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Tag: Toronto International Film Festival

Reviews: Paying For It from TIFF 2024

September 9, 2024

When Chester’s girlfriend informs him she’s falling in love with another man, he’s willing to make an open relationship work. As she neglects Chester, he begins paying for sex.

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Reviews: SATURDAY NIGHT from TIFF 2024

September 8, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Saturday Night Live is an institution of television. It has been on the air for almost fifty years, aired almost 1000…

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Reviews: Seeds from TIFF 2024

September 7, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 Starring, written, and directed by Canadian indigenous actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Seeds is a promising, if messy, debut.  Horn plays Ziggy, a…

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285: 2024 TIFF Preview

August 27, 2024

The ⁠Toronto International Film Festival⁠ runs from September 5-15th and we will be in town covering the fest. Here we preview our most anticipated…

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Blog: 2024 Toronto International Film Festival Preview

August 23, 2024

The 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is almost upon us. The fest has been a staple of Contra Zoom going back…

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252: 2023 TIFF Wrap Up

September 19, 2023

We wrap up this year’s Toronto International Film Festival by talking about the big hits and misses, our favourite films and the award winners. Joining the show to help us break it all down is Jeff Bulmer, one half of the Classic Movies. Jeff also contributed some festival movie reviews to Contra Zoom.

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Reviews: Working Class Goes To Hell from TIFF 2023

September 15, 2023

The new Serbian film Working Class Goes To Hell, directed by Mladen Djordjevic, is billed as a satirical horror film. It is about the ends that class consciousness can go to and to ensure our capitalist overlords stop taking advantage of the common man.

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Seagrass

Reviews: Seagrass from TIFF 2023

September 14, 2023

Seagrass is a semi-autobiographical movie from director Meredith Hama-Brown. Judith, a Japanese-Canadian woman (played by Ally Maki), brings her family to group therapy camp so she can work on her strained relationship with her Caucasian husband Steve (Luke Roberts).

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Reviews: Tautuktavuk (What We See) from TIFF 2023

September 11, 2023

Tautuktavuk (What We See), plays out like an Italian Neorealist film, something that is akin to the works of Vittorio de Sica and Roberto Rossellini. The film is set up as two elder sisters, Saqpinak played by one half of the directors Carol Kunnuk, and Uyarak played by the other director Lucy Tulugarjuk, separated in different parts of the country during the initial wave of COVID-19 lockdowns. 

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I Don't Know Who You Are

Reviews: I Don’t Know Who You Are from TIFF 2023

September 8, 2023

After he is sexually assaulted, musician Benjamin spends the weekend trying to get money for HIV-preventative treatment. Embarrassed, confused, and with his pride and life both on the line and at odds with each other, Benjamin turns to extra work and begging old friends for extra cash.

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