Author: Festival Coverage
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Uno Fest is here, and I’ll be taking on eight of the 16 shows featured in the festival, as well as one slam event. It’ll be a rollicking ride — I’ve never seen more than two shows at a single theatre festival before. Check back for reviews until May 23, as well as an interview […]
Full disclosure: I became a little enamoured with the Raging Grannies the moment I found out about the group, so I was eager to watch Granny Power from the start. A decade in the making, this documentary stars several members of the Raging Grannies. What started in 1987 as a small group of women in […]
Toronto-based filmmaker and photographer Nika Belianina held the world premiere of her film Eccentric Eclectic at the Victoria Film Festival on February 7th. Later that week, she spoke to CFUV’s Linda about this feature-length documentary that takes the viewer on a tour of Ontario’s Electric Eclectics Festival. Listen below to find out about some of […]
Making its way to theatres in the city it was created in for the first time, Two 4 One follows the story of Adam. He’s a trans man faced with a series of tough choices when he finds himself pregnant after helping ex-girlfriend Miriam with an artificial insemination kit. Navigating his own desires along with […]
Disgruntled fathers, road ragers, and stressed-out brides — Wild Tales features them all in 122 delightfully morbid minutes. Split between six vignettes, this film is all about the release of revenge. Sometimes all too real and sometimes wildly far-fetched, Wild Tales shows us the worst sides of ordinary people pushed far past their breaking points. […]
Miroslav Slaboshipitsky has brought to fruition perhaps one of the more interesting experiences for a film with The Tribe. It played only last night here at VFF and was extraordinary in that there was no spoken dialogue or subtitles. The whole film is in Ukrainian sign language and the only sound you will hear is […]