The 2022 LFF Expanded programme featured a number of virtual reality experiences which aimed to connect audiences and filmmakers more than ever.
New York Dolls frontman David Johansen takes the stage in Martin Scorsese's latest music doc.
Actor Neil Maskell makes his debut as a filmmaker with this spiky thriller.
A group of women meet in secret to discuss escaping their abusive, isolated colony in Sarah Polley's adaptation of Miriam Towes' novel.
By Callie Petch
A father impersonates a young woman online in a bid to get closer to his son in James Morosini's promising but frustrating debut.
James Ivory reminisces about a youthful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.
By Callie Petch
Cartoon Saloon return with a poignant tale of a boy who sets out on a quest to find a dragon in peril.
By Weiting Liu
A filmmaker and his estranged daughter visit an old friend in Hong Sang-soo's latest riff on the connection between art and romance.
Ruth Beckermann enlists a hundred men to read passages from the controversial 19th century novel Josefine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.
Bertrand Bonello's bouncing off the walls in this free-associative grab-bag of early lockdown anxieties.
Amidst Weird Al and werewolves, there was another boogeyman at TIFF this year: copyright law.
Miles Warren explores the dichotomy of nature vs nurture through a lost teenager’s longing for paternal guidance.
Brian Cox plays a dying convict trying to free himself from the prison of his past through forgiveness of his daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s formulaic family drama.
Luis De Filippis' film is a great addition to a transgender cinematic canon in that it refuses to rely on overt explorations of trauma.
This searingly intense character study sees a woman questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Pinochet’s Chile.
By Mark Asch
Olivia Colman channels her inner Anna Karina in director Sam Mendes’ mawkish ode to the magic of the movies.
Tyler Perry tries his hand at serious-minded filmmaking with this overwrought Deep South melodrama.
By Mark Asch
Zac Efron goes on a mission to bring tinnies to the troops in this banter-y Vietnam War movie misfire from Peter Farrelly.
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