"While the fall film festival season has slowly become known as the feeding ground of the film awards season (now stretching all the way until March), this year's mad dash through Venice, Telluride, and Toronto provided that and more. Yes, of course, awards contenders are on offer here (plus a bounty of standout performances and impeccable below the line work), but as we set about assembling our list of the best films to premiere at the fall fests, something else emerged: range."
"The story of America is rife with such difficult realities, of course, and Laura Poitras (" Citizenfour," "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"), like subject Seymour Hersh, has made a career of unpacking the kind of civil violations and moral atrocities that would have been committed with impunity if not for a dedicated effort to bring the truth to light. In Hersh, whose ongoing body of work represents a chronology"
The fall festival circuit — Venice, Telluride, and Toronto — delivered both awards contenders and unexpected gems that reveal notable cinematic breadth. Premieres included a horror debut, a Netflix-backed crowdpleaser, a winner centered on a stork, and a short film strong enough to stand with features. The season highlighted standout performances and meticulous below-the-line craftsmanship that boost awards potential. Upcoming events such as the New York Film Festival and AFI FEST will add further premieres and buzz. Laura Poitras and co-director Mark Obenhaus examined Seymour Hersh’s career, tracing a chronology of American malfeasance and systemic violations.
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