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134 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2024. Last article published on 23/05/2025.

Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

Interview: Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

“I’m not sure what the future holds for Ukrainian cinema, especially sci-fi”

The Ukrainian director talks about blending sci-fi with an emotional love story, and his preference for practical effects over digital ones  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

Review: The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

The Agbajowo Collective signs a meaningful, grassroots-orientated debut film informed by the ongoing evictions of informal settlements in Africa’s largest city  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Horizonte

Review: Horizonte

A mother and her son, both ghosts, tread the path of redemption after a civil war marked by crimes and wrongful deaths in César Augusto Acevedo's sophomore feature  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: A Missing Part

Review: A Missing Part

Guillaume Senez takes Romain Duris to Japan, telling a fine and well-put-together story about parenthood where a father allows himself a final reprieve and in which emotion swells like a wave  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Meet the Barbarians

Review: Meet the Barbarians

A Brittany village comes into turmoil at the arrival of a refugee Syrian family in this intelligent, politically engaged, biting and affectionate comedy, signed Julie Delpy  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Galas

Review: Winter in Sokcho

Review: Winter in Sokcho

French-Japanese director Koya Kamura delivers an sensitive, intimate, and atmospheric first feature film about the road to self-acceptance  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Review: U Are the Universe

Review: U Are the Universe

Pavlo Ostrikov’s feature debut blends existential sci-fi, romance and cosmic comedy into a genre-fluid exploration of love, loneliness and the human need for connection  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: The Quiet Ones

Review: The Quiet Ones

Danish director Frederik Louis Hviid makes his solo feature debut with an action-packed crime-thriller that doesn’t quite live up to its potential  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: Bonjour Tristesse

Review: Bonjour Tristesse

With her debut film, Canadian essayist Durga Chew-Bose adapts the 1954 French novel into a languorous contemporary fable, set off by a lingering disquietude  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

EXCLUSIVE: First clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry Winter in Sokcho

EXCLUSIVE: First clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry Winter in Sokcho

The first film by French-Japanese director Koya Kamura, starring Bella Kim and Roschdy Zem, will compete in the Platform and New Directors sections  

05/09/2024 | Toronto 2024/San Sebastián 2024

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