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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
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Presents
SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN
Directed by MARGARETHE VON TROTTA
Co-directors: FELIX MOELLER and BETTINA BÖHLER
Oscilloscope Laboratories will release Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta’s unabashed valentine to the director who inspired her to become a filmmaker. The film, which had its World Premiere in Cannes, is set to open in NYC (before opening in LA & other cities) on November 2nd, 2018, a...
World Premiere of Netflix’s HOLD THE DARK at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope, Director Jeremy Saulnier, Writer Macon Blair, and Producers Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, Eva Maria Daniels, Neil Kopp, and Anish Savjani.
SYNOPSIS
Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at t...
WILD BUNCH HANDLES WORLDWIDE SALES ON DIRECTOR HO WI DING’S ‘CITIES OF LAST THINGS’ AT TORONTO
TIFF title world premiered on Saturday, September 8th in the Platform section; Wild Bunch to handle international territories excluding Taiwan, France and most of Asia
International sales company Wild Bunch is handling worldwide sales for Ho Wi Ding’s CITIES OF LAST THINGS, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section on ...
COLETTE IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Directed by | Wash Westmoreland
Written by | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Starring | Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to gh...
MOUTHPIECE
Written and Directed by Patricia Rozema
Co-Written by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken
Starring Norah Sadava, Amy Nostbakken and Maev Beaty
2018 TIFF | SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS | WORLD PREMIERE
MOUTHPIECE is a powerful, amusing and highly original look into the conflicted psyche of Cassandra Haywood a fiercely independent millennial woman. Cass is a single writer who lives by her own rules. She’s also a bit of a disaster. Following the sudden death of he...
TELL IT TO THE BEES
***World Premiere in Special Presentations Category at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival***
Starring: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger
Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie
Directed by: Annabel Jankel
Written by: Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth
Based on the novel by: Fiona Shaw
Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a school-...
Written and Directed by A.V. Rockwell
Synopsis:
Elizier, a new enrollee at The Edward R. Mill School For Boys, must overcome the memories of a tragic past in order to tackle larger issues dominating his young life: How must it feel to grow up in the world, under the constant implication that your life does not matter? To know that the whole world could watch you die, yet nothing would be done about it? In this poetic and lush drama, A.V. Rockwell creates an allegorical lov...
Photo credit: George Pimentel WireImage Getty for TIFF
The ultimate movie star, Julia Roberts arrived at TIFF for the world premiere of her television series Homecoming at Ryerson theatre. The Homecoming P&I screening is on September 10 at 9am at Scotiabank theatre.
Executive Producer and Star Julia Roberts,Executive Producer and Director Sam Esmail,Executive Producers and Co-Creators Eli Horowitzand Micah Bloomberg, and stars Stephan James, Jer...
Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s FIG TREE awarded the TIFF Eurimages’ Audentia Award.
Official announcement below.
Please scroll down for film details.
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Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2018 Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival® announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, hosted by Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF. The 43rd Festival wrapped up this evening.
IWC SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
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The Toronto International Film Festival® announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, hosted by Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF. The 43rd Festival wraps up this evening.
IWC SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
The IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to ...
Directed by Nick Hamm
Starring Lee Pace, Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer, Corey Stoll, Isabel Arraiza, Michael Cudlitz, Erin Moriarty
DRIVEN
WRITER | Colin Bateman
PRODUCERS | Piers Tempest, Brad Feinstein, Rene Besson, Luillo Ruiz
Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment was a producer and key financier.
SYNOPSIS | Lee Pace, Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer, and Corey Stoll star in this story — inspired by true events — of the ri...
presents
A PRIVATE WAR
Directed by Matthew Heineman
Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, and Stanley Tucci
The narrative debut from the Academy Award nominated
direc...
Sienna Miller turns out a breathtaking lead performance in the upcoming American Woman (TIFF 2018), of which TIFF programmer Jane Schoettle remarked: "Miller has never given a performance quite this lived-in and emotionally layered. Her character's pain is soul-piercing, but so are her resilience and survival skills." TIFF is thrilled to offer film lovers a unique opportunity to toast the illustrious career of Sienna Miller in this intimate, fireside-style chat.
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Directed by Bi Gan
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE - Wavelengths
**Official Selection - Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2018**
As proven by his knockout debut, KAILI BLUES, Bi Gan is preoccupied with film's potential to both materialize mental space and convey physical sensation. His cinematic ambitions are further crystallized, to say the least, in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, a noir-tinged film abo...
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Directed by John Chester
"UPLIFTING. The sleeper-hit film of this year's festival."
-RogerEbert.com
"FRESH AIR FOR THE SOUL."
-Variety
"GORGEOUS. REMARKABLE...an emotionally resonant narrative."
-IndieWire
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TIFF: World Premiere of THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN (Midnight Madness) took place on Fri. 9/14 - A delirious Homage to B-movie-Bollywood-Martial Arts-Comedy Mashup Mayhem.
Demented Midnight Madness TIFF World Premiere
THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN
India / 2018 / 131 min / Color / Hindi, English, Marathi, Malayalam, with English subtitles
Worldwide rights (excluding India) available / North American sales: XYZ Films
A glori...
See Tenzin Dolker in her star-making debut performance
"Dolker, in her first film role, absorbingly inhabits her character." -THR
THE SWEET REQUIEM
Directed by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Written by Tenzing Sonam
Tenzin Dolker plays Dolkar, a young exile Tibetan woman living in Delhi. Tenzin Dolker was born in a Tibetan refugee settlement in South India. A dancer, yoga instructor and photographer, The Sweet Requiem is her acting debut
Synopsis...
Lance Daly's BLACK 47 Premieres at TIFF | Starring Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Sarah Greene.
BLACK 47
IN SELECT THEATERS SEPTEMBER 28
CAST | Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent
WRITERS | PJ Dillon, Pierce Ryan, Eugene O’Brien, Lance Daly
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS | Will Cl...
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher (shot on the Huawei P20 Pro)
Parker Sevak, The Kindergarten Teacher (shot on the Huawei P20 Pro)
Taapsee Pannu, Husband Material (shot on the Huawei P20 Pro)
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Claire Denis was born in Paris and raised primarily in West Africa. Many of her films have screened at the Festival, including Chocolat (88), the documentary Man No Run (89), No Fear, No Die (90), I Can't Sleep (94), Nenette and Boni (96), Beau travail (99), Trouble Every Day (01), Friday Night (02), The Intruder (04), 35 Shots of Rum (08), White Material (09), Bastards (13), and her latest feature, this year's Gala Presentation High Life (18).
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Vanity Fair, David Yurman and CreativeChaos vmg celebrated the premiere of This Changes Everything at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 8th at Bisha Hotel Rooftop. Vanity Fair executive West Coast editor Krista Smith hosted the evening alongside Ku-Ling Yurman, who served as an executive producer on the film, Evan Yurman, Chief Creative Officer of David Yurman, Director Tom Donahue, Producers Ilan Arboleda & Kerianne Flynn and Executive Producers Geena Davis &...
TITO AND THE BIRDS (Tito e os Pássaros )
A Film by Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, and André Catoto
Written by Eduardo Benaim and Gustavo Steinberg
North American Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Catch the film festival movie trailer for Tito and the Birds
A marvelous dystopian adventure of a boy and his friends battling a culture of fear that is infecting their world, new animated feature Tito and the Birds is a stunning ...
September 9, 2018 at the Princess of Wales Theater, the Netflix documentary Quincy premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival. The premiere was followed by a live performance by Mark Ronson, Chaka Khan and YEBBA, performing the original song featured in the film by Quincy Jones and Mark Ronson featuring Chaka Khan.
Images and video from the screening and after party can be downloaded from the link below.
Alan Hicks, Rashida Jones, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan and Mark Ron...
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