The Wise Baby
Did the baby understand? Not just ‘go potty’ or ‘bad boy’ but circular concepts of loss and betrayal and identity and love?
View ArticleRinkside Intellectual
Stephen Smith investigates the hockey lives of Barthes, Faulkner, Hemingway, which were marked by dismissal, befuddlement and scorn.
View ArticleDon't Look Down
"Now you are looking up from the bottom of the lake. You are walking past the townhouses in April under the budding trees, and drowning."
View ArticleMy Father's Picasso
"You know what I think it's worth?" Goldie said. "Fifteen bucks for the frame."
View ArticlePacific Meats & Frozen Foods, Inc.
"I fed an eight-year-old a hot dog that I’d dropped in the sink and then shortchanged him because we were out of five-dollar bills."
View ArticleFifty Years in Review
A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery.
View ArticleConversation with Victor Frankenstein
When deprived of sensory input, humans experience miraculous, spiritual things
View ArticleSymbiosis in Warsaw
Ola Szczecinska returns to Warsaw to visit her grandmother, and to keep from losing her memories.
View ArticleWall Spirits
Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.
View ArticleWho Gets Called an Unfit Mother?
"The secret that I was a bad mother was a tightness in my chest I carried everywhere."
View ArticleThere is a Wind that Never Dies
"If you are still alive, you must have had the experience of surrendering."
View ArticleWalking in the Wound
It is racism, not race, that is a risk factor for dying of COVID-19.
View ArticleWritten By: ghosts from Hong Kong
Written By is a complex and ambitious story about grief and how to move past it from Hong Kong director Wai Ka-fai. Melody is just a girl when her father is killed in a car accident but she and her...
View ArticleHipsters sleep in 'Unmade Beds'
The cooler-than-thou element is a bit tiresome – the two main characters in Unmade Beds live against the backdrop of a hip London party scene. I didn’t really buy into the sophisticated squat where...
View ArticleHome Alone Swedish style in The Girl
The Girl is a delicate and profound Swedish film with always a hint of peril lurking on its edges. The title character is nine years old and is left behind at the family house in the Swedish...
View ArticleCanadiana
If you ever noticed a guy sitting on the edge of the pier at Trout Lake Park paddling for hours on his own, that was Taku Hokoyama. Taku was preparing to paddle across the boreal forest of Manitoba and...
View ArticleVIFF 2015: Rainbow Island
An optimistic film about tradition and change on a small Iranian island
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