Feminist Anti-Psychiatry: The Other Side of Underneath

Feminist Anti-Psychiatry: The Other Side of Underneath

Image credit: Bond Made in 1972, Jane Arden’s The Other Side of Underneath was the only British film of the decade to be solo-directed by a woman. A boldly feminist film in its engagement with, and rejection of, the contemporary place of women in British society, the...
cléo  reviews: Hot Docs 2019

cléo reviews: Hot Docs 2019

Image credit: Oh Ratface Films Last year, on the 25th anniversary of the festival, Hot Docs reached gender parity in its programming for the first time in its history. For the 2019 edition, it surpassed that waypost, with 54% of its films being helmed by women....
Notes on Being: Exploring Identity at the Images Festival

Notes on Being: Exploring Identity at the Images Festival

Image credit: Christopher Harris The annual Images Festival begins this week in Toronto, and we are very excited to be co-presenting the program Notes on Being. Featuring works by Onyeka Igwe, Cauleen Smith, Basma Alsharif, Chantal Akerman, Abigail Child, Theresa Hak...
Barbra Streisand: Cinema of Attraction

Barbra Streisand: Cinema of Attraction

Barbra Streisand’s third directorial outing, The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), thought of as a typical, self-indulgent romantic comedy, was not received favourably. A loose remake of the 1959 French film of the same name by André Cayette, Streisand’s version concerns...