Avi Nesher is a TIFF veteran. Nesher’s Our Loves, which had its sold out world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday, is his fifth TIFF movie, following official selections for The Secrets (2007), The Matchmaker (2010), The Wonders (2013), and Past Life (2016). One of the most significant figures in popular Israeli cinema of the last 20 years, Nesher says he prefers the Canadian festival — “which is about pure cinema” — to what he considers the “very strong political considerations” that go into the official selection in Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Not that politics was entirely absent in Toronto. Ahead of the Our Loves…
