For the third year in a row, The Dr. Vibe Show™ will be helping promote the African and Black diaspora films that we be showing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Here is a list of the films. To find out more information about each film including purchasing tickets to view the film, please click on the film title or the corresponding image:
Under The Starry Sky is a transcontinental drama that delves into the shadowy world of
undocumented travel, the debut feature from Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners.
Something Necessary is Judy Kibinge’s daring yet elegant film is an uplifting parable about atonement, set against the deadly violence that followed the 2007 elections in Kenya.
To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales From The African Continent is a This programme of shorts showcases remarkable and fiercely contemporary stories, from an ambiguous, Nairobi-set science fiction story to a Cape Town recreation of the myth of Noah’s ark.
Of Good Report is about an illicit affair between an introverted high school teacher and his pupil spirals out of control, in this controversial South African-set noir directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka.
iNumber Number – Adroitly written and directed by South African filmmaker Donovan Marsh, this action-packed heist thriller — about a pair of cops battling corrupt colleagues as well as a gang of armoured-car thieves — boasts an oddball cast that brings comic relief to the ruthless thuggery.
The Battle of Tabato – A father arrives in Guinea-Bissau to give his daughter away at her wedding, but must also make peace with memories of his violent past there, in first-time feature director João Viana’s meditation on good and evil.
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave, Children of Men) and Thandie Newton (Crash, The Pursuit of Happyness) star in this epic chronicle of family ties and war from celebrated Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Acclaimed British actor Idris Elba (TV’s The Wire) is magnetic as the legendary South African freedom fighter in this rousing adaptation of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
12 YEARS A SLAVE – Director Steve McQueen follows the acclaimed Hunger and Shame with this shocking, based-on-fact story of a 19th-century freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. The enormously talented Chiwetel Ejiofor leads an extraordinary cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Belle – Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain.
1982 – A father struggles to protect his daughter from the reality of her mother’s drug addiction in Tommy Oliver’s powerful, semi-autobiographical debut.
Bobô – In Lisbon, two women from different worlds — a privileged architectural
illustrator and a cheerful housekeeper from the city’s Guinean community — join together to save a young Guinean girl from ritual genital mutilation, in this sensitive and intimate second feature from immensely talented Portuguese director Inês Oliveira.
All Is By My Side – OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this biopic of the rock legend.
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