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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…

Capsule Reviews: RIDM 2025

21 Feb 202627 Apr 2026
The 2025 edition of RIDM has come and gone. It featured a diverse selection of films that sparked emotions and captivated us from start to finish.Days of Wonder, dir. Karin…
Outtakes

A Poet: Failure & the City

2 Feb 202623 Mar 2026
SimĂłn Mesa Soto’s 2025 film, Un Poeta (A Poet), has been gathering accolades since its premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival almost a year ago. I had the pleasure…
Festival Spotlights…

In Conversation: Ernesto MartĂ­nez 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…

The Latin American Report at TIFF 2025

30 Nov 202515 Jan 2026
It is bittersweet to see something you love grow from afar. When I came to Canada almost a decade ago, it was nearly a miracle to see Colombian films in…
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 202527 Apr 2026
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 SecheĂ©s 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…

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