Film Festivals Highlight Forgiveness Themes

“Brace Your Heart” director Amanda Kernell is ready to talk about forgiveness.  “What can be forgiven? And what if you live in a place where everything has to be, because it can be a matter of survival?,” she wonders. In Kernell’s new film — unspooling at TIFF and the San Sebastián Film Festiva

Kamila Andini’s “Four Seasons in Java” is her fifth feature film, but this marks her third time at the Toronto Film Festival after “The Seen and the Unseen” (2017) and “Yuni” (2021) that won the Platform Prize and became Indonesia’s official Oscar entry.  It follows Pertiwi, starring Putri Marino (“