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The Toronto International Film Festival showcases a diverse range of global cinema, featuring premieres and critical discussions across multiple genres. CutMirchi covers its major announcements, award winners, and filmmaker reactions from the event.
Dhanush has called Karthik Subbaraj's new film Dorothy a masterpiece, singling out Ilaiyaraaja's score, as the Keerthy Suresh starrer opens in theatres following a warm reception at Toronto.
Sony Pictures has acquired distribution rights for the Michelle Yeoh‑led thriller ‘The Surgeon’, a genre‑blending medical action picture that generated buzz at TIFF and features a director who doubles as a practicing oncologist.
Debut filmmaker Theja Rio clinched the Platform award at the Toronto International Film Festival with ‘Angh’, a meditative drama about a tribal chief confronting missionary influence in 1960s Nagaland, now Oscar‑eligible.
Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph premiered at TIFF to a rough online reception. Talking to Variety, the director said the discourse around him personally, not the film, is driving most of the criticism.
Michelle Yeoh's first lead role since her Everything Everywhere Oscar win premiered at TIFF as The Surgeon, a bloody thriller about a doctor forced to operate on a crime boss at gunpoint.
Karthik Subbaraj's Dorothy, starring Keerthy Suresh with music by Ilaiyaraaja, reportedly drew a standing ovation at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, according to filmmaker Seenu Ramasamy.
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.
Jeremy Thomas, the producer who brought The Last Emperor, Crash and Sexy Beast to screen across a five-decade career, died peacefully at home in Oxfordshire on September 11, surrounded by family.
Liam Neeson held hands with Stella Stocker at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, reigniting attention on his love life after last year's Pamela Anderson speculation. The pair have three films together and one more on the way.
Chrissie Hynde's Pretenders documentary, directed by Joss Crowley, premiered at TIFF with interviews from Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and Johnny Marr. Hynde told TheWrap she'll never watch the finished film.
As TIFF's 51st edition runs through September 20, The Hollywood Reporter has singled out five Toronto hotel lobbies, from the Ritz-Carlton to Four Seasons Yorkville, as the festival's true industry hubs.