Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool

• A Family [Berlinale 2026]

  

  It is a strange thing to think how people might experience the exact same thing, yet each ends up coping with it in a vastly different way. Mees Peijnenburg’s A Family explores a parent’s divorce, and how the two children, Nina and Eli, respond to their new lives so differently. Rarely has a film about…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  February 26, 2026

• The River Train [Berlinale 2026]

  

  From Argentinian directors Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale comes The River Train, the slow-moving 76-minute film that follows 9-year-old Milo as he runs away from home to explore the big city of Buenos Aires. A film that I thought would be directly for me, about children discovering the world, ended up being one that…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  February 21, 2026

• Paradise [Berlinale 2026]

  

  A search for belonging that spans generations and continents, Jeremy Comte’s Paradise looks at how we fill the void inside of us when each of us has different access to resources and time. Telling two stories in parallel, one following Kojo in Accra, Ghana and the other following a mother and son in Quebec, Canada…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  February 18, 2026

• I Understand Your Displeasure [Berlinale 2026]

  

  A small community used to study how change can start with just one person, I Understand Your Displeasure enters the world of a group of cleaners in Germany. Led by one unsympathetic Heike who must work to live, she juggles being a manager with her own personal life and new workplace demands. With stunning realism…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  February 14, 2026

• The Voice of Hind Rajab

  

  Films often open us up to world that we can only imagine. Fantastical stories, creatures we picture in our minds, they are also cameras into the world we live in today. Places we cannot visit, and realities we only read as news online. In The Voice of Hind Rajab, we are faced strikingly with the…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  December 23, 2025

• Merrily We Roll Along

  

  In a world where tickets for popular live shows are becoming more impossible to get by the day, pro-shots are becoming a more accessible way to guarantee a seat to the hottest shows, given that the seat is in your local movie theatre or your own home. From concert films becoming more popular to bring…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  December 1, 2025

• Kiss of the Spider Woman

  

  It sounds complicated, but in a film adaptation based on a 1992 Tony Award winning stage musical, which is based on a 1976 novel, and was previously adapted into a film in 1985, Bill Condon directs his take on the dramatic thriller musical set in 1980s Argentina, during the dictatorship in the time of the…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  October 15, 2025

• Blue Heron [TIFF 2025]

  

  The future of Canadian cinema has never looked brighter, after the Canadian premiere of Sophy Romvari’s feature debut Blue Heron, winner of the First Feature Film Competition at the 78th Locarno Film Festival and the Best Canadian Discovery Award at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. Based on her own childhood, the film follows a…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  October 12, 2025

• Eleanor the Great

  

  Following her leading role in 2024’s Thelma, June Squibb is back to grace our screens again in 2025 starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. Touching on similar aspects of loneliness and grief, Johansson’s film, written by Tory Kamen, takes a unique spin on classic themes, placing Squibb as Eleanor, an older woman…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 25, 2025

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery [TIFF 2025]

  

  Director Rian Johnson has returned with his latest instalment in his Knives Out franchise. After uncovering the truth about the death of Harlan Thrombey, and revealing the motivations of a killer on a remote island, Benoit Blanc returns to solve the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 18, 2025