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A black and white shot of Clifton Hill's storefronts at night. Visible signs include a Travelodge, a Ruby Tuesday, and the Guinness World Records Museum.
Arts & Culture / March 2020

Stay Tacky, Niagara Falls

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 - by John Semley

Why I wouldn’t change a thing about my hometown

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Arts & Culture

The Decade in Arts & Culture

December 12, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Leonard Cohen’s darker legacy to art’s obsession with dead young women, here are the culture conversations that helped define Canada

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Arts & Culture

How TIFF Helped Save My Life

September 9, 2019September 8, 2023 - by Daniel Scott Tysdal

I struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts. Movies provide comfort, human contact, and empathy

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pierre Elliott trudeau walking through a crowd
September 2018

Cinema Is Changing. Can TIFF Adapt?

August 29, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Brian D. Johnson

The film festival has always balanced glitz and gravitas. But now it’s in uncharted territory

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Photograph courtesy of Jeff Harris
Arts & Culture

What I Learned From Asking Celebrities to Photograph Me at TIFF

September 8, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Jeff Harris

For fifteen years, I’ve asked everyone from Isabella Rossellini to Salman Rushdie to flip the lens. The result is a visual archive of my life—and a meditation on the changing nature of stardom

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Politics

Lights! Camera! Campaign!

September 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by John Lorinc

A night at the movies with a Canadian political spin doctor

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Arts & Culture

The Road to the Red Carpet

September 17, 2015September 8, 2023 - by Marni Jackson

The co-writer of TIFF documentary Al Purdy Was Here reflects on decades spent at the festival as a film lover, critic, and now creator

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Video still from Under the Influence
Uncategorized

5-7-5

September 16, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jeff Harris

Forty haiku for the fortieth edition of the Toronto International Film Festival

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Still from My Internship in Canada
Uncategorized

Sovereignty Is Not Independence

September 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Adam Nayman

A Q&A with director Philippe Falardeau on his new film, My Internship in Canada

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Photograph by Michael Vlasaty
Uncategorized

Remember Me

September 11, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Adam Nayman

Atom Egoyan returns to TIFF on his own terms

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