Tag: reviews
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Tehran, Under the Skin Review – TIFF 2026
BY Maggie Roberts TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE! This society is bipolar. Tehran, Under the Skin is a film full of contradictions. The documentary, directed by Afsaneh Salari, explores the popularity of the plastic surgery industry in contemporary Tehran. The film takes on something similar to a cinéma vérité style; however, the camera is…
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Bucking Fastard Review – TIFF 2026
By Namah dawdy and fierce sisters jeanie and joanie aren’t of this world. their dismissal isn’t just of modernity but reality itself. my endearment towards their affected speech died down quick— it is static rather than idiosyncratic. the sisters interpret the world in literal ways— they reach for fire and fuel to convey their passion,…
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Ben’Imana Review – TIFF 2026
By Maggie Roberts TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE! Ben’Imana (Dusabejambo) reflects on the atrocities of the 1994 Rawandan Genocide through the eyes of women. The 2026 Caméra d’Or winner follows Vénéranda, a survivor of the genocide, as she organizes reconciliation meetings amongst Rawandan women in her village, formerly classified as Tutsi and Hutu…
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TIFF 2026 Coverage Incoming!
Stay tuned for some HOT dispatches coming out over the next 10 days! Screenings are chosen by writers so our selection of films will vary but we will centre women-driven/feminist work much as possible. 💗 2026 TIFF coverage will be led by: Sara Abdul Managing Editor of Pink Asparagus/ Artist Maggie Roberts Feminist Scholar/ Film…
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The Glass Ceiling is Really Made of Cement in Couture and Maddie’s Secret
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Despite radically different narrative and tonal styles, Couture and Maddie’s Secret offer a rare and welcome look into the unique struggles of being an ambitious career woman who is suddenly, and heartbreakingly, faced with the dissolution of her career dreams, forced to face the vulnerabilities that successful women are forced…
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Nothing is Sacred Under Capitalism in Egghead Republic and A Useful Ghost
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS While we live in increasingly weighty and hopeless times, one of cinema’s greatest powers in times like these is to offer moments of hope, of originality, of curiosity, and to remind us of the ongoing potential for change that capitalism works overtime to distract us from. A Useful Ghost and…
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Good Boy(s), Bad Apples, and a Pedagogy of Violence
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS As disturbing as both of these films might be, perhaps it is the very discomfort of seeing the extreme end results of our failing educational system literalized that might compel us to hold our political systems responsible for how they continue to fail the next generation of children. By Tamar…
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Charli’s Angels, Erupcja and Sacrifice
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS If I had a nickel for how many films I saw at TIFF that featured both Charli XCX and a devastating volcanic eruption, I would only have two nickels, but isn’t it weird that it happened twice? By Tamar Hanstke As a follower of Charli’s work, but not knowledgeable enough…
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The Sixties Scoop and Intergenerational Trauma in Meadowlarks & Blood Lines
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Meadowlarks and Blood Lines are two deeply personal, intimate examinations of individual and intergenerational traumas stemming from the Sixties Scoop, and are particularly prescient in a cultural moment in which far too many seek to tick off Truth and Reconciliation as a completed project on Canada’s to-do list. By Tamar…
