There is not enough representation for disabled performers and creatives, and it's refreshing to see an honest and entertaining short film that gives the spotlight to both. In Spencer Cook and Parker Smith's award-winning short film, Act of God, one man's journey for more independence leads to unforeseen events. It just won the U.S. Short at the Palm Springs Shortfest,...

Some young men have an instinct to hunt and gravitate towards more traditionally masculine activities, but what about those whose inclination is to care or nurture? In Tom Furniss' carefully plotted short, Rustling, one boy vows to protect a baby lamb in an environment where the animal is instantly in danger. The film opens with a newly dead lamb being...

French filmmaker, Romain Gavras, teams up with filmmaker and writer, Ladj Ly, for Netflix's upcoming drama, Athena. Ly's last film, Les Misérables (not the story about the stolen bread) landed an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film in 2019. The film will debut in September. Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have...

TIFF is thrilled to announce that Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will have its world premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival. Knives Out had its world premiere at TIFF in 2019. In the follow-up to 2019's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc (played by Daniel Craig) travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a...

Some days, like today, I feel like we're at the end of a once-great empire. That's if you read Twitter - where there is nonstop hysteria, mostly over Trump. There is no escaping it. In general, though, we're living through a time of extreme hedonism, consumption and wealth colliding with extreme puritanical judgment and public witch hunts. To defy this...