Toronto features – Page 4
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FeaturesSeven Spanish projects with international potential to be pitched in Toronto
The producers are taking part in the ‘Do it the Spanish way!’ initiative.
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FeaturesToronto, Venice, Telluride: which has the edge as an awards-season launchpad?
This is serious business, and a lucrative one for the consultants who guide the studios, streamers, other distributors and talent.
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FeaturesSpain set for strong showing at Toronto with packed industry programme
The Cinema From Spain pavilion will showcase the country and its producers to North American partners.
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FeaturesHow Toronto is evolving its industry offering ahead of 2026 market launch
“We’re seeing it as a phased-in transition.”
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FeaturesToronto CEO Cameron Bailey on the return of actors and plans for the 2026 market
Toronto International Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey tells Jeremy Kay about this year’s highlights and competition with other fall festivals
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FeaturesWatch: Spain at Toronto - stand-out titles and key events for international industry
Carmen Jordan, Director for Creative Industries at ICEX Spain Trade and Investment, shared details about the Spanish presence at Toronto this year.
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FeaturesToronto 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Platform and Midnight Madness titles
Toronto Film Festival runs September 5-15.
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FeaturesToronto 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Gala and Special Presentations
TIFF takes the baton from fall rival Venice, offering an audience-friendly line‑up.
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Features“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s behind the rise of the ‘standing ovation’ story?
One exec said he’s seen publicists with “giant stopwatches with glowing screens” independently timing ovations at film premieres.
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Features20 stand-out titles from Toronto 2023
There was plenty to be excited about at this year’s festival.
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FeaturesNing Hao on satirising the film industry with Andy Lau-starrer ‘The Movie Emperor’
The Movie Emperor reunites director Ning Hao with actor/producer Andy Lau in the tale of a movie star chasing film festival success.
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: ‘Intouchables’ duo Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache confront climate change in new film ‘A Difficult Year’
Despite the film’s comedic tone, A Difficult Year is a refreshing reminder of the situation plaguing the planet.
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: David Yates on swapping ‘Harry Potter’ for opioid drama ‘Pain Hustlers’
After 15 years in JK Rowling’s Wizarding World, Yates was keen to get back to the type of work that saw him noticed by Hollywood in the first place.
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: The story behind ‘City Of Wind’, the first Mongolian film to play at both Toronto and Venice
Director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s feature debut City Of Wind explores life as a young Mongolian in the modern world.
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FeaturesTIFF Spotlight: Lone Scherfig on shooting ‘The Movie Teller’ in Chile’s Atacama desert
The Danish filmmaker’s latest project was shot in Chile’s Atacama desert
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: why it took 20 years for Tarsem to make honour killing story ‘Dear Jassi’
“The whole thing was as Indian as you can get; out of chaos you get all of this.”
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: Moritz Mohr and Zainab Azizi on the long road to Midnight Madness entry ‘Boy Kills World’
Boy Kills World stars Bill Skarsgard as deaf-mute martial artist killing machine on revenge mission.
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: ‘Wicked Little Letters’ filmmakers on bringing a 1920s poison-pen letters scandal to life
Screen speaks to the film’s director Thea Sharrock and producers Ed Sinclair and Graham Broadbent.
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: See-Saw’s production ‘One Life’ showcases the wartime heroics of Nicholas Winton
One Life tells the story of Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who rescued hundreds of children from Nazi Germany
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FeaturesToronto’s robust line-up shows Indigenous cinema is healthy - and growing
Toronto’s Indigenous roster “hits a lot of different genres that we don’t normally see in Indigenous films”.