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Before La Bola Negra has properly introduced any of its three stories, its opening credits are already doing something interesting with history. Black-and-white photographs are covered, partially and sometimes aggressively, with bright pink paint. The older images do not disappear completely, but they are never presented as untouched archival objects.
Written and directed by Sandra Wollner, Everytime doesn’t take much time to move into a devastatingly emotional sequence in its first act, forcing the characters to settle into its aftermath. That is difficult territory for any movie.
Fight Kid made its world premiere on September 12 at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, screening as part of the Short Cuts programme. For director Michael Del Monte (Art of Documentary), who has spent roughly fourteen years working in documentary, getting there meant learning a new form of filmmaking.
After counting down the top 26 films to watch at TIFF 2026, I wanted to spend some more time specifically on the Canadian side of this year's lineup.
The Toronto International Film Festival returns from September 10th to 20th, 2026, for its 51st edition, bringing 293 titles to Toronto across one of the broadest festival programmes in the world. And, because it is 2026, 26 films also felt like an appropriately unnecessary number to count down.
Honey Bunch Film Review: A Meta Relationship Thriller Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli are the filmmaking duo best known for their uncompromisingly brutal debut, Violation, which premiered at TIFF and…
It Was Just an Accident grew directly out of conversations Panahi had with fellow prisoners between 2022 and 2023, and as a result, the film is grounded in both his experience and that of many others held under the Iranian regime.
Top 25 Films Playing at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 50) The 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2025), presented by Rogers, runs from September 4–14, 2025. This…
After missing its TIFF premiere (had to choose between Friendship and chatting with Hugh Grant on the Heretic red carpet), and then missing it again at SXSW, I finally caught Friendship at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, where it opened to a packed house. And it was worth the wait.
The Assessment marks the feature directorial debut of Fleur Fortuné, a sci-fi thriller that takes a coolly detached approach to dystopian storytelling.