Amir Bar-Lev on Seeing the Other Side of the Mountain in “The Last First: Winter K2”
The director discusses looking back at a ruthless race to the top for a wide swath of mountaineers wanting to be the first to summit K2 in winter.
TIFF 2026 Interview: Mariia Volodymyrivna Ponomarova on Finding Out What’s In a Name in “Patronymic”
The director talks about how an omission on her passport led to opening up a whole can of worms regarding national identity in this playful, compelling doc.
TIFF 2026 Review: Matt Barats’ Painfully Funny “Anchors Aweigh” Turns the Tide on the Aimless Millennial Self-Portrait
A knowingly pretentious send-up of every film student's autobiographical thesis project they'd rather forget proves memorable.
TIFF 2026 Review: Driven By Passion, Sung Kang’s “Drifter” Finds Its Way Across Some Treacherous Terrain
The "Fast & Furious" fan favorite assumes the director's chair to take a car movie in a different direction with this endearing outsider tale.
TIFF 2026 Review: A Story Survives the Convulsions of History in Edmund Yeo’s “The Age of Goodbyes”
Vivian Sung gives a memorable turn as the kind of woman that can elude the historical record in this touching if occasionally unwieldy drama.
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