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06 September 2023
What We’re Looking Forward to at This Year’s Toronto International Film Festival
These are the films and events that we’re most excited about at the 2023 edition of the popular North American film festival.
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27 September 2021
Jenna Cato Bass is Capturing the Horrors of an Unhealed Nation
The film marks the South African director's third debut and stride towards making a name for herself in the international film circuit.
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27 September 2021
Tanzanian Filmmaker Amil Shivji is Making History with a Story of Love and Resistance
As the first Tanzanian film to be chosen for TIFF, Shivji's film is sure to get the African country a seat at the table.
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07 October 2020
Interview: Dieudo Hamadi on His Heartbreaking Documentary "Downstream to Kinshasa"
The Congolese director talks about bearing witness to a community's fight for justice.
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02 October 2020
Interview: Director João Paulo Miranda Maria Illustrates Afro-Brazilian Narratives in "Memory House"
In the filmmaker's intimate film about colonialism and issues of identity, the silence often says more than the dialogue.
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02 October 2020
Interview: Rwandan Director Yuhi Amuli on His Magnetic Relationship With Film
The director and screenwriter uses his gift of storytelling to give room to the unheard voices of his East African countryfolk.
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02 October 2019
'Crazy World' is the Ugandan Action Film Poised to Bring Wakaliwood to the World
We caught up with 'Uganda's Tarantino,' I.G.G Nabwana to talk the making of his new kung-fu kids flick
Film + TV
23 September 2019
This Nigerian Magic-Realist Film Based in Igbo Tradition is Burning Up the Festival Circuit
We spoke to Abba Makama to get the story behind The Lost Okoroshi, his phenomenal new film about ancestral spirits that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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19 September 2019
Senegalese Filmmaker Mati Diop Tells a Haunted Story of Migration
We caught up with the celebrated director at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about her new film, Atlantics
Film + TV
11 September 2019
These 'Hidden Gems' From Africa & the Diaspora are Now Showing at TIFF
Here are 12 films from across the diaspora to check out before the Toronto International Film Festival ends.
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18 September 2018
Congolese Actor Stéphane Bak on His Intense Experience Shooting 'The Mercy of the Jungle' In Uganda
We catch up with the actor after the film made its North American premiere at TIFF.
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17 September 2018
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on Telling the Visceral Story of South Africa's Legendary Outlaw, John Kepe
We touch base with the South African director for an in-depth review on his second TIFF premiere, 'Sew The Winter To My Skin.'
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