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Alex Heeney / September 14, 2026

The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2026 (updating throughout the festival)

From South Africa’s The Smell of Apples to Sweden’s Brace Your Heart to South Korea’s The World Before, here are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the UK) at TIFF 2026

Alex Heeney / May 27, 2026

Queer films are for kids, too: InsideOut 2026

Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival programs so many wonderful queer films — like Gugu’s World and Black Burns Fast — about children for children, if only they could reach them.

Alex Heeney / May 18, 2026

Cannes Review: Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle

lex Heeney reviews Alexander Murphy’s observational documentary Tin Castle about a family of Irish Travellers. The film had its world premiere in the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar

Alex Heeney / May 18, 2026

Cannes Review: Blerta Basholli’s Dua

Alex Heeney reviews Blerta Basholli’s Cannes Critics Week film, Dua, about the Kosova War through the lens of a young teenage girl.

Alex Heeney / May 18, 2026

Cannes Review: Mahsa Karampour’s Into the Jaws of the Orge

Mahsa Karampour’s Cannes ACID documentary Into the Jaws of the Orge is a thoughtful story of exile and tentative reconnection.

Alex Heeney / May 15, 2026

Review: Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend

Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is one of the best films of the year.

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