EFP at Toronto 2024 - The Film Verdict

2024 awards race takes shape as TIFF brings stars and prestige to the red carpet.

Frida Kempff’s powerful biopic defies conventions as it studies the intersection of patriarchy and sport.

Sarra Tsorakidis’ debut is a searing reckoning of contemporary Romania under late stage capitalism.

An empathetic study of a woman trying to hold it together for her kids is powered with a memorable performance by Ophelia Kolb.

Tragedy and family collide in Dmitris Nakos’ feature debut in which half an acre means the whole world.

Guillaume Senez’s sensitive and low-key melodrama explores the harsh realities of Japan’s child custody laws.

Psychics, the military, extraterrestrials, and a democratic future collide in this unbelievably wild but true Bulgarian dramedy.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a fantasy father figure in Egil Pedersen’s charming coming-of-age dramedy.

Blue Road finds the blazing truth in famed author Edna O’Brien’s remarkable career.

Ali Samadi Ahadi’s turgid drama with a script from ‘Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof offers a surface level view of Iranian politics.