This sombre but reflective verité-style film gives voice to survivors of the Six-Day War, which ravaged the director’s hometown of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott discuss The New Corporation: An Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, which follows the first film with a penetrating study that explores capitalism through philanthropy, COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter.
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One unexpected twist anticipates another in Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State. The film is a jaw-dropper of a wild-but-true tale that leaves a viewer guessing.
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Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell occupy a rare space in the Toronto film scene. You can’t discuss one without mentioning the other. The duo bring their latest collaboration home with Point and
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The Boy from Medellín is a surprising near-miss from director Matthew Heineman with its portrait of Colombian rapper J. Balvin that doesn't quite go all in.
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Thanks to the relative scarcity of films at TIFF 2020, it will be possible for online viewers, in particular, to see more than 50 percent of the documentaries curated for the festival.
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Spike Lee's American Utopia is a concert film of and for the moment with its documentation of David Byrne's exhilarating live, shoe-free performance.
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No Ordinary Man brilliantly rewrites the past as directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt and writer Amos Mac correct the story of jazz musician Billy Tipton through voices he inspired.
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76 Days director Hao Wu discusses his film that takes audiences to the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic with an urgent cinema verité portrait of the outbreak in Wuhan.
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Two movies, Toronto-based, set fewer than a hundred meters apart, made by millennial women. But that’s not all that connects #BLESSED and There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace.
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