With his recent "Refugee Trilogy," the Finnish master of deadpan comedy has become one of cinema’s most important chroniclers of the chief humanitarian crisis of our time

What's the best movie from 1999? Help us decide

Honouring the legacy of an icon whose ceaseless challenge to Hollywood’s prescriptive gender roles helped define the idea of the "modern woman"

The opulent films of the great German director concealed darkness and rueful irony within their bounty of visual delights

With her stunning new sci-fi epic High Life, the ever-daring French auteur continues to create a cinema without borders

The producer of Edge of the Knife discusses making the world’s first Haida-language feature film

Classic Hollywood's leading female director was also a fiery feminist and queer pioneer

Four years after #OscarsSoWhite, what progress has been made?

As the writer-director prepares to release his Brad Pitt-starring science-fiction epic Ad Astra, we celebrate an American filmmaker whose fidelity to cinematic tradition has often placed him at odds to the movies of the moment

A look into the most anticipated titles of the new year

More lessons from 2018

The sequel to our smash-hit 2017 edition offers another totally scientific ranking of completely subjective choices

The blockbuster franchise's iconic T. Rex emblem has some troubling genes in its DNA

What did we learn in 2018?

The CEO of MovieCoin explains why game-changing technology might be the answer to Hollywood’s transparency problem

The acclaimed street photographer and filmmaker discusses his complex collage of contemporary Jamaica

The Freaks, Firecrackers, and Giant Little Ones that topped our list

Advance theatrical runs for several of the streaming giant’s films signal a major shift in its release strategy

Joan Crawford’s superlative noir Sudden Fear offers a nifty twist on a classic plot

See-Saw Films executive Negin Salmasi explains how the independent landscape has evolved over the last decade

The notorious Mick Jagger vehicle Performance launched its two directors on diverging yet uncannily mirrored paths

Two soundtrack cuts from the teen classic slyly cite a long-running Hollywood rumour

The actor and screenwriter stars in the new anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Romanian master discusses his new film, the tension between rules and freedom, and his lifelong devotion to the Beautiful Game

The Canadian-born Oscar winner was one of this country’s most lucrative showbiz exports

The filmmaker’s look at battle-rap culture is being praised as one of 2018’s best satires

Karina Longworth considers the reluctant '50s sex symbol's brief career and creepy courtship by the mercurial movie mogul

100 years after the Armistice, we look back at the cinematic depictions of the 20th century’s first modern war

Following his acclaimed “Trilogy of Faith,” the Swedish auteur pushed his dark vision even further in three subtly connected films

Are podcasts primed to become the next major generator of Hollywood source material?

The mutual admiration between the two filmmakers did not preclude their very different perspectives on gender

The director’s first superstar was a master at suggesting the deep feeling lying beneath her coquettish characters’ coyness and frivolity

Bergman’s idealized innocent explored darker territory in the director’s self-reflexive masterpiece

The strikingly androgynous actor probed some of the furthest extremes of the director's dark universe

The star of Smiles of a Summer Night unleashed the comic savvy of the Swedish master of seriousness

Academy Awards, critical adoration, and hip distributors have brought the genre to a whole new audience

How the famed US art-house distributor transformed Ingmar Bergman from a maker of Swedish skin flicks into a synonym for Quality Cinema

How the silent-era “jazz baby” remade herself as the quintessential Golden Age star

The director of Mudbound tells us how a Dr. Scholl's commercial shoot changed her life

How the Swedish master was sold to North American audiences

The Swedish master’s oeuvre doesn’t just begin and end with “Angst”

The creator of Chef’s Table explains how he developed his signature style

Tracing the artistic and spiritual kinship of legendary actor Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman

Ada Solomon, executive producer of 2016’s award-winning Toni Erdmann, tells us how she’s made a name for herself in Romania’s artistically rich, but relatively young, film industry

Aboubakar Sanogo on the legacy of one of the greatest of all African filmmakers

Denzel, Dee Rees, and Isaac Julien are just some of the spotlighted artists in Volume Two of our celebration of Black excellence onscreen

A stunningly formalist new doc explores the blasted late-capitalist wasteland outside Montreal

The French auteur remembers a moment of revelation from the shooting of his breakthrough film

From video games to Atomic Blonde, Tarkovsky’s sci-fi masterpiece haunts contemporary culture

Steven Markovitz, the producer of Rafiki, talks about how we can get more African films on the world stage

Discovering the mystical world of the greatest postwar Russian filmmaker

(And no answers)

Kit Steinkellner takes us through her experience making Facebook Watch’s flagship series

The Black List’s Franklin Leonard walks us through what this year’s Festival says about the industry at large

Missed a premiere or two? We've got you.

And the awards go to...

The Festival’s Director reflects on his 24 years at the helm

The Roy Thomson Hall green room in black and white

Memories of TIFF’s Handling years

Who will show up for their official portrait? There are 300+ films and only 11 days, so only time will tell...

One of the film industry’s rising stars speaks about how Korean cinema is giving him the richest roles of his career

Behind the scenes of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan with the Montrealer's permanent all-access pass

Are we there yet?

Pro tips on how to watch five films a day

Gotta watch 'em all

Do you feel lucky, punk?

The man behind MDFF Selects picks five films for Festival

The film journal edits it down to five choices

The film’s director, Daniel Sawka, and activist Karine Jean-Pierre discuss using film to challenge Trump’s immigration policies

How a "carnal" pigeon competition inspired her latest short

Rob and Geoff's Excellent Adventure

Featuring a short TED Talk on why you need to see Green Book

She just won the Golden Bear in Berlin. What have you done this year?

"Amandla is the future — and the now — of Hollywood"

The lesson of her story: don’t fall asleep in film class

How do you make a movie in an endangered language that only 24 people on the planet understand?

Tips from a 30-year Festival veteran

The critic (and Little Monster) plots her first trip to TIFF

Shooting your film at the golden hour yields perfect shots and steep learning curves

This pair of DJs (and film fans) let TIFF host the party

A Festival-bound film produced from the back seat of Neutral Milk Hotel’s tour van

The filmmaker’s horror turn has her hooked on fiction

"My body is ready."

Witnessing people pass out at Midnight Madness since 2011

“No one else can be you as well as you can.”

The future is female-identifying

The Black List founder battles the space-time continuum at TIFF '18

The Mexican filmmaker's "long walk" with TIFF continues with her second feature

Like chocolate and peanut butter, TIFFR and TIFF are finally together.

A feature film debut that’s 15 years in the making

A film of modest means with a surplus of ingenuity, featuring shopping malls — in space!

TIFF’s Documentary Programmer Thom Powers tries to explain the genre’s recent boom

The Afrobubblegum filmmaker flies to Toronto for Rafiki, which was banned in her home country of Kenya

Last, but not least: Discovery, plus a whole lot more

Let's get down to business

Susanna Nicchiarelli's anti-biopic captures the art-rock legend in her final year, but is also an ideal entry point to an astounding two decades of work

From Masters and Wavelengths, to Galas and Special Presentations

Desiree Akhavan talks about her long and difficult journey to making The Miseducation of Cameron Post

The most internationally acclaimed Israeli filmmaker in recent memory presents his celebrated films at TIFF Cinematheque

10 films to keep you up at night

The year’s best in non-fiction

Good things come in small packages

12 films, 1 prize

The American indie auteur heads to France for this twisted tale of amour fou

Here’s everything you need to know about one of the largest deals in entertainment history

You oughta know

The renegade of Golden Age Japanese cinema blazed the trail for the eruptions of the Japanese New Wave

The CEO of ScriptBook thinks that AI will soon be influencing which films get the green light

Though she claimed she had “no special characteristic,” the veteran star was one of the defining figures of classic Japanese cinema

The Julie Christie fantasy is a black mirror of our sci-fi reality

The fourth master of classic Japanese cinema had a longer road to renown

Japan’s “Eternal Virgin” contained multitudes beneath her serene surface

Do you like scary movies?

Perhaps the greatest actress in classic Japanese cinema, Mizoguchi’s muse was also one of the country’s only female directors

TIFF’s Director of Programming walks us through some of the films to look forward to this September

TIFF's first 47 films for its 43rd year

The prolific director’s thematically daring and stylistically innovative films formed a link between classic and New Wave Japanese cinema

Prize-winning novelist Kerri Sakamoto on her ongoing infatuation with “jungle Asian” Toshiro Mifune

The Italian maestro’s politics (and sexuality) set him at odds with his cherished aristocratic heritage