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The Sundance Film Festival has narrowed its search for a new home down to three finalists. One option remains a combination of Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah, the latter its base for over 40 years.

MONTREAL — As a young film student in Montreal, Denis Villeneuve discovered the works of directors like David Lynch on the screens of Cinéma du Parc, an independent movie house in the basement of a shopping centre near McGill University.

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival says it's not pulling a controversial documentary about Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine from its schedule despite outcry from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to

TORONTO (AP) — August Wilson ’s “The Piano Lesson” deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair.

The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable.

TORONTO — Jason Reitman says showing his film about the origins of "Saturday Night Live" in Toronto feels "amazing," given the sketch-comedy institution's Canadian roots.

Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal? Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and Ciara’s house, either, deep in the English countryside.

They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old restless Canadian, they prompt a visitor.

TORONTO — Five hours ahead of the first screening of "Saturday Night" at the Toronto International Film Festival, fans were already lined up along the red carpet and waiting for celebrities to arrive.

Ontario's public broadcaster says it won't be airing a documentary about Russian soldiers it helped produce, amid protests against the film's screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.