TIFF 2020: What to Watch Day 8

We're nearing the end of the 10-day festival, but promising titles are still playing at the Lightbox and drive-ins.

Glendyn Ivin's Penguin Bloom premieres today as part of the special presentations. It tells the true story of Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts), whose recovery from a tragic accident is helped when she and her family take in a stray magpie and name it Penguin. When the little bird cries when it needs help, Sam shifts her focus to Penguin more than her own pain. Screening at 8:30 pm and 9 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

True Mothers, the latest from acclaimed director Naomi Kawase, is a touching family story of love and adoption. Screening at 12 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Emma Seligman’s comedy Shiva Baby follows a young Jewish woman whose steamy secrets are unearthed during one emotionally frantic shiva. Premieres at 12 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Enemies of the State tells the story of an American family seeking refuge in Canada after their hacker son is targeted by the U.S. government, in Sonia Kennebeck’s bizarre story of secrets and lies. Premieres at 9 pm at Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView.

Lift Like a Girl is an intimate journey into the inner life of an aspiring athlete. This one screens at 9 pm at West Island Open Air Cinema at Ontario Place.

Spring Blossom, which follows a bored Parisian teenager who contemplates the pitfalls of growing up too fast when she falls in love with an older man, screens at 1 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Michelle Latimer’s affecting adaptation of Thomas King’s award-winning book, Inconvenient Indian, explores the cultural colonization of Indigenous peoples in North America. It screens 5 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Under the Open Sky plays at 9 pm at RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place. 76 Days, a raw and intimate documentary, captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. It screens today at 4:30 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Ephraim Asili’s debut The Inheritance weaves together the histories of the MOVE Organization, the Black Arts Movement, and Asili’s time in a Black Marxist collective. This screens today at 5 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox and 6 pm online at Bell Digital Cinema.

Also premiering today online at 6 pm at Bell Digital Cinema are Wildfire, Violation, The Inheritance, Notturno, Falling, 40 Years a Prisoner and 180 Rule.

At 6 pm today, we'll be watching In Conversation With… Barry Levinson & Denzel Washington. Two Academy Award-winning filmmakers discusses the art of directing.

~Marriska Fernandes

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