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Toronto International Film Festival

Stills of actors from TIFF 2020 films, including Rosamund Pike, Mads Mikkelsen, and Kate Winslet.

Seventh Row Editors / September 24, 2020

The 17 best performances at TIFF ’20

Seventh Row’s editors pick the 17 best performances at TIFF ’20, from Kate Winslet in Ammonite to the cast of One Night in Miami.

A still from Beans, featuring young actress Kiawentiio as Beans and Rainbow Dickerson as her mother, Lily.

Alex Heeney / September 23, 2020

TIFF Review: Beans offers a child’s eye view of the Oka crisis

Tracey Deer’s Beans is a deeply flawed but incredibly moving about a 12-year-old Mohawk girl’s political awakening during the Oka crisis.

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?.

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