Shelly Sarwal didn’t view her death as a tragedy. But, that doesn’t mean she wanted to die. As she points out in Her Last Project, which chronicles the last year and half of her life after being diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)—a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease—she just wasn’t given a choice in the […]
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Review: Murmur is beautifully bleak
Written and directed by Dartmouth-based filmmaker Heather Young, (Dog Girl, Milk) Murmur—which opened this year’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival—tells the beautifully bleak story of Donna (Shan McDonald), a kind-hearted woman whose loneliness is palpable. She doesn’t appear to have anyone in her life except her daughter, who refuses to answer her calls or texts. […]
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FIN-tastic films and where to find them
This years’ edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival offers audiences a heady mix of timely topics, fresh faces, big ideas and big names. With 120 films screening over eight days, it’s impossible to get to all of them—so, here are a handful not-be-missed flicks we’re extra-amped for. Get ready to binge! Murmur The fest’s […]
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So, who did let the dogs out?
Who Let the Dogs Out Fri, Sep 13, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $13.50-$15, finfestival.ca For the amount of time it’s been living in our heads rent-free, each and every one of us should have made a documentary about “Who Let the Dogs Out” by now. And yet, it took one obsessive […]
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Heather Young’s film slays not with a bang but a Murmur
FIN AIFF Opening Night Gala: Murmur Thu Sep 12, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50 The opposite of a silver-set Hollywood dream, Heather Young’s films have both feet firmly planted in reality. She wants to make movies about “a real person, that feels like someone I could meet in my real life—that both […]