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From yesterday’s TIFF Platform section we now move to two dozen film offerings that populate the Discovery programme and at the top of the list we have the opening film titled Stuffed by Theo Rhys starring Jodie Comer and Harry...

Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát, actress-turned filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo and veteran French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian are among the ten in the female-centric competition line-up. Horvát’s highly anticipated My Notes on Mars (we recently profiled the film) starring Mackenzie Davis and Rupert...

Last week, Netflix dropped that they were back in the Ava DuVernay business when it was announced that her new docu would open sometime this year….now the New York Film Festival folks announce that 14th will close the fest (October...

Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the winner of TIFF’s Platform Award—alongside major prizes from other leading international festivals—would automatically qualify for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars. A significant evolution for a...

Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder, Chris Rock’s Misty Green and Florian Zeller’s Bunker will be receiving major showcases as they were selected as part of the 2026 Gala Presentations. Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend has...

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinya Tsukamoto and Lee Chang-dong are the doing the Venice to Toronto double down, Jesse Eisenberg is sticking to a Telluride and TIFF showcase, while Andrew Haigh, Simon Stone and Mike Leigh might be packing their suitcases for...

Venice’s International Critics’ Week aka Settimana Internazionale della Critica have made their selections for their 41st edition and we’ve got some Sundance, Rotterdam and Cannes alumni filmmakers amongst this batch. From India, Shalini Adnani brings her family drama with themes...

Saturday Night Live funnyman Bill Hader made the gradual move into feature films (his best work might be 2014’s The Skeleton Twins) and other television projects such as bits on Documentary Now! bits as some of his best work) and...

Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks and 23rd Giornate degli Autori selections. Typically landing in the 21-to-23-film range, the Golden Lion competition...

France-based filmmaker João Paulo Miranda Maria is one of the new emerging voices from Brazil and has already padded a resume of shorts that were showcased at Cannes and Venice to prove it hi savoir-faire. A cinema curious about colonialism,...