Film-Forward

An arresting and alarming documentary scrutinizes racism on the football field and throughout Australian culture, as experienced by one of the country’s star players.

The satire includes a host of first-rate comic actors, but no one really gets a handle on the material.

Director Matt Kane transcends clichés to deliver a sad, knowing look at male pride in a small, intimate sci-fi film.

Janice Engel’s energizing documentary plays up the happy-warrior side of the columnist’s life and output while allowing for glimpses of the darkness that underscored them both.

An Afghan family flee their home and join other refugees seeking asylum in the European Union.

If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.

Set in the remote mountains and jungles of Colombia, the movie follows a guerrilla group of child and teenage soldiers as their beliefs are, one by one, stripped in a hallucinatory test of good, evil, solidarity, and treachery.

Ken Loach returns to TIFF with a film that is, in many ways, as strong and less predictable than I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme D’Or, and Toronto-based Semi Chellas adapts author Susan Choi’s fictionalized take of Patty Hearst on the lam.

A dramedy that works better as a character study of a young woman whose bravado and endless wisecracks are an emotional defense.