"This year at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Gala Presentations included two world premieres: Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir's 1930s-set historical epic "Palestine 36" and Nicholas Hytner's WWII dramedy "The Choral" starring Ralph Fiennes, and the Toronto Premiere for Montreal-based filmmaker Anne Émond's romantic comedy "Peak Everything," which first premiered earlier this year at Cannes. All three films seek to examine contemporary society, two through the past, one through the present, with mixed results."
"Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, who has made several feature films and shorts that have explored the rich history and complex lives of the Palestinian people living within Occupied Palestine and the diaspora over the last two decades, has gone even further into the country's colonized history with her epic "Palestine 36," which had its world premiere this weekend and is Palestine's official selection for this year's Academy Awards."
Three Gala films at the Toronto festival—Annemarie Jacir's Palestine 36, Nicholas Hytner's The Choral, and Anne Émond's Peak Everything—approach societal questions through historical and contemporary settings with mixed results. Cherien Dabis' Sundance film All That's Left of You traced three Palestinian generations from the Nakba in 1948 through the First Intifada in 1988, contextualizing ongoing violence in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Jacir's Palestine 36 is set in 1936–37 and examines the British Mandate era when diplomats proposed offering Palestinian land to settlers amid rising antisemitism in Europe. Jacir's film follows multiple interconnected Jerusalem characters and earned Palestine's official Academy Awards selection.
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