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Jason Thai

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TIFF ’25: 100 Sunset

TIFF ’25: 100 Sunset

Kunsang Kyirong’s debut 100 Sunset is a quiet marvel, set in Toronto’s Little Tibet community. It follows Kunsel, played with delicate restraint by Tenzin Kunsel, a reserved teenager who observes her world through the lens of a camcorder. When she befriends Passang...

TIFF ’25: The Ugly – Stripping away the spectacle

TIFF ’25: The Ugly – Stripping away the spectacle

Yeon Sang ho’s The Ugly strips away spectacle to deliver a slow burning mystery rooted in grief and prejudice. Park Jeong-min carries the film in dual roles, portraying both the son who discovers his mother’s remains decades later and the father who lived through her...

TIFF ’25: Rental Family

TIFF ’25: Rental Family

Hikari’s Rental Family explores Japan’s real life rent a relative industry through the eyes of Philip, a lonely actor in Tokyo played by Brendan Fraser. Hired to play husbands, fathers, and sons for clients in need, Philip finds himself blurring the line between...

TIFF ’25: Obsession

TIFF ’25: Obsession

Curry Barker’s Obsession begins like a love story and ends as a nightmare. Michael Johnston plays Bear, a timid music store clerk who makes a supernatural wish for his longtime crush, Nikki (Inde Navarrette), to fall in love with him. At first, the spell seems...

September 5: Changing the world in 1972

September 5: Changing the world in 1972

September 5 is a compelling exploration of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis and its groundbreaking impact on live news coverage. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, the film highlights how ABC News redefined broadcast journalism by choosing to focus on the unfolding...