Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America’s relationships to classic texts.
Social Justice
Explore stories about marginalized groups and the pursuit of a more fair society.
Toronto’s ImagineNATIVE festival celebrates Indigenous films
The 20th ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto featured great Indigenous films from around the world. Highlights included: Vai, Top End Wedding, and Blood Quantum.
TIFF19 review: In Made In Bangladesh , the women who make your clothes call for justice
Neither hopeless nor sugar-coated, Rubaiyat Hossain’s Made in Bangladesh is a compelling drama about the difficulties of attaining justice.
TIFF19 review: Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, a perfect introduction to a legend’s activist cinema
Alanis Obomsawin caps off a cycle of five films, seven years in the making, about Indigenous children’s rights in Canada , and it’s one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19.
TIFF19 review: Clemency, a harrowing drama about avoiding questions of morality by hiding behind the law
Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency is an unflinchingly honest portrayal of the process of a modern day execution
TIFF19 review: Hind Meddeb’s documentary Paris Stalingrad captures a particular political moment
Hind Meddah’s Paris Stalingrad questions the spectacle of authoritarian xenophobia.