Jojo Rabbit wins the top prize at TIFF

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi’s anti-hate satire, Jojo Rabbit won the sought-after People’s Choice Award of the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The festival’s winners were announced recently. The TIFF audience’s nod for Jojo Rabbit, a black comedy set in the final years of Nazi rule in Germany, is expected to be a huge achievement for the film in its Oscar run. Last year’s TIFF People’s Choice Award-winner, Green Book, bagged the Best Picture Oscar. Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Room and La La Land are among the films that won the coveted People’s Choice prize and continued their triumphal run all the way till the Academy Awards.

Jojo Rabbit is the story of a 10-year-old boy who admires Adolf Hitler and is faced with a dilemma when he discovers that his mother has hidden a Jewish girl in their home. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson and Waititi himself as a clownish, fictive Hitler.