by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
From the hundreds of films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, here is a rundown of three exciting titles that had their World Premieres in this year’s program.
Written and directed by Sophie Deraspe
Starring Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein and Rachida Oussaada
Running time: 1 hour and 49 minutes
by Deborah Krieger
There are few plots more compelling, and resonant on a deeply personal level, than those about families. It’s why Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opening line “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” has drawn in readers for over a century; it’s why The Godfather, Hamlet, Little Women, Shameless and even the increasingly convoluted machinations of the Star Wars “Skywalker Saga” have continued to draw in audiences and acclaim. When your family is all you have in this world, we are asked, what would we do to protect them? And what wouldn’t we do—what wouldn’t we risk, what norms or laws wouldn’t we break—to do right by them?
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