Festival season always begets some of the year’s most exciting films, and after a much quieter 2023 Toronto International Film Festival swept over Ontario (owing largely to the year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes),

From a new Great American masterpiece to a tragic tale of love and war in the Italian Alps — the highlights of this year's return-to-form TIFF.

In the glistening CN Tower, cinema lovers flocked to King Street once again for the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Highly-anticipated titles such as Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” and Ron Howard’s “Eden” brought the stars to the red carpet and were the talks of the festival.

TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey said “hundreds” of threats against staff led to the festival's unprecedented decision to pull Anastasia Trofimova’s controversial documentary.

From excellent directorial debuts to grand epics and everything in between, there were some great films at this year's TIFF.

After announcing on Sept. 12 that screenings of the controversial documentary “Russians at War” would be paused due to “significant threats to festival operations and public safety,” the film is set to return to the Toronto International Film Festival’s lineup on Sept.

Many pro-Ukraine westerners (but not all) are quick to denounce Russian-Canadian documentarian Anastasia Trofimova’s new film “Russians at War,” which is currently making its way around the film festival circuit.

Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian director, was added to the list of individuals who pose a threat to Ukraine's national security. Source: press service of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications reports that Trofimova was included on the list for her documentary Russians at War.