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VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "Bergman Island" is a Simmering Summer Interlude

“Hansen-Løve’s film […] is a dramatically subdued affair, but one that reveals a flowering complexity through its multi-layered approach to storytelling and its humane ruminations on the islands we forge for creative fulfillment amongst personal disillusionment.”

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TIFF 2021 REVIEW | "Quickening" Brims With Remarkable New And Up-And-Coming Talent

“…it’s the style and elegance infused into many of the technical aspects of this film by writer and director Haya Waseem that makes this production abundantly praiseworthy.”

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FANTASIA 2021 | Ages Through the Eyes of a Girl in "All the Moons"

All the Moons is slower-paced vampire fare, and short on the grisly thrills that fans of the genre have come to love, but it is thick with the genre’s intoxicating moroseness, and an almost storybook-like structure with distinct phases.”

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FANTASIA 2021 | Going Jet-Set in Japan with "Dreams on Fire"

“McKie enlisted real dancers in the Tokyo scene for his film, and it is both exhilarating and enlightening to see how the dance styles of popping, locking, voguing, krumping and more express themselves with Tokyo’s modern hip-hop disciples.”

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