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Toronto 2023


101 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2023. Last article published on 12/03/2024.

Hanna Slak • Director of Not a Word

Interview: Hanna Slak • Director of Not a Word

“What I was interested in was this immanent story of confronting darkness during the search for a place where the healing process can start”

The filmmaker homes in on the parent-child themes central to her new movie, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 5, and how genre influences her dramas  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: In the Rearview

Review: In the Rearview

Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela turns his experience of driving Ukrainian refugees to safety into a unique combination of observational and interventionist documentary  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | TIFF Docs

Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

Interview: Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

"What’s the alternative for modern-day youth?"

The French filmmaker explains the inner workings of a highly singular character and of an intimate thriller about an ambitious woman moving from a gendarmerie barracks to the business district  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: Sisterhood

Review: Sisterhood

Nora El Hourch’s film is a direct yet subtle and effective film about a wonderful friendship undermined by the paradoxes of the fight against sexual violence and by social differences  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Sara Summa • Director of Arthur & Diana

Interview: Sara Summa • Director of Arthur & Diana

“I always begin a project with an image that engraves itself on my mind”

For her second feature, the French-Italian director has crafted a multilayered brother-and-sister story, containing certain autobiographical elements  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Discovery

Review: Not a Word

Review: Not a Word

Drenched in atmospheric tension and brimming with raw emotional undercurrents, Hanna Slak’s latest film is a thriller-drama tackling coming-of-age traumas  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: Spirit of Ecstasy

Review: Spirit of Ecstasy

Héléna Klotz thrusts a class defector into the ruthless world of trading and algorithms, creating an extraordinary, modern-day heroine for a fascinating film  

11/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

EXCLUSIVE: Clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry The Rye Horn

EXCLUSIVE: Clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry The Rye Horn

Selected for both the Platform and the Golden Shell competition, the second film by Jaione Camborda follows a woman on the run in Francoist Spain  

09/09/2023 | Toronto 2023/San Sebastián 2023

Review: Copa 71

Review: Copa 71

The documentary by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine tells the inspiring, yet incomplete, story of the forgotten unofficial women's football world cup  

08/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | TIFF Docs

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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