You always know that Spring is on its way when the annual Cinéfranco film festival comes back to town. Perhaps this year the weather has already alerted us to a change in season, but there is still reason to celebrate with the arrival of stellar Francophone films in town. The Cinéfranco general program runs...
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enRoute Film Festival, a festival for emerging filmmakers is back. This country has no end of young talent and the festival highlights this year’s best-of-the-best. The categories include Best Short Film, Achievement in Animation, Achievement in Direction, and Achievement in Cinematography. The 2011 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival finalists are: Miles Jay and Orlee-Rose...
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Miranda July has such a unique voice that you never quite know what to expect when seeing one of her films and that is reason enough to watch what she so masterfully brings to life on the screen. In her newest flick The Future, she once again does triple duty as she did in her...
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March 25th marked the commencement of yet another exciting year of Cinéfranco, Toronto’s international French language film festival. Entering its fourteenth year, the festival has established itself as a must-see, offering an international line-up of over thirty movies from all genres and for all tastes. Founded on principles of support and accessibility of French...
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Funkytown starts out with such promise but ultimately falls short. Directed by Daniel Roby and written by Steve Galluccio of Mambo Italiano fame, they created a story with an interesting enough premise but it doesn’t completely satisfy—it’s kind of like a sandwich with too much filling and no bread to contain it. Set during...
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Since taking the world’s cinematic stage by storm with Amores Perros (2001), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006), Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has developed his own unique, signature style of storytelling. He meticulously and seamlessly knits together divergent narratives with raw emotion around a common end all while exploring the social nuances of the...
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In 2003, the well publicized Utah rock climbing incident of Aron Ralston was brought to the world’s attention. Ralston was faced with two options: death or cutting off his arm after being trapped by an 800 pound boulder. The story of Ralston’s harrowing journey made the news and the rounds of the talk show...
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Earlier this month, The Scene inTO told you about Toronto's Scotiabank Theatre hosting a free public screening of all the nominated films from Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival. The screening was followed by the awards celebration at The Drake Hotel and the entire evening was a success.
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If you’ve travelled anywhere with Air Canada since August, you may have viewed a few short films from some of Canada’s emerging short film talents.
Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival showcases 12 selected shorts that will compete for awards for Best Short Film, Achievement in Direction, Cinematography and Animation.
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The first peaceful shots of sunflowers dancing in the wind belies the orgy of violence displayed throughout the film “Lebanon”. It is an intense, visceral, action packed Israeli war film which won the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. The setting of the film takes place almost entirely in the dark, dank, oily confines of a military tank and...
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