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festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF hold your breath, karrie crouse, tiff, tiff 2024, will joines, women in film

HOLD YOUR BREATH plays TIFF 2024

September 13, 2024

For the desperate.
For the depressed.
For The Depression.
For The Dust.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF april, dea kulumbegashvili, tiff, tiff 2024, women in film

APRIL plays TIFF 2024

September 12, 2024

For the women who choose.
For the women who help them with their choices.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF kristina grozeva, petar valchanov, tiff, tiff 2024, triumph, women in film

TRIUMPH plays TIFF 2024

September 10, 2024

For the metaphysical…
For the determined…
For those in search of answers.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF marielle heller, nightbitch, tiff, tiff 2024, women in film

NIGHTBITCH plays TIFF 2024

September 9, 2024

For our mothers
For everything they told us…
…and for that which they didn’t tell us

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF rachel morrison, the fire inside, tiff, tiff 2024, women in film

THE FIRE INSIDE plays TIFF 2024

September 8, 2024

For family
For fighters
For the Flint that starts the flame.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF tiff, wicked little letters, women in film

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS plays TIFF 2023

September 17, 2023

Filthy thoughts always look so much better in cursive.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

QUIZ LADY plays TIFF 2023

September 14, 2023

For those of us who answer in the form of a question

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Ryan McNeil
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