Borderlands

Borderlands

A bounty hunter returns to her home planet to find a special girl in Borderlands. Lilith (Cate Blanchett) is a disgruntled bounty hunter who is hired by powerful tech CEO Atlas (Edgar Ramírez) to recover his daughter Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), kidnapped by Crimson Raiders turncoat Roland (Kevin Hart). Lilith returns to her home planet…

To Kill a Tiger

To Kill a Tiger

A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit…

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The Contestant – TIFF 2023

The participants of a late-1990s Japanese reality series look back on their experience in The Contestant. In 1998, Nasubi was chosen to participate in producer Toshio Tsuchiya‘s spinoff of his hit show Denpa Shonen, called Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes. Nasubi was forced to strip naked before being locked in a small apartment. His…

summer-of-soul

Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)

The forgotten “Black Woodstock” is revisited in Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised). From June 29th to August 24th in the summer of 1969, a predominantly black crowd of 300,000 descended upon Mount Morris Park in Harlem for six Sundays, as part of the Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured performances from…