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Toronto International Film Festival · 2024

Toronto International Film Festival 2024

TIFF Docs

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4 films · 2 reviews

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Ernest Cole, Lost And Found

Documentary profiling the Black freelance photographer.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Raoul Peck; Stars: LaKeith Stanfield)

Mistress Dispeller

Review preview for Mistress Dispeller

A film that is built upon patience and which takes a philosophical rather than judgmental stance.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Elizabeth Lo; Writer: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Elizabeth Lo)

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No Other Land

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No Other Land brings humanity and particularity to a topic that is too often discussed in the abstract.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

(Country: Palestinian Territories; Year: 2024; Director: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor; Stars: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal)

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Wishing On A Star

Documentary. Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky.

(Country: Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Czechia; Year: 2024; Director: Peter Kerekes; Writer: Erica Barbiani, Peter Kerekes; Stars: Luciana de Leoni D'Asparedo, Valentina Angeli, Alessandra Fornasier, Barbara Lutman, Giovanni Rugo, Adriana Vangone, Giuliana Vangone)