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TORA’S HUSBAND plays TIFF 2022

September 16, 2022

It’s already time to retrace our steps, and understand how we survived.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF ben wishaw, claire foy, jessie buckley, miriam toews, sarah polley, sheila mccarthy, tiff, TIFF 2022, women in film, women talking

WOMEN TALKING plays TIFF 2022

September 14, 2022

Sarah Polley returns with a story that started before we were born, in the hopes that the next generations story will be different.

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Ryan McNeil
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NANNY plays TIFF 2022

September 13, 2022

Who understands the true nature of horror better than black women?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF claudia sainte-luce, diana bovio, international film, love and mathematics, mexican, roberto quijano, tiff, TIFF 2022, women in film

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS plays TIFF 2022

September 12, 2022

Claudia Sainte-Luce channels David Byrne and listens as her characters as “My God, how did I get here?”

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF dav stevens, maren eggert, maria schrader, tiff, women in film

I’M YOUR MAN plays TIFF 2021

September 16, 2021

At the end of the day, who really wants “the perfect man”?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF irish, kate dolan, midnight madness, tiff, tiff 2021, you are not my mother

YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER plays TIFF 2021

September 15, 2021

It doesn’t have to be Halloween to wear a mask.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF french, international film, lou de laâge, melanie laurent, tiff, womenin film

THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL plays TIFF 2021

September 14, 2021

Who is sane and who is sound is often only determined by who signs the papers and holds the keys.

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Ryan McNeil
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