The BFI London Film Festival, held every year in October, has a track record of predicting the films which are going to take the next year by storm. Given that these movies tend to be released about now, it is perhaps time to get your diaries out and plan your viewing schedule.
Till
Till, released in the UK in January 2023, is a film based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who fought for justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in 1955.
The facts which form the basis of this film are both brutal and harrowing. Emmett, a personable and popular young Black man, was wrongfully accused of going into a shop in Mississippi and harassing a White woman. That night as he slept in his bed, a lynch mob of White men forced their way into
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