TIFF 2017: Next Wave
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- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTimothée ChalametArmie HammerMichael StuhlbargIn 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- CreatorBaran bo OdarJantje FrieseStarsLouis HofmannKaroline EichhornLisa VicariA family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
- DirectorJenna Cato BassStarsQondiswa JamesNala KhumaloFrancesca Varrie Michel4 young South Africans go on a camping trip to the white girl's family farm. When they wake up next day, they've magically switched bodies. Later, when they've switched back, they're interviewed documentary style.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsNatasha JaramilloGiovanny RodríguezCarmenza CossioAfter the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanLaurie MetcalfTracy LettsIn 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
- DirectorMatan YairStarsAsher LaxAmi SmolartchikYaacov Cohen17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It's hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family's scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsAhmad El-FishawiMaged El-KidwaniAhmed MalekAn Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsBrady JandreauMooneyTim JandreauAfter suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
- DirectorBrie LarsonStarsBrie LarsonSamuel L. JacksonJoan CusackKit, a twenty-something dreamer, receives an invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.