Reggae authority Klive Walker revisits the genesis of the island’s legendary first feature film

Exploring the Finnish master’s canine obsession

Cameron Bailey on the groundbreaking movement that reinvigorated African American filmmaking in the ’60s and ’70s

How can programmers encourage their audiences to embrace new stories?

Why the auteur's much-hated appearance in Godfather 3 is actually the key to her entire oeuvre

#SeeTheNorth at the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival, January 12–21

The Cannes-feted filmmaker's empathy for the plight of young women has generated as much backlash as it has acclaim

In Six Degrees of Separation, future superstar Smith invokes ’60s icon Sidney in one of his only films to directly tackle racial dynamics

TIFF Cinematheque’s James Quandt remembers the late star of Godard’s La Chinoise

How to Survive a Plague on World AIDS Day

Watch Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, and Luca Guadagnino talk Call Me By Your Name at TIFF ’17

How film can be used to make A Better Man

Senior Programmer Steve Gravestock looks at the long, complicated history of country and western music on screen

An interview with Sherwan Haji, the Syrian star of Aki Kaurismäki’s affecting new film, The Other Side of Hope

Poet and author Ed Pavlić on “soul in music” and a vital (and continuing) tradition of Black performance

Beyond the Festival, TIFF Founders Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl made a mark as ambitious (and sometimes outrageous) independent producers

The Bermudan actor found British screen stardom in a daring interracial romance

TIFF Rising Star Mamoudou Athie, behind 2017's The Get Down, Patti Cake$, and Unicorn Store, reveals why he needs to work with the outliers

The screenwriter of Creed did just that

Colombian filmmakers Laura Huertas Millán and Lina Rodriguez talk about filmmaking between cultures, the visible and invisible, and how to cook on film

Listen to four Spotify playlists, guest curated by the series’ programmer and speakers

The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Guillermo del Toro: At Home with the Monsters allows us to step inside the director’s world

From "the next Terrence Malick" to stoner comedies to Stronger

The “indie-genius” brings his slyly anti-colonial cinema to TIFF Bell Lightbox

How libraries, archives and museums help us define our communities

Norman Jewison talks about the 50-year influence of In the Heat of the Night

From video games to Atomic Blonde, Tarkovsky’s sci-fi masterpiece haunts contemporary culture

Say "oh, hi..." to the musicians behind the TIFF '17 titles The Disaster Artist, Mary Shelley, and Downrange

The Mirror is Tarkovsky’s greatest fusion of his twinned obsessions: time, and suffering women

Curator Ashley Clark on the legacy of the (in)famous actor, singer, and political activist

True story

The makings of a Hong Kong cinema legend

Jesse Wente on the first Black writer-director-producer in American cinema history

Glover's Southern devil finds work in Charles Burnett's indie classic To Sleep with Anger

The writer-director discusses breaking into the studio system, despite the odds

The Oscar-nominated actor reflects on the legacy of Neil Jordan’s notorious thriller

Discovering the mystical world of the greatest postwar Russian filmmaker

Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale is Canadian cinema’s ultimate psychedelic experience

Dalton Higgins scans for Black stereotypes in today's mediascape

From Split to It, why audiences gave their money and their love to the horror genre this year

Mike Dowse discusses the lasting legacy of FUBAR and its second life on VICELAND

An interview with the writer-director behind Palme d’Or winner The Square

Black Star curator Ashley Clark reflects on the roots of this ambitious retrospective

Writer-director Francis Lee on breaking through with God’s Own Country

Cameron Bailey on a century of Black excellence on screen

The director of The Square has been pushing buttons from the beginning

From Loving Vincent to Looney Tunes, exploring films that blur the lines between the canvas and the moving image

The Top Five producer picks his own top five

Was 2017 "horrorshow" for horror shows?

Making film as an affirmation of life

A conversation with the legendary director, whose new documentary Faces Places is playing now at TIFF Bell Lightbox

This October 31, let TIFF’s programming inspire a costume made for Film Twitter

Celebrating the life of the Father of the Undead

Running the numbers with FiveThirtyEight's Walt Hickey

Julian Roffman’s 3D Canuxploitation classic is one hell of a trip

Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard reflects on the coming-of-age classic The 400 Blows

Here’s what to expect from TIFF’s annual fundraising event Boombox, which showcases emerging artists and exciting performances on a packed dance floor

In Barb we trust

A Halloween homage to horror maestro William Castle, "The King of the Gimmicks"

TIFF premieres a brand new Canadian Heritage Minute celebrating the history of Kensington Market

David Bordwell breaks down the director's action-movie masterpiece

Durga Chew-Bose writes on Hitchcock's classic, Rear Window, which will screen at TIFF for free October 25 for the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Ai Weiwei discusses the refugee crisis with TIFF CEO Piers Handling

Watch a Festival Q&A with Yorgos Lanthimos and the cast of The Killing of a Sacred Deer

An inspiring, beautiful, surprising doc about art by two loveable artists

Master of None's music supervisor on the songs that make the shows

Expect the unexpected when the Hong Kong action ace joins us at the Lightbox

Looking for a place to happen

The indie writer-director discusses the diverse inspirations of his new film

The artists of 2167 discuss Indigenous Futurism, their impressions of VR, and why Canada 150 isn’t the milestone they’re interested in

The acclaimed NYC indie filmmaker introduces his new film at TIFF Cinematheque

Director Richard Shepard curates The Review and explains how a case of professional jealousy led to him filming a love story in Japan with Elisabeth Moss

The Florida Project’s Sean Baker has access to more gear, but he isn’t done telling universal stories about marginalized people

She's everything you like in everything you like

BPM (Beats Per Minute) chronicles the AIDS epidemic with tenderness — and house music

Exploring the wild and woolly futuristic visions from behind the Iron Curtain

Scripted by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, Arturo Ripstein’s feature debut is an absorbing revenge western with an ironic, literary twist

Director Alexandre O. Philippe discusses the lasting influence of Hitchcock’s most famous murder scene

ScreenAnarchy’s Todd Brown and CBC’s Romeo Candido discuss the hitman thriller On the Job

Katie Boland talks about the process of writing, directing, and starring in her first short film Lolz-Ita, opposite Sarah Gadon and Don McKellar

TIFF’s longest-running programme is also its most mysterious

Filmmaker Clement Virgo describes his vision of Canadian culture

In Filipino cinema, “wrongful” desire is a weapon against a repressive regime

A time to give thanks for YouTube

How John Carroll Lynch came to direct Harry Dean Stanton's swan song

Vanessa Hodja breaks the conspiracy wide open for a special screening of Jean Cocteau's 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast, one of Guillermo del Toro's favourite films

In 2049, will Ryan Gosling dream of electric sheep?

A history of TIFF’s Womanscene programme, which put the spotlight on female directors way back when

Loving Vincent animator Valerie Fulford gives us the inside scoop on the world’s first fully oil-painted film

Plus a side helping of John McEnroe vs. Serena Williams in the extended TIFF '17 Q&A

Watch a scene breakdown of Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us

Pascale Drevillion, the star of the TIFF '17 award-winning short film Pre-Drink, curates The Review

Modern Filipino cinema was born from resistance

The Mulleavy sisters’ Kirsten Dunst–starring directorial debut joins a proud tradition of fantastic big-screen freak-outs

A monumental interview with Canadian avant-garde giant Bruce Elder

The three seasons: Spring, Summer, and awards season

Guy Maddin on the bizarre beauties and progressive (sexual) politics of Soviet silent cinema

Eisenstein's revolutionary classic has inspired generations of poster artists

The genre-bending Italian filmmaker discusses his fascinating second feature Happy Times Will Come Soon

Chris Nolan, Priyanka Chopra, Drake, and more have words to say about Festival

TIFF celebrates the filmmakers behind TIFF '17 with an annual Director's Dinner

The CBC miniseries, created by Sarah Polley, is another stellar Atwood adaptation that reflects the past and present of women

Soviet silent film redefined the seventh art

"They're all characters that I've played. Including Jim Carrey."

The director of TIFF ‘17 Official Selection Stronger discusses the intimidation factor in adapting someone else’s true-life story

A Brooklyn teenager’s queer coming-of-age through one lethargic summer

The Blade Runner 2049 director is a big-picture filmmaker with an eye for detail

Get up close and personal with the stars of TIFF '17

Hollywood descended upon the 6ix

TIFF’s Fall lineup includes a series on Black stars of the silver screen, retrospectives of Sofia Coppola and Andrei Tarkovsky, and new releases from around the world

Two Hollywood legends talk inspirations, craft, and first impressions

And the awards go to...

Quebec auteur Denis Côté talks about the inspiration for his new body building documentary Ta peau si lisse

Immersing the audience in an IMAX vision of the Second World War

Watch an in-depth conversation with the iconic actor on the TIFF Industry stage

Conversations direct from the official TIFF '17 interview suite

The filmmakers behind the five longest and five briefest short-film selections at TIFF ’17 talk tight run times, tough decisions, and what ends up on the cutting room floor

Three emerging Iranian filmmakers at TIFF ‘17 describe how they’re making their own cinema in their country’s image

Director Angela Robinson on the dominance of DC's lasso-wielding hero

Alicia Vikander, Andrew Garfield, and the women of Alias Grace stop by

An interview with Amr Salama, the director of the feel-good religious extremist comedy Sheikh Jackson

The directors behind two of TIFF ’17’s most exciting genre pictures The Crescent and High Fantasy discuss making a big impact with few resources

Sarah Gadon's Grace is courageous, inscrutable, and deranged

Guillermo del Toro returns home

Nine emerging actors explain how they navigate their careers in a rapidly changing industry

Director's cinema led by Guillermo del Toro, Armando Iannucci, and Joe Wright

The busiest day of Festival welcomed JLaw, Idris, and more

We profile 10 international auteurs who got their start in TIFF’s Discovery programme, including Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, and Ingrid Veninger

Can you resist Jake Gyllenhaal's smoulder?

Oscar hopefuls Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence, and Benedict Cumberbatch make their TIFF pitstop

Fall in love with Call Me By Your Name's leading men

True-life high drama from David Gordon Green and Aaron Sorkin

Charlotte Mickie lifts the veil on just what it is they do - and how it affects a changing industry

The cast of Borg/McEnroe serves up looks

Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet star in Luca Guadagnino's hot ticket, plus Lady Gaga

The writers and directors behind the Canadian TIFF ‘17 titles Never Steady, Never Still and Cardinals discuss their craft and how they built complex, layered performances with their legendary stars Shirley Henderson and Sheila McCarthy

It's bingo, but with TIFF (and it's really, really competitive)

From Festival Street to TIFF Cinematheque: Here's what's free.

Game on, Shia

Six TIFF ‘17 directors discuss where the boundaries between narrative filmmaking and documentary become blurred in their own artistic practice

Cadence Weapon interviews Alex Larsen, a.k.a. Torontonian battle rapper Kid Twist and the screenwriter of Bodied

The young programmers behind the Next Wave Committee recommend 12 killer coming-of-age films for TIFF '17

You can’t have a TIFF without an Ethan Hawke film — nor would you want to

The producer behind TIFF '17's Woman Walks Ahead talks about carving out a career by being unapologetically yourself

Before Batman, Louis Feuillade's caped crusader battled villainy in pre-WWI Paris

Thom Powers and Dorota Lech preview newly released film clips

Tom Brueggemann on where film goes from here

Programmers Colin Geddes and Peter Kuplowsky discuss the brotherhood of Midnight Madness

The Canadian actor-turned-director is a storyteller through and through

Artist, humanitarian, and monster, Jerry Lewis leaves behind a complicated body of work full of brilliance, bad taste, and innovation

Ann Marie Fleming fulfilled her dream of writing and animating feature films by telling stories about her family

How the festival fits in a digital world

How you can tame your own creative dragons

Luke Lalonde and Pavan Moondi discuss their anti-wedding movie Sundowners, and the destination shoot in Colombia that almost killed them

In the Realm of the Senses and the seedy history of the X-rated art-house film

The Future is Female-identified

Schedule, discover, and manage tickets to TIFF '17

Gotta watch 'em all

The 6ix becomes a City of Stars

And this is only a taste...

Helen Mirren, Javier Bardem, Angelina Jolie, Gael García Bernal, and so much more

The programmers behind TIFF ‘17’s Industry Conference detail how this year will get filmmakers more inspired, encouraged, and connected than ever

Hear from one of our country’s most inspiring artists, who is still making documentaries about her Indigenous community at age 84

Indiewire's Anne Thompson on the streaming wars

Filmmaker Omoni Oboli shares how she put Nigerian cinema on the map

As our Olivier Assayas retrospective comes to a close, we spotlight one of the French director’s greatest influences

Some of the world's most brilliant creators and producers will be here in September

Exploring the colonial fantasies of the surprisingly similar French and American classics

Personal Shopper, her second collaboration with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, realizes her layered potential to craft her best performance yet

Lady Macbeth star Florence Pugh on her controversial breakthrough performance

Primetime programmer Michael Lerman unveils his slate of episodic content, destined for big and small screens at TIFF '17

Masters, Contemporary World Cinema, Wavelengths, and more Gala and Special Presentations films announced

How Godard’s Breathless star was hounded to her death by the FBI

Hear an in-depth Q&A from the actor who will appear in Woman Walks Ahead and *Molly's Game" at TIFF '17

Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski, whose new short film Scaffold premieres at TIFF '17, curates his favourite city films

The iconic filmmaker returns to TIFF '17 with First Reformed, a thriller about two members of the church who are questioning their grief

TIFF '17 filmmakers Connor Jessup and Hirokazu Kore-eda discuss the messy business of filmmaking

A master of moments talks about the best ones on screen (and in his life)

Thom Powers talks about Sophie Fiennes’ latest documentary

Lina Rodriguez describes how she makes movies between Toronto and Colombia, as well as the past, present, and future

A glossary for the Michael Winterbottom trilogy that’s seen our heroes eat their way across Europe

Indie pioneer Ida Lupino tackled some of the most pressing social issues of the day — but you wouldn't guess it from the posters for her films

A podcasting master on a filmmaking legend

How does the next generation get their films made?

Before the House of Mouse cornered the market in filmic fairy tales, the silent screen was full of fantasy

Quebec cinema pioneer Denys Arcand discusses his long life in cinema

Get out of your basement, basically

Chandler Levack, writer/director of the TIFF '17 short We Forgot to Break Up, shares her obsession with filmmaker's wardrobes

The director behind TIFF '17's Black Cop was inspired by Melvin Van Peebles' "by-any-means" filmmaking

Filmmaker Daniel Cockburn, whose short film The Argument plays TIFF '17, explains why the mistakes in movies are his favourite part

Molly McGlynn describes the long hard road taken to get her first feature, Mary Goes Round, to TIFF '17

Werewolf producer Nelson MacDonald interviews the emerging crop of exciting auteurs across Nova Scotia, many of whom are playing TIFF ‘17

Legendary musicians, a president, fashion royalty, and so much more

Canadian programmers Magali Simard and Steve Gravestock discuss their robust lineup of emerging and seasoned filmmakers playing TIFF ‘17

Toronto filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz on how the French icon influenced the making of her first feature

The creator of Transparent takes us to church

Illeana Douglas, the host of TCM’s Trailblazing Women, says that Ida Lupino’s career as a director in 1950s Hollywood illustrates how history repeats itself

Running, surfing, and skydiving in Point Break

Jesse Wente on Near Dark, "the greatest modern vampire movie"

Directors' cinema now

Olivier Assayas remembers the upheaval that “changed the way we lived”

Toronto filmmaker Simon Ennis on the risk-taking greatness of the remarkable actor-director

An interview with TIFF Short Cuts Programmer Danis Goulet

And what happens when the internet, nor Anderson Cooper, will never let you live it down

Watching David Cronenberg at age nine isn't always a bad thing

James Franco's The Disaster Artist is heading to Midnight Madness

Peter Kuplowsky, the new programmer of Midnight Madness, tells us what to expect from TIFF '17's deadliest lineup

Legendary musicians, a president, fashion royalty, and so much more

Ivan Herrera, winner of last year’s Jury’s Choice Award at the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, discusses the medium’s infinite potential with music video director Nabil

TIFF CEO Piers Handling remembers his meeting with the legendary star

Long before Harry Potter or Peter Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy, silent cinema was a fount of fantasy

Hard, fast, and beautiful on screen, the 1940s leading lady was even more formidable behind the camera

The acclaimed filmmaker details why women must make films and live life on their own terms

The 19-year-old wunderkind has won Jump Cuts three times

How feature filmmakers bring visual punch to music documentaries

From iconic Canada Geese to experimental film masterpieces

14 Galas and 33 Special Presentations kick off TIFF '17

Hear a masterclass from the filmmaker, whose new feature The Shape of Water will premiere at TIFF ‘17

Jennifer Baichwal on the film industry's gender imbalance

Montreal artist Vincent Morisset on his decade-long collaboration with Arcade Fire

The King of All Media headlines this month's edition of Reel Reads

Two Indian filmmakers tell their story

Writer/director David Lowery on his haunting new film, A Ghost Story

The Verge's Adi Robertson weighs in

Igniting social change on screen

Sifting through TIFF’s cache of correspondence from legendary silent-screen siren Louise Brooks

Canadian actor/writer/producer Sarah Kolasky on the making of her first feature, Great Great Great

Apparently it's really, really difficult

All men (and TV shows) must die

An interview with the enfant terrible of experimental cinema

The Academy Award-winning director has been pushing buttons from her very beginnings

How the director’s darkest experience impacted his work

Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo defined Gallic crime cinema

Winter is coming back

Become this century's Orson Welles

Lesson One: Get Uncomfortable

Can modern movie posters be cured of Floating Head Syndrome?

Olivier Assayas' techno-thriller eerily predicted the shape of media (and capitalism) to come

The French auteur gets personal

This year's TIFF Studio participants curate The Review and share their feelings on writing, directing, and how to fix the Canadian film industry

"Teen movies [were] a storehouse of cultural knowledge that helped initiate me into my new, adopted society"

The silly season gets sinister with this stellar collection of Gallic chillers

I've got a mixed feeling about this

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver is an adrenaline rush with the bravado of a Gene Kelly musical

Canada comes of age through cinema

Your three-step guide to becoming a master of crime cinema

The Brooklyn author's favourite scene is the one he didn't write

The visionary director of Okja puts the "motion" in motion pictures

Making a masterful Canadian film about life in India

Talking transformation, gestation, terror, and... financing, with a Canadian filmmaking master

From Precious to Princess Diana, our summer reading slate salutes film femmes who rise above

The clothes make the wise guy

Watch the director and star of The Bad Batch tell the story behind this summer's best (and only) post-apocalyptic cannibal love story

How the director of an Oscar-winning indie became Hollywood's apparent "gamble"

Jean-Pierre Melville’s existential tough-guy thrillers forged the link between Classical Hollywood and the French New Wave

The NYT's chief film critic A.O. Scott breaks it down

The Babadook comes out of the closet to slay

See a collection of interviews, essays and videos celebrating the LGBTQ artists we love, locally and from around the world

The legacy of French film’s first screen supervillainess

Listen to a lively discussion on trans representation on screen and off, conducted at TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2014

A comprehensive if not-quite-complete guide to the filmmaker's sound world

Hitting the half-century

Mike White, screenwriter of Beatriz at Dinner, describes why his latest film was nearly impossible to get made

The French auteur remembers a moment of revelation from the shooting of his breakthrough film

Hear from a collection of Indigenous filmmakers, musicians, and artists about the stories they tell

With the Kristen Stewart–starring Personal Shopper, the brilliant French auteur has reached a new level of international acclaim

A filmmaker’s 20-year obsession with Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep

Shad curates The Review and remembers the station that shaped his adolescence

Bong Joon Ho is one of South Korea’s most popular directors, but his new film Okja is shut out of 93% of the country’s movie theatres

The Baby Driver director thought he was going to "director jail" after Ant-Man

The Carol screenwriter talks Patricia Highsmith, homosexuality, and how the movies keep getting Ripley wrong

How indie maverick Tom Laughlin changed Hollywood and created a ’70s pop-culture icon

A group of Canadian directors discuss the challenges of making films in an age of political upheaval

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is 35 years old and doesn’t need a facelift

Franchise fatigue sets in

Filmmaker Sílvia das Fadas chases the “fugitive dream” of resistance

Eric Hatch explains how Baltimore's film scene keeps evolving, past John Waters and The Wire

Tollywood's coming for us all

The director on how she made a movie with an all-African cast — including her former intern, Lupita Nyong’o

For the country’s three top filmmakers, there’s no exit

Epically romantic and aesthetically refreshing, Tanna is a season must-see

And what does "cinematic" mean when applied to television, anyway?

This week’s essential links, plus a mariachi band led by Guillermo del Toro

Ken Loach’s “final” film reprises the systemic housing crisis of Cathy Come Home

How many Canadian authors does it take to recommend your summer reads and summer movies? We got 12.

Blake Morrow’s CONTACT exhibition pays homage to the cult series’ iconic characters and locations

City of Rains before City of Stars?

Chef Matty Matheson remains dead set on life

TIFF’s Summer lineup includes a Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective, an in-person appearance by Olivier Assayas, and plenty of Kathryn Bigelow and Ida Lupino to go around

This week’s essential links, from the Croisette to Aziz Ansari's Italy

Michel Legrand's score for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg yielded two big '60s hits and a Hollywood career for the composer

Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte shares how his teacher shaped his career, from watching Wendy & Lucy at age 16 to his Sundance premiere at age 23

How Patricia Rozema’s Cannes debut signalled the Toronto New Wave

The emerging Indigenous actor talks to Jesse Wente about performing in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women opposite Kristen Stewart

David Lynch’s idyllic childhood birthed dreams of dark and troubling things

The great Iranian filmmaker was not always celebrated in his own homeland

This week's essential links, plus Jessica Chastain serving looks

No Hollywood, some Netflix, and an uncertain future

Director Sarah Adina Smith discusses her intense collaboration with her actor and her new feature’s timely vision of the American Dream

How the next generation of Canadian auteurs found themselves through an old medium

Chef Matty Matheson curates The Review and shares his feelings on film, food, and Forrest Gump

The brassy film/live performance series offers a tantalizing take on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

This week's essential links will reunite you with the Obamas

Musicians, comedians, film programmers and writers discuss Jordan Peele's smash-hit "social thriller"

Tre'vell Anderson would like you to look at some receipts

The joke is bad and you should feel bad

A look at TIFF's current exhibition Postindustrial and Richard Kerr's ruminations on his filmmaking and artistic practices

TIFF Next Wave’s Chloe Bhumgara interviews local Toronto filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, whose new film Maison du Bonheur opens at Hot Docs this week

From Caged Heat and “Gidget Goes to Hell” to Cousin Bobby and Storefront Hitchcock, the director’s most obscure work is among his most inspired

This week's essential links include caped crusaders and a lot of canines

Will they or won't they? And what will you watch if they do?

Sex and technology are the focus of the new Netflix series

Thom Powers interviews Demme and Shafransky to discuss the film in October 2016 at New York’s IFC Center

Thom Powers interviewed Nevins on her 78th birthday

New York’s Chinatown is the backdrop for Steve James’ latest documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

TIFF programmer Thom Powers tells the stories behind the late filmmaker’s most celebrated docs

Talking to one of cinema's most unique and varied voices

Remembering a cinematic master

Bid to win a poster signed by one of the 100 most influential people in the world

Our favourite Toronto indie rock band curates The Review and has all the feelings

Dinos and Boxtrolls and Muppets — (Oh my!) — took over the TIFF Kids Industry Forum this past April 19-20 alongside industry leaders to advocate positive change

Field to screen

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City cements the urban-planning advocate’s legacy as a hero for Toronto and beyond

Ticket packages go on sale early this year

Jane Jacobs transformed the way we look at cities

The other great French film magazine gets the history it deserves in this round-up of the best film and film-related books on the shelves of TIFF Shop

Short filmmakers Eduardo Bertaina, Arvid Klapper, and Meloni Poole think children might be smarter than adults

Celebrating local celluoid heroes, from their humble beginnings to historic careers

We spoke to the film’s director Emelie Lindblom about making spooky films for young audiences

Exploring the wonders of the Rudy Ray Moore Cinematic Universe

Professors Stacy Smith and Katherine Pieper lay out the harsh realities of Hollywood sexism

Georgia Webber talks to Dash Shaw about his first animated feature, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

The director and the producer discuss their search for justice to find a little boy

David Lipsky talks about David Foster Wallace and The End of the Tour

The directors behind Jeffrey and Little Wing explain how they made their movies

Watch Cameron Bailey and YouTube star Lilly Singh in an exclusive interview

"In this day and age, does aggressively staying small represent an act of resistance?"

Netflix's latest is this Spielberg-produced three-part doc

Elan Mastai curates The Review and explains why every filmmaker wants to change the past

This week's essential links, from racial erasure to Eraserhead

“Satire becomes more valuable the more repressed people feel.”

Programmers share the story behind TIFF’s premier event for children

TIFF Kids’ director and lead programmer offers advice on some of the many smart things to see at this year’s festival

How novelist, filmmaker and right-wing revolutionary Yukio Mishima sought to transform his life into a beautiful (and fatal) work of art

The dark art of David Lynch began in his paintings

"It’s human to resist the unravelling of our brief mortal coil, and so I feel it’s natural to be in awe of the landscape that resists time itself"

Thom Powers sits down with the directors of the cult classic exploring the 1980s drug trade in Miami

Revisiting Paul Schrader’s transcendental trio of Bresson, Ozu and Dreyer

A new series that spotlights the grassroots film programmes (and programmers) bringing cinema to our city

Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly is one of the rare pieces of pop that changed culture

When communing with the dead via text, there are very strict grammar rules

The director and producer of The Boss Baby look to the future of animation

An interview with director Vanessa Gould about Obit, her new doc chronicling the work of five New York Times obituary writers

From Breakfast at Tiffany's to Bad Education, Michael Stipe and Morrissey to Nelson Muntz, we trace the long history of the croon-tastic classic

At 84, documentarian Alanis Obomsawin is still uncovering truths about Indigenous rights

Canadian director Ted Kotcheff emerges from the shadow of Rambo

An interview with the founder and CEO of the Internet Movie Database, Col Needham

The director on documenting the city’s tensions and what they mean to her family

Bruce LaBruce on how the Spanish auteur finds the universal in the extreme

There wasn't a manual on how to do social justice documentaries. So Jon Else wrote one.

NYC artist Sam Lewitt on Straub-Huillet, the art world, and the politics of vision

Never Eat Alone director Sofia Bohdanowicz and her stars Joan Benac and Deragh Campbell discuss the fine line between fiction and documentary

"Is there any landscape more perfect, more recognizable, more mysterious, than a face?"

A new series of visual essays from filmmakers and artists exploring sites of struggle, revolt and revolution in a troubled modern world

The lower the budget, the easier it is to take creative risks

The Weirdos director and his former collaborator/star talk about why they make movies

The female filmmakers of the Canadian Screen Awards share some constructive advice

For many, Juan Gatti’s designs were an introduction to the Spanish auteur

And what does this mean for the future of distribution?

“I didn’t realize what my point of view was because I had too many ‘me’s’ looking around me”

In honour of 2017's International Women's Day theme, #BeBoldForChange, today we’re celebrating some of the inspiring voices who are helping to forge a better working world for everyone

The director and star of The People Garden talk feminism, Federico Fellini, art, and the betrayal of rock star boyfriends

The music director of the celebrated Against the Grain Theatre opera company considers Schoenberg, Straub-Huillet, and the dangers of "difficulty"

From Devo and the Pixies to Bauhaus and Modest Mouse, we trace the 40-year odyssey of the immortally creepy music number from David Lynch's Eraserhead

Find the truth behind Big Little Lies in our round-up of the best film and film-related books on the TIFF shelves

Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List, will make you want to immediately quit your job to become a screenwriter. Sorry.

Director Ry Russo-Young and star Zoey Deutch talk double standards in Hollywood, and how they backed each other up to make the best teen movie of the year

Composer and music scholar Erik Ulman offers an invaluable primer on Straub-Huillet

The silent epic The Dumb Girl of Portici put a dance legend on screen for the first and only time — and brought together two of the greatest female artists of the era

The filmmaker on growing up with Muhammad Ali and documenting another exceptional athlete's life

Indigenous rights, Scorsese, Pagnol, Lynch, the Transcendental style, and lots more

For James Baldwin, Fritz Lang’s lovers-on-the-run noir was a vision of American society as prison

Listen to an intimate discussion between two of the most intriguing indie directors working today

Hear him on empathy, working with Barry Jenkins, and his favourite Almodóvar film

For James Baldwin, Sylvia Sidney was "the only American film actress who reminded me of reality"

The poetic precision of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

FiveThirtyEight's Walt Hickey will use his numbers to destroy your friends and coworkers

Nearly 50 years later, the director of a landmark First Nations film gets his rightful recognition

James Baldwin finds his onscreen image — in Bette Davis

Watch them now, brag that you've already seen them later

Explore some of our favourite Oscars-related content from 2016

Female writers, performers, and film scholars discuss the legacy of Anna Magnani and the fine art of “giving no fucks”

The Spanish master teaches us the laws of desire

Classic Hollywood's leading female director was also a fiery feminist and queer pioneer

Hear from the five Oscar-nominated directors for Documentary Feature

Filmmaker Kevan Funk responds to Cameron Bailey’s call for Canadians to tell true stories — and why Funk thinks the industry is standing in the way

Nell Shipman gave Canadian cinema its first action heroine, movie mogul — and nude scene

Reaffirming the power of the moving image to broaden perspectives and change minds

The actors of Barakah Meets Barakah on life in Saudi Arabia, the importance of art and social media, and challenging gender expectations

Watch Jesse Wente’s keynote speech advocating for First Nations, Métis and Inuit representation in Canadian cinema

digiPlaySpace co-curator Matt Nish-Lapidus takes us behind the scenes of Toronto’s interactive playground

We indulge in a little self-love on Valentine's Day

TIFF Next Wave's Ben Sagar and Sleeping Giant's Andrew Cividino talk coming of age

Our committee of high school students across the GTA talks political activism, representation in cinema, and the dankest memes on the internet

Inside the greatest political upset of all time

Discovery’s Ziya Tong remembers her friend Rob Stewart

Cameron Bailey and George Elliott Clarke discuss the legacy of James Baldwin

Hollywood bad boy Michael Cimino’s “comeback movie” was a lurid potboiler with an autobiographical edge

Anna Magnani's magnificent melodrama yielded a title track that enchanted Nina Simone, Cat Power and David Bowie

In light of the Muslim Ban and worldwide political upheaval, Rasha Salti considers film's potential for revolution

Read an excerpt from Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema, with all sales from the book benefitting the American Civil Liberties Union until February 26

A tireless supporter of Arab documentary who has been imprisoned for his work

The director of the Trump-predicting docu-fiction The Other Side offers his appreciation of the great Italian star

Sigmund Freud goes to the movies

Remembering the exquisite Emmanuelle Riva (1927–2017)

Saluting the cinematographer who put the "pow" in the French New Wave

The award-winning filmmaker talks about the eight-year process of bringing her latest to light

Mike Hoolboom excavates the history of Toronto’s pioneering film collective

The incredible story of a President, activist, prisoner, and passionate climate change advocate

Celebrating the fire, ferocity and fabulousness of Anna Magnani

A provocative new series spotlights injustice, resistance, and reconciliation in Canada's fractious history with its First Nations

The director on going from his first, Oscar-nominated short to his monstrous new Anne Hathaway feature

#LetsTalk, you’re not alone

It will also fill you with joy until you burst

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's doc investigates the global anti-sealing movement's damaging impact on Inuit communities.

What Blink-182, Moby, Counting Crows, and Dido can do for an auteur

How Quebec writer/director Anne Émond took inspiration from the lives of many different women for her kaleidoscopic portrait of real-life writer Nelly Arcan

What does this year's Sundance Film Festival look like from a documentary filmmaking perspective?

An x-trospective on the acclaimed Canadian music video director's greatest hits

Nathan Morlando’s Mean Dreams pits his teen Romeo and Juliet against the elements and a top-of-his-game Bill Paxton

Hear a TIFF UNCUT Podcast with Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’ filmmakers Simon Lavoie and Mathieu Denis, conducted by TIFF Director & CEO Piers Handling

Sitting down with the stars of Saudi Arabia's first romantic comedy

What's inside this windowless skyscraper in Manhattan? Rami Malek and Michelle Williams are on the case

Catch a brilliant Canadian film. Chow down.

When killing and retribution are not in vain

A conversation between Canadian filmmakers Ashley McKenzie and Kevan Funk

Learn to code, control robots, paint with light, travel through space and visit Canada’s National Parks through high-tech experiences at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Hail to the King

What were the best Canadian films of 2016, and how were they chosen?

The director of Old Stone curates The Review just in time for Canada's Top Ten Film Festival

We asked the new class for their thoughts on their Festival experience, the industry and how we can create a star system in Canada

What happens when you put 10 DPs in a tiny room and make them talk about film during TIFF 16

Festival Founder, Chair Emeritus of TIFF, and Canadian cultural giant

Without Bill, there would be no TIFF

What will this year bring (to theatres and all the other screens)?

See and hear the most powerful moments from this year

The Spanish auteur’s 20th film sees him turning a new leaf, with a subtly stormy adaptation of three of the Nobel Laureate’s stories

They said it

Jay Baruchel, Bonnie Arnold, Werner Herzog, and so much more. It's been a heck of a ride...

Looking back at the #InfiniteViews of TIFF in 2016

Raoul Peck, Bryan Stevenson and Ezra Edelman on the future of documentary film after Donald Trump's election

When Toronto became a ramen town

Political biopics, the early life of a president, and race on film

Challenging the canon starts here

The legendary documentarian talks about his career

Retrospectives of Pedro Almodóvar and Straub-Huillet, a tribute to Anna Magnani, and live events with Zadie Smith, Sarah Polley, and Mira Nair

A look back at Larraín's trio of films about the Pinochet regime

It happened at the movies

How Moonlight brings Black men closer to themselves and to each other

Is YouTube the future of film?

See the north

Come out and see the best of Canadian cinema

The French writer/director discusses her collaboration with Isabelle Huppert in her fifth film, Things to Come

The Canadian auteur shares his passion for film on film and curates The Review

Things To Come and the predictable devastation of middle-aged endings

The man who wrote The Wrath of Khan. 'Nuff said.

Every movie is about killing your parents

An excerpt from Adam Nayman’s Confusion and Carnage: The Films of Ben Wheatley

Kenneth Lonergan’s raw third feature elevates an ocean of pain below the surface

Talking to the acclaimed director and playwright about Manchester by the Sea, being open to surprises, and how Michelle Williams broke his heart

The director talks about her latest film and the importance of broaching difficult subjects

From the LA Rebellion to the Beyhvive

Werner Herzog thinks that you need to feel the volcano at the same time as you see it

Guy Maddin tests the palettes of Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder

What you need to know about the romantic anarchist of New German Cinema

TIFF shares its passion for film on film

Elle tackles gamergate, rape fantasies and survivor’s guilt and doesn't lose its sense of humour

The guy who made The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap, and When Harry Met Sally also wrote TV's first fart joke

In uncertain political times, this is the kind of film we need more of

Cameron Bailey explains why Barry Jenkins’ film is a hopeful sign of things to come

Canadian producer Nicole Hilliard-Forde curates The Review and reaches out to Natasha Lyonne, Mark Rendall and Mayuran Tiruchelvam for comment

Chance is a pizza killer, Childish Gambino is a TV master, and talking Insecure

The World Wars on screen

The German Meryl Streep who melts into her roles is coming to TIFF Bell Lightbox to introduce Berlin Alexanderplatz

Let’s make some movies

Test your Vulcan-like knowledge

"All his films vibrated with energy"

TIFF Senior Programmer James Quandt is not sorry

Can't stop the feeling

An interview with director Otto Bell and the film’s 13 year old subject

"It had as many shots in it as Star Wars and Close Encounters combined, and we had to do it in six months."

Talking to the Korean master filmmaker about being open to collaboration

This week Ultra 8 Pictures Founder, and TIFF Midnight Madness Programmer, Colin Geddes joins Rob and Geoff

There's no reason you can't feel patriotic and terrified this Halloween

Your very scary source for great Halloween long reads, lists, and videos

Jesse Wente shares his favourite truly scary films

Boo, eh!

The Quest for Virtue in Julia Ducournau’s Raw

Prevenge triple threat Alice Lowe redefines pregnancy as a horrorshow

When the horror legend died, two film programmers remembered the man behind the screams

The TIFF 6ix October 28, 2016: Critical Horror Edition

"I’ve never seen this before, I’ve never seen these characters paid attention to”

Let our fall programming be your guide

A rare Jack Nicholson appearance and a terrifying prediction of when Trump met Putin lies ahead

Help us choose: what's the best musical of all time?

Why no filmmaker ever lived as hard or as fast as Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Where they podcast, you will follow

The TIFF 6ix October 21, 2016: Trumped-up "Oscar Bait" edition

“Walls never resist history”

You want it darker? You got it.

“Of course, Star Trek is like The Odyssey”

See the Cuban-American multimedia artist’s collection of filmworks now at CONTACT Gallery

Acclaimed director Jonathan Demme (Silence Of The Lambs, Stop Making Sense, Rachel Getting Married) drops by to talk the art of the concert film and his latest, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids

A gripping new doc shines light on the heros and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting

Finding power in the silence of heartbreak

Discussing the performance and tragedy of Antonio Campos' new film

From Feist’s “1, 2, 3, 4” to Wojeck, a part of our heritage

Director Hugh Gibson explains how he brought the communities of Regent Park and TIFF together

And helped it live long and prosper, too

"In art — and in film — sometimes less is more"

Do you prefer “fashion victim” or “ensemble-y challenged?’

One of the best screen performances of all time, and one of Cassavetes' greatest achievements

A memoir of her past 25 years shooting documentaries

From Jane Austen to #dadbod to award-winning Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma

Matt Johnson and the filmmakers behind Operation Avalanche made the film by infiltrating NASA for real

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Coen brothers' film, but were afraid to ask

The creator of Transparent speaks on how personal truth in filmmaking can topple the patriarchy

Put on your suit and kick off your trainers: Bill's in the building

The greatest "essay film" ever made?

A cinematic deep dive into American madness

How a sci-fi franchise has helped shape the world in which we live

"My strategy is not to go on to too many panels. My strategy is to just do it."

"A lean-and-mean atmospheric thriller"

Making a film in Canada requires talent, hard work, and a warm coat

From Hoop Dreams to Abacus, the legendary documentarian is a master of true stories on screen

All the things to see and do this season at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Fan Log – Stardate 70154.9

Starting this November at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Explore the film universe post-Trek

An extensive retrospective, beginning in late October at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Everything you wanted to know about TIFF 16 but were afraid to ask

And the winners are...

For her diary, Kiva Reardon writes a love letter to the beautiful insanity of TIFF and the co-workers who got her through it

#InfiniteViews

Filmmakers Tabi Bonney, Shema Jones and Francisco Cabrera find their voice during TIFF '16

On her day at TIFF, Anna Swanson stands next to Atom Egoyan at the Member’s box office, ugly cries in Lion and catches two Rooney Mara movies

Moments of truth on the Festival stage

From inside the portrait studio

Agnes Varda, Barry Jenkins, Busta Rhymes, Nollywood, Julie Dash... It must be TIFF '16

When the couch becomes a movie theatre, and the console becomes your brain

They’re even more terrifying than you can imagine

On her day of the Festival, Chandler Levack does karaoke with Sebastian Grainger, cries her eyes out during Blue Jay and stress eats some brownies

Listen to a podcast between director Raoul Peck and Pure Nonfiction’s Thom Powers

A survey of how gay and straight friendships between men play out in cinema

From inside the portrait studio

Featuring Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Paul Schrader

From inside the portrait studio

Steven Johnson fights (video) pirates during a volunteer shift at Scotiabank, goes to class late and sees the ultimate rockstar Iggy Pop at a screening of the Stooges’ doc Gimme Shelter

In part two, comic artist Adam Waito explains how to talk about a movie you've never seen

An interview with Green White Green’s Abba T. Makama and Ifeanyi Dike Jr.

From inside the portrait studio

Inspiring and surprising scenes from the Festival

When office politics turn very, very, VERY bloody

On Day 5 of the Festival, Deepa Mehta processes her film Anatomy of Violence’s premiere, says goodbye to her cast and gets tripped by an usher at the Arrival screening

Whether investigating Pokémon Go or volcanoes, his iconic vision goes the distance

An appreciation of an actor who gives us nothing but good vibrations

Midnight Madness’ Colin Geddes lunches with his filmmakers at Momofuku, introduces six films and parties with Prevenge director Alice Lowe (and her baby Della Moon)

From inside the portrait studio

Inspiration and advice from TIFF '16 filmmakers

Dash Shaw, the filmmaker behind My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, illustrates his day at the Festival (which happens to be his film's premiere!)

It’s good to have goals, it’s even better to achieve them

From inside the portrait studio

You've got $5, right? Then you can make your movie...

On day three of TIFF, Randi Bergman runs into Michael Shannon, watches The Bleeder, parties at The Thompson with Zachary Quinto and Snapchats the hell out of it

Wednesday September 14: be a part of Festival from wherever you are in the world.

Up close with the cast of Snowden, American Pastoral, and Rage

Inspiration and advice from TIFF '16 filmmakers and actors

From Terrence Malick to Spring Breakers, the golden hour in cinema

An appreciation of Christopher Guest’s band of merry pranksters

Grace Glowicki spends a day shopping for a premiere outfit, sees a screening of American Pastoral and watches Agnès Varda take a nap

From inside the portrait studio

Too many movies? Not enough time? We've got you.

An official #TIFF16 playlist, courtesy of Apple Music, to get you through your festival

Nick Pinkerton spent the first day of Festival looking at Toronto architecture and listening to Torontonians “kvetch about TIFF”

Listen to exclusive festival interviews on Thom Powers’ documentary podcast Pure Nonfiction

The two accomplished Québécois directors go head-to-head

From inside the portrait studio

How many can you catch?

Those who fall asleep in a cinema, dare to dream

A filmmaker/critic/new father remembers the TIFFs gone by

In part one, comic artist Adam Waito shows us all how to sneak into an exclusive celeb party

Bond, Festival Buyers, Linklater, Quaid, Cranston, Jackie and Owen are Shanghai-fiving again, and they're reworking The X-Files. As a comedy.

New this year, vote with the Official TIFF App as well as your tickets!

Pick up some of the best films from past Festivals, and pre-order some great ones from this year

A panel of critics, programming associates and one OG share their #InfiniteViews of TIFF 16

From page to screen to TIFF '16

Programmers: they may not be able to build you a website, but they will show you some amazing films

The tireless filmmakers and actors who have more than one film at this year's Festival

A group of brilliant young cinephiles shed light on how to navigate the rush lines, celebrities and nearly 400 films of TIFF 16

Harrison Ford should be nobody's second choice

A legendary Canadian director returns to the scene of the crime

Abbas Kiarostami's surprising effect on a TIFF '16 doc

The city's cinematic portrayal shows the future has a silver lining

That's too much, man!

Three-person international jury will be composed of legendary directors Brian De Palma and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and acclaimed actor Zhang Ziyi

Is this the worst summer for movies... Ever?

Next season’s lineup is here, and it’s out-of-this-world

“They know it now, after talking a lot”

Festival takes to the street, goes virtual, and sits down for a chat

Frank Ocean built a staircase on live streamed video and then dropped an album - here's why it's brilliant

Come on, y'all, it's the Suicide Squad

Mo Abudu ("Africa's Oprah") and TIFF's Nikissi Serumaga-Jamo

Outstanding filmmaking talent and industry leaders from around the world, all right here

Don't change the channel

How a Chinese Canadian woman from Montreal ended up working with one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time

Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe will be here too

TIFF '16 will feature some amazing Canadian films, but no Céline biopic

TIFF Cinematheque's Syrian Cinema programme explores the brutality of images and the cinematic art of war

Doc titans D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus take on the French croissant

August 20 at TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of POP 03

From Wavelengths to Galas and Special Presentations to the world

The new Nigerian cinema is here — and it’s about to take over the world

A generation of actresses attempt to rise above the roles that defined them

In a movie of pure joy, Donald O'Connor's performance is the best part

It's the second year of TIFF's juried programme, with 12 visionary and artistically bold new films

A conversation between documentarians Lisa Jackson and Alan Zweig

President and General Manager of the Toronto Raptors, Masai Ujiri shares his love of Nigerian cinema

A highschool football doc that’s more intimate than Friday Night Lights

Give me a girl who can't handle life and I'll show you a movie

Real-life characters, zombies and demons, dark and sophisticated cinema, and a slate of classics

Eric Rohmer showed us how to make a French movie French, but what comes after that is anyone's guess

On seeing Universal Studios' exhibit "The Art of Making Movies" as an eight year old boy

Kiva and Fariha talk about going from book to film, and then Sarah Gadon guests

The goal of comedy is to tamp down anger

Share this journey

And it might just be Todd Solondz’s most redemptive film yet

From Mr. Gibson to Suicide Squad to Richard Pryor biopic casting news, another strong week for film industry intel.

The hidden influence of Hitchcock on the French New Wave auteur

The Canadian lineup at this year's Festival features politics, bold storytelling and lots of drama

An animated superhero film that sheds light on grief

His films are virtually impossible to find and more relevant than ever

The renowned music video director curates our digital digest

Our readers share their forever frame

An eclectic mix of theatre, octosyllabic dialogue, 1970s haircuts, medieval music, and colourful castles

Fightin' patriarchy makes me feel good

It's almost TIFF16 time, listen to this preview guide from our programmer

The actress, singer, and advocate discussed the making of the film and the employment issues facing the transgender community

A cinematic trope best served cold

This psychedelic science-fiction mystery proves Terry Gilliam's genius

We've refreshed our website, take a look around!

The first 2016 Festival film announcements are here

What's it like to meet a cinematic master?

Moving dramas, hard-hitting documentaries and visually dazzling fables attest to the rich variety of voices and diversity of experience within a tragically embattled country

We announce the first Galas and Special Presentations of TIFF16.

New Native documentary counters stereotypes by showing them, plainly

Damon then and now, and an interview with director Lizzie Borden.

TIFF CEO reflects on his encounters and memories of the Iranian master filmmaker

Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Tatiana Maslany, Quentin Tarantino, and so much more.

All your Scandinavian vampire child needs

Alison Lang writes a personal essay on how to mourn a parent

Connect with your fellow professionals at the 2016 TIFF Industry Conference

Magneto's coming to TIFF Soirée

All you need is a guy, a girl and a big fat drill

A deeply moving meditation on the meaning of freedom and human connection

Scotch and Soderbergh

Guest Nathan Larson tells Kiva & Fariha the truth behind the music.

One of the great love letters to the chaos and creativity, and the joy and sorrow of movie-making

The kids are all woke

Breaking down the barriers between filmmaker and critic

Talking about Brian De Palma's political side with critic Chris Dumas

This week, Rob Kraszewski recommends Todd Field's bombastic family drama

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Watch a two-hour "In Conversation With" the late Iranian master filmmaker

All the spherical foods, all the cinema

How may infographics will it take before women can direct?

Winter kept us warm

683 new additions to the academy, 41 per cent people of colour, 46 per cent female