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With a star studded selection of headliners and 37 world premières announced so far, the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival is the place to be if you want to get early sight of the coming year's big hitters. It opens with Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario, which features Nicolas Cage, and includes work by Taika Waititi, Kaouther Ben Hania and Alice Rohrwacher.
The festival runs from 7 to 17 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Bell Lightbox
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Galas
- Industry Selects
- Midnight Madness
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
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Toronto Latest Reviews
Lee
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during the Second World War.
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during the Second World War.
The Critic
A theatre critic enlists a glamorous young actress in a desperate scheme.
A theatre critic enlists a glamorous young actress in a desperate scheme.
Sing Sing
A theatre group escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play, with a cast that includes actors who have been incarcerated.
A theatre group escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play, with a cast that includes actors who have been incarcerated.
Close To You
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Widow Clicquot
The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
Poolman
A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
Boy Kills World
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
The Dead Don't Hurt
A fiercely independent French Canadian woman embarks on an affair with a Danish immigrant.
A fiercely independent French Canadian woman embarks on an affair with a Danish immigrant.
The End We Start From
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
The Contestant
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Toronto International Film Festival Features
Life in full colour
Fawzia Mirza on intergenerational connection, Bollywood, queerness and The Queen Of My Dreams
Chuckle chuckle baby
Janis Pugh on laughter, love and community in her comedy musical
'I had to hire bodyguards'
Director Agnieszka Holland on the backlash to Green Border and why film can be a powerful weapon
Bonello, the time traveller
France’s maverick on sci-fi, loneliness, music and working with Léa Seydoux
Entering the dream
Bertrand Bonello discusses Coma and The Beast
Insult and injury
MH Murray, Mark Clennon and Nat Patricia Manuel on I Don’t Know Who You Are
In search of liberty
Rodrigo Moreno on freedom and character development in The Delinquents
Now is now
Wim Wenders on Yasujirō Ozu, Anselm Kiefer, Ingeborg Bachmann and Perfect Days
Unconscious symbolism
Wendy Chuck on Alexander Payne’s multiple Golden Globe-winning The Holdovers
Warwick Thornton's practical magic
The New Boy director on working with children, animals and just one camera
Taking flight
Alexander Payne on WC Fields, Artie Shaw and The Holdovers composer Mark Orton
Layers of mystery
llker Çatak in conversation on Oscar shortlisted The Teachers’ Lounge, Wim Wenders, and the films that inspired him
What’s in a name?
Alexander Payne on Paul Giamatti, Carrie Preston, Westward The Women and The Holdovers
From the inside out
Wendy Chuck on Alexander Payne’s multiple Golden Globe-nominated The Holdovers
Comedic bite
Ariane Louis-Seize on injecting Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person with humour
Reclaiming roots
Katja Gauriloff on making the first ever film in Skolt Sámi, Je’vida
Truth and nail
Christos Nikou on technology, love and Eighties synthpop in Fingernails
Back to the Bo-Kaap
More from John Barker, Bronté Snell and Shamilla Miller on The Umbrella Men: Escape From Robben Island
Bringing the stories home
Suvi West and Anssi Kömi on the repatriation of artefacts from museums and making Homecoming
Charting the way forwards
Lucy Tulugarjuk on life as an Inuit woman and Tautuktavuk
The women who get things done
John Barker, Bronté Snell and Shamilla Miller on stunts, sharks and The Umbrella Men: Escape From Robben Island
An act of observance
Atom Egoyan on interpreting Salome and making Seven Veils
Reckoning with the past
Ian Gabriel, Noxolo Dlamini, Anthony Oseyemi, Irshaad Ally, S’Thandiwe Kgoroge and Inez Robertson on Death Of A Whistleblower
Winds of change
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir on depicting modern Mongolia and Shamanism onscreen in City Of Wind
Restoring history
God Is A Woman director Andres Peyrot on bringing a film back to a community and engaging in dialogue about it
Rights and wrongs
Amjad Al Rasheed on patriarchal structures and female empowerment in Inshallah A Boy
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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