The ambition behind Carlo Francisco Manatad's Whether the Weather Is Fine is undeniable. Set in the aftermath of 2013's Typhoon Haiyan (aka Super Typhoon Yolan...
Long live the socially minded political thriller! Thanks to filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, this long-underserved sub-genre––once perfected by directors like Hitchco...
The easiest way to make sure your child actors are up to swearing on-screen is casting your own. That's exactly what first-time feature writer/director Camille...
The infamous "Hyenas"—three mercenaries running amok throughout Africa—are caught in the air with gold bars, the drug lord (Renaud Farah's Felix) they've been ...
When looking up the starling species of bird on Google, a few questions pop up. Why are starlings bad? Are starlings good for anything? Why are starlings a pro...
What can you do when your homeland's falling apart? The easy answer is stay or leave, but both options carry too much complexity to simply choose and be done. ...
Writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira has created an evangelical town of purity in her Brazilian-set sophomore film Medusa. It's the type of place all Christ...
Similar to co-director Tahir Rana before tackling the project, I too had never heard of Charlotte Salomon before sitting down to watch it. This fact seems weir...
The worlds of contemporary geopolitics and narrative independent filmmaking collide in You Resemble Me, a movie that shape-shifts from a first act coming-of-ag...
Taking place in the shadows of the Greater Toronto area and a liminal space of poverty, Scarborough isn’t an easy film to shake. A local, low-budget indie prem...
