2SLGBTQI+ Films To Add To Your 2025 TIFF Watch List
With over 20 films this year, the festival’s 2SLGBTQI+ lineup features familiar faces, local documentaries and a global queer perspective
Documentary On Sarah McLachlan’s Iconic Lilith Fair To Debut At TIFF
The film about the ‘90s era all women music festival will be available nationwide on CBC Gem starting September 17, 2025
REVIEW: ‘On Swift Horses’ Demonstrates Jacob Elordi’s Range In Queer Baiting Audiences
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, and Sasha Calle round out the cast of one of the gayest movies of the fall festival season
REVIEW: Trans Issues In The Spanish-Speaking World Are Set To A Musical Melody In Audaciously Star-Studded ‘Emilia Pérez’
Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz make beautiful music together in Jacques Audiard’s provocative crime drama about a drug kingpin transitioning to evade police and be in tune with their identity
REVIEW: Daniel Craig & Drew Starkey Make For An Unlikely Pair In Psychedelic Fuelled Film ‘Queer’
Challengers director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes bring the novel by William S. Burroughs about post-war gay men living in Mexico to the screen in an unusual fashion
‘On Swift Horses’ Cast & Crew Remark On Secret Queer Lives In 1950s America
IN Magazine talked with the director, screenwriter, and two actors of On Swift Horses, the film that has taken TIFF by storm
10 Queer Films From TIFF 2024 That You Need To Add To Your Must-Watch List
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival runs from Thursday September 5 until Sunday September 15… As summer quickly comes to an end, it’s time to recognize some...
Review: Elliot Page Comes Home to Family Drama in ‘Close to You’
In a risky endeavour to showcase his range in an indie drama that hits close to home, Elliot Page stars alongside Hillary Baack and Wendy Crewson in Close to You
Review: Power and Influence Control a Closeted Theatre Critic in ‘The Critic’
Sir Ian McKellen stars as the titular critic whose downfall is articulated by notable screenwriter Patrick Marber and director Anand Tucker, based on the novel Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn
Review: ‘Dicks: The Musical’ Takes Show Tunes and Heteronormativity to Absurd Heights
The brains of Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp are in full whackjob form with an over-the-top rendition of The Parent Trap
Review: ‘Next Goals Wins’ Kicks Taika Waititi’s Comedy Chops Into Less Than Inspirational Territory
Writer/director Taika Waititi fictionalizes a true story’s facts of the American Samoa soccer team with trademark humour during the world premiere of Next Goals Wins at the Toronto International Film Festival
Review: Grit And Determination In Open Waters Define One Of Annette Bening’s Best Performances In ‘NYAD’
Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin unveiled the international premiere of the Netflix biographical drama NYAD at the Toronto International Film Festival, based on Diana Nyad’s book Find a Way
Latest Issue
September/October 2025
Inside this issue: An intimate conversation with Sarah McLachlan on the legacy of Lilith, allyship, and what comes next; In celebration of disco’s 55th year we sat down with seven legendary divas who survived, shone, and soundtracked our liberation; Finnish goalkeeper Sofia Manner finds safe haven in Canada; Inside the groundbreaking work of the Community-Based Research Centre; The legacy of Noah’s Arc; Pinning over hot (and, sadly, dead) Victorian men; Ziyad Saadi’s debut novel is definitely not an instruction manual for coming out; A look at queer-owned Little Ghosts Book, Canada’s first horror bookstore; and more.
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