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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
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
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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