spotted partying<\/a> at a Toronto nightclub.<\/p>\nSteve, Palestine 36 among Friday premieres<\/h2>\n
Actor Cillian Murphy was expected on the red carpet Friday for the 5:30 p.m. ET premiere of Steve, a drama from\u00a0director Tim Mielants, in which Murphy plays the head of a reform school for teenage boys in an adaptation of Max Porter’s 2023 novella Shy.<\/p>\n
The film kicks off TIFF’s Platform, a juried competitive program for “artistically ambitious” cinema.<\/p>\n
Other notable Friday premieres include South Korean writer-director Byun Sung-hyun’s action thriller Good News, Nicholas Hynter’s\u00a0period drama The Choral and Toronto filmmaker Clement Virgo’s drama Steal Away.<\/p>\n
Some used the red carpet to make\u00a0political statements Friday.<\/p>\n
The cast of Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir’s film about life in a rapidly evolving 1930s Palestine, arrived wearing Palestinian insignia, with actor Karim Daoud Anaya holding up a camera soaked in fake blood and actor Zaid Ghazal posing for photos with the words “Stop the genocide” on his hands, in reference to the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Free sushi and open-air movies<\/h2>\n
Some found\u00a0creative, even tasty ways to promote their TIFF films.<\/p>\n
A 60-foot-long sushi bar took over the northwest corner of King and John streets starting at 5 p.m. ET Friday, for one night only, to mark the world premiere of the documentary\u00a0Still Single.\u00a0The film follows Masaki Saito, Canada’s only chef to hold two Michelin stars, who grew up in rural Japan and lives in Toronto.<\/p>\n
More than a dozen chefs from Saito’s MSSM restaurant were tapped to serve\u00a0up free gourmet sushi for festivalgoers.<\/p>\n
Friday also saw the launch of the Rogers TIFF 50 Timescape installation in Yorkville, with multimedia installations and archival content celebrating 50 years of cinema.<\/p>\n
WATCH | John Candy documentary’s Thursday premiere:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe John Candy film\u00a0Uncle Buck\u00a0will screen at Cinema Park at 10 p.m. ET as part of the ongoing TIFF Festival Street, a pedestrian-only zone on King Street West that runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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