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Venerated Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta returns to the festival once again this year with Anatomy of Violence, about a gang rape in New Delhi, alongside Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice, both set to enjoy their world premieres in the Masters programme. Fred Peabody’s look at the new faces of activist journalism, All Governments Lie, and Nicholas de Pencier’s internet surveillance film Black Code will both screen as part of TIFF Docs.

Discovery, a programme focused on highlighting new talent, will include Tony Elliot’s time-loop home invasion thriller ARQ, Kevan Funk’s hockey-violence drama Hello Destroyer, Stella Meghie’s coming-of-age drama Jean of the Joneses, Vincent Biron’s coming-of-age drama Prank, Ashley McKenzie’s meth-addict drama Werewolf and Johnny Ma’s class drama Old Stone. Anne Emond’s curio Nelly is set to be the sole Canadian feature in the Vanguard section.

On the television front, meanwhile, arrives local wunderkind Matt Johnson’s much buzzed-about Nirvana the Band the Show, newly rebooted by Vice and set to premiere in the new year on Viceland. The series will debut in the second annual Primetime sidebar.