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TIFF 2025: I am the epitome of calm

Achieving Zen in the time of queues

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Sarah
Aug 28, 2025
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TIFF 2025 (TIFF)

Dear Squawkers,

In what is now a Squawk tradition, it’s time to talk TIFF, logistics, and lines. The lines! The big dumb lines! Truly a defining TIFF tradition.

This year, I am approaching TIFF planning with calm and patience, I am box breathing and not allowing a schedule to rule my mood. I am Zen, I am collected, I am bathing in the tranquility of my Google sheets. Which is to say that TIFF scheduling has become so laughably difficult I just can’t worry about it anymore. Some stuff will work out, other stuff won’t, and you know what? In the end it will be fine! I will see a lot of movies and write a lot of reviews! If I miss a movie at TIFF, I can just see it later! That said, if I can’t see Wake Up Dead Man, I might cry…

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