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This is a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's a great place to catch the big titles likely to be making headlines over the coming year, and it often picks future award winners.
The festival runs from 4 to 14 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Festival Street
- Gala Presentations
- Luminaries
- Midnight Madness
- Platform
- Shorts
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
View previous years coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival festival:
Toronto Latest Reviews
A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
An epic fable inspired by the life of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, a radical religious movement that began in the late 1700s.
Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.
Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, the world is full of adventure and discovery. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. For Amélie, everything is at stake at that age, happiness as well as tragedy.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
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