Guillermo del Toro and Jodi Foster Toronto are set to get special honors in the 50th edition of the International Film Festival.
De Toro will be presented with the Abert Director Award – recognizing filmmakers, who have exemplary greatness – on September 7 at the TIFF Tribute Awards.
The Academy Award winning director will premiere his science-fi facility “Frankstein” at the Utsav.
Jodi Foster will receive this year’s share Hiz Journey Groundbreaker Award, which recognizes women in the film, which paves the way for others.
The two -time Oscar winners will include previous recipients Kate Blanchets, Petricia Archweet and Mitchell YeOH.
American-Canadian actor Brendon will serve as an honorary president of the fraser proceedings.
Meanwhile, the Japanese writer-director Mitsuyo Miyanaki, also known as Hikari, will be awarded the Emerging Talent Award, and will receive a special tribute award to South Korean actor and “Squad Game” Star Lee Bug-Hun.
The TIFF also announced on Thursday that the Park Chan-Vook’s comedy thriller “No other choice” will create its North American premiere at the festival. It reflects Bug-Hun as a middle-aged person on a frustrated job victim after being fired from a role for 25 years.
Tiff runs from 4 to 14 September and will open with a documentary on the heavenly Canadian comic with “John Candy: I Like Me,”.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 31 July 2025.
Alex Nino Gikiu, Canadian Press
