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This is a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's a great place to catch the big titles likely to be making headlines over the coming year, and it often picks future award winners.
The festival runs from 4 to 14 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Festival Street
- Gala Presentations
- Luminaries
- Midnight Madness
- Platform
- Shorts
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
View previous years coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival festival:
Toronto Latest Reviews
A psychiatry professor gets caught up in Poland's instigation of martial law during a trip to Warsaw and ends up in a cat-and-mouse chase to escape.
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognises similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.
A writer tries to reconnect with his sons.
Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl, sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed.
Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week.
A hen seeks refuge, where she becomes an innocent observer of a human trafficking gang.
A desperate wish for love goes terribly wrong.
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
A short documentary following correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
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