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Author: Juan Ospina

Juan Ospina is a regular contributor as well as a co-founder of Short Ends Collective. He holds a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University where he graduated with Honors. His interests encompass New Wave cinemas, the Gangster genre, Anime, Latin-American films and, as a rule, movies that make him cry.
Festival Spotlights…

In Conversation: Ernesto Martínez Bucio and the poetry of childhood fears

18 Dec 202520 Nov 2025
Winner of the Best Feature-length film, awarded by the Festival du Nouveau Cinema's FIPRESCI jury. The bittersweetness of growing up has been at the center of many films, yet it…
Festival Spotlights…

Capsule Reviews: TIFF 2025

30 Sep 202529 Sep 2025
We had the privilege to attend TIFF's 50th edition this year. Here is a short list of the movies that tantalized, mesmerized, and captivated our writer, Juan Ospina. The Secret…
Festival Spotlights…

In Conversation: Tomás Corredor and the Scars of Memory

29 Sep 202529 Sep 2025
Colombia, unlike many other national cinemas, has yet to mythify its history through cinema. There is not a genre, style, or aesthetic throughout time that has been able to capture…
Fantasia…

In conversation: Alberto Sciamma’s heaven on earth

3 Aug 202526 Sep 2025
Winner for Best Cinematography (Alex Metcalf, dir. Alberto Sciamma) in Fantasia’s Cheval Noir Competition. There is a certain fatigue that comes when attending a film festival. Three movies a day,…
Fantasia…

Art Lives! My Experience at Fantasia 2025

3 Aug 202526 Sep 2025
The Fantasia International Film Festival has been offering a space to screen the unscreenable for 29 years, providing a platform for the type of cinema that resides on the fringes,…
In Conversation

In Conversation: Marie-Michèle Wyland and chosen homes

27 Jan 202526 Sep 2025
As an outsider it is rare to have been present since the inception of a film, that is why I knew Fleurs Secheés was a special project from the get-go.…
Outtakes

Intercepted: Resilience through the Barren

23 Jan 202529 Sep 2025
Intercepted is the latest documentary by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. Recipient of the Grand Prize award for the National Feature Competition at the RIDM 2024, Intercepted shows the destruction left…
Fantasia…

In Conversation: Tony Zhou, Taylor Ramos and a date with Cinephilia

17 Aug 202417 Aug 2024
Never meet your heroes they say. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos defined much of my formative years in cinema and many others in my generation through their video essays on…
FNC…

In Conversation: Amat Escalante and Mexican Rendered Realities

29 Nov 2023
During the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, I had the chance to watch Perdidos de Noche (2023) the newest film by Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante. The movie…
FNC…

In Conversation: Melisa Liebenthal, Faces, Places and Identities

29 Nov 2023
There is a rare moment of consciousness while watching a film when you realize what you are watching is forthrightly unique. This is the case for Argentinean director, Melisa Liebenthal,…

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