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Toronto International Film Festival

Silver Dollar Road 2023 ‧ Documentary

‘Silver Dollar Road’ shows how Black land is repeatedly – and legally – stolen

Documentarian Raoul Peck profiles a Black North Carolina family and the iron will it took to hang on to their property

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2470911 – THE WOMAN KING

At Toronto International Film Festival, a resplendent ‘Woman King’ reigns supreme

Guided by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, Viola Davis leads an ensemble cast in one of the best films of 2022

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Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story

‘Atlantics’ haunts its audience with a Senegalese story of love, class and capitalism

A prize-winner at Cannes and TIFF, director Mati Diop reveals how she found her voice as a filmmaker

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TIFF 2019: In ‘Dolemite Is My Name,’ Eddie Murphy makes a way out of no way

Hollywood loves films about itself. Finally, we’ve got one from a black perspective.

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TIFF 2019: Contrasting visions of Africa in ‘Our Lady of the Nile’ and ‘Sweetness in the Belly’ 

Two films examine political and ethnic unrest in Rwanda and Ethiopia, with vastly different results

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TIFF 2019: ‘Clemency’ and ‘Just Mercy’ offer two differing perspectives on death row

One asks us to put ourselves in the position of a warden. The other follows a lawyer seeking justice.

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Sundance and Toronto film festivals commit to increasing numbers of minority critics

New USC study finds white men dominate the ranks of film criticism

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Fox Searchlight’s Toronto Film Festival Party

Fox Searchlight parties with the stars of ‘Battle of the Sexes’ and ‘The Shape of Water’

Day 5 at the Toronto International Film Festival

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2017 Toronto International Film Festival – “The Carter Effect” Premiere

Drake really wants Vince Carter to come home

Day 4 at the Toronto International Film Festival

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Obama’s foreign policy comes alive — really! — in ‘The Final Year’ and a venture outside the festival zone

Day 3 at the Toronto International Film Festival

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