Film & TV
Vessels traces Latin America’s shared colonial legacy
November 11, 2025By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer On October 6, the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presented Vessels: A Visual Journey Through Latin America’s Open Veins as part of Latin Expressions 2025, a festival celebrating Latin American art and culture during Canada’s Latin American Heritage Month. Vessels is an animated short film, a collaborative effort between two Vancouver-based artists: Cuban-born multimedia graphic designer Yaimel López and Brazilian composer and sound designer Alexandre…
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The Handmaiden offers resistance and love
November 11, 2025By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Content warning: Japanese imperialism, grooming Park Chan-Wook’s filmography is filled with critical acclaim: he recently released No Other Choice (2025) and is also known for works such as Decision to Leave (2022) and Oldboy (2003). However,…
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Lorena Alvarado explores memory in Lost Chapters
August 29, 2025By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Lost Chapters (or Los capítulos perdidos) is a quiet and tender documentary/fiction hybrid set in Caracas, Venezuela. The film follows Ena, who is searching for “forgotten writer” Rafael Bolívar Coronado across the city. Lost Chapters will…
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What is being filmed on campus this month?
August 7, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Stepping off the bus at the loop near the convocation mall, one immediately notices the set. At first, I thought the university was building a small aesthetic space to brighten the atmosphere, maybe an area…
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Queerness, death, and resistance in What Happened to the Wolf?
August 7, 2025By: Thwin Than Thar Nway, SFU Student Content warning: Brief mention of suicide and homophobia. War doesn’t just destroy homes, take lives, or displace millions. In Myanmar, the civil war has also tried to silence the soul of the country:…
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SHOWSTORM: An interview with Etchos
August 6, 2025By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer On August 6, Vancouver-based Filipino artist Etchos will debut SHOWSTORM at the Vancouver Black Library, accompanied by Couch Jams. The project is a live multimedia performance of Etchos’ new extended play (EP), performed alongside a…
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Crip Trip: a road trip against institutionalization
July 31, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Crip Trip is a docu-series about two friends and filmmakers, Frederick Kroetsch and Daniel Ennett, who set out on a road trip from Edmonton to New York. Ennet, a multidisciplinary artist and disability justice advocate,…
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Three films that challenge our perception of war
July 16, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov’s film tells the story of a boy named Flyora living in what is now Belarus. Located in a small village, the boy discovers a rifle which propels his eagerness…
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Despair and devotion: a review of Fairy Creek
July 15, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer The year is 2025, and the world is in chaos: marked by economic instability, growing authoritarianism, ecological collapse, and an ongoing global erosion of human rights. In this moment, Fairy Creek arrives not just as…
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Peliplat and the patchwork future of film discourse
June 15, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Once, reviews were handed down from the altars of broadsheets and bylines. Today, film opinions are filtered by algorithms, taking the form of Letterboxd one-liners, TikTok edits, Reddit debates, and YouTube video essays. In this…
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