#TIFF50
19 September 2025, late afternoon
Twenty years ago I would manage to make it out to way more films at TIFF. I would buy a ten pack of tickets, at least. It’s harder to find the time for TIFF nowadays. I miss the sheer amount of movie watching I would manage to do. I’m lucky my friends still take the time to look through the programmes and find movies to watch. Nowadays I’ll latch onto their picks, my friend Mezan grabbing me tickets for a few films that look good. This year I watched two: The Furious, and Dinner with Friends. Two completely different movies. The Furious was a midnight madness screening of one of the most bananas martial arts films I’ve seen in a while. Dinner with Friends was a super-low budget (though it didn’t look it!) drama about a group of friends navigating adulthood in Toronto. I loved them both. A great way to enjoy the 50th anniversary of the festival.