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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!: Dancing through life never felt so alive
There’s something truly special about this film that keeps things silly, even at its most serious.
TIFF’26: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS
“I wanted to escape from this eternal dialectic between the colonized people and those who have colonized us.”
TIFF ’26: La Gradiva
Some moments are quite clearly scenes included and written simply to give us more information about a character, but they feel honest enough that you can accept what they are doing.
TIFF ’26: Djinn Wedding
Karahan explores these misfortunes through an almost supernatural lens, invoking images and motifs that allude to the curse perpetually hanging over them.
TIFF ’26: Being Heumann
Being Heumann is inspiring without making the fight look easy.
TIFF ’26: The Assassin(s)
By covering the suppression of truth following the assassination attempt, the film shows that ‘The Assassin(s)’ referred to in its title do not just refer to the man who fired the gun and his mysterious accomplice.
TIFF ’26: Being Heumann
It’s a film that successfully brings you into their headspace, and the injustice you see effectively inspires anger.
TIFF ’26: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a delightfully absurd and honest look at what it means to pick up the pieces after all has been stripped away.
TIFF ’26: La Bola Negra
It spends an excessive amount of time driving home its point in a way that seems to beg the audience to have an emotional revelation. Unfortunately, I did not.
TIFF ’26: Tender Loving Care
The film is not about someone who slips through the cracks. Instead, it gets us invested in characters who have their basic material and mental health needs met.
TIFF ’26: It’s My Time
Xue leans into the intensity that comes with contact sports, making split second decisions and movements of cubes in hands feel massive.
TIFF ’26: Fight Kid
Fight Kid a story that exposes the worst parts of parenting.