channel have programmed for August and this lineup is revealed as (in scientific terms) quite something. “Hollywood Chinese” proves an especially deep bench, spanning “cinema’s first hundred years to explore the ways in which the Chinese people have been imagined in American feature films” and bringing with it the likes of Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, Cimino’s Year of the Dragon, Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet—among 20-or-so others. A three-film Marguerite Duras series brings one of the greatest films ever (India Song) and two lesser-screened experiments; films featuring Yaphet Kotto include Blue Collar, Across 110th Street, and Midnight Run; and lest we ignore a Myrna Loy retro that goes no later than 1949.
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
- 7/25/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Aleks Paunovic, known for his roles in Marvel’s “Hawkeye” and “Snowpiercer,” is now set to star in Canadian actor-turned-director Luvia Petersen’s psychological thriller “Human Nature.”
The feature project, currently showcased at Frontieres’ Genre Film Lab, is in advanced development, with Amanda Konkin of Download Joy Productions also attached.
“I was fortunate enough to see Luvia’s work as an actor, but seeing her drive and commitment to the craft and storytelling, I was just honored that she asked me to be a part of the project,” Paunovic told Variety. The two acted together in the fantasy series “Van Helsing.”
Currently promoting “GenZeroes,” the first live-action Nft series, Paunovic will play Rigger, the owner of the cabin where two very different couples are spending their ill-fated weekend.
“Heck, if she asked me to get coffee, I would have done it. She’s just a next level storyteller and I...
The feature project, currently showcased at Frontieres’ Genre Film Lab, is in advanced development, with Amanda Konkin of Download Joy Productions also attached.
“I was fortunate enough to see Luvia’s work as an actor, but seeing her drive and commitment to the craft and storytelling, I was just honored that she asked me to be a part of the project,” Paunovic told Variety. The two acted together in the fantasy series “Van Helsing.”
Currently promoting “GenZeroes,” the first live-action Nft series, Paunovic will play Rigger, the owner of the cabin where two very different couples are spending their ill-fated weekend.
“Heck, if she asked me to get coffee, I would have done it. She’s just a next level storyteller and I...
- 7/21/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) is showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting March 23, 2022 in the series Rediscovered. In many countries it is showing alongside Mouthpiece (2018) in Divided Selves: A Patricia Rozema Double Bill.Some context. Where I grew up, in a Dutch immigrant community in “Chemical Valley” also known as Sarnia, Ontario, Canada surrounded by some 60 chemical plants, there were no artists in my orbit. Not even in the farming community in the north of the Netherlands where all my family come from. I once asked my grandmother whether any of our family wrote stories or songs or poems or made paintings. She didn’t need to think for long to say, (in Dutch), “Nee, ze waren allemaal normaal.”“No, they were all normal.” And there were virtually no films in my world, really. My parents took the knob off the TV, or the “idiot...
- 3/22/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The Temenos screening in Lyssarea, Greece.Registration for Temenos 2022, which will premiere a new section of avant-garde master Gregory Markopoulos's epic Eniaios, is now open. This very special event, which usually takes place every four years, will be taking place June 9-19 in Lyssarea, Greece. For more information on the Temenos screenings and the ongoing restoration of Eniaios, visit here.Hou Hsiao-hsien has announced two new projects: the long-gestating, Shu Qi-led film Shulan River, an adaptation of the Hsieh Hai-meng novel about a river goddess; and a yet unnamed project starring Chang Chen about "an elderly father and his son." Filmmaker, painter, writer, Nick Zedd has died. In addition to his darkly funny no-budget films like They Eat Scum (1979) and his zine Underground Film Bulletin, Zedd is coining the term "Cinema of...
- 3/2/2022
- MUBI
Next month’s Mubi lineup for the U.S. has been unveiled, with a major highlight being their recent release Lingui, The Sacred Bonds and more films from director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (read our recent chat with him). Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella and Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., two of last year’s highlights, will also arrive.
Two recent Cannes premieres, the Adèle Exarchopoulos-led Zero Fucks Given and Peter Tscherkassky’s Train Again will also finally come to the U.S. courtesy of Mubi. In terms of older highlights, Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, Hong Sang-soo’s The Power of the Kangwon Province, Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold, Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, and more will arrive.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
March 1 | The Willmar 8 | Lee Grant | Down and Out in America: Lee Grant’s Documentaries
March 2 | Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Brief Encounters
March...
Two recent Cannes premieres, the Adèle Exarchopoulos-led Zero Fucks Given and Peter Tscherkassky’s Train Again will also finally come to the U.S. courtesy of Mubi. In terms of older highlights, Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, Hong Sang-soo’s The Power of the Kangwon Province, Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold, Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, and more will arrive.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
March 1 | The Willmar 8 | Lee Grant | Down and Out in America: Lee Grant’s Documentaries
March 2 | Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Brief Encounters
March...
- 2/18/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Netflix announced that “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” will return for Season 2 on July 6.
The sketch comedy series, which delivered some of TV’s most memeable moments, brings Robinson’s absurdist humor to life’s most bizarre and mundane situations.
“I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” is created and written by Robinson and Zach Kanin and executive produced by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), alongside Ali Bell, Alex Bach, Dan Powell and Alice Mathias, who directs with Kanin.
Watch a musical medley of songs from Season 1 featuring Robinson, Sam Richardson and Phredley Brown below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Apple TV Plus announced that “The Snoopy Show” will return with seven new episodes on July 9. The children’s animated series follows America’s favorite beagle and his feathered friend Woodstock, with each episode consisting of three, seven-minute stories.
The sketch comedy series, which delivered some of TV’s most memeable moments, brings Robinson’s absurdist humor to life’s most bizarre and mundane situations.
“I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” is created and written by Robinson and Zach Kanin and executive produced by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), alongside Ali Bell, Alex Bach, Dan Powell and Alice Mathias, who directs with Kanin.
Watch a musical medley of songs from Season 1 featuring Robinson, Sam Richardson and Phredley Brown below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Apple TV Plus announced that “The Snoopy Show” will return with seven new episodes on July 9. The children’s animated series follows America’s favorite beagle and his feathered friend Woodstock, with each episode consisting of three, seven-minute stories.
- 6/8/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Svetlana Rodina and Laurent Stoop’s “Ostrov — Lost Island” and Emanuel Licha’s “Zo Reken” took the top Hot Docs jury awards at a special online ceremony webcast from Toronto Friday night.
Eleven awards and $67,000 Cad in cash and prizes were presented to emerging and established Canadian and international filmmakers.
Best International Feature Documentary Award-winner “Ostrov — Lost Island” chronicles a fishing community in the Caspian Sea, where elders cling to tradition and youth look to a new kind of future. The award comes with a $10,000 Cad cash prize courtesy of the Panicaro Foundation.
In its statement, the international feature jury — MTV Networks executive producer Sheila Nevins, filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda, and producer Toni Kama — called the film “a truly powerful cinematic experience which shows the everyday reality of people in Russia.”
With this award, “Ostrov” now qualifies for consideration in the Best Documentary Feature category of the Academy Awards without the standard theatrical run,...
Eleven awards and $67,000 Cad in cash and prizes were presented to emerging and established Canadian and international filmmakers.
Best International Feature Documentary Award-winner “Ostrov — Lost Island” chronicles a fishing community in the Caspian Sea, where elders cling to tradition and youth look to a new kind of future. The award comes with a $10,000 Cad cash prize courtesy of the Panicaro Foundation.
In its statement, the international feature jury — MTV Networks executive producer Sheila Nevins, filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda, and producer Toni Kama — called the film “a truly powerful cinematic experience which shows the everyday reality of people in Russia.”
With this award, “Ostrov” now qualifies for consideration in the Best Documentary Feature category of the Academy Awards without the standard theatrical run,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
30 year old Cassandra’s mother has just passed away suddenly. With the funeral two days away, she has to cope with helping to make the arrangements, and is insisting that she, as the writer in the family, be the one to give the eulogy.
The framework of the story of Mouthpiece is, sadly, commonplace. Almost all of us will have to deal with the death of a parent at some time and the process, while unique to each of us, is also one that will be, to a degree, universal. The way that Mouthpiece presents this story is what marks it out from many other films that have looked at how their characters process death. The central conceit here is that Cassandra is played by two actresses (Amy Nostbakken as ‘Tall Cassandra’ and Norah Sadava as ‘Short Cassandra). It’s not always quite this simple, but generally speaking Tall Cassandra...
The framework of the story of Mouthpiece is, sadly, commonplace. Almost all of us will have to deal with the death of a parent at some time and the process, while unique to each of us, is also one that will be, to a degree, universal. The way that Mouthpiece presents this story is what marks it out from many other films that have looked at how their characters process death. The central conceit here is that Cassandra is played by two actresses (Amy Nostbakken as ‘Tall Cassandra’ and Norah Sadava as ‘Short Cassandra). It’s not always quite this simple, but generally speaking Tall Cassandra...
- 3/15/2021
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: UTA has signed director, producer, writer, advocate and Academy Award-nominated actor Ellen Page for worldwide representation in all areas.
Page was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy Juno and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Inception. She recently made her directorial debut alongside co-director Ian Daniel for Netflix’s There’s Something In The Water. The documentary is based on the novel of the same name by Ingrid Walton. The film explores the scourge of environmental racism through the lens of Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land and their futures.
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Page was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy Juno and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Inception. She recently made her directorial debut alongside co-director Ian Daniel for Netflix’s There’s Something In The Water. The documentary is based on the novel of the same name by Ingrid Walton. The film explores the scourge of environmental racism through the lens of Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land and their futures.
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- 4/6/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix released the first trailer for the third season of “Ozark” and the premiere weekend of “Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan” broke ratings records on Nickelodeon.
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
- 3/6/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has added three to the cast of its upcoming dramedy series “Sex/Life.”
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette will join previously announced star Sarah Shahi in the series based on the Bb Easton book “44Chapters About 4 Men.”
The series tells the story of “a love triangle between a woman, her husband, and her past, which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire,” according to Netflix.
Also Read: 'Love Is Blind' Reunion: 7 Most Shocking Moments, From a Surprise Proposal to 'B--, You're Sheisty'
Vogel will play Cooper Connelly, Demos will play Brad Simon, and Odette will play Sasha Snow.
Shahi plays Billie Connelly, described as “a woman with everything to lose, a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city she used to be ten years ago. She takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane...
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette will join previously announced star Sarah Shahi in the series based on the Bb Easton book “44Chapters About 4 Men.”
The series tells the story of “a love triangle between a woman, her husband, and her past, which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire,” according to Netflix.
Also Read: 'Love Is Blind' Reunion: 7 Most Shocking Moments, From a Surprise Proposal to 'B--, You're Sheisty'
Vogel will play Cooper Connelly, Demos will play Brad Simon, and Odette will play Sasha Snow.
Shahi plays Billie Connelly, described as “a woman with everything to lose, a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city she used to be ten years ago. She takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane...
- 3/5/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Mike Vogel (The Brave) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Sarah Shahi in Netflix’s eight-episode dramedy series Sex/Life. Additionally, Adam Demos (UnReal) and Margaret Odette (Boogie) also have been cast in the project, which has set an all female directing team for the series. Patricia Rozema directs the first two episodes, followed by Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson.
Written by Stacy Rukeyser inspired by Bb Easton’s self-published memoir 44 Chapters About 4 Men, Sex/Life is the story of a love triangle between a woman, Billie Connelly (Shahi), her husband Cooper (Vogel), and her past which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire.
Shahi’s Billie Connelly is a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city...
Written by Stacy Rukeyser inspired by Bb Easton’s self-published memoir 44 Chapters About 4 Men, Sex/Life is the story of a love triangle between a woman, Billie Connelly (Shahi), her husband Cooper (Vogel), and her past which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire.
Shahi’s Billie Connelly is a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city...
- 3/5/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
As 2019 draws to a close, the busy cinephile can mostly be found in his or her natural habitat, the theater. However, there are lots of books to catch up with once Oscar season is finished—or, at least, dies down. Let’s start with two killer eBooks.
Read Also: The Film Stage’s 2019 Holiday Gift Gide
Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook (Seventh Row)
One of the finest film-related texts of 2019 was the Seventh Row team’s analysis of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, and this series of deep cinema exploration continues with Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. Both eBooks are once again edited by two of the smartest, most readable writers on film art, Orla Smith and Alex Heeney. In Tour of Memories, Smith and Heeney study...
Read Also: The Film Stage’s 2019 Holiday Gift Gide
Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook (Seventh Row)
One of the finest film-related texts of 2019 was the Seventh Row team’s analysis of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, and this series of deep cinema exploration continues with Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. Both eBooks are once again edited by two of the smartest, most readable writers on film art, Orla Smith and Alex Heeney. In Tour of Memories, Smith and Heeney study...
- 12/26/2019
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
In his first major move since exiting Amazon Studios, distribution executive Bob Berney has teamed with wife Jeanne Berney to reopen Picturehouse, the label he once headed. They have acquired North American distribution rights to Fatima, a feature film starring Stephanie Gil (Terminator: Dark Fate), Lúcia Moniz, Joaquim de Almeida (Queen of the South) and Goran Visnjic (Beginners) with Sonia Braga (Aquarius) and Harvey Keitel (The Irishman).
The Berneys are co-heads of Picturehouse and they made the deal with James T. Volk, chairman and founder of Origin Entertainment, which produced the film along with Elysia Productions and Rose Pictures.
Picturehouse was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between HBO and New Line, with Bob Berney at its head. The Time Warner subsidiaries acquired the theatrical distribution operation of Newmarket Films, which under Berney’s leadership had released such films as the record-breaking The Passion of the Christ; Monster,...
The Berneys are co-heads of Picturehouse and they made the deal with James T. Volk, chairman and founder of Origin Entertainment, which produced the film along with Elysia Productions and Rose Pictures.
Picturehouse was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between HBO and New Line, with Bob Berney at its head. The Time Warner subsidiaries acquired the theatrical distribution operation of Newmarket Films, which under Berney’s leadership had released such films as the record-breaking The Passion of the Christ; Monster,...
- 10/28/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated followup to his breakout horror hit “The Witch” follows a pair of unlikely co-workers — Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as 1890s lighthouse keepers in remote New England — so it’s only fitting that the filmmaker would reunite with one of his own previous compatriots to craft the sonic chills for “The Lighthouse.” Eggers has reteamed with his “Witch” composer Mark Korven for “The Lighthouse,” resulting in a bombastic and bold musical accompaniment that amps up the film’s chills and drama to full effect.
“The Lighthouse” debuted in May to critical acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight, where it was named the best film of the Cannes’ sidebar by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). In his A- review out of Cannes, IndieWire’s chief critic Eric Kohn raved, “The film is a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning...
“The Lighthouse” debuted in May to critical acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight, where it was named the best film of the Cannes’ sidebar by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). In his A- review out of Cannes, IndieWire’s chief critic Eric Kohn raved, “The film is a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning...
- 9/25/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Jess Salgueiro is circling a role in a Netflix project related to the novel “Tiny Pretty Things,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The potential series would be based on the 2016 young adult novel of the same name from from authors Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra. The novel explores the darker side of an elite ballet academy.
The character which Salgueiro would play is called Isabel, and is described as a cop with a dancer’s rigidity and discipline born out of two tours of duty in Afghanistan who decided to trade in one uniform for another. With her ambition and keen moral compass, Isabel is uniquely qualified to search for the truth of what happened during a mysterious accident at the academy.
The actress currently recurs on the Amazon series “The Boys,” which was recently picked up for a second season. She also recurs on the Hulu series “Letterkenny” and will...
The potential series would be based on the 2016 young adult novel of the same name from from authors Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra. The novel explores the darker side of an elite ballet academy.
The character which Salgueiro would play is called Isabel, and is described as a cop with a dancer’s rigidity and discipline born out of two tours of duty in Afghanistan who decided to trade in one uniform for another. With her ambition and keen moral compass, Isabel is uniquely qualified to search for the truth of what happened during a mysterious accident at the academy.
The actress currently recurs on the Amazon series “The Boys,” which was recently picked up for a second season. She also recurs on the Hulu series “Letterkenny” and will...
- 8/2/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang, Producer Cassian Elwes Join Toronto Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lab
Directors Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and Patricia Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) and producer Cassian Elwes will serve as mentors at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2019 Tiff Filmmaker Lab, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
- 7/31/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“Mouthpiece,” Patricia Rozema’s defiantly experimental drama, gives voice to many conflicts. Most of these are cleaved bluntly down the middle: internal dichotomies, familial divides, generational gaps, gender inequality. But it’s the singular, and universal, pain of loss that proves most shattering.
Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) was inspired to adapt the award-winning play of the same name when she saw it in Toronto, and she works in striking synchrony with her collaborators, Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. Nostbakken and Sadava, who co-wrote the play and the screenplay, also portray simultaneously co-existent versions of our protagonist, Cassandra.
Confused? The approach is indeed destabilizing at first. As they move in perfect tandem or argue with evident intimacy, we wonder if the two women are lovers, or perhaps sisters. But their duality quickly comes to feel utterly normal.
Also Read: Top 10 Highest-Grossing Music Biopics, From Tupac to Queen (Photos)
Ultimately,...
Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) was inspired to adapt the award-winning play of the same name when she saw it in Toronto, and she works in striking synchrony with her collaborators, Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. Nostbakken and Sadava, who co-wrote the play and the screenplay, also portray simultaneously co-existent versions of our protagonist, Cassandra.
Confused? The approach is indeed destabilizing at first. As they move in perfect tandem or argue with evident intimacy, we wonder if the two women are lovers, or perhaps sisters. But their duality quickly comes to feel utterly normal.
Also Read: Top 10 Highest-Grossing Music Biopics, From Tupac to Queen (Photos)
Ultimately,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Following its world premiere at Tiff last year, the first trailer for the unique experimental film Mouthpiece has arrived for Mouthpiece, coming from director Patricia Rozema. The film delves into the conflict surrounding a young woman named Catherine (Amy Nostbakken) and her personified inner conflict, which is embodied by another woman also named Catherine (Norah Sadava). She struggles with heartache and contemplation after the death of her mother (Maev Beaty), who gave up her career to have children, a facet that dispels Catherine’s worldview as a headstrong single writer playing by her own rules.
Jared Mobarak wrote in his Tiff review, “Rozema does a great job adapting things to the needs of a cinematic medium. She keeps them close, but not always together. While they ride her bike on two seats, they can also find themselves watching the other make a fool of herself or speak a necessary truth...
Jared Mobarak wrote in his Tiff review, “Rozema does a great job adapting things to the needs of a cinematic medium. She keeps them close, but not always together. While they ride her bike on two seats, they can also find themselves watching the other make a fool of herself or speak a necessary truth...
- 5/23/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
An inaugural showcase in Mexico of Canadian cinema involving Telefilm Canada, Nueva Era Films and Cinépolis has kicked off in Mexico City.
An inaugural showcase in Mexico of Canadian cinema involving Telefilm Canada, Nueva Era Films and Cinépolis has kicked off in Mexico City.
Over the course of the event seven films are screening in 14 cities and 27 theatres in the Semana de Cine Canadiense (Canadian Film Week). All are Mexican premieres.
The selections are: Cardinals by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley; Clara by Akash Sherman; The Fireflies Are Gone (Disparition Des Lucioles) by Sébastien Pilote; Giant Little Ones by Keith Behrman...
An inaugural showcase in Mexico of Canadian cinema involving Telefilm Canada, Nueva Era Films and Cinépolis has kicked off in Mexico City.
Over the course of the event seven films are screening in 14 cities and 27 theatres in the Semana de Cine Canadiense (Canadian Film Week). All are Mexican premieres.
The selections are: Cardinals by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley; Clara by Akash Sherman; The Fireflies Are Gone (Disparition Des Lucioles) by Sébastien Pilote; Giant Little Ones by Keith Behrman...
- 3/31/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rosa Gilmore (The Handmaid’s Tale), Tyrant alum Keon Alexander and Jess Salgueiro (Mouthpiece) are set for recurring roles on the upcoming fourth season of The Expanse, from Alcon Television Group, the sci-fi drama’s first season on Amazon following its move from Syfy.
Co-created and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men), The Expanse is based on the bestselling book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey). The cast includes Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Frankie Adams and Thomas Jane.
Gilmore will play Lucia Mazur, one of the Belter refugees who have staked their claim to a new Earth-like planet on the other side of the Ring Gates. Trained as a medic, Lucia doesn’t hesitate to help friend and foe alike when disaster strikes. Alexander plays a wily and charismatic Belter faction leader.
Co-created and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men), The Expanse is based on the bestselling book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey). The cast includes Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Frankie Adams and Thomas Jane.
Gilmore will play Lucia Mazur, one of the Belter refugees who have staked their claim to a new Earth-like planet on the other side of the Ring Gates. Trained as a medic, Lucia doesn’t hesitate to help friend and foe alike when disaster strikes. Alexander plays a wily and charismatic Belter faction leader.
- 2/25/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare tale All Is True has been selected to open the Palm Springs Film Festival, which Friday unveiled its full lineup of films for the 30th edition that runs January 3-14. The fest also said that Bruce Bereford’s Ladies in Black will be the closing-night film, with the director and cast members expected to be in attendance.
In all, the fest will screen 223 films from 78 countries, and as usual will screen a slew of Oscar Foreign Language Film entries, this year numbering 43 of the 87 official submissions. Also on the docket: a 30-film retrospective of past fest selections, dubbed the Palm Springs Canon; special focuses on cinema from France, India and Mexico, and Jewish and queer cinema; and the new Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor and magician Ricky Jay who died last month.
In addition to the film lineup, the opening awards gala...
In all, the fest will screen 223 films from 78 countries, and as usual will screen a slew of Oscar Foreign Language Film entries, this year numbering 43 of the 87 official submissions. Also on the docket: a 30-film retrospective of past fest selections, dubbed the Palm Springs Canon; special focuses on cinema from France, India and Mexico, and Jewish and queer cinema; and the new Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor and magician Ricky Jay who died last month.
In addition to the film lineup, the opening awards gala...
- 12/14/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced its 2019 lineup, and it’s prodigious: 223 films from 78 countries, four of them world premieres. Though well known for celebrating future Oscar nominees (and winners) each year, the festival also boasts a deceptively robust world-cinema slate; among the upcoming offerings are Jia Zhangke’s “Ash Is Purest White,” Sergey Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s “Birds of Passage,” and Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s “Asako I & II,” to name just a few.
A number of post-screening Q&As will also be held, including with “Black Klansman” author Ron Stallworth and “Support the Girls” star Regina Hall, in addition to a new section celebrating the best films to screen at Psiff throughout its first three decades.
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color...
A number of post-screening Q&As will also be held, including with “Black Klansman” author Ron Stallworth and “Support the Girls” star Regina Hall, in addition to a new section celebrating the best films to screen at Psiff throughout its first three decades.
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color...
- 12/14/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Toronto Film Festival has revealed its annual list of top ten Canadian films. Compiled by Tiff’s team of programmers in collaboration with Canadian critics, the ‘Canada’s Top Ten’ list includes Tiff titles Freaks, which scored a significant deal with Well Go, and Giant Little Ones. Scroll down for the full list.
The feature list was curated by Cameron Bailey, Kerri Craddock, Steve Gravestock, Danis Goulet, Ming-Jenn Lim, and Kathleen Drumm, in collaboration with the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and the Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma.
“Tiff is thrilled to present its uniquely Canadian list that offers a richness of voices, perspectives, and insights into adolescent identity,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of Tiff. “These films expertly examine heritage, family, the fragility of friendships, and the importance of challenging the current state of our world, and are testament to the fact that our Canadian filmmakers...
The feature list was curated by Cameron Bailey, Kerri Craddock, Steve Gravestock, Danis Goulet, Ming-Jenn Lim, and Kathleen Drumm, in collaboration with the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and the Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma.
“Tiff is thrilled to present its uniquely Canadian list that offers a richness of voices, perspectives, and insights into adolescent identity,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of Tiff. “These films expertly examine heritage, family, the fragility of friendships, and the importance of challenging the current state of our world, and are testament to the fact that our Canadian filmmakers...
- 12/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) in 2018, as well as our favorite films.Top Picksdaniel KASMANFeatures:1. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)4. Green Book (Peter Farrelly)5. aKasha (hajooj kuka)6. Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat)7. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)8. Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)10. Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)Shorts:1. Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)2. Arena (Björn Kämmerer)3. Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)4. Colophon (Nathaniel Dorsky)5. Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)6. Wall Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)7. Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)8. Alitplano (Malena Szlam)9. Norman Norman (Sophy Romvari)10. Hoarders without Borders, 1.0 (Jodie Mack)Kelley DONG1. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (Radu Jude)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)4. Our Body (Han Ka-Ram)5. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper...
- 9/25/2018
- MUBI
For those who have a relationship with their parents, there are likely points, no matter how good that relationship is, when that relationship is difficult. This can be especially true between the parent and child of the same gender identity: as children, we look to that person, the first in our lives, to understand how we, as a woman or man, might choose to be, or in some cases not be. As women strive for equality and recognition for their skill, there can be conflict between the different generations; the victories that one generation achieves are easily accessed by the next, and younger generations have opportunities lost to the older. This can create resentment even in love. Patricia Rozema’s latest feature Mouthpiece looks at just such...
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- 9/10/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Female filmmakers have faced many challenges over the year, but few experienced the outright hostility of their government, as Wanuri Kahiu did on her film, “Rafiki.” a lesbian love story.
Speaking at TheWrap’s Power Women Lunch at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, Kahiu related how Kenya’s censorship board complained that her lesbian love story was too “hopeful” in a country where homosexuality is banned — and that her film could only be released there if she changed her ending.
Homosexuality is banned in Kenya, and so was Kahiu’s film. She said the censorship board complained that her film was too “hopeful,” and that they would allow its release if she changed the ending.
“The [Kenya Film Commission] asked if I had an ending that showed my lead as more remorseful. I said ‘No,'” she told a packed room of top women in the film industry. She...
Speaking at TheWrap’s Power Women Lunch at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, Kahiu related how Kenya’s censorship board complained that her lesbian love story was too “hopeful” in a country where homosexuality is banned — and that her film could only be released there if she changed her ending.
Homosexuality is banned in Kenya, and so was Kahiu’s film. She said the censorship board complained that her film was too “hopeful,” and that they would allow its release if she changed the ending.
“The [Kenya Film Commission] asked if I had an ending that showed my lead as more remorseful. I said ‘No,'” she told a packed room of top women in the film industry. She...
- 9/8/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
The Notebook is covering Tiff with an on-going correspondence between critics Kelley Dong and Daniel Kasman.MouthpieceDear Danny, It is a pleasure to be here; though I share your sadness. I miss Fernando very much! You write of the demands that this festival is expected to fulfill, and its striving to maintain a possible harmony between private industry players and members of the public. But I am most intrigued—and a bit perplexed—by how these pressures interact within the context of Tiff's steadily increasing public profile as a film festival aligned with tenets of social justice. A survey of this year's lineup solidifies what appears to be an overarching spider diagram of hot topics and urgent matters, scattered across nearly three-hundred titles: police brutality, homophobia, white supremacy, refugees and migrants, indigenous sovereignty, et cetera.Indeed, unlike its international counterparts, at Tiff, parity and diversity are established as institutional norms.
- 9/8/2018
- MUBI
Cassandra (played by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava) reminds her mother (Maev Beaty’s Elaine) that we (humans) used to only live until forty. I think we often forget this fact—subjectively rather than objectively. The disparity between my generation and my parents’ is a veritable canyon as far as notions of domesticity, parenthood, and identity as a whole. Boomers were married with two kids by the time they exited college and now it’s not unusual to wait that long just to pick a major. We don’t move as fast as we used to both because we don’t have to and perhaps because we shouldn’t. And we certainly shouldn’t believe we have just one chance to get it right. It takes years to find a single semblance of self that’s worthy of unleashing upon the world let alone the series of reinventions necessary for our very survival.
- 9/8/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
This year’s Canadian feature slate — 25 in all — can be seen in six Tiff sections including Discovery, Tiff Docs and Wavelengths.
Among the selected features are highly anticipated films from fest alumni including Denys Arcand, Barry Avrich and the late Rob Stewart.
Arcand’s “The Fall of the American Empire” stars Alexandre Landry as Pierre-Paul Daoust, who faces a moral dilemma after discovering two bags of money. Sony Classics bought the North American rights to the film during the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film, which will play in Tiff’s special presentations section, is a thematic cousin to Arcand’s Oscar-nominated “The Decline of the American Empire” and the Oscar-winning “The Barbarian Invasions” (2003).
Avrich returns to Tiff’s docu section with “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz,” a portrait of the United States’ chief prosecutor during the Nuremberg trial. Stewart’s final film, “Sharkwater Extinction” will...
Among the selected features are highly anticipated films from fest alumni including Denys Arcand, Barry Avrich and the late Rob Stewart.
Arcand’s “The Fall of the American Empire” stars Alexandre Landry as Pierre-Paul Daoust, who faces a moral dilemma after discovering two bags of money. Sony Classics bought the North American rights to the film during the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film, which will play in Tiff’s special presentations section, is a thematic cousin to Arcand’s Oscar-nominated “The Decline of the American Empire” and the Oscar-winning “The Barbarian Invasions” (2003).
Avrich returns to Tiff’s docu section with “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz,” a portrait of the United States’ chief prosecutor during the Nuremberg trial. Stewart’s final film, “Sharkwater Extinction” will...
- 9/7/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
“Grief manifests itself in unexpected ways,” muses an extraordinarily understanding mortician in Patricia Rozema’s “Mouthpiece,” as a grieving client climbs into a cedar casket. But the most unexpected way grief manifests itself in the film is that the bereaved heroine is played by two actresses, Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, who aren’t entirely in sync about the best way forward.
Based on Nostbakken and Sadava’s stage play, this metaphysical two-hander about a young woman’s struggle to write a eulogy for her mother roils in guilt, resentment, sadness, and thorny notions of feminine identity. The conceit isn’t a natural for the screen, despite Rozema’s attempts to give a strong visual dimension, but it’s a thoughtful interrogation of modern womanhood, leavened by gallows humor. A warm reception in Rozema’s native Canada seems assured, but its intimate scope and semi-experimental device presents a challenge in other territories.
Based on Nostbakken and Sadava’s stage play, this metaphysical two-hander about a young woman’s struggle to write a eulogy for her mother roils in guilt, resentment, sadness, and thorny notions of feminine identity. The conceit isn’t a natural for the screen, despite Rozema’s attempts to give a strong visual dimension, but it’s a thoughtful interrogation of modern womanhood, leavened by gallows humor. A warm reception in Rozema’s native Canada seems assured, but its intimate scope and semi-experimental device presents a challenge in other territories.
- 9/7/2018
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Launched in 2011 as a four-day intensive mentorship that spotlights four homegrown actors on the brink of global breakout, Tiff Rising Stars this year not only expands its scope — officially adding four international thesps — but also embodies the festival’s increasingly proactive commitment to industry change (also reflected in its new Share Her Journey initiative). The eight 2018 stars all appear in Toronto films — including some of the hottest titles.
“Rising Stars not only celebrates achievements in the actors’ careers so far, but also helps them see the bigger picture of their lives as entrepreneurs and collaborative artists,” says its producer Natalie Semotiuk.
Canada is repped by Devery Jacobs (Veenda Sud’s “The Lie”), Lamar Johnson, pictured above, (George Tillman’s “The Hate U Give”), Michaela Kurimsky (Jasmin Mozaffari’s “Firecrackers”) and Jess Salgueiro (Patricia Rozema’s “Mouthpiece”); the international contingent is Ahmed Malek (Patricia Chica’s “Montreal Girls”), Stephane Bak (Joel Karekezi...
“Rising Stars not only celebrates achievements in the actors’ careers so far, but also helps them see the bigger picture of their lives as entrepreneurs and collaborative artists,” says its producer Natalie Semotiuk.
Canada is repped by Devery Jacobs (Veenda Sud’s “The Lie”), Lamar Johnson, pictured above, (George Tillman’s “The Hate U Give”), Michaela Kurimsky (Jasmin Mozaffari’s “Firecrackers”) and Jess Salgueiro (Patricia Rozema’s “Mouthpiece”); the international contingent is Ahmed Malek (Patricia Chica’s “Montreal Girls”), Stephane Bak (Joel Karekezi...
- 9/6/2018
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 19 new titles to its 2018 festival lineup, comprised entirely of features directed by Canadian filmmakers. Each year, Tiff highlights the films that hail from its own shores in a standalone announcement, and this year it includes nine new films from female directors, six debut features, a number of titles from fixtures of the Canadian film scene, and the world premiere of three films that showcase some of the country’s Indigenous talent.
The festival will also play home to a special event world premiere and tribute dedicated to the late filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart, centered around his final film, “Sharkwater Extinction.” Stewart passed away in 2017 while working on the film, a followup to his 2006 documentary “Sharkwater.”
“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,” said Steve Gravestock, Tiff Senior Programmer, in an official statement. “Ranging from science fiction to fantasy,...
The festival will also play home to a special event world premiere and tribute dedicated to the late filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart, centered around his final film, “Sharkwater Extinction.” Stewart passed away in 2017 while working on the film, a followup to his 2006 documentary “Sharkwater.”
“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,” said Steve Gravestock, Tiff Senior Programmer, in an official statement. “Ranging from science fiction to fantasy,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Anthropocene and The Fall Of The American Empire are among films joining the line-up.
The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 19 Canadian titles to its line-up, among them the world premieres of documentary Anthropocene, Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater Extinction and Miranda de Pencier’s feature directorial debut The Grizzlies.
The new titles for the forty-third edition of the festival – which runs from September 6 to 16 - include nine films directed by women and five debut features and senior programmer Steve Gravestock emphasised the diversity represented.
Scroll down for full line-up
“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,...
The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 19 Canadian titles to its line-up, among them the world premieres of documentary Anthropocene, Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater Extinction and Miranda de Pencier’s feature directorial debut The Grizzlies.
The new titles for the forty-third edition of the festival – which runs from September 6 to 16 - include nine films directed by women and five debut features and senior programmer Steve Gravestock emphasised the diversity represented.
Scroll down for full line-up
“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,...
- 8/1/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Special Presentations section of Tiff is always a highlight, featuring a wide range of films from established directors, and this year looks to be no exception. The section will open with veteran Canadian director Patricia Rozema's Mouthpiece, adapted from the award-winning two-woman play by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, about an aspiring writer attempting to reconcile her feminism with the conformist choices of her mother following her mother's sudden death. It will close with Shoplifters, the Palme d'Or winner, which follows a small band of marginalized misfits struggling to make ends meet in a merciless urban environment. Highlights include Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from the novel by James Baldwin, about a woman trying to get her husband our of prison;...
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- 7/25/2018
- Screen Anarchy
This year’s Venice Film Festival lineup has some world class auteurs on display — from Alfonso Cuaron to the Coen brothers — but once again, female filmmakers didn’t fare so well. Among the 21 films announced as part of this year’s competition lineup, only one is directed by a woman: Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” the Australian filmmaker’s followup to her lauded “The Babadook.” Moreover, among the 60 films picked as part of the festival’s “Official Selection”, just eight were directed by women. Other female filmmakers represented on the slate include Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mary Harron, Sarah Marx, and Margherita Ferri.
In recent years, the annual festival has similarly fallen short when it comes to women-directed films, averaging just one in a field of 18 to 22 selections over the past six years. It wasn’t always this way: in 2012, 2011, 2009, the festival hosted four competition titles from women, but their representation has seriously dipped.
In recent years, the annual festival has similarly fallen short when it comes to women-directed films, averaging just one in a field of 18 to 22 selections over the past six years. It wasn’t always this way: in 2012, 2011, 2009, the festival hosted four competition titles from women, but their representation has seriously dipped.
- 7/25/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Beautiful Boy
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, today unveiled the first round of titles premiering in the Gala and Special Presentation programmes of the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival.
Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations, this first announcement includes 21 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 8 North American Premieres and 11 Canadian Premieres. The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women.
“We have an exceptional selection of films this year that will excite Festival audiences from all walks of life,” said Handling. “Today’s lineup showcases beloved auteurs alongside fresh voices in filmmaking, including numerous female powerhouses. The sweeping range in cinematic storytelling from around the world is a testament to the uniqueness of the films that are being made.”
“Every September we invite the whole film world to Toronto, one of the most diverse, movie-mad cities in the world. I’m thrilled that...
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, today unveiled the first round of titles premiering in the Gala and Special Presentation programmes of the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival.
Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations, this first announcement includes 21 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 8 North American Premieres and 11 Canadian Premieres. The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women.
“We have an exceptional selection of films this year that will excite Festival audiences from all walks of life,” said Handling. “Today’s lineup showcases beloved auteurs alongside fresh voices in filmmaking, including numerous female powerhouses. The sweeping range in cinematic storytelling from around the world is a testament to the uniqueness of the films that are being made.”
“Every September we invite the whole film world to Toronto, one of the most diverse, movie-mad cities in the world. I’m thrilled that...
- 7/24/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s remake of A Star is Born, Ryan Gosling’s Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, as well as new films from Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen will show at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival.
A Star Is Born marks Cooper’s directorial debut and finds the actor playing an alcoholic country singer-songwriter whose life and career suddenly change after he meets a fledgling musician, played by Lady Gaga. The pop star wrote a handful of original songs for the film, which will make its North American premiere at Tiff.
A Star Is Born marks Cooper’s directorial debut and finds the actor playing an alcoholic country singer-songwriter whose life and career suddenly change after he meets a fledgling musician, played by Lady Gaga. The pop star wrote a handful of original songs for the film, which will make its North American premiere at Tiff.
- 7/24/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
High LifeA selection of films from the 2018 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with new films by Claire Denis, Barry Jenkins, Mia Hansen-Løve, Steve McQueen, and many more.Special PRESENTATIONSOpening Night: Mouthpiece (Patricia Rozema)Closing Night: Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Ben is Back (Peter Hedges)Burning (Lee Chang-dong)Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)Colette (Wash Westmoreland)Dogman (Matteo Garrone)The Front Runner (Jason Reitman)Giant Little Ones (Keith Behrman)Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson)Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras)The Hummingbird Project (Kim Nguyen)If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)Manto (Nandita Das)Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve)Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green)Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)The Old Man & The Gun (David Lowery)Papi Chulo (John Butler)Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)Sunset (László Nemes)Through Black Spruce (Don McKellar)The Wedding Guest (Michael Winterbottom...
- 7/24/2018
- MUBI
Updated with full list, more detail: The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled a rich roster of Gala and Special Presentations screenings for the 2018 edition that runs September 6-16. Among the world premieres are Felix Van Groeningen’s addiction drama Beautiful Boy from Amazon and based on the memoirs of David and Nic Sheff, with Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet starring.
Also in the world premiere mix are Steve McQueen’s female-fronted thriller Widows from Fox; Peter Hedges’ mother-son story and Julia Roberts-starrer Ben Is Back, which Ld Entertainment, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions are releasing domestically December 7; Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk from Annapurna; Dan Fogelman’s romantic drama Life Itself; and Claire Denis’ High Life.
A key pillar in the launch of awards season, Toronto is the first of the three early fall shows to reveal — although it kicks off after both Venice and Telluride.
Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations unveiled today, this first announcement includes 21 world premieres, seven international premieres, eight North American premieres and 11 Canadian premieres.
International premieres, whose billing suggests they could turn up in Telluride, include Jason Reitman’s Gary Hart story The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman as the 1980s presidential candidate.
Two films already confirmed for Venice, Damien Chazelle’s First Man and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, will travel from the Lido to Canada.
There are also a handful of titles that bowed in Cannes including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum, Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun and Matteo Garrone’s Dogman.
The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women.
Piers Handling, CEO and director of Tiff, said, “We have an exceptional selection of films this year that will excite festival audiences from all walks of life. Today’s lineup showcases beloved auteurs alongside fresh voices in filmmaking, including numerous female powerhouses. The sweeping range in cinematic storytelling from around the world is a testament to the uniqueness of the films that are being made.”
He added, “Every September we invite the whole film world to Toronto, one of the most diverse, movie-mad cities in the world. I’m thrilled that we’ve been able to put together a lineup of Galas and Special Presentations that reflects Toronto’s spirit of inclusive, passionate engagement with film. We can’t wait to unveil these films for our audience.”
Toronto yesterday canceled its planned press conference for this morning in the wake of Sunday night’s shooting in the city that killed two and wounded at least 13, and said it stands “with our fellow Torontonians in condemnation of this violence.”
Deadline’s Pete Hammond will be back later with analysis.
Here’s the full list of titles announced today:
Galas 2018
Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen
USA
World Premiere
Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi
Spain/France/Italy
North American Premiere
First Man
Damien Chazelle
USA
Canadian Premiere
Galveston
Mélanie Laurent
USA
Canadian Premiere
The Hate U Give
George Tillman, Jr
USA
World Premiere
Hidden Man
Jiang Wen
China
International Premiere
High Life
Claire Denis
Germany/France/Poland/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Husband Material
Anurag Kashyap
India
World Premiere
The Kindergarten Teacher
Sara Colangelo
USA
Canadian Premiere
The Land of Steady Habits
Nicole Holofcener
USA
World Premiere
Life Itself
Dan Fogelman
USA
World Premiere
The Public
Emilio Estevez
USA
World Premiere
Red Joan
Sir Trevor Nunn
United Kingdom
World Premiere
Shadow
Zhang Yimou,
China
North American Premiere
A Star is Born
Bradley Cooper
USA
North American Premiere
What They Had
Elizabeth Chomko
USA
International Premiere
Widows
Steve McQueen
United Kingdom/USA
World Premiere
Special Presentations 2018
Mouthpiece (Opening Film)
Patricia Rozema
Canada
World Premiere
Ben Is Back
Peter Hedges
USA
World Premiere
Burning
Lee Chang-dong
South Korea
North American Premiere
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller
USA
International Premiere
Capernaum
Nadine Labaki
Lebanon
North American Premiere
Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski
Poland/United Kingdom/France
Canadian Premiere
Colette
Wash Westmoreland
United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
Dogman
Matteo Garrone
Italy/France
Canadian Premiere
The Front Runner
Jason Reitman
USA
International Premiere
Giant Little Ones
Keith Behrman
Canada
World Premiere
Girls of the Sun
Eva Husson
France
International Premiere
Hotel Mumbai
Anthony Maras
Australia
World Premiere
The Hummingbird Project
Kim Nguyen
Canada
World Premiere
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
USA
World Premiere
Manto
Nandita Das
India
North American Premiere
Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve
France
World Premiere
Monsters And Men
Reinaldo Marcus Green
USA
Canadian Premiere
Non-Fiction
Olivier Assayas
France
Canadian Premiere
The Old Man & The Gun
David Lowery
USA
International Premiere
Papi Chulo
John Butler
Ireland
World Premiere
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico/USA
Canadian Premiere
Shoplifters (Closing Film)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan
Canadian Premiere
The Sisters Brothers
Jacques Audiard
USA/France/Romania/Spain
North American Premiere
Sunset
László Nemes
Hungary/France
North American Premiere
Through Black Spruce
Don McKellar
Canada
World Premiere
The Wedding Guest
Michael Winterbottom
United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Weekend
Stella Meghie
USA
World Premiere...
Also in the world premiere mix are Steve McQueen’s female-fronted thriller Widows from Fox; Peter Hedges’ mother-son story and Julia Roberts-starrer Ben Is Back, which Ld Entertainment, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions are releasing domestically December 7; Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk from Annapurna; Dan Fogelman’s romantic drama Life Itself; and Claire Denis’ High Life.
A key pillar in the launch of awards season, Toronto is the first of the three early fall shows to reveal — although it kicks off after both Venice and Telluride.
Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations unveiled today, this first announcement includes 21 world premieres, seven international premieres, eight North American premieres and 11 Canadian premieres.
International premieres, whose billing suggests they could turn up in Telluride, include Jason Reitman’s Gary Hart story The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman as the 1980s presidential candidate.
Two films already confirmed for Venice, Damien Chazelle’s First Man and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, will travel from the Lido to Canada.
There are also a handful of titles that bowed in Cannes including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum, Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun and Matteo Garrone’s Dogman.
The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women.
Piers Handling, CEO and director of Tiff, said, “We have an exceptional selection of films this year that will excite festival audiences from all walks of life. Today’s lineup showcases beloved auteurs alongside fresh voices in filmmaking, including numerous female powerhouses. The sweeping range in cinematic storytelling from around the world is a testament to the uniqueness of the films that are being made.”
He added, “Every September we invite the whole film world to Toronto, one of the most diverse, movie-mad cities in the world. I’m thrilled that we’ve been able to put together a lineup of Galas and Special Presentations that reflects Toronto’s spirit of inclusive, passionate engagement with film. We can’t wait to unveil these films for our audience.”
Toronto yesterday canceled its planned press conference for this morning in the wake of Sunday night’s shooting in the city that killed two and wounded at least 13, and said it stands “with our fellow Torontonians in condemnation of this violence.”
Deadline’s Pete Hammond will be back later with analysis.
Here’s the full list of titles announced today:
Galas 2018
Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen
USA
World Premiere
Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi
Spain/France/Italy
North American Premiere
First Man
Damien Chazelle
USA
Canadian Premiere
Galveston
Mélanie Laurent
USA
Canadian Premiere
The Hate U Give
George Tillman, Jr
USA
World Premiere
Hidden Man
Jiang Wen
China
International Premiere
High Life
Claire Denis
Germany/France/Poland/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Husband Material
Anurag Kashyap
India
World Premiere
The Kindergarten Teacher
Sara Colangelo
USA
Canadian Premiere
The Land of Steady Habits
Nicole Holofcener
USA
World Premiere
Life Itself
Dan Fogelman
USA
World Premiere
The Public
Emilio Estevez
USA
World Premiere
Red Joan
Sir Trevor Nunn
United Kingdom
World Premiere
Shadow
Zhang Yimou,
China
North American Premiere
A Star is Born
Bradley Cooper
USA
North American Premiere
What They Had
Elizabeth Chomko
USA
International Premiere
Widows
Steve McQueen
United Kingdom/USA
World Premiere
Special Presentations 2018
Mouthpiece (Opening Film)
Patricia Rozema
Canada
World Premiere
Ben Is Back
Peter Hedges
USA
World Premiere
Burning
Lee Chang-dong
South Korea
North American Premiere
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller
USA
International Premiere
Capernaum
Nadine Labaki
Lebanon
North American Premiere
Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski
Poland/United Kingdom/France
Canadian Premiere
Colette
Wash Westmoreland
United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
Dogman
Matteo Garrone
Italy/France
Canadian Premiere
The Front Runner
Jason Reitman
USA
International Premiere
Giant Little Ones
Keith Behrman
Canada
World Premiere
Girls of the Sun
Eva Husson
France
International Premiere
Hotel Mumbai
Anthony Maras
Australia
World Premiere
The Hummingbird Project
Kim Nguyen
Canada
World Premiere
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
USA
World Premiere
Manto
Nandita Das
India
North American Premiere
Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve
France
World Premiere
Monsters And Men
Reinaldo Marcus Green
USA
Canadian Premiere
Non-Fiction
Olivier Assayas
France
Canadian Premiere
The Old Man & The Gun
David Lowery
USA
International Premiere
Papi Chulo
John Butler
Ireland
World Premiere
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico/USA
Canadian Premiere
Shoplifters (Closing Film)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan
Canadian Premiere
The Sisters Brothers
Jacques Audiard
USA/France/Romania/Spain
North American Premiere
Sunset
László Nemes
Hungary/France
North American Premiere
Through Black Spruce
Don McKellar
Canada
World Premiere
The Wedding Guest
Michael Winterbottom
United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Weekend
Stella Meghie
USA
World Premiere...
- 7/24/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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