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A grieving 12-year-old comes to believe that his dead father has returned in Daddy’s Head. Issac (Rupert Turnbull) is led by his stepmother Laura (Julia Brown) into a hospital to …

Comedian Bert Kreischer’s past encounter with the Russian mafia comes back to haunt him in The Machine. Bert Kreischer has made a career out of recounting when his younger self …

It has a few truly scary moments; however, the practically narrative-free experimental haunted house plot definitely isn’t for everyone

Terror returns for the Suwono family in Satan’s Slaves: Communion. Four years after the incident that forced them to flee their home, Rini Suwono (Tara Basro) is living in an …

Audio diaries help to dispel the myths about jazz legend Louis Armstrong in Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues. Known for his trumpeting and deep, raspy voice, Louis Armstrong was viewed …

The story of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams is told from the perspective of their ever-believing father in King Richard. Richard Williams (Will Smith) lives in Compton, California with …

A filmmaker seeks the truth about how his father came to be a hitman in Comala. Gian Cassini was shocked to read about the 2010 assassination of El Jimmy, a small-time …

A Tokyo-based Canadian craftsman and an American designer team up to make Japanese woodblock prints depicting video game pop culture icons in Ukiyo-e Heroes. Ukiyo-e is the 400 year old art of …

A man traverses across post-apocalyptic Ethiopia looking to board a spaceship in Crumbs. Candy (Daniel Tadesse) is a physical malformed man, who lives with the love of his life Birdy …

I saw a whopping 25 films during the course of TIFF (26 if you count On the Road, which I saw at a pre-festival screening).  It’s definitely hard to write …

At TIFF, Bruce McDonald’s Trigger was notable as the first film to screen at the Bell Lightbox.  While the film was a less extravagant affair at the Calgary Film Fest …