Toronto International Film Festival

Hope

By Hunter Lanier | September 2019

After a routine checkup, Anja (Andrea Braein Hovig) finds out that her cancer has returned and in the worst possible way. It’s…

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After a routine checkup, Anja (Andrea Braein Hovig) finds out that her cancer has returned and in the worst possible way. It’s settled in her...

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Lying about having cancer for empathy and financial gain would seem to be an unforgivable sin. Just imagine the amount of manipulation, cruelty, and...

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Refugees, Trump’s Muslim ban, forbidden love, spying, and an epic story of survival, growth, parenting, bureaucratic insanity, and danger spanning six...

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“The people we were once are dead,” says Eva (Maja Lehrer), one of the two central characters in director Carolina Hellsgård's post-apocalyptic...

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Films have been addressing sexual harassment for quite a long time (see 9 to 5 for an example from 1980 that seems as relevant today as ever). Even...

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If you can’t get enough of the “spaceship as shopping mall” genre, there’s a new entry out of Sweden, ANIARA, which had its world premiere today at...

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Indie horror film The Wind freaked out audiences at Toronto and Fantastic Fest. Now this frighteningly original western-horror movie comes to...

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Monrovia, Indiana is the world-renown documentarian, Frederick Wiseman’s latest opus. I call it an opus because it is a gigantic undertaking. It’s a...

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When no one wants to read your biographies of groundbreaking women in history, what do you do? Your agent no longer answers your calls, do you give up...

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Humans setting foot on the moon may be the most widely known story in human history. Yet most people don’t know many of the details, or much about the...

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