This month’s picks include a Latvian satire about World War II, a family portrait by an Indian documentarian, an Oedipal thriller from Mexico and more.
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Ansis is a simple sign painter in a small town in Latvia, a Baltic republic that won its independence after World War I, but lost it after being occupied by the Soviet Union and Germany within the space of a few years in the early 1940s.
In Viesturs Kairish’s endearing movie, The Sign Painter, which will be screened online by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from June 3-13, Ansis is a figure who illustrates the change of the guard in Latvia.