TIFF Riffs

In brief: When a lonely suburban man turned gay porn producer discovers a hot, lucrative new star, he finds himself the target of rival por...

In brief: Based on the 2008 novel by Phillip Roth, Indignation takes place in 1951 during the Korean War. The story follows Marcus Messner...

In brief: The eponymous Daniel is an affable, 59-year-old carpenter in Newcastle, fighting to collect his Employment and Support Allowance ...

In brief: The remarkable achievements of Roger D’Astous (1926-1998), one of Canada's leading architects in the 20th century as seen thr...

In brief: Louis is a terminally ill writer who has come home after 12 years of absence to tell his family he is dying. It's the proverb...

In brief: This wickedly comic drama stars Winslet as a worldly dressmaker returning to the Australian backwater that exiled her. Tilly Dunn...

In brief: Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends his da...

In brief: Paterson works as a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey — an ordinary working guy in a run-of-the-mill small city. His life is reg...

In brief:  Based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a "perfect" American family that is torn apart by the social...

In brief: A couple, Drew & Colin, preparing to start a family, sets out to build the perfect one-of-a-kind nest, only to hire an archit...

In brief: Based on the final novel by the late, great Canadian novelist Carol Shields. An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters ...

In brief: In 1962, with only a few professional fights under his belt, Finnish featherweight Ollie Mäki fought American Davey More for the ...

In brief: Marnie Minervini, is a compulsive advice-giver, Recently widowed, ceaselessly cheerful, Marnie cannot stop texting, calling, and...

In brief: In the global financial crisis following the Lehman Brothers collapse, feared and respected CEO, Miss Chang, prepares to list her...

In brief: Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a...

In brief: An energetic, sharply edited celebration of the famed American musician and composer, whose wackily charismatic public persona be...

In brief: Two teens in a small rural community seek solace from their dark pasts and troubled home lives in a forbidden romance. The life o...

In brief: Lee Chandler, is the resident handyman for a small apartment complex in a Boston suburb. He spends his days shovelling snow, fixi...

In brief: It’s hard to make numbers sexy, especially on screen, but the life of Indian mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, who revoluti...

In brief: Abandoned by his mother at just six years old, Maloney is constantly in and out of juvenile court. The boy’s mother is addicted t...

In brief: Maureen is the personal shopper for a high-powered German model/designer and jet-setter who demands an endless supply of clothes ...

In brief: Detectives and best friends, Andreas and Simon, lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and...

In brief: Based on a novel by master spy thriller writer John Le Carré. While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry an...

In brief: Over the course of his nearly-four-decade career with Charles Scriber’s Sons, Maxwell Perkins fought hard to bring the best works...

In brief: In the wake of the Second World War, the Danish authorities force thousands of German prisoners of war to defuse the millions of ...