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PETITE MAMAN plays TIFF 2021

September 10, 2021

TIFF 2021 gets off to a stunning start with a tender masterpiece on death, family, friendship, and grief.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF arnaud valois, french, international film, Seize printemps, spring blossom, suzanne lindon, tiff, tiff 2020, women in film

SPRING BLOSSOM plays TIFF 2020

September 19, 2020

A new french director tells a familiar story from a different point of view.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF Farhan Akhtar, indian, international film, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Rohit Suresh Saraf, Shonali Bose, tiff 2019, women in film, Zaira Wasim

THE SKY IS PINK plays TIFF 2019

September 15, 2019

TIFF 2019 wrapped for me with joy and tears, as I was taught a valuable lesson about love, life, and loss.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF international film, laotian, mattie do, tiff 2019, women in film

THE LONG WALK plays TIFF 2019

September 15, 2019

We honour our dead with rituals and preparations, but is it for their next journey or our own?

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Ryan McNeil
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