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The documentary Russians at War will play at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Lightbox on Tuesday, after the festival suspended showings earlier this week due to security concerns. The first-person documentary by Russian Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova spurred protests from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to propaganda. In a…
The Life of Chuck, an offbeat film by writer-director Mike Flanagan, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The sci-fi drama is based on the 2020 Stephen King novella and sees Tom Hiddleston as one of the actors playing the central character, accountant Charles “Chuck” Krantz. The audience-voted prize, considered an Oscar bellwether, was announced…
A record-breaking four Manitoba-produced features were given a place at the table at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but only three are actually set in Winnipeg. Rumours, a satire from Winnipeggers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, is set in Germany and was filmed in Hungary. Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is set in Winnipeg, but an…
Saskatoon filmmaker Jacob Farrell says movie fans can expect lots of laughs at the premiere of the new feature film he co-created. Screening at The Broadway Theatre on Saturday night, 8th Street Menace is a love letter to Saskatoon’s dirtbags. Think Fubar or Trailer Park Boys, but with a local twist. “We had to cut…
Two Winnipeg-spawned filmmakers who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — albeit almost 20 years apart — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it’s like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film. Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin…
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced it will pause all upcoming screenings of the film Russians at War. Russians at War, a first-person documentary by Russian Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova, spurred protest from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to propaganda. The feature was set to have its North American premiere at the Scotiabank Theatre at 2:30…
The province of Manitoba is extraordinarily well represented this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Officially, the province lays claim to seven films at the festival, which opened Thursday: four features and three shorts, all with Manitoba connections. Never before in the 49-year history of the festival have so many Manitoba-made films been presented. Bear…
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice arrived with about as much subtlety as its scheduling at the Toronto International Film Festival. Just as the Ali Abassi-directed film was plopped into the festival’s opening night schedule on Thursday as a last-minute surprise, the film barrels into its thesis without much warning or preamble. Documenting the former U.S. president’s beginnings…
