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What if you move to a new country after the death of your parents and have to start completely over? The culture, language and religion are foreign to you. You are expected to assimilate to the new society you have entered. Now imagine this new country takes away your 5 young children, due to allegations made against your parenting. What would you do? In Cristian Mungiu's second Palme d’Or-winning film, Fjord, the examination of differing cultures is put on trial. The Gheorg

The 51st Annual Toronto International Film Festival is set to begin on September 10th, 2026 and run until September 20th, 2o26. The third major fall film festival to kick off the season, Toronto has always been known as the people's festival. With 293 titles playing at this year's festival, TIFF shares the best of Canadian and International film with its fans. The festival works hard to provide early access to the year's most notable titles in film. A place where all cinephil

The Fantasia International Film Festival turns 30 this year, running July 16 through August 2 in Montreal. That's over 125 features and more than 200 shorts crammed into eighteen days. If you have never paid attention to Fantasia, here is the pitch: it is the largest genre festival in North America, and it operates almost entirely outside the machinery that dominates the fall circuit. No campaign consultants. No Telluride-to-Toronto handoff. Just horror, sci-fi, animation, ku

As we're gearing up for the latest Cannes Film Festival to start, I figured now would be a perfect time to celebrate the upcoming event by talking about the festival. What exactly am I going to discuss? I could've jot down potential films I think people should be on the lookout for as next season's award players, or write down what I think could win the coveted Palm d'Or prize this year. Instead I think it'd be more appropriate to discuss my top five personal favorites that c