TIFF

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  The Artist

  Michel Hazanavicius

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2011

  Making a black and white silent film in an age of 3D extravaganzas might seem like a gimmick, but The Artist has more to it than just an at...

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  The Raid

  Gareth Evans

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2011

  Building from 2009's Merantau, which was essentially the introduction of Indonesian cinema to North American audiences, writer/director Gar...

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  A Separation

  Asghar Farhadi

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2011

  It starts out simply enough, with Simin (Leila Hatami) seeking a divorce from Nader (Peyman Moaadi) so she can legally take her daughter, T...

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  The Eye of the Storm

  Fred Schepisi

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2011

  Ailing matriarchs, disaffected offspring and precarious inheritances, The Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi's film about a family reuniting a...

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  Afghan Luke

  Mike Clattenburg

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2011

  Recent war films have addressed the seemingly never-ending contemporary conflict in the Middle East, yet Canadian filmmakers have mostly sh...

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  Pina

  Wim Wenders

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2011

  Hot on the heels of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wim Wenders is the latest titan of world cinema (no, Michael Bay doesn't coun...

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  Headhunters

  Morten Tyldum

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2011

  At first, seriously nasty Norwegian action thriller Headhunters comes off as yet another insipid heist movie glamorizing the male fantasy o...

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  Edwin Boyd

  Nathan Morlando

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2011

  It's rare that a film inspired by real events stays true to its original subject matter and historical roots, yet just like the very under-...