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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
Masterful: Martin Eden
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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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