The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022. It is the second Canadian film in as many years, following Scarborough in 2021, to be set in the Galloway Road neighbourhood of Scarborough, and Virgo's first theatrical feature film since 2007's Poor Boy's Game. The novel's optioning for film was announced in 2018, and the film went into production in fall 2021. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Francis and Lamar Johnson as Michael, with supporting cast members including Kiana Madeira, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray, Maurice Dean Wint and Dwain Murphy. An adaptation of David Chariandy's award-winning novel Brother, the film centres on the relationship between Francis and Michael, two Black Canadian brothers growing up in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario in the early 1990s. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.Brother is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Clement Virgo. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere.
Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music.
While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." -Marlon James " Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy-concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." -Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter WINNER-Toronto Book Award WINNER-Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize WINNER-Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991.
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