Hirayanagi Atsuko’s refreshing debut feature Oh Lucy! is one whimsical cocktail, mixing one part urban alienation, one part domestic drama, two parts road movie, and topped with splashes of comic …
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Styled as a comic domestic drama but hiding sweeping undercurrents, Mina Shum’s crowd-pleasing fourth feature portrays a Vancouver family whose lives are jolted by a convergence of difficult revelations and …
The laughter dropped often from the packed press and industry screening on opening night, but as the film wore on it was hard to shake off the feeling that their …
Toronto’s largest film festival is shrinking with age. Earlier this year it had announced plans to reduce its overall program by a fifth by axing some sections and venues. The …
Kore-eda Hirokazu occupies an esteemed perch in contemporary Japanese cinema. Over the past two decades his films have been well-received both in his native Japan and around the world for …
A North Korean fisherman’s boat strays into enemy waters after his net accidentally jams the motor. The South Koreans promptly take him into custody to rule him out as a …
In their remarkable feature debut, screenwriter Florence Chan and director Wong Chun portray the traumatic homecoming of a young man named Tung (Shawn Yue) after he is released from a …
The Toronto International Film Festival’s 41st chapter runs 8-18 September 2016 and will feature 397 feature and short films from 83 countries screening across 16 programs. As in previous years, …
In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has become endangered, an android traveling in her spaceship is tasked to visit various planets to deliver memories in packages to the smattering of …
After learning that rich gangsters have abducted his estranged son, a former street ruffian makes repeated attempts to save him—in a covert bid to atone for ditching the boy and …