Hum film festival 2018 toronto

The Toronto International Film Festival is a grab-bag — all fests are, of course — but the 43rd annual edition of what’s arguably the major North American film event of any given year felt like an especially whiplash-inducing, something-for-every-film-nerd get-together this year.

Hum film festival 2018 toronto schedule

You could walk out of a prestige-seeking, Oscar-courting drama about parents dealing with drug-addict kids (there were a fewto choose from) and right into a an eight-hour Chinese documentary about Communist “re-education” camps.

You had your choice of watching Natalie Portman, Elle Fanning or Lady Gaga play pop chanteuses — or see actual footage of one of the greatest opera stars ever trilling out high notes. Would you prefer Julianne Moore boogieing to Laura Brannigan’s “Gloria” or a rigorous German movie about the end of humanity?

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