By Sam Laskaris Writer A major milestone is being celebrated in Toronto. This year marks the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s best-known gatherings for movie buffs. This year’s festival began Sept. 4 and continues until Sept. 14. As in previous years, plenty of Indigenous films are included in the festival programming. This list includes Nika & Madison, which marks the directorial feature debut for Eva Thomas, a filmmaker from Walpole Island First Nation in southwestern Ontario. One of Thomas’ short films, titled Redlights, had its world premiere at TIFF two years ago. That film highlighted Starlight Tours, a practice Thomas said mostly occurs in western Canada, where police pick up Indigenous people and release them on their own in remote locations, often in…
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