A Common Goal is a documentary film following the Arab players on the Israel National Football team. The film, like the others premiering at the Canadian Sport Film Festival, uses the fame and excitement of sport to analyze the deeper systematic issues they highlight. For A Common Goal, this involves looking at Israel?s history of…
Bardo (or, “I?m going to make it clear to the world I?m an artist”) is the first film from Alejandro Gonzalez I??rritu since 2015?s The Revenant and is certainly his most bombastic work to date.? Here, I??rritu leaves it all on the table in this contemporary autobiographical, nostalgia trip where Silvio, a renowned documentary filmmaker,…
Waterman tells the story of Duke Kahanamoku, a man most of us probably don?t know but who we should. The documentary uses their limited amount of footage and well executed recreations of surfing and swimming events to illustrate how amazing Duke was at both. A five-time Olympic medalist and native Hawaiian, Duke became the best…
Raise the Bar is not an easy film. It challenges you as the viewer the same way the girls in the film are challenged. In turn the girls also challenge the status quo that aims to hold them back from pursuing equality in basketball and in life. The film follows an Icelandic basketball team of…
Actor-turned-director Jonah Hill has been through a lot; we all have. Knowing this, Hill set out to make a film about his therapist Philip Stutz after seeing how much he benefitted from his sessions with him. Hill states that he hopes that people could benefit from hearing how he and Stutz do a therapy session…
If anything is to be said of the man who has claimed the title of visionary director its that he knows how to find the visuals of love. Director Guillermo Del Toro revels in the compassion and heartfelt connection between human beings and often creatures of flight and fantasy. Guillermo Del Toro?s Pinnochio sees him…
Manifest West like a lot of indie films strives to make the most of its resources. In doing so it reveals some its excellent part that are held together by a loose story. This creates a film where the passion and excitement are shown in every shot and line in the movie. This same enthusiasm…
Causeway stars Jennifer Lawrence in a film that sees the girl on fire?s return to the kind of acclaimed performances she was giving before she became a box office mainstay. Now in her return she has the producing power to select her own scripts and hire directors she wants to work with. Causeway marks the…
Wendell and Wild is one of the most ambitious and bizarre films of the 2020s. It is also the second Netflix movie to premiere at TIFF this year that uses hot sauce as blood. Bet you can?t figure out what the second one is. The film follows young teenage Katherine Knoiqua Elliot (Lyric Ross)–though she…
