The Toronto International Film Festival’s 41st chapter runs 8-18 September 2016 and will feature 397 feature and short films from 83 countries screening across 16 programs. As in previous years, …
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In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has become endangered, an android traveling in her spaceship is tasked to visit various planets to deliver memories in packages to the smattering of …
After learning that rich gangsters have abducted his estranged son, a former street ruffian makes repeated attempts to save him—in a covert bid to atone for ditching the boy and …
Forty is life’s dreaded midpoint for some, but in film festival years 40 can feel like the throes of young adulthood. Forced to adapt to a competitive festival scene over …
On a rural South Korean farmstead, a married middle-aged couple arrive at the home of a single mother (Kil Hae-yeon) and her pregnant teenage daughter (Ahn Ji-hye). The parties have …
Notwithstanding writer-director Ken Kwek’s claim that social commentary isn’t a card he is playing, his debut feature—an uneven but respectable effort—will nevertheless attract filmgoers attuned to Singapore’s cultural life and …
Toronto’s 39th edition runs 4-14 September 2014 and packs about 400 feature films and short films from 79 countries across 16 programs. East Asian content dominates the festival’s Asian selection …
Buried under the noise of the festival’s many overrated titles was South Korean Yeon Sang-ho’s second animated feature The Fake. While his debut The King of Pigs (2011), a bleak …
A bounty of intense genre films has splattered across the festival’s various sections. In the mix this year: sexual violence (Kim Ki-duk’s Moebius & Matsumoto Hitoshi’s R100); madness and murder (Yeon Sang-ho’s …
Although Toronto is one of the world’s largest public film festivals, this status belies the paradigm shift it has undergone since the 1990s, when it plugged itself into the global …