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Whisky expert Heather Greene joins us for a screening of Ken Loach's award-winning caper comedy and discusses the role that whisky has played in the history of cinema. This concludes our Food on Film Series for 2016. For more information on other upcoming series, visit tiff.net

Following our free screening of Sean Baker's Tangerine, we were honoured to welcome star Mya Taylor — who this year became the first transgender actress to win a major film prize when she took home an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female — for an onstage conversation. For more events like these and information on our upcoming Higher Learning's visit http://tiff.net/summer2016-series

Stage director and Olivier Award–winning actor Kathryn Hunter takes us behind the scenes of Julie Taymor's innovative production of Shakespeare's immortal fantasy. For more information on this series and more visit tiff.net/books

Cheryl Strayed joins us for a screening of Wild, part of TIFF's 2016 Books on Film Series and reflects on Jean-Marc Vallée's acclaimed adaptation of her best-selling 2012 memoir.

A 2006 Hot Docs Film Festival Interview with Werner Herzog. This Friday sees the return of the director with his new film Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World playing 9:45pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox. For tickets visit: http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=50928~edeed7b8-5598-4ac6-994a-ca71bc407bc4&epguid=1982376d-17a7-4bb4-9959-f38bb053d10d&

Ridley Scott and Yaphey Kotto from our 2003 TIFF Dialogues event screening the director's cut. We bring his film back to the big screen April 7th at TIFF Bell Lightbox. For tickets visit http://tiff.net/winter2016-cinematheque/tiff-cinematheque-special-screenings-winter-2016/alien

Film scholar Sara Saljoughi discusses the role of women in Kiarostami's oeuvre and the film's confrontation with "the look" in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. For more information on TIFF Cinemathque saluting the Iranian master with this deluxe retrospective, check out The Wind Will Carry Us: The Films of Abbas Kiarostami. http://tiff.net/winter2016-cinematheque/the-wind-will-carry-us-the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami

Tatiana Maslany, TIFF Rising Stars alumna and critically acclaimed star of television's Orphan Black, joins Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey for an onstage conversation about her diverse film career and rapid rise to stardom. Tatiana Maslany was born in Regina. Her starring role in Grown Up Movie Star (10) won her the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival. Selected as a TIFF Rising Star at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Maslany went on to earn best performance awards at the 2012 Whistler International Film Festival and the 2013 ACTRA Awards for her role as a troubled teenager in Picture Day (12). Her feature credits also include Violet & Daisy (11), The Vow (12), Blood Pressure (12), Cas and Dylan (14), and Woman in Gold (15). She has garnered numerous accolades for her role on the critically acclaimed Canadian sci-fi series Orphan Black (13–), including Critics' Choice Television Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for best lead actress in a drama series, as well as Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award nominations. Maslany's upcoming feature work includes a starring role opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger (16), based on a memoir by a Boston Marathon bombing survivor; Oscar-nominated director Kim Nguyen's Two Lovers and a Bear (16) alongside Dane DeHaan; and The Other Half (16).

Irish-Canadian co-production Room, the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award winner, has been building momentum as one of the strong award contenders of the year. Find out from the team behind the powerful film on the road to bring this novel to life and how Canada played an important role in its success.

Kiefer Sutherland joins Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey for an intimate discussion about his stellar career, from his formative years in Toronto and his breakout role in Daniel Petrie's acclaimed Canadian film The Bay Boy, through Hollywood stardom and his Golden Globe-, Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning work on television's 24, to his acclaimed performance in Forsaken, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. Kiefer Sutherland was born in England and raised in Toronto. A film star since the 1980s, he gained his most recent international acclaim for his lead role as Jack Bauer on television's 24 (06-10), winning a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for best actor in a drama series. He reprised the role in the miniseries 24: Live Another Day (14). Sutherland has been acting professionally since he was a teenager and made his lead debut in Daniel Petrie's feature The Bay Boy (84), which earned him a Genie Award nomination for best actor. His many other film credits include Stand By Me (86), The Lost Boys (87), Young Guns (88), 1969 (88), Flatliners (90), A Few Good Men (92), The Vanishing (93), The Three Musketeers (93), A Time to Kill (95), Phone Booth (03), The Sentinel (06), Lars von Trier's Melancholia (11), Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (12), and, alongside Donald Sutherland, Forsaken (15), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His extensive voice work includes the English version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (14) and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (15), from the bestselling videogame franchise. Category