Canadians have been hearing stories about residential schools akin to prisons for Indigenous children managed by various religious orders and blessed by the Canadian government. Residential schools no longer exist but the trauma inflicted by them on survivors and the Indigenous community continues. You might wish to summon up a plenitude of adjectives to describeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Angela’s Shadow”: A Disgusting, Shameful and Disgraceful Chapter in Canadian History….and the Pages Continue Turning”
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RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire
Satire runs heavily through Greek cinema and it shines in a short film from 2013 “A Hardworking Robber” directed and written by Michael Felanis. Makis, owner of an Athenian jewelry and gift store is slothful, lazy and entirely ignorant about customer service and selling his wares. He spends his time drinking coffee, smoking, playing withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire”
RKS 2025 Film: “The Old Woman with the Knife”: Dense, Engrossing and Impeccably Choregraphed Korean Assassin Thriller with a Social Message of Sorts
In 1975 a destitute and abused housemaid of 16 lies on the Korean roadside covered with snow and close to death. A passing motorist, Ryu, picks her up taking her to his restaurant he runs with his wife where she is hired as a helper. Ryu claims to be in pest management and extermination andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Old Woman with the Knife”: Dense, Engrossing and Impeccably Choregraphed Korean Assassin Thriller with a Social Message of Sorts”
The 12th Annual Korean Film Festival Canada: “Hole”
The 12th Korean Film Festival Canada held in Montreal will be wrapping up 7June2025. “Hole”, a 2023 K Short by Hyein Hwang, screened on 24May2025 but it surely and deservedly must pop-up in the festival circuit. Kafkaesque initially gradually transcending into absolute horror and I am not referencing the Borror genre of horror with slashing,Continue reading “The 12th Annual Korean Film Festival Canada: “Hole””
RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities
“The Legacy of Cloudy Falls” is set in Niagara Falls, Canada, you know the “better side” of the Falls! They say the best part of Las Vegas is leaving it. The same may be said, but in a more compelling fashion, about the town Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tacky and seedy may be a polite descriptionContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities”
The Korean Film Festival of Canada: “Moving Water”
In this Quebec film short directed by Kaia Singh screening on 7June2025 at the Korean Film Festival of Canada in Montreal bi-racial teen Mira (Manna Singh) deals with the death of her Baba (grandfather). Baba’s last words were his desire to go to the water, most likely realizing his impending death and the resulting HindiContinue reading “The Korean Film Festival of Canada: “Moving Water””
The 12th Korean Film Festival of Canada: “Variation”
“Variation” is a K-Short directed by Ji-hoon Park screening at the 12th Korean Film Festival of Canada in Montreal 22May-7June2025. “Variation” can be interpreted as an innocuous 24-hour snapshot of a relationship between a young Korean couple reuniting after previously ending their relationship. Alternatively, it may have a deeper meaning. In film multiple interpretations frequentlyContinue reading “The 12th Korean Film Festival of Canada: “Variation””
RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper
Daniel (Lawrence Kao) is down on his luck. In Manadarin “ba” can refer to both father and dad and that he is for his 8-year-old daughter Collette (Kai Cech). Daniel and Collette are living an extremely penurious “living in his car” existence. During this “camping car adventure” Daniel discovers a wooden box in a bagContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper”
RKS 2025 Documentary: “I Shall Not Hate-A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”
This Canadian documentary is based on a book of the same name by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish. Dr. Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor born of parents bulldozed off their land in Palestine by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab War. An estimated 500,000-750,000 Palestinians fled to refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, LebanonContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “I Shall Not Hate-A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity””
Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Betrayal”: Not One but Many
The Canadian documentary “Betrayal”, directed by Lena Macdonald, chronicles the whistleblowing of Cindor Reeves crucial to the war crimes conviction of Liberian President Charles Taylor by the United Nations backed special court for Sierra Leone in 2012. Taylor was convicted of sexual violence, physical violence, abductions, terrorizing civilian populations, forced labour and utilization of childContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Betrayal”: Not One but Many”
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