Toronto International Film Festival Highlights

Toronto International Film Festival Highlights

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Toronto International Film Festival Highlights
  • Caravaggio

    Movie

    Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
    Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

    Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

  • Custody

    Movie

    Directed by Xavier Legrand • Drama • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Lea Drucker, Denis Menochet, Thomas Gioria

    A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this domestic thriller that will keep audiences guessing and leave them...

  • Diamantino

    Movie

    Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt • Comedy • 2019 • Portugal, France, Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira

    Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Diamantino" follows a soccer hunk as he goe...

  • Disengagement

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau

    Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...

  • Dogtooth

    Movie

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Comedy • 2009 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles • Mature Content
    Starring Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni

    Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, "Dogtooth" is an ingenious dark comedy and biting social satire that won the Prix Un Certain...

  • Dukhtar

    Movie

    Directed by Afia Nathaniel • Thriller • 2014 • Pakistan, Norway, US, India • Urdu, Pashto with English subtitles
    Starring Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref

    In the mountains of Pakistan, a young mother kidnaps her ten-year-old daughter to save her from a child marriage to a tribal leader. ...

  • Eden
    Movie

    Eden

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2001 • Israel, France • English
    Starring Samantha Morton, Danny Huston, Arthur Miller

    Set in 1940s Palestine, Samantha and her husband Dov, both of American descent, have immigrated due to their Zionist convictions. Dov is a communist and architect. He dedicates ...

  • Ever Deadly

    Movie

    Directed by Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan • Documentary • 2022 • Canada • English, Inuktitut with English subtitles
    Featuring Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson, Bathory Mary Gillis

    "Ever Deadly" weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunni...

  • Fire at Sea

    Movie

    Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 2016 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Featuring Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Pietro Bartolo

    An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Fire at Sea" takes pla...

  • Framing Agnes

    Movie

    Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

    Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

  • Free Zone

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass

    Rebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...

  • The Chambermaid

    Movie

    Directed by Lila Avilés • Drama • 2019 • Mexico • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sanchez

    In her feature debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve, a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film. Set ...