Toronto Star

TIFF releases Top 10 lists for 2020

- VICTORIA AHEARN

The Toronto Internatio­nal Film Festival has put out its best-of-the-year list. The annual list includes the Deepa Mehta-directed “Funny Boy,” which is Canada’s submission to the Oscars for Best Internatio­nal Feature Film. Tracey Deer is on the list with “Beans,” about a 12-year-old Mohawk girl coming of age during the 1990 Oka Crisis. And Michelle Latimer made the cut with the documentar­y “Inconvenie­nt Indian,” adapted from Thomas King’s acclaimed 2012 non-fiction book. Other films include: “Fauna” by Nicolas Pereda, a comical look at so-called “narco” violence in Mexico; Mike Hoolboom’s “Judy Versus Capitalism,” about Canadian feminist activist Judy Rebick; dark comedy “The Kid Detective” by Evan Morgan; Olympic swimmer drama “Nadia, Butterfly” by Pascal Plante; Sean Durkin’s family thriller “The Nest”; “No Ordinary Man” by Aisling ChinYee and Chase Joynt, about the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton; and Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror “Possessor.”

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