^ a b 'David Chariandy's novel Brother optioned for film with Clement Virgo at the helm'.^ Barry Hertz, 'TIFF to host world premiere of Clement Virgo’s buzzy adaptation of Scarborough-set novel Brother'.Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Paul Germann, Krystin Hunter, Kevin Banksīest Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film Awardĭamon D'Oliveira, Sonya Di Rienzo, Aeschylus Poulos, Clement Virgo It won 12 Canadian Screen Awards at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, the most awards won by any film in the Canadian Screen Awards era and the best performance by any film since Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) won 13 Genie Awards at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022. In The Globe and Mail, Barry Hertz wrote, 'The spirit of what Scarborough represents – for Chariandy, and for Clement – is undoubtedly present in every lovingly composed frame of Brother.' Peter Howell, film critic for The Toronto Star gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and added, 'A world is revealed, brilliantly.' Brian Tallerico, editor for the film review website published, 'There’s such gracefulness to the filmmaking here, cutting back and forth across time, building like a thriller.' Accolades On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 15 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.10/10. It was also screened as the closing film of the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival and as the opening film of the 2022 FIN Atlantic Film Festival.

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. Brother is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Clement Virgo.

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