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The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto Film Festival has gone to The Life of Chuck, first runner-up is Emilia Pérez, and second runner-up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and the Midnight…

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film…

With the goal of making a big-screen Australian musical in the vein of movies like Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert that made such an impression on her growing up, Rebel Wilson has in many ways measured up to the delights…

In 2008, Faiza Ahmad Khan made a documentary, Supermen of Malegaon, that focused on the making of a parody-style movie by amateur director Nasir Shaikh, who found success with his friends in the poor small Indian city of Malegaon, where they used their…

YOUNG WERTHER Section: Special Presentations (World Premiere)Director: José Avelino Gilles Corbett LourençoLogline: Alison Pill and Douglas Booth star in this adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 18th-century novella The Sorrows of Young Werther, relocated to modern-day Toronto in the form of a…

Hello Insiders. It’s getting colder in Europe, but the news in TV and film has been hot and spicy in the week Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. Jesse Whittock here taking you. Let’s go, and don’t forget to sign up here. TIFF’s Russia Doc…

It is a deceptively simple premise for a two-hour feature film. A married couple who had planned their retirement in a B&B are, due to dire financial circumstances and bum luck, forced out of their home at a point that is, on the surface at least, completely devastating. With their kids now off at school…

EXCLUSIVE: Nutcrackers opened the Toronto Film Festival and now is poised to become the first splashy acquisition deal on the ground since the festival began. Hulu is in final talks to pay eight figures for the family comedy directed by David Gordon Green and starring Ben Stiller, Linda Cardellini, Edi…

UPDATED with producers’ response: The Toronto Film Festival said Thursday that it has paused upcoming screenings of Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova's documentary Russians at War “effective immediately” after learning about “significant threats to festival operations and public safety.”…

THE WILD ROBOT Section: Gala Presentations Director: Chris Sanders Screenwriter: Chris Sanders Logline: Featuring the voices of Pedro Pascal, Catherine O'Hara, Lupita Nyong'o, Stephanie Hsu, and Bill Nighy, this DreamWorks Animation sci-fi adventure follows a robot designed to assist…

THE ASSESSMENTSection: PremieresDirector: Fleur FortunéScreenwriter: Mrs. & Mr. Thomas, John DonnellyLogline: Set in a future world destroyed by climate change, a couple must pass an assessment before they are allowed to have a child in this sci-fi thriller starring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.Pane…

I’M STILL HERE Section: Special Presentations Director: Walter Salles Screenwriter: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega Logline: The latest from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles focuses on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience of…