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Category: Film Festival

Rosalie by Stephanie Di Giusto: A Sensitive Film for Our Time

October 17, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Rosalie, directed by Stephanie Di Giusto, is a sensitive film that addresses themes especially relevant today. The…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

1995 by Ricardo Trogi: A Frenzied Dive into Quebecois Culture

October 12, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Ricardo Trogi’s 1995 bursts with frenetic energy, brilliantly capturing the chaotic personality of its main character—Trogi himself—portrayed…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Canadian Cinema, CinéFranco, Hudson Moura, Quebec Cinema, Ricardo Trogi

And the Party Goes On: Robert Guédiguian’s Reflection on Marseille’s Losses, Invisibility, and Voiceless Communities

October 9, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Robert Guédiguian returns with And the Party Goes On ! (Et la fête continue!), a film deeply rooted…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Armenia, CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Seguridad: A Poignant Exploration of Cuban Memory and the Father Figure in Canadian Diasporic Cinema

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by Hudson Moura In the tradition of Canadian diasporic first-person films, filmmakers often delve into their experiences of exile and…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Alucine, Canada, Cuba, documentary, Hudson Moura
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Russians at War by Anastasia Trofimova: Propaganda or Complex Portrait of Soldiers in Conflict?

October 7, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura (Professor of Politics & Film at the Toronto Metropolitan University and Film Commentator for Radio Canada) The…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, TIFF-Toronto International Film Festival Filed under: Hudson Moura

The Girl Under Glass

October 3, 2012 hudmoura

by Willis Wong Shot almost entirely in the vast expanses of the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Postcards follows the wandering…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Survival of the Stylish

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By Willis Wong The 18th century island mansion in The Capsule is as much a character as are the women…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Three Lives and One Murder in 300 Minutes

October 29, 2011 hudmoura

by Athena Wong What do you get when you watch three 90-minute features played back to back with two 15-minute…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Talk To The Hand

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by Willis Wong Despite a children’s puppet show being the premise of this mockumentary, this is definitely not one for…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Kicks and Kink

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by Willis Wong With its bloody ultraviolence, sexual hijinks and saturated comic book palette, Bikini is a hentai (Japanese for…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

When Global Affects the Local

October 15, 2011 hudmoura

There Once was an Island: Te henua e nnoho is a beautifully shot documentary about the Takū people in Papua…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Wenders’ Pina Bausch in 3D

October 12, 2011 hudmoura

Using one form of art – film – to celebrate one’s achievements in another art form – dance, Pina 3D…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

The Kite Line That Binds

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Uttarayana is the day the sun travels north, indicating that summer would soon arrive. People in India celebrate by flying…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Sibling Rivalries

October 11, 2011 hudmoura

In the third film from director Carl Bessai’s series on familial relationships, Sisters & Brothers shares with us the confrontations…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Animation Nation

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Curated based on the quality of submissions, the shorts are wonderfully varied in style and technique. Advanced Cybernetics (Steven Day,…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Have we progressed to an evolutionary dead end?

October 8, 2011 hudmoura

Inspired by Ronald Wright’s book A Short History of Progress, which explores the collapse of ancient civilizations and draws similarities…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Mr. Tree: Village Idiot

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Mr. Tree is a quasi-dark comedy about a “village idiot” who haphazardly manages to get through life. After getting injured…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

A Glowing Future

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A single blob floats in darkness, multiplying and recombining with others.  The luminous lumps grow and grow until they form…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

The Old and The Cold

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During the harsh winter in a mountain village of old Japan, Kayu is carried off to die.  The old must…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Lost in Paradise: Challenging Vietnamese Cinema

October 5, 2011 hudmoura

Lost in Paradise is a typical love story with a contemporary twist. The two main characters meet. They fall in…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Bloody Hell

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Meet Jay, a family man with a seven year old son and a beautiful wife, house in the English suburbs,…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

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