Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns after a one-year hiatus, promising an unforgettable cinematic experience. This year’s festival boasts a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 17 countries: 23 narrative, 11 animated, and 9 documentary short films; 19 of those films are Canadian. The festival will take place in Toronto from Friday, NovemberContinue reading “RKS Short Films: Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: “Waiting All the Time” (J’attends tout le temps)”
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RKS Short Films: Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: “Furies” (La Loi de la chair): Searching for a Meaningful Allegory
Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns after a one-year hiatus, promising an unforgettable cinematic experience. This year’s festival boasts a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 17 countries: 23 narrative, 11 animated, and 9 documentary short films; 19 of those films are Canadian. The festival will take place in Toronto from Friday, NovemberContinue reading “RKS Short Films: Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: “Furies” (La Loi de la chair): Searching for a Meaningful Allegory”
RKS Short Films: Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: “The End”: Mega Brilliant: Mega Enjoyable and it Sort of Happened to Me on 10September2026!
Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns after a one-year hiatus, promising an unforgettable cinematic experience. This year’s festival boasts a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 17 countries: 23 narrative, 11 animated, and 9 documentary short films; 19 of those films are Canadian. The festival will take place in Toronto from Friday, NovemberContinue reading “RKS Short Films: Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: “The End”: Mega Brilliant: Mega Enjoyable and it Sort of Happened to Me on 10September2026!”
“Burn and Fade” (On brûlera): SHORTS NOT PANTS FILM FESTIVAL
Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns after a one-year hiatus, promising an unforgettable cinematic experience. This year’s festival boasts a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 17 countries: 23 narrative, 11 animated, and 9 documentary short films; 19 of those films are Canadian. The festival will take place in Toronto from Friday, NovemberContinue reading ““Burn and Fade” (On brûlera): SHORTS NOT PANTS FILM FESTIVAL”
RKS CANADIAN Film: “Gone Viral”: Never Take Candy from a Stranger
Didn’t your mother ever warn you never take candy from a stranger? How about phishing warnings that if it’s too good to be true walk away? Have you read the children’s story “Pied Piper”? I wonder if in the beginning of the film if seemingly shallow minded influencer Nikki (Lilian Doucet-Roche) purveyor of anything andContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Film: “Gone Viral”: Never Take Candy from a Stranger”
RKS 2026 EURO Film: “The Forbidden City”: A Sino Italian Spaghetti Kung Fu Roman Holiday?
A brilliant approach in Gabriele Mainetti’s martial arts film “The Forbidden City” filmed in Rome. One lead character Marcello (Enrico Borello) speaks in Italian and co-lead Mei (Yaxi Liu) speaks Mandarin. Their limited inter-personal dialogue is through a Google translation app on Mei’s phone. The dual language technique opens possibilities of commercial success in bothContinue reading “RKS 2026 EURO Film: “The Forbidden City”: A Sino Italian Spaghetti Kung Fu Roman Holiday?”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “In Hell With IVO”: A Most Interesting Bulgarian!
I was last in 1973 Bulgaria as a whippersnapper with shoulder length hair. There were very few adventuresome tourists in that part of the Iron Curtain at the time. As I was walking the streets of Sofia drinking some green carbonated beverage of unknown composition three Dutch young folk stopped me and asked how IContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “In Hell With IVO”: A Most Interesting Bulgarian!”
RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience
The Euro documentary “Divia” has no dialogue simply music. Its astonishing cinematography is a work of art. It is a panorama of destruction of flora and fauna, man, his environment and his machines of death and destruction. Nature has been wounded but is far from defeat. If you have watched the documentaries “Russia at War”Continue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience”
RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema
“Stelios” is yet another example of why widely ignored Greek cinema should be no longer ignored by filmgoers. It is an epic film marking the rise of legendary Greek singer Stelios Kazantzidis (Christos Mastoras) from abject poverty in an Athenian refugee camp into Greece’s most beloved singer. “Big Stelios”, affectionately referred to in his nativeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter”
One of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter” (1997) was nominated for 16 Genie Awards and won eight, including best picture, director and actor. It also won three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay and director. Widely regarded asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter””
