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Queerguru reviews Denis Villeneuve’s INCENDIES
Just when I thought that I had already been completely shocked into a stupefying daze by all the hard-hitting realism of a whole slate of compelling movies at MIFF this week, I saw INCENDIES which totally blew my mind. This French Canadian movie that only last week won no less than 8 Genies (Canada’s Oscars)…
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SIN RETORNO (aka NO RETURN)
Young Matias is driving his school pal home from a party in the early hours of the morning when he accidentally hits a cyclist. Believing him to be dead, they flee the scene and Matias concocts a story that that car was stolen. When the hit and run is broadcast all over the TV news…
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I AM SLAVE
This overwhelmingly sad and somewhat dispiriting movie’s powerful narrative about an African slave is actually based on a true story. Twelve year old Malia is abducted from her mountain village in Sudan by Arab militia and sold into slavery to a vile woman in Khartoum who treats her inhumanly and even beats her for actually…
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FOR 80 DAYS
Axun’s ex son-in-law Mikel is rushed to hospital after a tragic car accident and as he is completely alone , she feels obliged to visit him. Whilst there she meets Maite who’s visiting her brother, also in a coma, and suddenly realizes that this is her best friend from high school. In fact the two…
