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Stills from the best films of TIFF 2020.

Seventh Row Editors / September 23, 2020

The 16 best films of TIFF ’20

Seventh Row’s editors pick the best films of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), from Ammonite to Inconvenient Indian.

Saul Willliams as Akilla, bathed in red lighting, in Akilla's Escape.

B. P. Flanagan / September 23, 2020

TIFF Review: Akilla’s Escape is a tempered Saul Williams showcase

Charles Officer’s Akilla’s Escape works best at its most stripped back, but too often the film gets caught up in tired crime tropes.

An Indigenous man in a traditional headdress surveys the landscape in Inconvenient Indian. In the foreground of the image is director Michelle Latimer. The text on the images reads 'Interview'.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2020

TIFF Interview: Michelle Latimer on Indigenous agency in Inconvenient Indian

Michelle Latimer discusses Inconvenient Indian, her award winning essay film, and reclaiming cultural images of Indigenous people.

A collage of different critics who participated in Seventh Row's survey and images of the films they nominated.

Seventh Row Editors / September 22, 2020

What were the best films at TIFF ’20? A critics survey

Critics pick the best films of TIFF ’20 in this survey, from Nomadland to Another Round to Quo Vadis, Aida?.

A couple embraces in Naomi Kawase's True Mothers.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2020

TIFF Review: True Mothers explores the trauma and shame of motherhood

True Mothers is one of Naomi Kawase’s best films to date, a thoughtful drama about the shame associated with unconventional motherhood.

A man sits in a darkened room surrounded by newspapers in The Best is Yet to Come.

B. P. Flanagan / September 20, 2020

TIFF Review: The Best is Yet to Come is a freelancer’s wet dream

Jing Wang’s directorial debut, The Best is Yet to Come, is a middle-of-the-road story on the value of journalism has little new to offer.

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