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Toronto International Film Festival 2019
The world's biggest film festival was noticeable this year for works addressing acute social and political issues
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ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
THE TORONTO International Film Festival is mega — over 300 films were screened this year — and among them were debut features and documentaries that caught the eye, among them Workforce from 29-year-old Mexican director David Zonana.
Highlighting the catastrophic consequences of class inequality and the violation of workers’ rights, it tells the story of young construction worker Francesco, who seeks justice when his brother dies in front of him on a luxury-home building site.
His widowed sister-in-law is told she will get no compensation from the accident and the tragedy is the starting point for a fierce and meticulous examination of cycles of economic abuse in what's a heartbreaking and hard-hitting human story.
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