! Women Art Revolution - A Secret History

Lynn Hershman

USA

Filmed over four decades, this inspiring cultural history tracks the struggles and breakthroughs of women artists from Judy Chicago to Guerilla Girls to Miranda July and more, packed with rare archival footage and overflowing wit...

10 to 11

Pelin Esmer

Turkey, France, Germany

An elderly man clashes with his neighbours as they try to remove him -- and his elaborate collections of ephemera -- from his apartment.

127 Hours

Danny Boyle

USA

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ral...

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike

Japan

Cult director Takeshi Miike delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne...

22nd of May

Koen Mortier

Belgium/The Netherlands/Germany

24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro

Douglas Gordon

A dual-channel video installation which consists of two side-by-side projections of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Both projections are slowed down to a duration of twenty-four hours, one playing forwards and the other in reve...

40

Emre Sahin

Turkey, USA

Capturing the dazzling intensity of Istanbul's twelve million souls, Sahin's groundbreaking feature crisscrosses the lives of a petty crook, an ambitious nurse and an African migrant as they seek money, luck or just a way out.

753 McPherson St.

Kevin Jerome Everson

USA

Life may not go on but careful work continues at this Mansfield Ohio address.

8 ½ Screens

Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan’s discomfort and fascination with the relationship of viewer and viewed finds a perfect match in the famous projection room sequence in Federico Fellini’s 81/2. Egoyan reverses the relationship between projector, audi...

Africa United

Debs Gardner-Paterson

United Kingdom

Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream – to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.

Aftershock

Feng Xiaogang

China

The most successful Chinese movie of all time, Aftershock is based on the novel of the same name by Chinese Canadian author Zhang Ling. An intimate epic, the film sweeps across three crucial decades in recent Chinese history and ...

All About Love

Ann Hui

Hong Kong, China

All About Love takes a rare look at not only the lives of queer women, but also the challenges of creating a family. Ann Hui expertly balances the serious themes of motherhood, sexuality and discrimination, rarely addressed in Ho...

Amazon Falls

Katrin Bowen

Canada

Characters reveal hidden depths as Katrin Bowen’s first feature tells the tale of a struggling actress named Jana. Delving into the high-stakes world of keeping up appearances for which Los Angeles is infamous, Amazon Falls craft...

American Beauty

Sam Mendes

USA

Hilariously macabre, this is a tale of suburban angst taken to extremes. Lester (Kevin Spacey) is a sexually frustrated forty-something who quits his job in favour of full-time self-indulgence. His neurotic wife pursues various i...

Amigo

John Sayles

USA

The US occupation of the Philippines in 1900 provides the backdrop to this story of squad of American soldiers who occupy a village and learn how to live and negotiate with the natives. They focus on the local head man who finds ...

L' Amour Fou

Pierre Thoretton

France

Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion's most celebrated empires. This moving documentary chronicles his rise, his lifelong partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction off a lifetime of precious art and objects.

Angst Essen / Eat Fear

Ming Wong

Angst Essen / Eat Fear is a compressed remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's interracial melodrama Ali: Fear Eats The Soul in which Ming Wong himself plays all the roles, including the Moroccan male and German female protagonist.

Another Year

Mike Leigh

United Kingdom

A happily married, middle-aged couple are visited by a number of unhappy and lonely friends who use them as confidantes. When an unmarried friend falls for their young son, they watch as events unfold. The film stars Jim Broadben...

ANPO

Linda Hoaglund

Japan, USA

ANPO depicts resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings and photographs, as well as animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists.

Anything You Want

Achero Mañas

Spain

Four year-old Dafne's life is unhinged when her mother Alicia suddenly dies. Her father Leo tries to be both father and mother to her, but Dafne really just wants her mom. Leo strives to be just that, and in the process, nearly l...

Armadillo

Janus Metz

Denmark

Winner of Cannes Critics Week, Armadillo is a harrowing portrayal of the current conflict in Afghanistan. The film follows a contingent of Danish troops into the chaos of combat in a way that stirs debate over the rules of engage...

As If I Am Not There

Juanita Wilson

Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden

As If I Am Not There relates one woman’s experience of the horrors that took place at the beginning of the Bosnian War. Disturbing and powerful, the film is an important testament to the survivors of the atrocities in the former ...

At Ellen's Age

Pia Marais

Germany

A German flight attendant falls into increasingly bizarre adventures when she leaves her husband, quits her job and joins a radical group of animal activists.

ATTENBERG

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Greece

A dying architect and his emotionally stunted daughter inhabit the remains of a once booming industrial community in the middle of nowhere, now populated by the precious few who didn’t have the heart to leave it behind.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Andrei Ujica

Romania

Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding montage epic unfolds as if from the nostalgic, solipsistic memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was ...

Autumn

Aamir Bashir

India

Shot in striking, widescreen images in India's Kashmir region, Bashir's debut tells the story of Rafiq, a young man struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother, who has disappeared in the ongoing border conflic...

Away from Her

Sarah Polley

Canada

When Fiona’s (Julie Christie) memory starts to deteriorate, her husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent) must move her to a rest home. Distressed by the intimate relationship she strikes up with fellow patient, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), Gra...

Bad Faith

Kristian Petri

Sweden

On her way home from work Mona finds the victim of a serial killer. She is shocked but the experience triggers something within and her fascination becomes obsession. She decides to find the killer on her own. Her hunt leads to v...

Balada Triste (The Last Circus)

Álex de la Iglesia

Spain, France

Álex de la Iglesia's genius for dark humour is at its most eloquent in his latest parody about the Spanish Civil War. Two clowns attack and disfigure one another in jealous rages over a beautiful dancer. In the name of love, they...

The Bang Bang Club

Steven Silver

Canada, South Africa

The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise...

Barney's Version

Richard J. Lewis

Canada, Italy

From producer Robert Lantos, Barney’s Version is a film based on Mordecai Richler's prize-winning comic novel. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Barney’s candid confessi...

Beautiful Boy

Shawn Ku

USA

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life. Stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.

Beginners

Mike Mills

USA

When his seventy-one-year-old father (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must explore the honesty of his own relationships. From the director of Thumbsucker.

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Jonathan Sobol

Canada

Raucous, charming and very funny, Jonathan Sobol's comedy A Beginners Guide to Endings follows three sons as they deal with their gambler father's somewhat complicated legacy. Featuring the legendary Harvey Keitel, the film also...

Behind Blue Skies

Hannes Holm

Sweden

In Hannes Holm's beautiully crafted Behind Blue Skies, Bill Skargard stars as a young man on the cusp of manhood who escapes his troubled home to work at a summer resort, but somehow finds himself embroiled in one of the most sca...

The Big Chill

Lawrence Kasdan

USA

When a group of friends reunite for the funeral of a friend who has committed suicide, they realize how much they’ve changed since the idealism of their youth. Each has a deep need to re-establish intimacies they once shared in t...

The Big Picture

Eric Lartigau

France

Paul Exben is a success story. He has a great job, a glamorous wife and two wonderful sons, except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new id...

Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Spain, Mexico

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted real...

Black Ocean

Marion Hänsel

Belgium, France, Germany

Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1972 take part in nuclear tests in Mururoa, in the Pacific. Black Ocean explores about the relationships of the men on board who are confronted with discipline, violence, solitude ...

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky

USA

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company. Black Swan...

Blame

Michael Henry

Australia

A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out, they find themselves on the dark side of justice.

Blessed Events

Isabelle Stever

Germany

37 year-old Simone decides to go out alone on New Year’s Eve. The next morning, she wakes up next to a stranger, and a few weeks later discovers that she’s pregnant. When she runs into the stranger again she is surprised by his r...

Block-C

Zeki Demirkubuz

Turkey

Zeki Demirkubuz's career-launching feature debut dissects the melancholy and repression inherent in bourgeois life in dreary apartment blocks.

Blue Valentine

Derek Cianfrance

USA

Blue Valentine is the story of love found and love lost, told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosli...

Boxing Gym

Frederick Wiseman

USA

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.

Break Up Club

Barbara Wong

Hong Kong

Barbara Wong captures the mood of Hong Kong's young generation and delivers an ultra-modern romantic comedy about the end of one's innocence and the understanding that love is ultimately about the sacrifices one must make. Jaycee...

Brighton Rock

Rowan Joffe

United Kingdom

Based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel, we follow the odd relationship between a young thug on the rise in the British underground and a tea room waitress who witnesses a crime he has committed.

Brownian Movement

Nanouk Leopold

The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

Acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold explores a young mother's desires and needs in the langorous and atmospheric The Brownian Movement.

Bunraku

Guy Moshe

USA

In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett), a young samurai and a bartender (Woody Harrelson) plot revenge against a ruthless leader (Ron Perlman) and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assass...

Buried

Rodrigo Cortés

Spain, USA

When Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) wakes up six feet underground with no idea who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a...

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

Wuershan

Hong Kong, China, USA

A tale of revenge, honour and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.

The Call

Stefano Pasetto

Italy/Argentina

Two woman, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity, meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind the...

Carancho

Pablo Trapero

Argentina, South Korea, France, Chile

Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Lujan, he tries to leave this dark business b...

Casino Jack

George Hickenlooper

Canada

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Werner Herzog

USA

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. He puts 3-D technology to a profound use,...

Ceremony

Max Winkler

USA

Along with his unwilling best friend, a young guy looks to crash the wedding of an older woman with whom he's infatuated. Stars Uma Thurman.

Chico & Rita

Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando

Spain, United Kingdom

Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba teams up with famed designer, Javier Mariscal to create an epic animated love story that occurs around the time of the Cuban Revolution.Highlighting a pivotal moment in the evolution of jazz...

The Christening

Marcin Wrona

Poland

Michal (Wojciech Zielinski) hopes to change his luck and escape his criminal past. But when he’s pursued by a violent gang,he desperately tries to find a way to save his family.

Cirkus Columbia

Danis Tanovic

Bosnia, Herzegovina

After twenty years of exile, a husband returns to his hometown in Herzegovina to settle some scores with his ex-wife, armed with a new Mercedes, a sexy new girlfriend and a mangy black cat.

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Alex Gibney

USA

Investigating the sex scandal that forced New York’s Governor to resign, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney gains revelatory interviews from Spitzer, his most frequent escort and his Wall Street enemies that bring new perspective...

Cold Fish

Sion Sono

Japan

Equal parts black humour and bloody dementia in this true crime portrait of a Japanese tropical fish dealer responsible for over forty murders.

Confessions

Tetsuya Nakashima

Japan

Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions is one of Japan's most important films of the year. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, the film spins the dark tale of vengeance of a teacher whose little daughter has been killed by two...

The Conspirator

Robert Redford

USA

While an angry nation seeks vengeance, a young union war hero must defend a mother accused of aiding her son in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Directed by Robert Redford, the film stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright...

Conviction

Tony Goldwyn

USA

Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy® Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sent...

Cool It

Ondi Timoner

USA

Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner trains her camera on Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who takes on the issue of climate change, challenging the status quo, and pointing toward new ...

Crash

Paul Haggis

USA

Crash is a deeply felt meditation on redemption in the wake of tragedy. As beautiful as it is provocative, this powerful epic won accolades for director Paul Haggis and its ensemble cast. Rife with moments of intolerance, Crash i...

Crying Out

Robin Aubert

Canada

Three generations of men from the same family drunkenly careen across the Québécois countryside in an emotionally powerful journey through the past from one of Québec’s most intriguing young filmmakers.

Curling

Denis Côté

Canada

Set in a village in Quebec, Denis Côté’s Curling follows inveterate loner Jean-François, a single father, and his isolated 12-year-old daughter Julyvonne. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François devotes an awkward energy to ...

Dark Cloud

Theron Patterson

Turkey

A black comedy with the style of a lucid dream, Dark Cloud looks at a middle-aged man who can't move on from the death of his wife, and the teenaged son who needs him to wake up.

Daydream Nation

Mike Goldbach

Canada

Seventeen year-old Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) has just moved to a tiny, nowhere town where an industrial fire burns ceaselessly and a serial killer is claiming young victims. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common w...

The Debt

John Madden

United Kingdom

Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain and Sam Worthington star in this thriller about three Israeli Mossad agents on a 1965 mission to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, secrets about the case emerge.

Deep in the Woods

Benoît Jacquot

France, Germany

Set in the 19th century, a wild man emerges from the woods and casts a spell on the beautiful daughter of a country doctor. The two of them flee into the woods and descend into a nightmare of carnal sex, mixed with moments of ten...

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Tsui Hark

China

Based on the iconic figure of Di Renjie, a legendary minister of state in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) who was known for his ability to solve the most complicated cases, Tsui Hark's Detective Dee (Andy Lau) is a uniquely appea...

Dhobi Ghat

Kiran Rao

India

In the teeming metropolis of Mumbai, four people separated by class and language are drawn together in compelling relationships. Shai, an affluent investment banker on a sabbatical, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna, a ...

Dirty Girl

Abe Sylvia

USA

Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When her misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselv...

Distant

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkey

Distant maps Nuri Bilge Ceylan's signature exploration of existential heartache onto the wintry shores of Istanbul.

The Ditch

Wang Bing

France, Belgium

A political ghost story that gives voice to atrocious memories, The Ditch draws from Wang Bing's experience as a documentary filmmaker and lays bare a dramatic hidden chapter of China's communist history. It recounts the harrowin...

E-100

James Andean & François Xavier Saint-Pierre

E-100 is a sound installation in which key samples of film dialogue culled from the films in the Essential 100 list are heard both clearly and obliquely in conjunction with a randomizer algorithm patched to various instrumental s...

Easy A

Will Gluck

USA

After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean-cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne’s in The Scarlet Letter, which she is currently studying in school – until she decide...

Easy Money

Daniel Espinosa

Sweden

The worlds of a mob enforcer, an escaped convict and an ambitious young business student collide in an explosive and white-knuckled thriller based on the 2006 bestselling Swedish novel by Jens Lapidus.

The Edge

Alexey Uchitel

Russia

The arrival of a decorated war hero takes a Siberian labour camp by storm. After assuming control of the region’s only steam engine, he sets out to find a ghost engine on a nearby island populated by an undead girl with a railway...

Erotic Man

Jørgen Leth

Denmark

Danish master Jørgen Leth travels the globe in this sensual, provocative and sometimes autobiographical essay film about a man searching … searching the world for the nature of the erotic.

Essential Killing

Jerzy Skolimowski

Poland, Norway, Ireland, Hungary

A Taliban fighter is captured, interrogated, tortured and then transported to an unnamed snowy destination in Europe. Taking advantage of an accident, he escapes and has to use all his wits to evade his pursuers whilst battling b...

Essential Titles

Barr Gilmore

Essential Titles is a 5-minute looped motion graphic projection that isolates and recreates only the title and director's credit from the opening sequences of all of the films on the Essential 100 list — mimicking their transitio...

Even the Rain

Icíar Bollaín

Spain, France, Mexico

Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to Bolivia to shoot a film about the Spanish conquest of America. He and his crew arrive during the tense time of the Cochabamba water crisis. The lines between past and present, f...

Everything Must Go

Dan Rush

USA

After 16 years devising motivational speeches that promise certain success, Nick Porter (Will Ferrell) is abruptly fired. He returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their home and dumped all his posse...

Film Socialism

Jean-Luc Godard

Switzerland

Godard's latest film, a "symphony in three movements," grapples with trying to make sense of a world that appears to be beyond comprehension and meaning.

Fire of Conscience

Dante Lam

Hong Kong, China

Dante Lam proves himself to be a talent to look out for in this slam bang action film where robbers and gunrunners battle with cops on the busy urban streets of Hong Kong. Starring Leon Lai, Fire of Conscience is easily one of lo...

The First Grader

Justin Chadwick

United Kingdom

In a remote Kenyan primary school hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school: Maru...

Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

Sturla Gunnarsson

Canada

At seventy-five years old, David Suzuki shows no signs of slowing down. In this captivating documentary portrait, the passionate environmentalist's legacy lecture is entwined with candid interviews in which he reflects on his lif...

The Four Times

Michelangelo Frammartino

Italy, Germany, Switzerland

Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration – by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, until completely purified – The Four Times is a genre-defying work of cinematic transcendence...

The Fourth Portrait

Chung Mong-Hong

Taiwan

The Fourth Portrait casts a sobering look at the troubling issues of domestic violence, and the difficult family dynamics that are born of marriages of convenience.

Fubar II with SCC The Legend of Beaver Dam

The Game of Death

Christophe Nick, Thomas Bornot

France

This documentary examines the idea of the limits of obedience and punishment. Based on an experiment conducted in the sixties, the setting is a modern television game show where we see how far people will go to inflict pain on a ...

GENPIN

Naomi Kawase

Japan

A serene observation of women giving birth at the clinic of Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura who has spent 40 years on the path of natural childbirth, Genpin is Naomi Kawase's special meditation on life and on the unshakable bond between mo...

Girlfriend

Justin Lerner

USA

When an unexpected financial windfall affords a young man with Down Syndrome some freedom, he decides to pursue the object of his high school crush, Candy. The decision brings him into conflict with her volatile ex-boyfriend, and...

Good Neighbours

Jacob Tierney

Canada

Director Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky) returns with an innovative and unsettling thriller about some very strange people living in the same apartment building in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood. The film stars Scott Sp...

Gorbaciòf - The Cashier who Liked Gambling

Stefano Incerti

Italy

A compulsive gambler who works in the petty-cash office of the Poggioreale prison falls in love with Lily, an illegal immigrant, and tries to free both of them from their dead-end lives. The film stars Toni Servillo, Mi Yang and ...

Griff the Invisible

Leon Ford

Australia

Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

Guest

José Luis Guerín

Spain

Filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of travelling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets whe...

Hair

Tayfun Pirselimoglu

Turkey, Greece

An ailing Istanbul wig-maker becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.

Half of Oscar

Manuel Martín Cuenca

Spain/Cuba

Oscar and Maria are reunited by the imminent death of their grandfather. Maria has not been heard from in over two years, and now arrives pregnant and with a boyfriend.

Hauntings I

Guy Maddin

TIFF Bell Lightbox will be haunted by a series of short film installations that are meant to invoke and appease the ghosts of cinema. Starting from the premise that every filmmaker has an unrealized project, a half-finished or ab...

Hauntings II

Guy Maddin

TIFF Bell Lightbox will be haunted by a series of short film installations that are meant to invoke and appease the ghosts of cinema. Starting from the premise that every filmmaker has an unrealized project, a half-finished or ab...

Heartbeats

Xavier Dolan

Canada

Wunderkind filmmaker Xavier Dolan returns with his second feature – a sophisticated comedy about close friends, Francis and Marie, who pursue their mutual obsession with a young man. As they face off in competition, cracks in the...

HEAVENHELL

Chris Chong Chan Fui & Yasuhiro Morinaga

Akira Kurosawa's perfectionism and determination are legendary. And yet, so dangerous were the brothel streets of Koganecho, Yokohama that the director was forced to recreate them in a studio for a key scene in his classic noir H...

Henry's Crime

Malcolm Venville

USA

After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery he did not commit, an amiable but aimless man decides to rob the bank for real. His plan involves infiltrating a local theatre company, but his scheme gets complicated when h...

Hereafter

Clint Eastwood

United Kingdom

The story of three people haunted by mortality in different ways, Hereafter stars Matt Damon as a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, a French journalist (Cécile De ...

The High Cost of Living

Deborah Chow

Canada

Deborah Chow’s dark drama centres on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully c...

Home for Christmas

Bent Hamer

Norway, Germany, Sweden

Norwegian veteran Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) returns with this film, a look at fractured families at Christmastime. As with his earlier work, the film shuttles smartly between serious drama and the gently absurdist comedy Hamer...

Home: Life Advice

Aaron Phelan

Canada

A young woman works at a retirement home where an elderly man makes scathing comments about her appearance.

A Horrible Way to Die

Adam Wingard

USA

When a serial killer escapes from prison, the dangerous past of a young woman dealing with alcoholic rehab quickly begins to catch up with her.

The House by the Medlar Tree

Pasquale Scimeca

Italy

Based on Giannni Verga's novel that Visconti used for La terra trema, the film follows the ups and downs of a family of fishermen whose livelihood centres around their boat. While the older generation is married to the sea the yo...

The Housemaid

Im Sang-soo

South Korea

In this erotic thriller, the housemaid of an upper-class family becomes entangled in a dangerous tryst. A satirical look at class structure, reminiscent of the work of Claude Chabrol, this sexy soap opera is a story of revenge an...

How I Ended This Summer

Alexei Popogrebsky

Russia

Two meteorologists are isolated on an artic island. When the two-way radio transmits some bad news that requires a middleman, it’s up to the young intern to inform his veteran colleague. Only problem is, he never seems to find th...

How To Start Your Own Country

Jody Shapiro

Canada

Shapiro's documentary about micro-nations, tiny countries seldom recognized by the outside world, mixes comedy and compassion with a serious analysis of the concept of statehood and citizenship.

The Human Resources Manager

Eran Riklis

Israel, Germany, France, Romania

A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.

The Hunter

Rafi Pitts

Iran

Recently released from prison, Ali makes the most of his reunion with his wife and young daughter, amidst much talk of the upcoming elections and promises of change. When tragedy strikes, Ali takes matters into his own hands and ...

I Am Slave

Gabriel Range

United Kingdom

From the award winning team behind Death of a President and The Last King of Scotland, and inspired by real life events, I Am Slave is a controversial thriller about London’s shocking slave trade, and one woman’s fight for freedo...

I Saw the Devil

Kim Jee-woon

South Korea

A hard-boiled thriller from Korean master Kim Jee-woon, I Saw the Devil is a tale of bloody vengeance against a dangerous psychopath who has committed a gruesome series of murders.

I Wish I Knew

Jia Zhangke

China, The Netherlands

Commissioned to commemorate the 2010 World Expo, this documentary on Shanghai portrays a chapter of modern Chinese history through interviews and scenic views of a city in continuous evolution. I Wish I Knew is directed by one of...

The Illusionist

Sylvain Chomet

United Kingdom

From the director of The Triplets Of Belleville comes a film of grace and unique beauty. Working from a never-produced script written by Jacques Tati for his daughter, Chomet tells the story of a magician who was pushed aside by ...

I'm Still Here

Casey Affleck

USA

The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I’m Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’m Still Here follows the O...

In a Better World

Susanne Bier

Denmark, Sweden

The story traces elements from a refugee camp in Africa to the grey humdrum of everyday life in a Danish provincial town. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud...

In Conversation With...Philip Seymour Hoffman

Well-known for his roles in Charlie Wilson’s War, Doubt and Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut with Jack Goes Boating, a film about two working class couples and the delicacy of relationships, adapted from...

In Love for the Mood

Ming Wong

In Love for the Mood is inspired by Wong Kar-wai's meditation on love and infidelity In the Mood for Love (2000). A Caucasian actress plays both the leading man and woman and attempts to deliver the lines in Cantonese. Angst Esse...

In Love for the Mood and Angst Essen / Eat Fear

Ming Wong

In Love for the Mood is inspired by Wong Kar-wai's meditation on love and infidelity In the Mood for Love (2000). A Caucasian actress plays both the leading man and woman and attempts to deliver the lines in Cantonese. Angst Esse...

Incendies

Denis Villeneuve

Canada/France

After their mother Nawal's death, twins Simon and Jeanne embark on a journey to the Middle East that shines a disturbing light on their mother's past and culminates in a shocking revelation. Based on the acclaimed play by Wajdi M...

Inside America

Barbara Eder

Austria

Drawing on her memories as an exchange student in a nowhere town between on the US/Mexico border, Barbara Eder explores the dark side of the American Dream.

Inside Job

Charles Ferguson

USA

An in-depth exploration of what caused the financial crisis from the Oscar-nominated director of No End in Sight, highlighting failures in business, government and academia.

Insidious

James Wan

USA

When proud parents take possession of an old house to build a nest for their family, an accident results in one of their sons falling into a coma. The tragedy doesn't stop there when they are beset by vengeful spirits from anothe...

Into the Wind

Steve Nash

USA

Steve Nash has achieved remarkable things on the basketball court – becoming an NBA All-Star and MVP as point guard for the Phoenix Suns, and playing in the Olympics for Canada’s national team. Nash was among the elite group of a...

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Anna Boden Ryan Fleck

USA

Stressed-out teenager Craig checks himself into a mental health clinic – where he finds himself in the adult ward. Sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside, Craig learns more about life, love and the pressures ...

Jack Goes Boating

Philip Seymour Hoffman

USA

Adapted from Bob Glaudini's acclaimed Off Broadway play, Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. The film stars John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, ...

Jaloux

Patrick Demers

Canada

In this psychological thriller that was improvised during its 16-day shoot, a couple trying to mend their relationship set off for a weekend in the country. When they encounter a friendly neighbour, they are too absorbed in thei...

Janie Jones

David M. Rosenthal

USA

Aspiring recording artist Ethan Brand gets a stunning surprise on the opening night of a tour – a strung out former groupie appears unexpectedly, pleading with him to care for their daughter while she pulls herself together. Ente...

Jeanne

Martin Arnold

Austrian artist Martin Arnold presents a digital manipulation of the trial scene from the #1 film on the list, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). The piece stitches together close-up shots of actress Renée F...

John Carpenter's The Ward

John Carpenter

USA

Acclaimed director John Carpenter makes his long awaited return to the screen with a thriller about a young woman in a 1960s mental institution who becomes terrorized by malevolant unseen forces.

Journey to the Moon

William Kentridge

Using Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) as a point of departure, Kentridge masterfully combines live action and stop motion in homage to the beginning of filmmaking and to Méliès' magical experimentations. Kentridge perfo...

Jucy

Louise Alston

Australia

Jackie and Lucy are best friends who spend all their time together, but not everyone approves of their "womance." Accused of being weird and co-dependent, they set out to prove their maturity. Jackie gets the guy and Lucy gets th...

Julia's Eyes

Guillem Morales

Spain

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative eye disease, finds her blind twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Julia decides to investigate what she feels is a murder case, entering a dark world that seems to hid...

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Kaboom

Gregg Araki

USA, France

Smith’s everyday life in the dorm – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor – all gets turned upside-dow...

Karla and Jonas

Charlotte Sachs Bostrup

Denmark

Join thirteen-year-olds Karla and Jonas as they search for Jonas's birth mother in this intelligent and well acted coming of age story based on the book series by Renée Toft Simonsen.

The King's Speech

Tom Hooper

United Kingdom, Australia

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who would become King George VI, the father of the current Queen, Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ‘Bertie’ VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued ...

Klatsassin

Stan Douglas

Klatsassin refashions Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), a tale of murder with a narrative told from four different viewpoints, as a western rooted in the historical context of the Gold Rush and the annexation of land along Canada...

L.A. Zombie

Bruce LaBruce

Germany, USA, France

Corpse-eating meets poverty politics in this pornographic art film set on the streets of Los Angeles, where an alien zombie brings dead men back to life.

Lapland Odyssey

Dome Karukoski

Finland, Sweden, Ireland

Three unemployed young men set off on a desperate journey to locate a digital conversion box in the north of Finland. Wildy funny, Dome Karukoski's Lapland Odyssey is a Finnish cousin to Harold and Kumar and Fubar.

Last Night

Massy Tadjedin

France, USA

Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes join forces in this tantalizing and emotionally astute story of trust, lust and deception. Last Night is a brilliant evocation of all the grey zones of fidelity - how a choice made in a mere instant...

Late Autumn

Kim Tae-Yong

South Korea

Anna is on her way to Seattle to attend her mother's funeral while on a special weekend release from prison. On the bus, she meets Hoon, a "companion for hire" for lonely, older women. Both are running away but both find somethin...

Leap Year

Michael Rowe

Mexico

Laura Lopez lives a lonely existence in her Mexico City apartment. Her few guests are men that she picks up at night for some anonymous sex. When she meets Arturo, what begins as some light slapping quickly turns into more extrem...

The Legend of Beaver Dam

Jerome Sable

Canada

This musical horror comedy follows an unlikely hero – nerdy Danny Zigwitz – at a summer camp listening to fireside stories.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Andrew Lau

Hong Kong

In 1920s Shanghai, hero Chen Zhen single-handedly avenges his mentor’s death by killing all the Japanese at a dojo in Hongkou, only to be showered with bullets while making his legendary flying kick. Now, years later, Chen Zhen, ...

Let Me In

Matt Reeves

United Kingdom, USA

Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road), a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, O...

Life, Above All

Oliver Schmitz

South Africa, Germany

After the death of her newborn sister, 12 year-old Chanda learns of a rumour that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. When it destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Chandra ...

The Light Thief

Aktan Arym Kubat

Kyrgyzstan, Germany, France, Netherlands

A funny and touching portrait of small-town politics in a rapidly globalizing world that follows Svet-ake, an electrician in a small Kyrgyz village who has been stealing electricity to help the impoverished local residents. When ...

Little Sister

Richard Bowen

China, USA

Based on one of the earliest versions of the beloved story of Cinderella comes a beautifully crafted film filled with wonder and magic that reveals the Chinese origins of this widely known fairy tale.

Little White Lies

Guillaume Canet

France

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decides to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the littl...

Look, Stranger

Arielle Javitch

USA

An elegant, spare and powerful telling of one young woman's journey through a wartorn landscape in an effort to get back home.

Lope

Andrucha Waddington

Brazil, Spain

Andrucha Waddington brings famed Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s passionate life to the screen. The young poet returns to Madrid from war and gets his foot in the door of Madrid's most important theatre troupe – quickly charmin...

Love Crime

Alain Corneau

France

Dangerous Liaisons meets Working Girl in this deliciously caustic tale of office politics. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier as mentor and ingénue, Love Crime is a remorseless clash of two competing egos.

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Mark Hartley

Australia

From cult cinema documentary director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) comes this account of the wild and unruly world of genre filmmaking in the Philippines when the country was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and c...

Made In Dagenham

Nigel Cole

United Kingdom

Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Party Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions for long, arduous hours, th...

The Majority

Seren Yüce

Turkey

A middle class young man rebels against his father's brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce's moral tale draws from the example of today's Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of father...

Make Believe

J. Clay Tweel

USA

Join a group of dedicated teen magicians as they amaze audiences by performing seemingly impossible feats while they pursue their dream of becoming the Teen World Champion Magician.

Mamma Gógó

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Iceland

Icelandic master Fridrik Thor Fridriksson returns with this disarmingly honest, semi-autobiographical portrait of a filmmaker's relationship with his ailing mother. Simultaneously poignant and funny, Mamma Gógó is fuelled by comp...

The Man of a Thousand Songs

William D. MacGillivray

Canada

Veteran East Coast filmmaker William MacGillivray returns to the Festival with this emotional, intimate and tender documentary about the life of fabled Atlantic songwriter Ron Hynes.

Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Perry Bard

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images that re-interpret Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929). Participants upload images to B...

Mandoo

Ebrahim Saeedi

Iraq

After the death of Saddam, Shaho, an Iranian Kurd, is determined to take his ailing father back to his village so he can live out his final days in familiar surroundings. The only thing that stands in his way is a wide-eyed young...

Marimbas From Hell

Julio Hernández Cordón

Guatemala, France, Mexico

Don Alfonso loses his job playing the marimba, an indigenous, traditional Guatemalan instrument, at a hotel in Guatemala City. The marimba is considered old fashioned and there is little interest in hearing this type of music. He...

A Married Couple

Allan King

Canada

A restruck and restored version of master filmmaker Allan King's classic cinema-verité film, one of the most influential and celebrated Canadian films ever made, A Married Couple records the collapse of a middle class couple's ma...

Matariki

Michael Bennett

New Zealand

A violent tragedy has a harrowing impact on an already fragile marriage.

The Matchmaker

Avi Nesher

Israel

In 1968 Haifa, a teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ...

Mavericks: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is considered a cinematic treasure by art house aficionados. To get over his intimidating Thai name, he encourages westerners to call him Joe. Director of several features and dozens of short films, his ...

Mavericks: Bruce Springsteen

Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award®-winning musician Bruce Springsteen visits Toronto for the World Premiere of The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (playing separately at the Festival as a Gala). The docum...

Mavericks: Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in American cinema with films such as Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy. Her latest film, Meek's Cutoff, is set in 1845 on the Oregon Trail and is her first departure from ...

Mavericks: Ken Loach & Paul Laverty

Director Ken Loach joined forces with writer Paul Laverty in the mid-1990s, and together they’ve injected their political passions into a dozen films. Their latest work, Route Irish, grapples with the Iraq war and the trend of us...

Meek's Cutoff

Kelly Reichardt

USA

It's 1845 and a wagon team of three families have hired a guide to take them on the Oregon Trail and over the Cascade Mountains. They become lost and while suffering from hunger, thirst and fear, they encounter a Native American ...

Microphone

Ahmad Abdalla

Egypt

A bold example of new north African cinema, Microphone mixes and remixes fiction and cinema verité as it follows an Egyptian expatriate's return to Alexandria, where he dives into a thriving underground music and arts scene.

Miral

Julian Schnabel

United Kingdom, Israel, France

From the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and wa...

MODRA

Ingrid Veninger

Canada

In this authentic portrait of teenaged self-discovery, recently-dumped seventeen-year-old Lina and free spirit Leco travel to visit Lina's extended family in the quirky town of Modra, Slovakia.

Monsters

Gareth Edwards

United Kingdom

Six years after a probe carrying alien life samples crashes in Mexico, a photojournalist must escort his boss' daughter through the "Infected Zone" back to the safety of home in the US.

Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon

Paul Clarke

Australia

Witness to New York's infamous punk scene, Lillian Roxon chronicled the movement during the 1960s and 70s. Roxon mingled with the likes of John and Yoko, the Velvet Underground and Janis Joplin and was one of the first on the sce...

Mothers

Milcho Manchevski

Macedonia, France, Bulgaria

A child's friend is accosted by a flasher so she decides to go to the police herself; a film crew sets out to find the old traditions and discovers a grandmother living alone in an abandoned village; retired cleaning women are f...

My Joy

Sergei Loznitsa

Germany, Ukraine, The Netherlands

Truck driver Georgy sets out on a provincial Russian motorway for a routine delivery but a series of chance encounters see his journey spiral out of control. A roadside police check, a war veteran and a young prostitute lead him ...

My Only Sunshine

Reha Erdem

Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria

A potent, widescreen portrait of an Istanbul wild child. Hayat lives in a shack beside the Bosphorus sea with her criminal father and wheezing grandfather. Life is harsh, but Hayat watches and learns.

Mysteries of Lisbon

Raul Ruiz

Portugal/France

Based on a famous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel, Raul Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with...

Neds

Peter Mullan

United Kingdom, France, Italy

Set in 1970s Glasgow, this film tells the story of a shy and intelligent young boy who, through a series of circumstances, turns into a NED - a non-educated delinquent. Attending a new school, he becomes increasingly violent and ...

Never Let Me Go

Mark Romanek

United Kingdom

Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) spent their childhood at a seemingly idyllic boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school, the terrible truth of their fate is revealed and ...

A Night for Dying Tigers

Terry Miles

Canada

The night before Jack goes to prison for five years, his family gets together at their ancestral home for a farewell dinner. What begins as a civil, if not joyful, reunion quickly devolves into a morally questionable whirlwind of...

Norberto´s Deadline

Daniel Hendler

Uruguay, Argentina

Award-winning actor Daniel Hendler offers a hilarious account of a man trying to combat his shyness. After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his hand at real estate. His new boss suggests he take some personal affirmation ...

Norwegian Wood

Tran Anh Hung

Japan

Adapted from Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel. Watanabe, a quiet and serious college student, becomes deeply devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman with whom he shares the tragedy of their best friend’s de...

Nostalgia for the Light

Patricio Guzmán

France/Germany/Chile

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously ...

NYMan With A Movie Camera

Michael Nyman

Celebrated film composer (eg, The Piano) Michael Nyman poetically captures the everyday life of citizens around the world with this gorgeous ode to Dziga Vertov's early cinema masterpiece MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA.

October

Diego Vega Daniel Vega

Peru, Venezuela, Spain

Money-lender Clemente only knows how to relate to others through transactions. His life is turned upside down when someone leaves him a baby in a basket. A client, Sofia, steps in to help tend to the baby and Clemente is faced w...

Of Gods and Men

Xavier Beauvois

France

Based on a true incident where a group of monks were killed by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria in 1995, we follow the spiritual lifestyle of the priests, their interaction with the locals and the events that lead up to the con...

Oki's Movie

Hong Sangsoo

South Korea

Oliver Sherman

Ryan Redford

Canada

Tensions arise when Sherman visits the home of Franklin, a fellow soldier who saved his life back in the war. Franklin has long since moved on – to a wife, two children and a reliable job, but the stability he has worked so hard ...

Otolith III

The Otolith Group

A 48-minute single-screen projection, Otolith III takes as its point of departure The Alien (1967), the unrealized sci-fi screenplay by legendary auteur Satyajit Ray about a friendly alien visiting a rural Bengal village. Filmed ...

Our Day Will Come

Romain Gavras

France

The highly anticipated debut by French director Romain Gravas (known for directing the controversial M.I.A. video Born Free) focuses on two outcast redheads - a bullied teen (Olivier Barthélémy) and a psychologist (Vincent Cassel...

Outbound

Bogdan George Apetri

Romania

Matilda, a feisty woman-child with a sordid past, is out on prison leave. Are twenty-four hours enough to make up for her mistakes and skip out of the country in time for a brand new life?

Outrageous!

Richard Benner

Canada

Outside the Law

Rachid Bouchareb

France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Belgium

Bouchareb's follow-up to Days of Glory is an epic French gangster movie in the tradition of Once Upon a Time in America. The film follows three brothers from childhood in Algeria through turbulent years in Paris, as their paths d...

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Sophie Fiennes

United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands

Major contemporary artist Anselm Keifer profiled in the style of his work.

Passion Play

Mitch Glazer

USA

When a jazz trumpeter is taken to the desert and a gun held to his head, we are at the beginning of a delightful fable about romance and dreams. When he meets a beautiful woman who works as the Bird Woman in a circus, he falls ma...

Passione

John Turturro

Italy

John Turturro takes us on a voyage through the robust and diverse musical culture of Naples, combining archival footage with performances set in the streets, alleys, studios and labyrinths of the city.

Peep World

Barry Blaustein

USA

On the day of their father’s 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling that exposes the family’s most intimate secrets. The film stars Michael C. Hall, Sarah ...

The Piano in a Factory

Zhang Meng

China

To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch. An offbeat ballad of friendship and devotion, The Piano in a Factory is an endearing portrait of Chin...

Pink Saris

Kim Longinotto

United Kingdom

Acclaimed director Kim Longinotto is often drawn to tough women. Now she follows Sampat Pal Devi, the leader of the “Pink Gang,” who brings her own brand of justice to the streets of Uttar Pradesh, India, combating violence again...

Pinoy Sunday

Ho Wi Ding

Taiwan

Pinoy Sunday is the story of Manuel and Dado, two Filipino migrant workers, who discover a discarded sofa. This transforms their normal Sunday routine into a tale of adventure, perseverance and self-discovery.

The Pipe

Risteard Ó Domhnaill

Ireland

Irish farmers and fisherman rise up in protest when Shell tries to build a pipeline for natural gas through their county. The local confrontation reflects an international concern for how energy companies affect the environment a...

The Place in Between

Sarah Bouyain

France, Burkina Faso

Bouyain's sensitive debut is a portrait of women caught between Africa and Europe. A biracial woman travels from France to Burkina Faso in search of her mother. In France, a white woman seeks to learn an African language for reas...

Poetry

Lee Changdong

South Korea

Rhyme and crime intertwine in Poetry, the moving portrait of an elegant old lady pressured by incipient Alzheimer's as well as a lyrical take on creative discovery and an upsetting look at juvenile violence, by Korean master Lee ...

The Poll Diaries

Chris Kraus

Germany, Austria, Estonia

On the eve of World War I, a 14-year-old German girl returns to her home on the Baltic coast, a place uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians. While her morbid scientist father controls the family with a cruel hand, th...

Potiche

François Ozon

France

A bourgeois housewife (Catherine Deneuve) takes on a rough union leader (Gerard Depardieu) in François Ozon's sparkling comic war between the sexes, and the classes.

Precious Life

Shlomi Eldar

Israel

With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must f...

The Princess Bride

Rob Reiner

USA

Follow Buttercup and Wesley (Robin Wright and Cary Elwes) as they do battle with pirates, sea monsters and an evil prince with the help of a rag tag crew: a flamboyant Spaniard (Mandy Patinkin), his slow-witted friend (Andre the ...

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

Thom Zimny

USA

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album. Grammy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny has collabo...

Promises Written in Water

Vincent Gallo

USA

Shot in black-and-white, this fiercely independent film traces the steps a young photographer takes to fulfil the dying wishes of a beautiful young woman, including getting a job in a funeral parlour so he can oversee her cremati...

Rabbit Hole

John Cameron Mitchell

USA

A family navigates the deepest form of loss in John Cameron Mitchell's screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart deliver captivating performances as a husband an...

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Jalmari Helander

Finland, Norway, France, Sweden

Santa Claus is somewhat less than jolly - in fact, he's the stuff nightmares are made of - in Jalmari Helander's Rare Exports, an atmospheric and witty re-working of a cherished folk tale.

Red Nights

Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud

Hong Kong, China, France

This shocking debut by director duo Carbon and Courtiaud is a seductive cat-and-mouse thriller set in Hong Kong, about a woman's obsessive desire to own a rare object that hides a deadly and perverse secret.

Repeaters

Carl Bessai

Canada

Veteran director Carl Bessai returns with a tense thriller that follows three young addicts in a rehabilitation centre. Each day they live the same events over and over – a situation each responds to in radically different ways.

Rio Sex Comedy

Jonathan Nossiter

France, Brazil

Charting the misadventures of expatriates in Rio and their bungled search for both personal pleasure and social justice, the film is a deliriously insolent romp that explores the bizarre contradictions that are a fact of daily li...

Roadkill

Bruce McDonald

Canada

Roses à crédit

Amos Gitaï

France

A young couple marry in 1940s France and we follow the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions whi...

Route 132

Louis Bélanger

Canada

A powerful drama directed by acclaimed veteran Louis Bélanger, Route 132 focuses on a man who loses a loved one and embarks on a journey in an attempt to rediscover his roots and come to terms with his grief.

Route Irish

Ken Loach

United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain

A British solider who worked with a security firm in Iraq attends the funeral of his best friend, killed on the notorious Baghdad highway Route Irish. Receiving an envelope containing his friend's cellphone with a video recording...

Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage

Ben Stassen

Belgium

Join Sammy the sea turtle on a fun and exciting 50 year journey through the oceans in this wonderfully crafted 3D animation that combines entertainment with an environmental message.

Sandcastle

Boo Junfeng

Singapore

A gentle and affectionate study of the themes of identity, history and memory, Boo Junfeng’s debut feature Sandcastle is a loving portrait of a young man coming to terms with the lives of his parents and his grandparents, while t...

Sarah's Key

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

France

While researching an article on the Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 France, Julia, an American journalist stumbles across the story of Sarah, a ten year old Jewish girl who desperately tried to save her younger brother from the police ...

Score: A Hockey Musical

Michael McGowan

Canada

A seventeen-year-old hockey player becomes an instant star when he is signed by a junior league team. He soon discovers that stardom comes with a price – including the expectation to fight on the ice. Score unites Canada’s nation...

A Screaming Man

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

France, Belgium, Chad

One of Africa's preeminent film artists, Haroun returns to themes of family and loyalty in war-torn Chad. A father and son work together at the pool of five-star hotel, but the civil war forces life-and-death choices upon them.

Sensation

Tom Hall

Ireland

Sensation details the relationship between Tipperary farmer Donal Duggan and a veteran Kiwi escort. They begin as client and call girl, evolve into something like lovers, then business partners and finally co-defendants.

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Silent Souls

Aleksei Fedorchenko

Russia

When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero. The two men set out on a road trip thou...

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The Sleeping Beauty

Catherine Breillat

France

An epic fantasia of a young girl's coming-of-age, featuring Catherine Breillat's signature take on gender relations and breathtaking cinematography.

Slidelength

Michael Snow

Michael Snow's Slidelength is a companion piece to his groundbreaking and iconic film, Wavelength, selected as one of the "100 Essential" films of all time by TIFF and after which TIFF's avant-garde section was named. A looped ph...

Small Town Murder Songs

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Canada

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life. The film stars Peter Storma...

Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1)

Kevin and Jennifer McCoy

The Soft Rains series consist of miniature robotic film sets that recreate familiar cinema archetypes and genres. For this work, the McCoys created a tiny diorama of an unsettling suburban idyll inspired by David Lynch's Blue Vel...

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

Saverio Constanzo

Italy

Two youngsters discover that they are doomed to live parallel lives, always linked but never joined. One has to deal with the effects of a serious skiing accident while the other must come to grips with negligence that led to the...

Somersault in a Coffin

Dervis Zaim

Turkey

A thief with bizarre compulsions -- and possibly good reasons -- tries to get by in this essential Istanbul film.

Soul of Sand

Sidharth Srinivasan

India

The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

Sarah McCarthy

United Kingdom, India

For one emotional night, a group of children living in a slum in Mumbai, India, get a chance to experience a different world as they perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra, fostering hopes that it could change thei...

Special Treatment

Jeanne Labrune

France, Luxembourg, Belgium

A high class prostitute and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seeking a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.

Stake Land

Jim Mickle

USA

In the aftermath of a vampire epidemic, a teen is taken in by a grizzled vampire hunter on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic America, battling both the bloodsuckers and a fundamentalist militia that interprets the plague as ...

State of Violence

Khalo Matabane

South Africa, France

In his follow-up to Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane delivers a potent drama about a South African corporate leader whose past as a violent revolutionary comes back to threaten him.

Stone

John Curran

USA

Robert De Niro and Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections official and a scheming inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined. Stone weaves together the parallel journeys of two men grappling ...

The Strange Case of Angelica

Manoel de Oliveira

Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil

Manoel de Oliveira, a 101-year-old filmmaker, returns to the Douro River, the site of his first short, Douro Faina Fluvial, to create a surprising tale about a metaphysical love that defies reason. Photographer Isaac becomes smit...

Submarine

Richard Ayoade

United Kingdom

British comic Richard Ayoade delivers his hotly-anticipated feature debut Submarine. One boy must fight to save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his eczema-strafed girlfriend in to the bedroom arme...

Summer of Goliath

Nicolás Pereda

Mexico, Canada, Netherlands

Toronto resident Nicolas Pereda explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary to evoke the atmosphere of the place in his latest feature, Summer of Goliath. It's a hot summer in the rural Mexican community of Huilotepec...

SUPER

James Gunn

USA

After his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), a frustrated husband (Rainn Wilson) decides he will win her back as Crimson Bolt, a costumed vigilante armed with a monkey wrench. His actions bring him an ad...

Tabloid

Errol Morris

USA

The director of The Thin Blue Line and the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of War tells the story of a former Miss Wyoming whose quest for one true love led her across the globe and onto the pages of tabloid newspapers.

Tamara Drewe

Stephen Frears

United Kingdom

Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel. When Tamara Drewe returns to the village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara – once an ugly duckling – has been transformed and is now a minor celebrity. ...

Tears of Gaza

Vibeke Løkkeberg

Norway

A powerful and emotionally devastating record of the impact the 2008-2009 bombings of Gaza had on the civilian population.

Tender Son- The Frankenstein Project

Kornél Mundruczó

Hungary, Germany, Austria

Long ago, a young man fathered a child without ever knowing what became of him. Now 17, his son Rudi returns home hoping to reunite with his family after years spent in an institution. A terrible event soon changes everything and...

That Girl in Yellow Boots

Anurag Kashyap

India

Ruth is searching for her father – a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit, at a massage parlour, where she gives ‘happy endings’ to unfulfilled men. Torn between several schisms, ...