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Seun Olowo-Ake

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Cynara: Holding You Up During Trials

Cynara: Holding You Up During Trials

Oct 21, 2023

Cynara takes another look at the case of Cindy Ali, who was accused of killing her daughter, Cynara, in 2011, and asks if the ruling of the court was the right one. Through interviews with different people involved in the case, it builds a picture of what might have...

TIFF ’23: City of Wind

TIFF ’23: City of Wind

Sep 16, 2023

From director, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, City of Wind follows Ze, a seventeen-year-old shaman in Mongolia who manages his responsibilities as shaman, a student, and a son really well until he falls in love. Now, he finds himself having new desires that interfere with...

TIFF ’23: Sleep

TIFF ’23: Sleep

Sep 16, 2023

When a pregnant Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) finds her husband, Hyun-su (Parasite’s Lee Sun-kyun), sleep talking one night, and when his actions in his sleep become increasingly harmful, she insists that they visit a doctor who diagnoses him with a sleep disorder. However, a...

TIFF ’23: The Movie Teller

TIFF ’23: The Movie Teller

Sep 15, 2023

Have you ever left a theatre and felt like your heart was in the sky? That would happen to me every time I went to the cinema as a kid; it would take me such a long time to return to reality afterwards. Now, possibly because I’m always watching something, those...

TIFF ’23: His Three Daughters

TIFF ’23: His Three Daughters

Sep 14, 2023

When it becomes clear that their father in hospice care is nearing the end of his life, three sisters move into his apartment to take care of him and be there when he passes. They are three different women with different ways of handling the situation and His Three...

TIFF ’23: The World is Family

TIFF ’23: The World is Family

Sep 13, 2023

In The World is Family, Anand Patwardhan uses the lives of his parents--their work, events they lived through and indeed, movements they were a part of--to paint a picture of India’s history, present and his hope for its future. Patwardhan’s parents (and other...

TIFF ’23: Seven Veils

TIFF ’23: Seven Veils

Sep 13, 2023

Amanda Seyfried stars in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils as Jeanine, a director who has been asked to reproduce a production of Salome which was originally created and produced by her recently deceased mentor. As we watch her communicate her ideas for the project, we become...

TIFF ’23: North Star

TIFF ’23: North Star

Sep 12, 2023

North Star, Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut, takes us back home--well, to a home in England--with three sisters who are returning for their mother’s third wedding. Her first two husbands have died, both of them while serving the country in the Royal Navy, and...