With the selection of films available at TIFF 2021 as large as ever trying to decide what to watch can be a daunting task. Take a look at our guide for some helpful tips.
A professional mascot named Fauve gets dumped on the Summer solstice, aka the longest day of the year. The icy storm she’s plunged into doesn’t quite fit with the current heatwave.
An injured jockey tries to endure nine races on nine horses over the course of one unforgiving night on the track. He will test the limits of his body and find what exists in the grey area between pain and beauty — if it doesn’t destroy him first.
"The films that end up in the programme selection are the survivors of a very bloody battle" - Manchester Animation Festival's Steve Henderson is the latest interviewee in our Meet the Gatekeepers series.
With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.
A volatile young man struggles to control his unnatural powers when he faces a chance encounter in an unfamiliar environment
A woman walking her dog in the bush has a disturbing encounter with a young girl.
An ambitious journalist challenges the leader of a violent vigilante group to a high-stakes drinking game that may score her a scoop or a bullet to the head.
At a crisis center in late 1971, a freshly minted counselor on the late shift takes his first call: a suicidal teenager whose parents won’t let her come home for Christmas. The call exposes truths about each that lead to a surprising conclusion.
Danny DeVito directs and stars in this prescient political parable about a loud-mouthed, egotistical New Jersey concrete mogul who decides to make an independent run for Senator. Feeling “Jersey is going down the tubes” he decides only a successful businessman such as he can fix it. Sound familiar?
