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The indigenous filmmakers bringing their stories to the big screen

August 10, 2022August 27, 2025Today's Top StoriesCanada, Canadian Directors, Danis Goulet, Emptying the Tank, Indigenous Filmmakers, Night Raiders, The Last Mark

Canadian cinema is benefiting from the diversity of its filmmakers to create new stories and bring minority lives to the big screen. Male-dominated genres from a female perspective Canadian directors are being given the freedom

EASTER SUNDAY Review

August 9, 2022August 8, 2022ReviewEaster Sunday, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jo Boy, Lydia Gaston

Easter Sunday is the type of film I’d normally overlook given my general aversion to “Home for the holidays” family comedies and its rather out-of-season rollout during late summer as opposed to the more title-appropriate

Kai Bradbury is rolling with roles – Interview

August 8, 2022July 25, 2022InterviewKai Bradbury, Motherland: Fort Salem, Netflix, The Imperfects, Virgin River

Canada is never short of talent, especially of the multi-cultural kind. For example, Kai Bradbury. He’s done some previous work in one of my favourite series of all time, and he’s been getting lots of

Tiffany Ayalik Goes North – Interview

August 5, 2022August 1, 2022InterviewKylik Kisoun Taylor, Little Village in the Arctic, OKPIK, Tiffany Ayalik

Deep in the Northwest Territories, there is a town called Inuvik. Just outside is a little community run by Kylik Kisoun Taylor. Most of his family is out there. Over a year, Kylik and his

Chhalla Mud Ke Nahi Aaya (Review)

August 4, 2022August 4, 2022ReviewAmrinder Gill, Chhalla Mud Ke Nahi Aaaya, Karamjit Anmol, Raj Kakra

Chhalla Mud Ke Nahi Aaya (“Chhalla Didn’t Come Back”) is a tribute to the early struggles of the Punjabi/Sikh community in Canada. But it’s also the personal story of Chhalla Singh (Amrinder Gill, who also

Wildhood: Finding Your Roots

August 4, 2022August 3, 2022ReviewChloe Zhao, Guy Godfree, Nova Scotia, Wildhood

The path of self-discovery can be a turbulent and arduous emotional ride, one that not many are brave enough to take, for it incites change and change can be terrifying. But, in Wildhood, that is