Assuming debut is required, the following 35 results were found.
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set in the early 2000s Philippines, centred on a teenage girl preparing for a life-changing tradition—her 18th birthday debut. The story follows Rose, a lively, free-spirited teenage girl approaching her 18th birthday. In Filipino culture, turning 18 is...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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literary voices for an unforgettable evening. Kingston-based author Otoniya J. Okot Bitek won the English Book Award for her debut novel We, the Kindling, a spare and devastating story of women who survived abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army in...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Books
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of a horror first, Midnight Madness in Serbia. Aleksandar Radivojević (co-writer of A Serbian Film) makes his directorial debut with an audacious satirical thriller about an expectant mother (Jelena Djokić) who receives a phone call from a deity that...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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The Christmas Movieshttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/the-christmas-movies-2
members gather together to evaluate the situation, One would have very high expectations for Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, given the actress's collaborations with major directors. Winslet has worked with directors like Peter Jackson (in HEAVENLY...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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Film Festival and Audience Favourite at the Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, building a festival momentum that few Canadian debut features have matched in recent years. Adrian Walters, Outstanding Performance (Male) as Akai in It Comes in Waves. Photo...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts and Entertainment
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and family, even when she begins to relapse. With stunning satire and a pitch-perfect read of the cultural room, Early’s debut is the announcement of a lively and inventive directorial voice. The film’s best segment is the dance aerobics, where Maddie,...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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and “Believe” through a theatrical, soul-infused lens. Along the way, she takes us back to 2005 and the making of her debut album Divine Brown, remembers late nights in the studio with Socrates, James Bryan, and a young Noah “40” Shebib, and speaks...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts and Entertainment
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directors today. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Harder has directed at least five feature films. Harder made his feature-length debut with Cody Fitz. His second feature film, Incontrol, was released in 2017. Harder wrote the first draft of the screenplay for...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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Directed by Kristen Stewart THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER is a biographical psychological drama film and the feature directorial debut of Kristen Stewart, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s acclaimed 2011 memoir of the same name. At the addiction meetings, Lidia...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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**** Directed by Akinola Davies Jr. Winner of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a stunning debut set in 1993 Lagos; a lyrical, emotionally resonant story of two brothers reconnecting with their distant father over a...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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restless visual intelligence. The exhibition runs through June 11, with free admission throughout. Following its New York debut, the show travels to Toronto as its second and final destination, making this city the only Canadian audience to receive it....
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Visual Arts
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fitness session with Waterloo's Hustl+Flow studio, open to all fitness levels. July 16 — AfroVibes Comedy Night, a ticketed debut event at The Jazz Room in Waterloo, bringing together comedic voices from across the diaspora for a high-energy evening of...
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- Author: News Editor
- Category: Music & Concerts
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not for spectacle but narrative. The Smashing Machine, from director Benny Safdie, premiered at TIFF after a Venice debut. His rapport with Blunt is genuine: they described their bond at TIFF as having an “immediate secret language.”
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Fashion and Style
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for streaming this week on Netflix. URCHIN (UK 2025) **** Directed by Harris Dickinson URCHIN is the impressive directorial debut of British actor, the handsome Harris Dickinson (star of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, BEACH RATS, and WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING) that...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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and is scheduled to be released in select cinemas in the United States and Canada on November 7, 2025, before its streaming debut on Netflix on November 21, 2025. Trailer:
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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time and space, these three unconnected women are bound together by an inescapable terror in Martin-Calero’s feature film debut, for which he was nominated for a Best New Director Goya Award in 2025. The film begins with as stated: Andrea, 2022, Madrid...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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to earn legitimacy, to measure our value through productivity, visibility, or approval. If I Could Lift This Hammer, the debut book by Melvin D. Bakandika, takes a different approach. Rather than offering strategies for self-improvement, the book asks a...
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Lifestyle
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title should be sufficient to arouse possible audience interest, which, in actuality, is not a bad film at all and a worthy debut from a first-time director. The film is a psychological drama thriller that focuses on a socially anxious 12-year-old boy...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the video below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Big Daddy Kane (@officialbigdaddykane) Her debut single, “Elements of Style,” made waves, and by 1988, she had become the first Canadian rapper signed to a major U.S....
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Music
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on "I Love It" by Swedish duo Icona Pop, which became her first UK number-one and went on to achieve global success. Her debut studio album, True Romance (2013), received positive reviews but failed to meet commercial expectations. her new film has a...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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