On movie screens in Toronto, home is a battleground

Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres.

The biggest battleground isn’t just a war zone but the home.

In the dystopian Korean thriller “ Concrete Utopia ,” an earthquake destroys everything in Seoul .

Ladj Ly’s " Les Indésirables " is set at a decrepit public housing building.

There were still undoubtably many high points, among them Cord Jefferson’s thrillingly sardonic comedy “ American Fiction ,” with Jeffrey Wright as a bitter author.

But it was striking how many filmmakers approached stories where larger forces — war, institutional racism, climate change — bring new pressures to bear on the basic necessities of life, shaping who has land and who has power.