Read the 5-Minute Guided Meditation Led by Chloé Zhao for 2,600 'Hamnet' Audience Members

The benefits of meditation are well known, though often experienced in the quiet solitude of one's own space.That was not the case at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of "Hamnet," where director Chloe Zhao appeared onstage to introduce her movie and then led a sold-out audience of 2,600 attendees through a calming, guided mass-meditation. A week earlier, she also engaged a smaller audience in one at the film's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.The Oscar-winning director of "Nomadland" was joined onstage by the cast of her graceful new film. They included Paul Mescal . . .