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Viola Davis stars as the leader of a fierce female army from the kingdom of Dahomey, which was built on slavery. Dancer, choreographer and director Esie Mensah joins us to discuss the movie's alternate and perhaps fanciful take on history and why it is still a must see.

Comedian Dewayne Perkins and actor Antoinette Robertson tell us about heir TIFF Midnight Madness movie The Blackening, a horror comedy that lands somewhere between Scary Movie and Cabin In The Woods. The Blackening is about college friends reuniting at a cottage. But then they come across a game that forces them to test how Black they are or else …

In a conversation between two filmmakers, Sarah Polley tells Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers about adapting Miriam Toews novel Women Talking and unpacking the implications of its conversations on justice and forgiveness.

In a special TIFF episode, Black Ice director Hubert Davis, producer Vinay Virmani and hockey player Saroya Tinker discuss the relationship between hockey and Canadian identity and what it means to be excluded from the game.

I Like Movies director Chandler Levack discusses her look back at early-2000s video store culture, the makings of a toxic film bro and how she found a sympathetic and redemptive arc for a character that had the makings of an incel.

In a TIFF special episode we have the team behind This Place,  a queer love story that stars Mohawk actor Devery Jacobs and Tamil-Canadian writer Priya Guns. Guns, co-writer and director V.T, Nayani, co-writer Golshan Abdmoulaei and producer Stephanie Sonny Hooker join us to discuss the evolution of the film, what they all brought to this story and the questions they hope audiences ask themselves after watching This Place about allyship and what it means to be colonized while benefitting from colonization.

Reservation Dogs star Devery Jacobs discusses co-writing season two episode four, which was directed by Danis Goulet, paying tribute to the joy in her community, how the series handles trauma and uplift and bringing her old new film This Place to TIFF.

Jo Koy joins the NOW What podcast to explain why he had to pay his own way to get comedy specials on Netflix, how his humour builds bridges between communities, why colonized people compete when it comes to religion and resurrecting Tia Carrere in his new movie Easter Sunday.

Kes The Band lead singer Kes discusses why his music breaks through in a changing soca and Carnival landscape and what to expect from IzWe at Markham Fairgrounds and J'ouvert in Toronto.