Black Films Help 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Celebrate

From Orwell 2+2=5 to Frankenstein: TIFF’s Films on Power, Creation, and Survival Are a Warning

– TIFF Review – by Noel Ransome | Wired | September 14, 2025 These are WIRED’s picks for some of the most urgent and unsettling films from the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival. Some of the most urgent films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival aren’t here to soothe. Together, Orwell: 2+2=5, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, and Frankenstein play like sizzle reels of caution, and at their best, they’re award-worthy…

Black films help 2025 Toronto International Film Festival celebrate

As TIFF turned 50 it rolled out the red carpet for 291 films from around the world. Over 11 festive days, features, documentaries and shorts were screened and enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of film lovers. Black directors, actors and their films left lasting impressions in unique ways. These are just a few.  Hedda Tessa Thompson in “Hedda” Writer-director Nia DaCosta (“Candyman”) ambitiously interprets the classic 1891 Henrick Ibsen play “Hedd…