New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- At a time when journalists are being increasingly discredited, vilified, or out-and-out targeted for doing their jobs, two documentaries at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, which concluded on September 14, highlight why their work is so vital.

After 20 years of being behind the camera, American war photographer Lynsey Addario turns to face the lens in Love+War, from Oscar-winning filmmaking duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. As a war photographer covering conflicts and humanitarian crises around the world-including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine-Addario is indefatigable in her quest to document the human cost of war, often at her own peril.

The documentary chronicles Addario's care...