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

Memories of TIFF’s Handling years

The Roy Thomson Hall green room in black and white

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

Are we there yet?

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

Pro tips on how to watch five films a day

Gotta watch 'em all

The man behind MDFF Selects picks five films for Festival

Do you feel lucky, punk?

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

Rob and Geoff's Excellent Adventure

How a "carnal" pigeon competition inspired her latest short

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

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

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

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

"My body is ready."

The filmmaker’s horror turn has her hooked on fiction

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

Witnessing people pass out at Midnight Madness since 2011

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

The future is female-identifying

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

The year’s best in non-fiction

The year’s best in non-fiction

10 films to keep you up at night

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

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

Do you like scary movies?

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

Durga Chew-Bose on the haunting visage of Antonioni's muse

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

The screenwriter and director behind one of this year’s most original films tells how he went from veteran rapper to freshman filmmaker

The Japanese New Wave figurehead found inspiration for his “beefsteak” cinema in scandal-sheet sensationalism

TIFF's tribute to the tragically departed Indian superstar begins this weekend

The Japanese New Wave rebel made movies to “burn the throat”

The revered filmmaker found beauty and transcendence through often ferocious depictions of chaos and cruelty

The director of Winter’s Bone and Leave No Trace breaks down her remarkable talent for spotting — and directing — the “next big thing”

The Exorcist director’s passionate perfectionism changed the Hollywood game and sent him Cruising towards controversy

It happened at the movies

Previously untranslated verses from the director’s diaries reveal new facets of the Japanese master’s complex, many-sided character

Long viewed as the “transcendental” master of domestic dramas, the Japanese giant was equally adept at crime films, film noirs, social critiques and vulgar comedies

The volatile relationship between the imperious director and his wild-man star produced a dazzling run of masterpieces

One of the business’ most versatile performers walks us through his wide range of characters

Can we still enjoy the Dustin Hoffman hit in a time when proven predators are being outed?

An introduction to the insurgent generation of filmmakers who challenged the traditions of Japanese cinema

Ghost BFF creator and star Vanessa Matsui tells us why so many creators are choosing web series

An introduction to the directors who shaped the image of their nation’s cinema in the West

Herbie Hancock, The Yardbirds, and the mod sounds of Antonioni's swing through London

Finding power in the silence of heartbreak

Hear from a collection of Indigenous filmmakers, musicians, and artists about the stories they tell

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

Indonesian director Mouly Surya's Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts reimagines the spaghetti western

The pioneering film critic and feminist explains why she still loves the heroines of director Howard Hawks

The French filmmaker remembers his friend and former star, “one of the great and under-recognized filmmakers of his time”

Screen heartthrob Gérard Blain moved behind the camera to direct a series of masterful films

Animator Domee Shi tells us how she went from studying at Sheridan College to directing her first Pixar short in less than 10 years

Exploring the many screen lives of James M. Cain’s noir classic

A new batch of remembrances from the dauntless Dante, including how he got away with making Gremlins 2, how a fast-food giant burned Small Soldiers, and how his long-held dream of making a Bugs Bunny movie became a nightmare

On and off the screen, the unlikely lovers were Classic Hollywood’s ultimate power couple

Adam Nayman recounts his experiences as an actor in Antoine Bourges’ first feature Fail to Appear

Director Sarah Burns tells us why she decided to stay in the family business

How the former “funny girl” and fearless filmmaker became the scourge of Hollywood suits

The director and die-hard cinephile on the bait-and-switch ad campaign for Gremlins, convincing Roger Corman not to use the title Hollywood Hookers, and "the worst poster in history"

How the Italian master created the foundations for contemporary art cinema

Producer Adi Shankar challenges the public to solve The Simpsons’ Apu controversy

How do young versions of iconic movie characters measure up to the originals?

Sophie Fiennes' documentary, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, returns to TIFF

The director’s newest film puts a contemporary spin on Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451

Sofia Bohdanowicz on how the French icon influenced the making of her first feature

The revolutionary company is making theatre-going more affordable than ever — but will this model survive?