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The 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival takes place Thursday, September 7—17, 2023 in Canada's most vibrant and exciting metropolis, it has become one of the most important film events on the festival calendar.
Showcasing more than 300 films and hosting industryites from around the world, Toronto can "make or break" films looking for international distribution and a chance at Oscar gold. From glitzy red carpet premieres to challenging art films to cutting edge new media, the Festival offers something for every taste.
Past Coverage 2014 2015 - Coverage 2016 in French English
Session guests include Spike Lee, Lulu Wang, Ladj Ly, Guillermo del Toro, and more
TIFF 2023 Industry Conference takes place September 8–12
TORONTO — TIFF is proud to reveal an exciting array of sessions and a powerhouse lineup of speakers for the much-awaited 2023 Industry Conference, supported by Ontario Creates and Telefilm Canada. Covering six pillars of Conference programming: Visionaries, Dialogues, Perspectives, Connections, Microsessions, and Spotlights, this yea...
This year’s programme features new series from Lulu Wang, Shawn Levy, Hagar Ben-Asher and Ron Leshem, Jeon Woo-sung, and Sasha Leigh Henry
All the Light We Cannot See (left)
Photo Credit: Courtesy of TIFF
Bad Boy (right)
Photo Credit: Courtesy of TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival® Primetime programme has been revealed for 2023, with nine compelling and thought-provoking series from around the world, including eig...
TIFF announces In Conversation With... series presented by Visa spotlighting renowned global industry icons Pedro Almodóvar, Lee Byung-hun & Park Seo-jun, and Andy Lau
TORONTO — TIFF proudly announces the In Conversation With… (ICW) series at this year’s Festival, featuring talented and acclaimed artists in the world of cinema including Pedro Almodóvar, Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-jun, and Andy Lau. An integral part of our year-round programmi...
Wavelengths welcomes both luminaries and emerging talents, spotlighting rule breakers, film essayists, and different ways of seeing the world, with new films by Radu Jude, Isiah Medina, Eduardo Williams, Angela Schanelec, Rosine Mbakam, Wang Bing, Chantal Akerman, Pedro Costa, Jean-Luc Godard, Ja’Tovia Gary, Steve Reinke, Shambhavi Kaul, and more Classics features Chen ...
World Premieres and female-led films dominate this year’s slate of exciting selections, including works by Mackenzie Davis, Malia Ann, Yann Demange, and Jasmin Mozaffari, with performances by Riz Ahmed, Kaniehtiio Horn, and more
DAMMI (2023) Photo Credit: Courtesy of TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival® announced this year’s Short Cuts lineup, supported by Ontario Arts Council, showcasing 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated s...
Sylvester Stallone's extraordinary journey unveiled in Sly, the Closing Night Gala of TIFF 2023
The Netflix documentary captures the life and career of Sylvester Stallone, whose television and film credits span almost half a century
Photo Credit: Netflix
TIFF is delighted to announce Sly as the Closing Night Gala for the 48th edition of the Festival. A vivid exploration of an illustrious life woven through the silver screen, this remarkable documentary ab...
World Premieres for Discovery include After the fire, Gonzo Girl, The Queen of My Dreams, and Widow Clicquot
World Premieres for Midnight Madness include Dicks: The Musical, Hell of a Summer, Boy Kills World, and KILL
Dicks: The Musical (2023). Courtesy of TIFF
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Fifth annual TIFF Tribute Awards fundraising gala to take place on Sunday, September 10
Photo Credit: Iglesias Mas/El Deseo D.A. S.L.U. Photo Credit: Spike Lee
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Dream Scenario (2023). Photo credit: Courtesy of TIFF.
TIFF unveiled the 10 World Premiere features that comprise the Platform programme for 2023, along with the 2023 Platform jury members: Academy Award–winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins, joined by Cannes Jury Prize–winning director, writer, and actor Nadine Labaki, and 2022 Platform Prize–winning filmmaker Anthony Shim.
Since its introduction in 2015, Platform has celebrated and showcased films with unique directoria...
Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron soars into Toronto to open the 48th edition of the Festival
Japanese auteur’s latest film makes its International Premiere at TIFF
Photo credit: © 2023 Studio Ghibli
TIFF is thrilled to announce that Studio Ghibli’s long-awaited fantastical epic feature film, The Boy and the Heron, from Academy Award–winning visionary director Hayao Miyazaki, will be the Opening Night Gala Presentation for the 48th Toronto I...
Including Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt, Ning Hao’s The Movie Emperor, Maggie Betts’ The Burial, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Ellen Kuras' Lee, Um Tae-Hwa’s Concrete Utopia, Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters, Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, Lukas Moodysson'...
The Toronto International Film Festival is excited to return on September 7–17 and welcome thousands of international and Canadian professionals back to Toronto, where it will once again host the five-day Industry Conference, supported by Ontario Creates and Telefilm. The event serves as a vital platform for business development, lead generation, and networking initiatives, creating space for professionals to connect, learn, and explore the latest trends impacting the industry today. Run...
The opera-inspired film stars Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine
Special Avant-première screening, in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, to take place at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 8
“First look” image also released
Photo credit: Courtesy of Amanda Matlovich
TIFF is delighted to announce that legendary filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the Festiva...
The Toronto International Film Festival® is excited to announce early details about its 48th edition. Recognized as the world’s largest public film festival, TIFF 2023 will welcome audiences from across the globe to Toronto to experience the best in international and Canadian cinema, press and industry screenings, special events, and red carpets featuring some of the biggest names in film.
Taking place from September 7–17, 2023, TIFF 2023’s official screening v...
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July 5, 2023
TIFF announces World Premiere of Ladj Ly's new powerful film, Les Indésirables
Making his return to the Festival, Ly’s highly anticipated film is set to captivate Toronto audiences with this World Premiere
Photo credit: Luis Mora
TIFF is thrilled to announce the first international title to make its World Premiere at TIFF 2023. Ladj Ly, the acclaimed French filmmaker be...
Thank you for joining us for the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8–18, 2022!
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By Claus Mueller
The growing audience of major and lesser-known film festivals certainly does not signal the end of the cinema. It mirrors the growing number of movies which are produced and the social and commercial attractions of film festivals. Though one should keep in mind that over a twenty-year period through 2018 only about four percent of independent films in the Unites States generated a profit and that just ten percent were ever shown in theaters. The relative decline ...
The Toronto International Film Festival® has announced its award recipients for the 47th edition of the Festival, which concluded last evening with the Closing Night screening of Mary Harron’s Dalíland at the Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre and Roy Thomson Hall.
“2022 brought an exceptional selection of films that excited festival audiences around the world,” said Cameron Bailey, TIFF CEO. “Our lineup showcased belo...
SUBTRACTION
TIFF 2022
With Director: Mani Haghighi
By Eammanuel Itier
Who am I? This is the key question raised this beautiful and impactful movie by prolific Iranian actor and director: Manni Haghighi. With an incredible textured and multi-level of understanding, maestro Haghighi explore the notion of duality, of identity, and what it takes to achieve “oneness” within. This film is a high octane and suspenseful drama thriller that will put oneself on th...
THE TASTE OF APPLES IS RED
TIFF 2022
With Director: Ehab Tarabieh
By Emmanuel Itier
An important peace activist and philosopher, A.J Muste, wrote: “There is no way to peace, Peace is the Way”. Ehab Tarabieh is embracing this philosophy with his new film, ‘The Taste of Apple is Red’, and how we can transform conflict into peace, how peace has to become the new state of mind, of consciousness, so we can move forward onto a planet of &ld...
TO KILL A TIGER
TIFF 2022
With director: Nisha Pahuja
By Emmanuel Itier
“To kill a tiger” is to kill the inequality that still exist in most parts of India for young girls. Talented director Nisha Pahuja takes us on a journey of acceptance, of resilience and of deep change. Such is the power of documentaries to become the political voice of the injustice still enslaving a too large population around the world and in India as it’s so beautifully and so mo...
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER
TIFF 2022
With director Vera Drew
By Emmanuel Itier
Who am I? What am I, truly and really? Would the World accept me as such? These are crucial question asked by brilliant and inspired director Vera Drew. Whether you are a transgender or not, like me, one can only applaud the initiative endeavor of her film, ‘The People’s joker’, giving you the faith, the force, the power to follow your destiny, to achieve the vision you ha...
This list is not complete and is subject to change.
Ali Abbasi
Madison Baines
Mélanie Bray
Christopher Abbott
Jaume Balaguero
Alex Brendemühl
Marta Abbott
Ariela Barer
Madeline Brewer
Golshan Abdmoulaie
John Barker
Krista Bridges
Patrick J. Adams
Rajat Barmecha
Christopher Briney Lovell
Adams Gray
Shantae Barnes-Cowan
Sterling K. Brown
Odunlade Adekola
Melissa Barrera
Shayla Brown
Paul Adelstein
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TIFF celebrates Every Story fund milestones, thanks Partners and Donors; OVO signs on as new Every Story Partner Sophomore fund underwrites 4,500+ Memberships, accreditation for 70+ journalists, and expands programming for diverse voices
TIFF is celebrating key milestones since launching Every Story and is thanking fund Founding Partner NBCUniversal; and partners Getty Images, Hudson’s Bay, Rotten Tomatoes, Universal Music Canada, and UPS for helping reach its one-year goal to s...
TIFF announces a surprise Special Presentation of Biosphere screening September 10 in the Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Photo credit: Nathan M. Miller
TIFF is excited to announce Biosphere, the directorial debut from award-winning producer Mel Eslyn and produced by Duplass Brothers Productions, will have its World Premiere on September 10 at 2:30pm as a surprise Special Presentation at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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