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Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS The Toronto International Film Festival has rescheduled screenings of controversial documentary Russians at War after it paused showings over "significant threats." TIFF says in a programming [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, JOHANNA SCHNELLER, KATE TAYLOR, BRAD WHEELER The Globe and Mail's film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year's Toronto [...]

Byline: NOLAN BRYANT; Special to The Globe and Mail Opening weekend of the Toronto International Film Festival's 49th edition saw parties of all stripes take shape across the city. With [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN; Staff Russians at War is a brave and exceptional documentary. It shows, unvarnished, the horrors of the war, including some of the most horrific footage you will [...]

Byline: RITA TRICHUR; Staff Sex traffickers have the Toronto International Film Festival firmly in their sights. Replete with glitz and glam, the annual festival draws in an estimated 700,000 attendees [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Citing security concerns, organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have paused the upcoming North American premiere of the new documentary Russians at War, which has [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff If the industrial-sized, 10-day-long Toronto International Film Festival likes to think of itself as having something for everyone, then the opening night of this year's edition [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff In 2022, the Toronto International Film Festival witnessed the largest deal in its four-decade-plus history when Alexander Payne's throwback dramedy The Holdovers was picked up for [...]

Hundreds of fans take part in a public sing-along led by Choir! Choir! Choir! to celebrate 40 years of the Tragically Hip during the first day of the Toronto International [...]

Byline: ALEX GOUDGE; THE CANADIAN PRESS A Canadian cinephile will attempt to set a world record at this year's Toronto International Film Festival by watching 80 movies in 11 days [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff New films starring Adam Driver, Julianne Moore, Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Gillian Anderson are coming to next month's Toronto International Film Festival, as organizers announced [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff A television series starring Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rebecca Hall and the Tragically Hip will premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival as the [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff New films from such internationally renowned auteurs as America's Steven Soderbergh, South Korea's Hong Sangsoo, Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Iran's Mohammad Rasoulof and a number of acclaimed [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff After parting ways with long-time lead sponsor Bell at the end of last year, the Toronto International Film Festival announced Wednesday that Rogers Communications, Canada's other [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Films starring Cate Blanchett, Will Ferrell, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Bruce Springsteen, Tilda Swinton and Pamela Anderson are heading to this year's Toronto International [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff If there is one constant to an opening-night film at the Toronto International Film Festival, it's that there is no constant. Over the years, TIFF has [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Films starring Amy Adams, Tom Hiddleston, Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal and Elton John (as himself) are heading to the Toronto International Film Festival this September. In [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff A favourite son of the Toronto International Film Festival is coming home this September. On Wednesday, festival organizers announced this year's first official selection for TIFF's [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff It is the day after the Toronto International Film Festival's first staff retreat with its refreshed leadership team - up in Kleinburg, Ont., an hour north [...]

Byline: CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- There's been nothing tranquil about the B.C.-set immigrant drama Riceboy Sleeps since its buzz-laden debut at Toronto International Film Festival last year. [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Sometimes, a rejection from Noah Cowan was the best thing that could happen to a filmmaker. As one of the leading organizers of the Toronto International [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Noah Cowan, the former codirector of the Toronto International Film Festival and inaugural artistic director of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, has died at the age of [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Every summer, the organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival come up against a wall. Or The Wall, so to speak - a space inside one [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Whenever something went sideways during this year's Toronto International Film Festival - not exactly an infrequent occurrence - my mind flashed back to the dark, socially [...]

Byline: NOEL RANSOME, ADINA BRESGE; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans has won the People's Choice prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. The coming-of-age ode [...]

Byline: NOLAN BRYANT; Special to The Globe and Mail SOCIETY TIFF TRIBUTE AWARDS Now in their fourth year, the TIFF Tribute Awards, presented this year by Bulgari, returned for an [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff This Saturday evening, the Toronto International Film Festival will host an overlapping series of highwattage world premieres that organizers hope will reaffirm TIFF's status as the [...]

Byline: APARITA BHANDARI Tatiana Lopes knew that booking online tickets for the Toronto International Film Festival this year might be a doozy. A writer and aspiring filmmaker, Lopes attended TIFF [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff T he industry-shaking tensions between movie-theatre owners and streaming services have spilled over into the Toronto International Film Festival, once again. Canadian theatre giant Cineplex Entertainment [...]

Byline: TARA DESCHAMPS; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- In prepandemic times, restaurant owner Junior Sritharan would start preparing six months in advance for the Toronto International Film Festival. Extra food [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are among the stars set to lend their shine to the Toronto International Film Festival. Organizers released a list [...]

Byline: DAVID FRIEND; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Stories of youth and queer culture are being elevated in the Canadian lineup at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and some [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Films starring Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicolas Cage, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray and local favourite Jessica Chastain are heading to this year's bigger, glitzier and mask-free [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff The Toronto International Film Festival is getting a major injection of unprecedented star power this September. On Friday, organizers announced that Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans will [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff As the Toronto International Film Festival prepares for its comeback year, who better to help get Canada's splashiest arts organization back to its extra-sharp self than [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff As the Toronto International Film Festival ramps up preparations for this September's 47th annual edition - featuring more venues, more inperson screenings, more films and fewer [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, Staff Lead Thirty-one years after joining the Toronto International Film Festival as a seasonal programmer, Cameron Bailey is taking charge of the organization. On Tuesday, TIFF's board [...]

Byline: VICTORIA AHEARN, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead Kenneth Branagh's 'deeply personal' directorial effort, Belfast, has picked up awards season momentum after winning the People's Choice prize at the [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead For more than 100 years, photographers and photo librarians have preserved an extraordinary collection of 20th-century news photography for The Globe and Mail. Every Monday, [...]

Byline: SARAH-TAI BLACK, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Twenty-five years after its inaugural showcase, the Toronto International Film Festival's since-defunct Planet Africa program will be returning this weekend [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead After the trans-masculine jazz pianist Billy Tipton died in 1989, his long-hidden sexual anatomy was revealed. The tabloid press sensationalized his story: Who was this [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT, Staff Lead The Toronto International Film Festival usually enjoys a good mystery when it's up on the screen. But over the past couple of months, a twisted [...]

Byline: MICHAEL COREN Lead Columnist and broadcaster, and author of The Future of Catholicism, Why Catholics Are Right and Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart and Mind Over Same-Sex Marriage. [...]

Byline: AMY ROSEN; Special to The Globe and Mail It's the Tuesday before TIFF. A policeman is leaning on his bike while writing up a yellow ticket for a flatbed [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT Viewers can get up close and personal with - cue the jokes - both a monster and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this weekend, as the Toronto International [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ For any budding filmmaker hoping to catch James Franco's attention on Instagram, your chances just got better. The writer-director-actor-novelist-performance artist will be just one of several famous [...]

Byline: Piers Handling Re And The Award For The Most Problematic Awards Show Goes To ... (Film, March 11): The Toronto International Film Festival is acknowledged as the most important [...]

Byline: Nelson Smith Re #OscarSoWhite, And The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Jan. 23): Race is not a social construct, but culture certainly is. Yes, there is a need to bring [...]

Byline: JULIA COOPER; Special to The Globe and Mail TIFF.15 Paul Gross is going back to war with Hyena Road, his fictional and bombastic account of Canada's involvement in the [...]