Film-Forward

Book adaptation

The Hate U Give

Less than two years after its publication, the young adult best seller by Angie Thomas fast tracks its way to the big screen.

Beautiful Boy

A tightly focused story of a family’s beloved son hooked on drugs and the cycle of using, cleaning up, relapsing in agony, and cleaning up again.

22 July | TIFF 2018

Paul Greengrass’s fast-paced and intimate docudrama is gripping from start to finish, and ultimately hopeful.

We the Animals

A coming-of-age story that stands out for its kinetic style and raw emotion.

The Wife

An old-fashioned, tony chamber piece on the surface, the film has surprises below.

BlacKkKlansman

The absurdity, the humor, and the implications for today are real when a black cop joins the KKK in the 1970s

Bye Bye Germany

Living in displaced limbo by selling schmattes to hausfraus and recalling jokes made to the SS.

Breath

Surfing the Australia coast and adolescent male angst in the 1970s.

Little Pink House

A working-class town’s relentless legal battle against the state government’s use of eminent domain, anchored by a powerfully subdued Catherine Keener.