In this harrowing contemporary humanist drama, auteur Agnieszka Holland becomes the second Polish film of TIFF to look at the banality of evil but shows us how it’s happening in the present. Shot in a very draining black and white verite documentary style, Green Border acts as an intercrossing anthology film about different people involved…
A cleanly presented film, whose story will likely stir up both empathetic and artistic energies, Sing Sing sees the power of theatre come to life in what many consider the darkest havens of America. Sing Sing Correctional Facility boasts an arts rehabilitation program that sees incarcerated men and women turn to acting as they form…
Confidently directed by Lulu Wang, her follow-up to The Farewell received much critical acclaim out of Sundance and finally should establish her as “going Hollywood”. Expats is a six-part miniseries based on the book Expatriates by Janine K Lee. TIFF invited Lulu to share what was the penultimate episode of the series called Central. These…
Richard Linklater never fails and, more amazingly, continues to surprise. Even as he traverses genres, he always nails the core relationships. At the same time, he understands that romantic love brings us together and makes us make the most absurd choices possible. A riff on the ever-popular Hitman film, his latest film Hit Man takes…
George C. Wolfe’s latest film, Rustin, shows that he finds scripts that give his generational talented actors the to shine. However, this one takes a step back in its originality and covers mostly familiar narrative and historical ground. Rustin stars Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, a charismatic civil rights leader who keeps getting pushed to…
In their follow-up to the first-ever film entirely animated in oil paintings, D.K Welchman and Hugh Welchman return to the style with a more unknown period piece. The Peasants takes a look at a 19th-century Polish farming village and, more specifically, a young woman named Jagna. Sought after by the men in the village, Jagna…
With Evil Does Not Exist, one can’t help but wonder if the title of Oscar Winning Director Ryseuke Hamaguchi’s film is meant to be ironic or is, in fact, trying to reveal the good nature of our humanity. For a long time, it seems like the latter as Hamaguchi involves us in his carefully-built world…
Memory, the first American drama from Mexican auteur Michel Franco tells a story of connection, loss, and yes, memory. Featuring wonderful performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgard as Silvia and Saul, the film begins when Silvia goes to her high school reunion. When Saul follows her home after she leaves early, she finds him…
Uproar chronicles Josh’s adventure to establish an identity for himself, which goes against the values of his country wrestling. Here, Apartheid-era South Africa’s rugby team has been touring New Zealand, provoking protests across the country. It has also been forcing its citizens to reckon with their own systematic racism that has put its indigenous population…
Nyad is the feature directorial debut of Oscar-winning documentary duo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue and Free Solo). In their latest film to look at people who are insane enough to try to achieve the physically impossible, the death-defying directors bring on Annette Bening and Jodie Foster to recreate the story of…
