Now here is a Canada that we don’t see on postcards. Or in scenes of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ when Robin visits Canada for the weekend. On the Red Crow Indian Reservation in 1969 teenage Aila and her uncle, Burner, run a quaint weed dealing business to supplement the family’s income, which also allows Aila to save to leave the Res. But living isn’t easy, primarily because rogue Indian agent (…) Continue Reading »

La Distancia is fantastically serene, profoundly tactile and deeply pleasurable to both eye and ear. A garden of eerie, earthly delights. Sergio Caballero’s post-industrial Siberia is a land haunted by radiation and inhabited by foxes, rabbits (…) Continue Reading »

Pour dénoncer les injustices du quotidien, CamClash propose de les mettre en scène en caméra cachée. Dangereux mais irrésistible, comme un plat de fugu. Lire la suite »

Linda Västrik’s ‘The Forest of the Dancing Spirits’ is an ethnographic documentary which attempts to represent the daily life of the Aka community while resisting the urge to romanticize their beliefs or universalize their experiences. The Aka live in the Congolese rainforest where Västrik joined them for extended periods, filming (and eventually editing) their daily lives. The film is shot (…) Continue Reading »

Léo Soesanto is a film critic for culture magazine Les Inrocks, artistic director of the Bordeaux International Film Festival and a member of the selection committee for the feature film competition at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. How did you get involved in Semaine de la Critique? Well, I’m a critic and and a member of the film critics union — two conditions which are required in (…) Continue Reading »

While not all films starring black people are ’black films’, Alexandre Moor’s "Blue Caprice" has been billed as an exploration of the African American ’experience’ .It’s also been described as analogous to ’Precious’ and ’Boys in the Hood’. How does a film about a young person trafficked from Antigua and brainwashed by a sociopath to murder innocent people capture the African American (…) Continue Reading »

Mydylarama is excited to be covering the East End Film Festival! Reviews and previews coming soon. Continue Reading »

’The Invisible War’ is less about a secret war that rape victims are fighting in the military than a series of public and private battles to fix a broken system. Well, broken for the victims of rape, not so much for the rapists who remain (…) Continue Reading »

David Mackenzie’s new film is a much-welcome addition to the British prison drama genre, that weaves sophisticated narrative into a bold critique of the penal system and a mockery of rehabilitation inside. Set in the microcosm of an English prison, Starred Up is the story of serial offender, 19-year-old Eric Love (Jack O’Connell), who has left the relative comfort of foster homes and juvie, (…) Continue Reading »

For the most part Tim’s Vermeer is a film about vision, about how we literally see the world- the limitations of sight and its augmentation through technological means. It’s also a film about how we see the world in the figurative sense; Tim Jenison, a 21st century computer software inventor (whom I would comfortably place in the top 1% or thereabouts) sees it, affectionately, as his (…) Continue Reading »