Montreal Film Festival

Role models within the Black trans community. Courage. Beauty. These are just some of the themes within director Susani Mahadura’s documentary, Kelet. Kelet is a young Somali trans woman living now in Finland. She has always dreamed of being on the cover of Vogue magazine. Now Kelet is going about Continue Reading

My final film from the image + nation festival was not a film at all. Sex is a Danish series. A six part series. Largely concerns itself with how in our twenties that sex often preoccupies us more than anything else. Who we are attracted to, who we are dating, Continue Reading

The goings on in small towns. Sometimes it is idyllic, but oftentimes it is a tortured existence. Tortured because there is not much to do, choice of people to meet and date and everyone knows your business. In the Patagonian village Emilia (Sofia Palomino – Refugiado) grew up in and Continue Reading

Photo credit: Mk2 The award winners for this 23rd edition were announced at a virtual ceremony livestreamed on the festival’s Facebook page. GRAND PRIZE FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE presented by TV5 Aswang by Alyx Ayn Arumpac (Philippines, Denmark, France, Germany) “For its gritty yet sophisticated approach to editing and its careful, compassionate camerawork, the Continue Reading

Though the RIDM film festival ended yesterday (sadness!) we have one more film review. This time it is a short film (15 minutes long) called 3 Logical Exits, which refers to the assertion that a sociologist makes during the film about the three ways which Palestinian refugees can get out Continue Reading