The Oscars race is wide open this year, and so is the question of which film will win the coveted TIFF Audience Award. With A-listers like Selena Gomez and Angelina Jolie and breakout stars like Mikey Madison and Gabriel LaBelle, the 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival concludes on Sunday after screening 278 films over … Read more
The Toronto International Film Festival has decided to halt screenings of the controversial documentary, “Russians at War,” following what TIFF described as “significant threats to festival operations and public safety” in a statement. “Effectively immediately, TIFF is forced to pause the upcoming screenings of ‘Russians at War’ on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as we have been … Read more
Its a dog-eat-dog world for “Nightbitch” at TIFF. Marielle Heller’s long-awaited dramedy had its world premiere on Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, exactly five years after her previous film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” debuted at the Canadian fest. Heller was joined by producers, author Rachel Yoder (whose book the film is … Read more
Like a football player emerging from the huddle, Florence Pugh squatted and grunted as she reenacted a dramatic scene from “We Live in Time” after the film made its splashy debut on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival. During a post-screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Garfield and director John Crowley, Pugh described the … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the topic of a new feature documentary, “The Bibi Files” produced by Oscar winner Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom. The two-hour docu, which will screen as work-in-progress at the Toronto Film Intl. Festival, features never-before-seen police interrogation footage of Netanyahu. The recordings were made between 2016 and … Read more
Coy and smoldering attraction simmers in Argentine director Mariana Wainstein‘s debut feature, “Linda,” which sees its world premiere in Toronto as part of this year’s TIFF Discovery program, showcasing debut and sophomore films from emergent global talent. The festival runs Sept. 5-15. Produced by Argentina’s Pampa Films and co-produced by Bourke Films and Spain’s Gloriamundi Producciones, … Read more