Welcome to #TIFF21 Coverage
Your destination for TIFF Docs!
Reviews, interviews, and more from
the Toronto International Film Festival.
Terril Calder's Meneath: The Island of Hidden Ethics, now streaming from the NFB, is a darkly funny film about a baby Métis girl caught between a dance between Jesus's debilitating teachings and the healing wisdom of her ancestors.
Payal Kapadia makes a poetic and invigorating feature debut in this Cannes winner that charts a young woman's personal and political awakening amid student protests in India.
An interview with Nuisance Bear directors Jack Weisman and Gabriele Osio Vanden on their TIFF 2021 short that observes polar bears and the humans who like to watch.
Flee documents the unfilmable. Jonas Poher Rasmussen's doc rewards repeat viewings with its animated portrait of life always on the run.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a 2000 cult hit with its queering of a Christian icon. POV looks back at the doc, narrated by RuPaul, and considers its place within the queer canon before the adaptation starring Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Baker debuts at TIFF.
Welcome to POV's destination for coverage from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Bookmark this page for word on the documentary beat at #TIFF21 as our writers deliver reviews, interviews, and more thoughts on the non-fiction slate at the festival.
Dionne Warwick, who appears in the TIFF doc Don't Make Me Over will receive the Special Tribute Award at TIFF this year.
“Her whole life story presented a fully realised, accomplished, and smart person apart from her husband. Empowering women to create deliciousness…amen to that!”
Julia from RBG directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West adds more star power to the TIFF Docs line-up, while names like Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin join Industry side.
Obomsawin’s new doc Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair debuts at TIFF’s “Celebrating Alanis” retrospective.
