This past week, the skies were filled with Hollywood insiders jetting off from one festival to the next. As the Telluride and Venice film festivals come to a close, many of the same movies are now headed to Canada, where the Toronto International Film Festival officially kicked off yesterday.
I’m Rebecca Ford, and I just returned from Telluride (you can read all about the best films we saw in Colorado here. I won’t be making my way to TIFF this year, but my colleagues David Canfield, Richard Lawson, and Hillary Busis are on the ground there, running from film to film and gathering intel on which projects might break out as awards contenders.
The big world premieres include Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s exploration of motherhood starring Amy Adams; We Live in Time, a swoony romantic drama starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield; Ron Howard’s Eden; and the animated film The Wild Robot. Every year, TIFF has plenty of films that are purely commercial plays and don’t go on to any sort of awards campaigns, or films looking for distribution rather than Oscar glory. But many of the films that have won the audience award at TIFF over the years have indeed become real contenders, like last year’s American Fiction, 2022’s The Fabelmans,2021’s Belfast, and 2020’s Nomadland.
And for films that are restarting their awards campaigns after debuts earlier in the year at Sundance or Cannes, Toronto can be a key stepping stone to gaining renewed buzz. I noticed at Telluride that Emilia Pérez and Anora both played very well, so I expect to see them gain even more momentum as crowd-pleasers at TIFF.
If, like me, you aren’t going to be at TIFF in person this year, you can follow along with our team’s adventures through our live blog. We may not be able to bring you a bowl of poutine, but we’ll be serving up plenty of reviews, interviews, and other updates from the festival.
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