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Eternal Beauty; Les Misérables

The Uncertain Kingdom; The Australian Dream; The Happy Family; Bicycle Thieves

Ema; It Must Be Heaven

Misbehaviour; The Perfect Candidate.

Parasite; No Fathers in Kashmir.

Sorry We Missed You; The Report.

Photograph by Ritesh Batra; Phoenix by Camilla Strøm Henriksen.

Highlights from the 2019 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.

Transit; The Chambermaid.

Malcolm Lewis reviews Woman at War, directed and co-written by Benedikt Erlingsson; The Third Wife, directed and written by Ash Mayfair.

3 Faces; H is for Harry.

Burning; Green Book.

Disobedience directed by Sebastián Lelio; The Workshop directed by Laurent Cantet.

Tehran Taboo; The Heiresses (Las Herederas).

Highlights from Hot Docs, the major documentary film festival held annually in Toronto, Canada.

The Ciambra directed and written by Jonas Carpignano;
In the Fade directed and co-written by Fatih Akin.

The Beast, directed and written by Michael Pearce; The Wound (Inxeba), directed and co-written by John Trengove.

Even When I Fall, co-directed by Kate McLarnon and Sky Neal; 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), directed and co-written by Robin Campillo.

A Fantastic Woman, written and directed by Sebastián Lelio; Custody (Jusqu’à la garde), written and directed by Xavier Legrand.

What a year! We’re all in need of some light relief – here we pick out the top films, books and music reviewed by New Internationalist in 2017