CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘WaaPaKe’

CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘WaaPaKe’

This piece on this documentary is coming out the morning of its release for this year’s Canadian Film Festival. It’s almost a week away from when I watched it during a weekend when all I watched was other Indigenous works. Those other two works are Kanehsatake: 207 Years of Resistance and Little Bird, both ‘contemporaneous’ […]

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We’re Just Like You: Our Review of ‘Coming to You’

We’re Just Like You: Our Review of ‘Coming to You’

Hankyeol (They/Them) lies down on a bed after having top surgery, while their mother, Nabi (She/Her), is sitting by their side. Meanwhile, Vivian (She/Her) attends a PFLAG meeting as she talks about her son, Yejoon (He/Him). Coming To You is a documentary that narrows its focus on mothers, their sons, and the challenges they face. […]

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Past and Present: Our Review of ‘The Queen of My Dreams’

Theatrical ‐ March 22, 2024
Past and Present: Our Review of ‘The Queen of My Dreams’

Fawzia Mirza’s new film The Queen of My Dreams has three settings. The first is in 1999 in Toronto, where Azra Baji (Amrit Kaur), a Pakistani-Canadian and a student actress. She lives freely with her girlfriend. A private night together gets interrupted even if her mother, Mariam (Nimra Bucha), is on a trip to Karachi. […]

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Breathtaking Fantasy: Our Review of ‘Daughter Of The Sun’ at CFF 2024

Movies ‐ March 22, 2024
Breathtaking Fantasy: Our Review of ‘Daughter Of The Sun’ at CFF 2024

Some of the best movies defy being pigeonholed. Those types of movies attracted wider audiences because they provide a little something for everyone. Writer, Director and lead actor Ryan Ward’s latest film Daughter of the Sun does just that. It leaves audiences with questions as to what they just saw, but not in a way […]

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Protection: Our Review of ‘Shayda’

Theatrical ‐ March 22, 2024
Protection: Our Review of ‘Shayda’

For Shayda, director Noora Niasari takes inspiration from her childhood as an Australian-Iranian during the mid 1990s. She also imagines what her mother went through as the titular character (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) tries to escape a husband, Hossein (Osamah Sami), who abuses her. During one of the scenes in the film, she prepares an impact […]

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Binaries: Our Review of ‘Mami Wata’ on MUBI

C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Mami Wata graced the screens of festivals like Sundance and Fantasia and is coming to MUBI. The title refers to a folk goddess that still has worshippers in communities in African countries like Nigeria. One of those fictional communities is Iyi, where Mami Wata’s priestess, Mama Efe (Rita Edochie), is losing her […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

If you’ve ever wanted to know what would happen if a charming Carley Fortune novel about young love were crossed with a twisted psychosexual drama, The Burning Season is the film for you! Told backwards, JB and Elena’s love story is a dark and upsetting tragedy. The pair have been lovers off-and-on since Elena (Sara […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Wild Goat Surf’

Set during the summer of 2003, we catch up with 13-year-old Rell Anderson (Shaleyin Martin). Everyone around her Penticton home affectionately knows her as Goat. She along with,  her mother Jane (Caitlyn Sponheimer)  illegally sublet their apartment for extra cash during the busy summer months. Relegated to a mobile home in a rundown trailer park, […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Valley of Exile’

CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Valley of Exile’

Nour, a Syrian refugee, asks her tentmate and Palestinian-Syrian refugee, Shirin, what they do for their laundry during winter. I find that piece of conversation among many in Valley of Exile fascinating because of what it hints on. Westerners, and I’m projecting here, have a lot of expectations about refugee camps and the ecosystems around […]

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Laserblast from the Past: Our Review of ‘X-Men ’97’

Debuting this Wednesday on Disney + is the long-awaited revival of one of the most beloved cartoon series of all time, X-Men ’97.  A direct sequel to X-Men: The Animated Series, which originally lasted 76 episodes over 5 seasons between 1992 and 1997, X-Men ’97 picks up an undisclosed amount of months after the events […]

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