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Everything the desk has filed on TIFF.
La Bola Negra, the TIFF People’s Choice winner directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, drops its first trailer on Netflix. The film lands in select LA and New York theatres on October 16, with streaming to follow.
Theja Rio’s ‘Angh’, a 16mm drama about a Konyak chief and his son, became the first Indian film to win TIFF’s Platform Competition, clinching a direct path to the 2027 Oscars.
Netflix’s La Bola Negra, a sweeping tale of three men across eras, captured the hearts of TIFF-goers, winning the coveted People’s Choice Award and sparking early Oscar buzz.
Josephine, starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, has moved from Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and audience award straight into a TIFF premiere drawing praise for its unflinching approach to a child witnessing sexual assault.
Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, chronicling how Sylvester Stallone forced Hollywood to let him star in his own script, premiered at TIFF to standing ovations and early Oscar talk for lead Anthony Ippolito.
Courteney Cox's directorial feature Evil Genius, based on the notorious 2003 pizza bomber case, premiered at TIFF with Patricia Arquette as mastermind Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and David Harbour as her accomplice.
Angh, a Konyak-language film set in 1960s Nagaland, premieres in competition at TIFF this week. Distributor Gaurav Dhingra says a win there means an automatic Oscar berth, and India release plans will follow the film's festival momentum.
Speaking at TIFF, Obsession co-producer Haley Nicole Johnson said the film's rise from a $15 million Focus Features sale to a $500 million hit has been overwhelming, as fellow horror producers debated what comes next for the genre.
Cody Lightning's TIFF premiere Smudge the Blades flips the underdog hockey movie formula, casting actual young hockey players and centring the racism Indigenous athletes face on and off the ice in Canada.
Malachi Kirby has taken over the lead role in revenge thriller Uncle from Michael Ward, who was cleared of sexual assault charges. WestEnd Films is showing the film's first footage to buyers in Toronto.