David Turpin’s TIFF Premiere ‘Ancestors’ Revisits the AIDS Crisis Through Love, Found Family and Movie Stars: ‘I Think a Lot of People of My Generation Feel This Absence of Our Elders’
With TIFF premiere “Ancestors,” Irish filmmaker David Turpin creates a story about the simple acts of human connection, love and how our dreams and fantasies can boost our spirits when everything else fails. Set in the late 1980s in London, when the HIV-AIDS crisis was killing off generations of primarily gay men, “Ancestors” asks the […]
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