The Tale of Silyan | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 23, 2025
A compelling and moving portrait of a vanishing way of life in North Macedonia.
A compelling and moving portrait of a vanishing way of life in North Macedonia.
For those who either loved Megalopolis or simply love cinema, this is an alluring up-close-and-personal documentary about its creation.
A fascinating and unsettling watch, highlighting the contradictions of “To Catch a Predator.”
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey wears its heart on its sleeve, animated by a romantic notion that asks audiences to accept it as it is.
Though set in the pre-app, agonizing phone-waiting days of the past, the movie’s themes and struggles remain impactful and relevant.
Director Mona Fastvold combines two “unforgiving” genres—the biopic and the musical—and focuses on a relatively unknown historical figure: the founder of the Shaker movement.
With more than 200 feature films playing out over 11 days, and depending on the viewer’s stamina, there are countless variations of what to see.
This film overwhelms with its unexpected poignance, its truthfulness, and the imagination it uses to examine its teenage characters.
Director Dag Johan Haugerud beautifully captures the anxiety and obsession that come with being in love for the first time.