Toronto International Film Festival
A biting satire of the art world’s transactional wokeness
Nyla Innuksuk’s “In the Heart of the South” grapples irreverently with the fraught ethics of an Inuk artist tapping into narratives of collective suffering for her work
Documentary traces Sara Flores’s journey from the Amazon to the pinnacle of the art world
“The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs”, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a formally uncommon documentary about the Shipibo-Conibo artist currently representing Peru at the Venice Biennale
New Sky Hopinka documentary puts viewers in position of powwow participants
The artist and film-maker’s new feature, “Powwow People”, highlights the very contemporary ways in which Indigenous traditions persist
Kahlil Joseph’s sprawling audio-visual compendium BLKNWS returns as a feature-length film
Inspired by the “Encyclopedia Africana” conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois, the filmic collage of African and diasporic culture is on the film festival circuit
New repatriation documentary chronicles Indigenous groups’ struggles to recover artefacts from collectors and museums
The Canadian documentary “So Surreal: Behind the Masks” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
New film on Ernest Cole, photographer who chronicled South African apartheid, presents trove of 60,000 rediscovered negatives
Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”, having its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is narrated by Lakeith Stanfield
An experimental ‘art heist’ film leaves paintings in the vault and strands unresolved
Director Isiah Media’s new film “He Thought He Died”, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was shot in part inside the storage facilities of an Ontario museum
Long-awaited Lee Miller biopic starring Kate Winslet falls short of its subject’s artistry
The film about the famed photographer and war correspondent had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
Multiple William Kentridges dramatise the philosophy of art-making in new television series
Three parts of the nine-part work premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
'Dalíland' offers a by-the-numbers biopic no one needed or will remember
The film, starring Ben Kingsley as the late Surrealist artist, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, currently showing in Toronto, the Sacklers become a personification of the oppressive social order that cost many of Goldin’s peers their lives