Image: Courtesy of TIFF When the end credits begin rolling for With Hasan in Gaza, a film entirely made of footage taken during Kamal Aljafari’s visit to Gaza back in 2001 – a tour he carries no memory of until rediscovering the footage over two decades later – we see…

Image: Courtesy of TIFF Chasing evanescence, on the search for someone, on the search for images, and a reunion through the realization that everything that you’re seeing has already been seen before, so basically, the realization of cinema itself. Dry Leaf, Alexandre Koberidze’s newest feature centring around a father’s effort…

Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF During the post-screening Q&A of BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions, director Khalil Joseph cited Godard as a major influence and stated his regret that the man’s passing means this film will never get seen by him. The reference makes a lot of sense, as it was…

Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF There is a sense of kinship in seeing a familiar location onscreen; a place one passes by so frequently that its presence and unique spatial features have become an impasse and nothing but vagueness, having lost their shape due to time. This is where cinema…

Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF The past is never just the past because we are always accessing and processing it in the present; the present is also never just the present because it is always haunted and influenced by the past. Following a series of personal short films which she…