Not all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
Keep ReadingSilas (Canada/South Africa/Kenya, 80 min.) Dir. Anjali Nayar, Hawa Essuman Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Liberian activist and political candidate Silas Siakor is a voice the world desperately needs. His commitment
Keep ReadingSammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (USA, 100 min.) Dir. Sam Pollard Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Sam Pollard, who directed Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, has an extensive
Keep ReadingThe Other Side of Everything (Serbia/France/Qatar, 100 min.) Dir. Mila Turajlic Mila Turajlic’s The Other Side of Everything is two things: on one level, it’s a first-person doc about a daughter’s
Keep ReadingThe China Hustle Dir. Jed Rothstein Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) You saw The Big Short, right? Of course you did. And you came away with two thoughts: they ought to
Keep ReadingThe Final Year (USA, 89 min.) Dir. Greg Barker Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Sometimes with documentaries it is painfully obvious that the film that ends up in theatres is not
Keep ReadingUNITERRUPTED’s The Carter Effect is a crowd pleaser directed by Hamilton, ON native Sean Menard. “I want people in Toronto to feel like it’s ours,” the director said of the film in his post-screening
Keep ReadingLong Time Running (Canada, 90 min.) Dir. Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier Programme: Galas (World Premiere) Long Time Running has major expectations to fulfill given that the final performance of
Keep ReadingScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (USA, 98 min.) Dir. Matt Tyrnauer Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) It’s hard to divorce one’s opinion of subject Scotty Bowers from the documentary
Keep ReadingFaces Places (Visages villages) (France, 90 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda, JR Programme: Masters (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda, effervescent photographer and iconic filmmaker (The Beaches of Agnes, The Gleaners and I ;
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