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Seun Olowo-Ake

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TIFF ’23: City of Wind

TIFF ’23: City of Wind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

TIFF ’23: Swan Song

TIFF ’23: Swan Song

Dance is amazing. There seems to be so much freedom in the movements and, if done right, dancing looks fun, and light and easy. Only, it’s not. Chelsea McMullan’s Swan Song takes us behind the curtain of Swan Lake, directed by Karen Kain for the National Ballet of...

TIFF ’23: A Road to a Village

TIFF ’23: A Road to a Village

Change is almost always scary for me. I don’t like my routine being interrupted, and Iespecially find it difficult to accept that if I want to ‘make something of myself’ or even justsurvive, I have to be willing to try new, often risky things. In A Road to A Village,...