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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

Soca royalty Nailah Blackman and her producer Anson Soverall explain what two years locked down in Trinidad looked like, how Carnival season is bouncing back hard, the new music they’ve been working on while we’ve been in our bubbles and what truly defines the soca genre.   Plus, Issa Rae and Syreeta Singleton discuss their new show Rap Sh!t, the struggles for women in rap that inspired it and what they think is so special about WAP ..read more

Slash/Back director Nyla Innuksuk discusses her Inuit alien invasion thriller (hint: it's a metaphor for colonization) and Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow and actor Hayden Christensen talk about going from Toronto to a galaxy far, far away and the politics in Star Wars ..read more