EXCLUSIVE: The TIFF Cinematheque will mount a large-scale retrospective of works by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab next month as part of TIFF’s month-long International Women’s Day program.  Iranian filmmaker and visual artist Bani Khoshnoudi has programmed the Saab retrospective for TIFF…

Trying to figure out who you are can be a complex process. It gets even more complicated when identity politics prevents you from fully assimilating into the culture you were born into. It's a frustration that Japanese Brazilian filmmaker André Saito knows all too well, despite being a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival is going deeper into TV and making Primetime bigger. The Festival has a TV section called Primetime and TIFF execs told Deadline they plan to increase the selection by 40% for 2026. Appropriately, the news came out of MIPCOM, the Cannes TV market that's…

UPDATED with latest trailer and key art, 9:30 AM: Here is the new trailer for Hamnet, director/co-writer Chloé Zhao’s story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Watch it above and see the new key and earlier trailer below. The film starring…

"I think we're in the middle of a big sea change," said Toronto International Film Festival chief Cameron Bailey during a Zurich Summit panel about the role of film festivals. "Certainly, there's much more media coverage on the business of film and the screen industry generally than there used…

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has made extraordinary films despite hostility from his country's Islamist authorities who have at various times put him behind bars, banned him from international travel, and issued prohibitions against him making any more movies. His latest narrative feature, It Wa…

The People's Choice Award from the just-wrapped 50th Toronto Film Festival has gone to Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, first runner-up is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and second runner-up is Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Hamnet hails…

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off its 50th edition on Thursday, September 4, 2025 with a slew of premieres including the official opening-night film John Candy: I Like Me. It launched 10 days of world premieres, gala presentations and more as the third leg of the fall festival tour (along with…

For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the '70s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here — and thanks to its influence…

SWIPED Section: Gala Presentations Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg Screenwriters: Bill Parker, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Kim Caramel. Logline: Lily James stars in the real-life story of Whitney Wolfe Herd. Panelist: Lily James. Key Quote: "Swiped is inspired by the real…

NO OTHER CHOICE Section: Centrepiece Director: Park Chan-wook Screenwriters: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Jayhe Lee, from the novel The Ax by Donald E. Westlake. Logline: After celebrating 25 years as a health and safety officer at a paper mill in South Korea…

In the last months of his life, writer George Orwell used the final embers of his energy to complete a novel that would become a classic of 20th century literature: 1984. More than 75 years after its publication, the book that introduced readers to Big Brother, "Newspeak," "Thought Crime," "unperson"…