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TIFF 2025: A Canadian Viewpoint on the Toronto International Film Festival at 50
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Roger Ebert
The choice was made to add the “International People’s Choice” for a second kick at the can.
Chloé Zhao’s Telluride-debuting “Hamnet” was the “regular” People’s fave, while Park Chan-wook’s Venice title “No Other Choice” took home the newly minted international prize.
Anchored by a quiet yet compelling performance by Leo Woodall, the film gives a lovely late-career showcase to Dustin Hoffman.
The programmers have a duty, perhaps a unique one given its claim to be the world’s largest public film festival, to select films in a wide rather than a narrow way.
The space of a film festival should be home for many perspectives (no, not all), but above all, it should not be sanitized and siphoned to only allow the agreed-upon narratives to be showcased.
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