Coincidence found me racing rush-lane hour at this wonderful artsy blockbuster Call Me By Your Name, a film based on the eponymous novel by Egyptian author André Aciman, with the screenplay by James Ivory and director Luca Guadagnino at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Monday night. A gorgeous film set in a town called B – “Somewhere in…
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Nine years ago I interviewed Palestinian film director Annemarie Jacir for her film Salt of this Sea when it premiered at the OSIAN film festival in Delhi. This year at Toronto’s TIFF, I was lucky to meet her again and watch her latest film Wajib. As with all her scripts, Wajib bleeds with generosity, tensions…
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