Toronto International Film Festival

Synonyms

By Alan Ng | September 2019

You have two options when it comes to survival: fight or flight. Clearly, flight is the easiest and the less stressful of…

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You have two options when it comes to survival: fight or flight. Clearly, flight is the easiest and the less stressful of the two choices. This is...

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In the ancient Legend of the Pelican, the mother bird feeds her famished, violently-pecking offspring with rivulets of her own blood. The protagonist of...

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Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, is a wonderfully...

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Let’s just agree we’re all racists and move on. It’s everywhere in the world and is just as ugly. Director Daniel Gordon and journalist Stan Grant...

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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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