The Toronto International Film Festival runs every September in Toronto, featuring some of the world’s biggest films, filmmakers, actors, and film lovers.
Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great is the definition of “good enough,” but it also boasts an impressive leading performance from everyone’s favourite nonagenarian, June Squibb, that makes …
Sepideh Farsi’s raw, intimate documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk tragically illustrates the increasingly dire conditions within Gaza through a long distance conversation carried on across a …
Seamlessly blending humour, action, social commentary, brutal flashes of violence, and old school gumshoe theatricality, Sterlin Harjo’s mystery The Lowdown comes at a tipping point in the genre. Just like …
For every admirable point that the hollow tech-world biopic Swiped tries to make about being a woman in a male dominated field, the film gets bogged down in trite, inauthentic …
Another tremendous fable from legendary Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) pulls from legend and oral tradition to look at the darker, more complicated side of keeping a promise. …
Tamara Kotevska’s elegant and moving The Tale of Silyan is proof that great beauty can be found in documentary filmmaking simply by going with the flow of life. Starting in …
YouTuber turned filmmaker Curry Barker’s debut feature, Obsession, is an engaging hybrid of gory horror, earnest romance, and outrageous dark comedy that plays on classic genre tropes. An examination of …
An inventive and visually stimulating deep dive into the world of sex workers, director Nicole Bazuin and writer/subject Andrea Werhun’s expansion of their book and short film Modern Whore is …
An exceptional leading performance from Nina Kiri breathes vibrant life into Out Standing, a biopic recounting the struggles faced by Captain Sandra Perron, Canada’s first female infantry officer. Born into …
The yearning for personal connection is a common thread that runs through the six moving and deeply human shorts in TIFF’s Short Cuts Programme 02. Executive produced by Spike Lee, …
