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
Film Festivals
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.
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
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.
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.
Review: Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend
Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is one of the best films of the year.