By Anne Brodie Jialing Zhang's disturbing documentary detailing China's 20 years of smart tech surveillance of its citizens is the stuff of nightmares. Award-winning festival hit Total Trust reveals through secret footage the ways and means authorities pursue grudges against citizens who …
Immigrant and LGBTQ2 Stories, Rock Hudson’s Not So Secret Secret, How to Dress to Save the Planet … and Idris Elba!
By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …