TIFF can be exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and frankly, a little chaotic… Sometimes all in the same day!
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TIFF can be exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and frankly, a little chaotic… Sometimes all in the same day!
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Premiering at TIFF 2025’s Discovery Programme, Little Lorraine (2025) is a strong debut from director Andy Hines. Based on a true story and Adam Baldwin’s song “Lighthouse in Little Lorraine,” the film is set within a very distinct Canadian landscape, geographically and emotionally.
Experienced through the eyes of three best friends (Stephen Amell, Joshua Close, Steve Lund), Little Lorraine tells the true tale of how this unlikely story was born, prospered and imploded over a season in the life of this township.
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Set in the vibrant Métis community of Wapamon Sipi, Blood Lines weaves together personal pain with cultural pride in a narrative that feels both intimately personal and universally human.
The sophomore feature from Métis writer-director Gail Maurice, the film is a deeply emotional exploration of identity, family, and cultural belonging.
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Canada’s Top Ten celebrates the year’s most outstanding Canadian feature films and shorts.
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In the grand expanse of cinematic history, few movements are known as rebelliously as the French New Wave. In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater gives us more than homage: he offers a genuine tribute to filmmaking itself and to the youthful spirit of Jean‑Luc Godard’s 1960 debut, À Bout de Souffle (Breathless).
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The time spent at TIFF each year always feels like a blur once the festival wraps up.
This year, I met fellow media friend Emmanuel Akanbi who was covering TIFF for the first time. Emmanuel is a writer and editor with Antler River Media Co-Op, based in London, Ontario, Canada.
We managed to see one film together during the festival but decided to catch up after it wrapped up to discuss our festival experience and some of the films we covered as well.
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AKI is set on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (formerly known as Whitefish Lake), this visual art documentary follows the seasons in director Darlene Naponse’s home community in Northern Ontario.
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In MODERN WHORE, Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin challenge toxic misconceptions about sex work and sex workers with great audacity and high style.
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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (Dir. Shane Belcourt), when the youth take charge.
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Meadowlarks (Dir. Tasha Hubbard) is a deeply personal and emotional family reunion. The film tells the story of four Cree siblings, taken from their parents by the government and placed in non-Indigenous homes during the 1960s Scoop in Canada.
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