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.
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.
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.
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.
Directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés discuss their new film All In: The Fight for Democracy, which features Stacey Abrams and the history of voter suppression.
Arthur Jones’ colourful
The niggling question that The Golden Girl doesn’t quite answer, though, is why the officials should bother now. Răducan’s plight, valid as it is, comes 15 years after the events and the documentary arrives on the 20th anniversary of her disqualification. (The film was shot in 2015 and 2016.) Even some of the parties who are sympathetic
Tatyana McFadden, subject and producer of Netflix’s Rising Phoenix, discusses her film about the history of the Paralympic Games and Paralympians’ fight for equity and visibility.
Driven to Abstraction (USA, 84 min.) Dir. Daria Price Not every painting needs to be the Mona Lisa to be admired, but two portraits of the same subject by different artists inevitably inspire unique responses. Such is the case with Driven to Abstraction, Daria Price’s documentary about the art forgery scandal at New York’s Knoedler gallery.
lannery Dir. Elizabeth Coffman & Mark Bosco Featuring: Mary Steenburgen (narrator), Hilton Als, Sally Fitzgerald, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Mary Gordon, Alice McDermott, Alice Walker, Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Tobias Woolf Not too many people know who Flannery O’Connor is anymore but those who do embrace her as one of the finest American writers