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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cody Lightning
Starring: Adam Beach | Cody Lightning | Conway Kootenay | Hannah Cheesman | Simon Baker
Michael says: “Fans of the 1998 Canadian film, SMOKE SIGNALS, will most appreciate this raunchy, irreverent, mockumentary about one minor cast member’s attempt to mount a sequel. Cody Lightning was a young boy when he portrayed Young Victor Joseph, a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Trevor Anderson
Starring: Dominic Lippa | Lacey Oake | Matthew Rankin | Shannon Blanchet | Vaughan Murrae
Jeff says: “It’s 1987, and Robin (Vaughan Murrae) is the new kid, an American recently settled into their new home in Edmonton, Alberta. It’s their first day of high school, and they join a gym class in progress, where a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Starring: Anna Antoniades | Eleni Sachini | Enva Lewis | Lara Peake | Mia McKenna-Bruce
Brett says: “HOW TO HAVE SEX goes full throttle in providing what could be described as a neo-naturalist depiction, centered on the trendy Spring Break or summer vacation phenomena among post-high school graduates eager to leap into the benefits of adulthood
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Errol Morris
Chris says: “Errol Morris films live and die by how engaging the interrogated subject is, and mystery writer/ex-spy John le Carré/David Cornwell is entertaining in an unassuming Gore Vidal sort of way. However, in a new twist, Morris also lets
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul B. Preciado
Chris says: “With this unconventional documentary, transgender writer/philosopher/feminist Paul B. Preciado doesn’t so much take Virginia Woolf’s Orlando back from the 1992 Sally Potter film starring Tilda Swinton in the title role as he comprehensively shows how her story about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caolina Marcowicz
Starring: Erom Cordeiro | Isac Graça | Kauan Alvarenga | Maeve Jinkings | Thomas Aquino
Brett says: “Director Carolina Markowicz follows 2022’s genre-bending plot from CHARCOAL with yet another single-word title film. Similar to that first feature, this film allows audiences to interpret the ominous title to apply to quite a few different plot circumstances. The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Starring: Carrie Coon | Elizabeth Olsen | Jay O. Sanders | Jovan Adepo | Natsha Lyonne
Diane says: “HIS THREE DAUGHTERS is a study in the distance between who we want to be and how we appear to others. “I was drawn to this at TIFF because I’m one of three daughters who, like the three
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: DK Welchman | Hugh Welchman
Starring: Ewa Kasprzyk | Kamila Urzedowska | Miroslaw Baka | Robert Gulaczyk | Sonia Mietielica
Diane says: “THE PEASANTS is by the creators of the award-winning LOVING VINCENT. Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (a married couple) adapted a 4-volume, 1,000-page Polish novel—a story of 19th century rural life: farm, mill, church, tavern. “Like VINCENT,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Christian Friedel | Freya Kreutzkam | Max Beck | Ralph Herforth | Sandra Hüller
Chris says: “Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s first feature since 2013’s UNDER THE SKIN is just as carefully sculpted and uncompromising; however, instead of ScarJo playing an alien, you have Sandra Huller as a World War II Nazi hausfrau living (with her military
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