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TIFF Responds to 'Russians at War' Backlash

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2024

Yesterday (September 10) at Toronto's Scotiabank Theatre, a protest formed outside of TIFF's press screening of 'Russians at War' — a highly...

Pharrell Williams Responds After Q&A Session at TIFF Interrupted by Animal Rights Protestor

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Pharrell Williams had the premiere of his 'Piece by Piece' premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival interrupted by an animal...

Protest Forms Outside TIFF's 'Russians at War' Screening

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Despite outcry from Ukrainian officials, TIFF's press screening of 'Russians at War' — a documentary purported to take viewers "beyond the...

'The Mother and the Bear' Warms a Winnipeg Winter

Directed by Johnny Ma

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

On a cold Winnipeg evening, a rustling behind a dumpster in an alleyway startles a young woman, Sumi (Leere Park), who slips and falls on...

'Young Werther' Puts a Fresh Toronto Twist on a Classic

Directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Young Werther' follows the time-honoured tradition of...

'Riff Raff' Is a TIFF Laff

Directed by Dito Montiel

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2024

'Riff Raff' is a masterwork of typecasting: there's Jennifer Coolidge as a sloppy drunk, Ed Harris as a gruff patriarch who balances caring...

'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite

Directed by Marielle Heller

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2024

Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...

'Shook' Tells a Different Sort of Scarborough Story

Directed by Amar Wala

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Movies set in Scarborough tend to show the beauty of the area through its grit and the trauma that follows. While there's certainly a need...