# Horace Ové’s ‘Pressure’ & Menelik Shabazz’s ‘Burning An Illusion’ Among Titles Screening As Part Of TIFF Cinematheque’s Windrush Season

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/horace-oves-pressure-menelik-shabazzs-burning-an-illusion-among-titles-screening-as-part-of-tiff-cinematheques-windrush-season/
- Published: 2026-10-23T16:59:36+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:23:45+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/tiff-cinematheque-windrush-horace-ove-pressure-1237171806/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Film, TV, UK, World

## Key points

- TIFF Cinematheque marks 50 years of Pressure with a Windrush film season.
- The programme runs in Toronto until 28 October.
- Pressure screens in a new 4K restoration.

## Summary

TIFF Cinematheque has dedicated a season to films about the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in British cinema, marking 50 years since Horace Ové’s landmark film Pressure. The programme highlights stories of identity, discrimination and cultural change, and runs in Toronto until 28 October.

Curated by programmer Vicky Wong, the series includes Pressure, shown in a new 4K restoration, as well as Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion, Babylon and Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock. Pressure follows Tony, a British-born young man of Trinidadian heritage who faces racism and police harassment while looking for work, prompting a political awakening; it was restored by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation.

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