Toronto International Film Festival Highlights

Toronto International Film Festival Highlights

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Toronto International Film Festival Highlights
  • The Pearl Button

    Movie

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
    Featuring Patricio Guzmán

    Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, "The Pearl Button" explores the supernatural landscape of Chile. With its 2,670 miles of c...

  • Privilege

    Movie

    Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1990 • US • English
    Featuring Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made

    One of Yvonne Rainer’s most narratively complex films shifts from a documentary about women going through the process of menopause to a deadpan and delightfully anarchic autobi...

  • Rabin, the Last Day

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Docudrama • 2015 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Ischac Hiskiya, Yitzhak Hizkiya, Pini Mittelman

    In his brave and provocative film, Amos Gitai sets out to prove that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was not just the act of one fanati...

  • The Garden

    Movie

    Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

    Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Movie

    Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu

    In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 w...

  • Guest of Honour

    Movie

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • Drama • 2020 • Canada • English
    Starring David Thewlis, Laysla de Oliveira, Luke Wilson

    Jim (David Thewlis) and his daughter Veronica, a high school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets in this film from Academy Award no...

  • Hermia & Helena

    Movie

    Directed by Matías Piñeiro • Arthouse • 2017 • US, Argentina • English, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Agustina Muñoz, Mati Diop, Duston Guy Defa

    A young Argentine theater director travels to New York for a residency to work on a new Spanish translation of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", b...

  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    Movie

    Directed by Patricia Rozema • Comedy • 1987 • Canada • English
    Starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la...

  • The Idol

    Movie

    Directed by Hany Abu-Assad • Drama • 2016 • Palestine • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Tawfeek Barhom, Qais Attaailah, Hiba Attalah

    In Palestinian's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, talented teenage singer Mohammed Assaf travels from the Gaza Strip to ...

  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    Movie

    Directed by Pham Thien An • Drama • 2023 • Vietnam • Vietnamese with English subtitles
    Starring Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh

    Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling "Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell" from Vietn...

  • Ixcanul

    Movie

    Directed by Jayro Bustamente • Drama • 2015 • Guatemala, France • Kaqchikel, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun

    Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Jayro Bustamante's brilliant debut is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable...

  • The Forbidden Room

    Movie

    Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson • Arthouse • 2015 • Canada • English
    Starring Roy Dupuis, Claire Furey, Louis Negin

    Selected for the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, "The Forbidden Room" is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with ene...

  • 3 Faces

    Movie

    Directed by Jafar Panah • Arthouse • 2019 • Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
    Featuring Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei

    Winner of the Best Screenplay Award and nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "3 Faces" is Iranian director Jafar Panahi's fourth feature since...

  • Ahed's Knee

    Movie

    Directed by Nadav Lapid • Drama • 2022 • Israel • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak

    This Cannes Jury Prize winning film follows an Israeli filmmaker in his mid-40s who arrives in a remote village in the desert to present one of his films. There he meets an officer...

  • Alila

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
    Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner

    Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...

  • Alps
    Movie

    Alps

    Movie

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Arthouse • 2011 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles
    Starring Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis

    Before "The Favourite", Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos created this darkly comedic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a ...

  • Aquarius

    Movie

    Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • Arthouse • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos

    Clara (Sonia Braga), a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is ...

  • A Summer in La Goulette

    Movie

    Directed by Férid Boughedir • Comedy • 1998 • Tunisia, France • Arabic, French with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan

    Beautifully shot on the sun-dappled seaside of Tunisia, Férid Boughedir's summer comedy beautifully captures the waning innocence of three teenage girlf...

  • A Zed and Two Noughts

    Movie

    Directed by Peter Greenaway • Comedy • 1990 • UK • English
    Starring Andrea Ferréol, Brian Deacon

    A masterpiece of modern cinema, “A Zed and Two Noughts” is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in f...

  • Bacurau

    Movie

    Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Arthouse • 2019 • Brazil, France • English and Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen

    Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Bacurau" follows the inhabitants of a small Brazilian ...

  • Barbara

    Movie

    Directed by Christian Petzold • Arthouse • 2012 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

    Winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Christian Petzold's "Barbara" follows a young doctor, played by Nina Hoss ("Tar"), who has applied for an e...

  • Beanpole

    Movie

    Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov

    In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjus...

  • Bethlehem

    Movie

    Directed by Yuval Adler • Thriller • 2013 • Israel • Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Tsahi Halevi, Shadi Mar'i, Hitham Omari

    "Bethlehem" tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and ...

  • Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

    Movie

    Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane

    Reaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...