Toronto International Film Festival: 2021 Title Guide
Toronto International Film Festival: 2021 Title Guide
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- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsTimothée ChalametRebecca FergusonZendayaA noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsKristen StewartTimothy SpallSally HawkinsDiana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsAmir JadidiMohsen TanabandehSahar GoldoostRahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsTilda SwintonAgnes BrekkeDaniel Giménez CachoA woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorSam DunnMarc RicciardelliStarsRik EmmettMike LevineGil MooreBeneath the pyro, spandex, and heavy metal hair, awaits an intriguing and deeply personal story of underdog rock band Triumph who rose to world domination in the 80s then mysteriously disappeared at the height of their fame.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorDavid BeltonBjorn JohnsonStarsJames BarrettClaire BeckmanDonald ByrdDocumentary collects accounts of 9/11, recorded in the months after the attacks, and present-day testimonials from the same eyewitnesses.Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsRabah Nait OufellaBilel ChegraniAntoine ReinartzWho is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuellled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites?Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorIvan GrbovicStarsJorge Antonio GuerreroHélène FlorentClaude LegaultWilly's quest to find his long-lost love has brought him from Mexico to Montréal, as a seasonal worker. Destinies intersect, moments of magic realism arise, worlds collide, and tensions swell amidst the long days of physical labor.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsPaul HiltonRomane HemelaersRomola GaraiA 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of ice and must be changed several times a day.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiAli SulimanManal AwadA woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorJenna Cato BassStarsChumisa CosaNosipho MtebeKamvalethu Jonas RaziyaA strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorScott McGeheeDavid SiegelStarsHaley Lu RichardsonOwen TeagueGilbert OwuorTwo estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorAga WoszczynskaStarsDobromir DymeckiAgnieszka ZulewskaJean-Marc BarrA young couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. What they find, however, does not meet their expectations.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsArawinda KiranaAsmara AbigailSekar SariIn her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.Category: PLATFORM
- DirectorAlexandre MorattoStarsChristian MalheirosRodrigo SantoroLucas OranmianTo provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorShipei WenStarsEddie PengSylvia ChangYanhui WangOn a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs Liang. Meanwhile, the body is discovered - riddled with bullets. Chen, the detective in charge of the investigation, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, all three remain caught in a tangled web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorManuel Martín CuencaStarsJavier GutiérrezPatricia López ArnaizIrene VirgüezA pregnant teenager comes to a tense agreement with the couple sheltering her.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorLuàna BajramiStarsLuàna BajramiAndi BajgoraEra BalajThree young and free-spirited women decide to escape their daily lives and form a gang.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsMaria PopistasuIlona BrezoianuAlex BogdanA group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorBlaine ThurierStarsAlanna BaleLuke BilykBenjamin SutherlandWhen Anna, a centuries old vampire, watches Robbie, a charming but reckless young man, recover from his alcoholism, she decides to quit blood and restore her humanity.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorManny PerezStarsManny PerezSarah Jorge LeónHada VanessaLa Soga Salvation is a suspenseful thriller and love story, where a former hitman fights to rescue the love of his life, while confronting his inner demons and violent past.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorSébastien PiloteStarsSara MontpetitSébastien RicardHélène FlorentMaria, teen of a pioneer family in Québec, is coming of age and a few young men show interest. The «coureur des bois» is her prefered, then the city man, and the neighbour establishing his own farm. Events will help her decide her future.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAnita Rocha da SilveiraStarsMari OliveiraLara TremourouxJoana MedeirosIn order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAntoneta Alamat KusijanovicStarsGracija FilipovicLeon LucevDanica CurcicA teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.Categories: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA and TIFF NEXT WAVE
- DirectorTim MielantsBouli LannersStarsMichelle FairleyBouli LannersAndrew StillPhil, a robust middle-aged man suffers a stroke, causing him to lose his memory. Millie, who takes care of him, tells him falsely that they were secretly in love before his accident.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorNeus BallúsStarsMohamed MellaliValero EscolarPep SarràA peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorRodrigo PláLaura SantulloStarsLeah MillerJorge CastroAlejandra DozalA mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorJuanjo Giménez PeñaStarsMarta NietoMiki EsparbéLuisa MerelasA sound designer finds refuge from broken relationships with her ex, her colleagues and her mother in the studio, where she can spend hours recording Foley and wild tracks, editing and mixing. But is her brain starting to slip out of sync?Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorWi Ding HoChih Hsin HuStarsPo-Hung LinMoon LeeJ.C. LinThe intersecting lives and relationships of a group of 20-somethings in Taipei are tested after a tragic incident that connects them all.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorKira KovalenkoStarsMilana AguzarovaAlik KaraevSoslan KhugaevAda is stuck. Living in a dead-end town in North Ossetia, she is caught in the tight grip of the men in her life. But when her older brother returns home and her father suddenly falls ill, Ada finally sees a possible path to freedom.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorEdwinStarsMarthino LioLadya CherylReza RahadianIn a society ruled by machismo, a hibernating "bird" becomes a serious matter. In a life of brutality, the sleeping bird is an allegory for a peaceful and serene life, even when the whole world tries desperately to rouse it.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorSteve PinkStarsAmber MidthunderTaylor GrayBethany Anne LindAlbee and Walker, a couple on the verge of divorce. Albee wants out, while Walker wants to make it work, no matter the damage. A weekend in the mountains to work through a book that might save their relationship via total, brutal honesty.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorCarlo Francisco ManatadStarsCharo Santos-ConcioDaniel PadillaRans RifolIn the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, in the Philippines, a young man is searching for a missing significant other as other storm approaches.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorHong Seong-eunStarsJung Da-eunSeo Hyun-wooPark Jeong-hakA solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorEmre KayisStarsHatice AslanUgur PolatSeyithan ÖzdemirEmployees attempt to hide the death of a leopard to save the zoo where they work.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorTea LindeburgStarsFlora Ofelia Hofmann LindahlIda Cæcilie RasmussenPalma Lindeburg LethOn a farm in the late 1800s, an intense wait begins when a mother goes into a complicated labour and 14-year-old Lise must prepare herself for a night that could change her life forever.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorRuth PaxtonStarsSienna GuilloryJessica AlexanderRuby StokesA widowed mother is radically tested when her teenage daughter insists a supernatural experience has left her body in service to a higher power.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorRitwik PareekStarsAltaf KhanDurga Lal SainiMukul Kumar Mk SinghMysterious events in the wake of a freak motorcycle accident sow the seeds of a new religion.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorDarin J. SallamStarsKaram TaherAshraf BarhomAli SulimanA 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.Categories: DISCOVERY and TIFF NEXT WAVE
- DirectorAna LazarevicStarsBranislav TrifunovicYousef Al KhaledSloboda MicalovicStrahinja, a smuggler with a failed marriage, becomes stranded with teens he's to take across the border to Hungary. The boys' open-hearted approach to life makes Strahinja aware of the walls he has built around his own.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorThyrone TommyStarsThomas Antony OlajideEmma FerreiraAndrea DavisTwo contemporary jazz musicians develop a stormy and tragic romance.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorJavier AndradeStarsAnahí HoeneisenMatilde LagosJuan Lorenzo BarragánWhen Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorNithin LukoseStarsNithin GeorgeJose KizhakkanVinitha KoshyPAKA is a tale of a river that swells with the blood of two feuding families and a young couple that tries to overcome this hatred with their love.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorHaya WaseemStarsArooj AzeemAshir AzeemBushra Ashir AzeemA young Pakistani-born woman navigates her coming-of-age story while being a newcomer to Canada.Categories: DISCOVERY and TIFF NEXT WAVE
- DirectorShasha NakhaiRich WilliamsonStarsLiam DiazMekiya FoxAnna Claire BeitelScarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.Categories: DISCOVERY and TIFF NEXT WAVE
- DirectorEvan Jackson LeongStarsSung KangPerry YungAmy TsangA Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorAgustina San MartínStarsTamara RoccaAna BrunJoão MiguelEmilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorAmil ShivjiStarsGudrun MwanyikaIkhlas Gafur VoraSiti AminaA rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage.Category: DISCOVERY
- DirectorBretten HannamStarsPhillip Forest LewitskiAvery Winters-AnthonyFabien MelansonTwo brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.Categories: DISCOVERY and TIFF NEXT WAVE
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsVicky KriepsTim RothMia WasikowskaA couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsNaomi WattsColton GobboAndrew ChownA mother desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorJohn Michael McDonaghStarsAissam TaamartOmar GhazaouiDavid McSavageA fatal accident disrupts the lives of Western visitors to a lavish party in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and will ultimately lead to a reckoning in the desert.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMaya ForbesWallace WolodarskyStarsSigourney WeaverKevin KlineMorena BaccarinLife for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to unravel when she hooks up with an old high school flame. Based on Ann Leary's 'The Good House.'Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorCamille GriffinStarsKeira KnightleyMatthew GoodeRoman Griffin DavisNell, Simon, and their 3 sons are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieHerbert NordrumThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsJude HillLewis McAskieCaitríona BalfeA young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorStephen ChboskyStarsBen PlattJulianne MooreKaitlyn DeverFilm adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high-school senior with social anxiety disorder, and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance after a classmate's suicide.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorWill SharpeStarsBenedict CumberbatchClaire FoyAndrea RiseboroughEnglish artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorAlison KlaymanStarsAlanis MorissetteNicola GledhillHanif AbdurraqibDocumentary centers on the life and work of Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette while making her breakout album 'Jagged Little Pill'Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsThomasin McKenzieAnya Taylor-JoyMatt SmithAspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMélanie LaurentStarsLou de LaâgeMélanie LaurentEmmanuelle BercotA woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorDanis GouletStarsElle-Máijá TailfeathersBrooklyn Letexier-HartAlex TarrantA mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try to rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsYi ZhangHaocun LiuWei FanA movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsBen FosterBilly MagnussenVicky KriepsAfter World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought against his peers in concentration camps. Haunted by memories, he tries to use fighting legends as a way to find his love.Category: GALA PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsSeidi HaarlaYura BorisovDinara DrukarovaAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorKhadar Ayderus AhmedStarsOmar AbdiYasmin WarsameKadar Abdoul-Aziz IbrahimIn times of misfortune, Guled and his family have to push themselves to the limits in order to reunite with their family.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorClint BentleyStarsClifton Collins Jr.Moises AriasMolly ParkerAn aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorLaura SamaniStarsCeleste CescuttiOndina QuadriIvo BanItaly, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter's soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorHarry WootliffStarsRuth WilsonTom BurkeHayley SquiresIt follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.Category: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMong-Hong ChungStarsAlyssa ChiaGingle WangYi-Wen ChenWhile quarantining, the relationship between a mother and daughter takes an unexpected turn.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorStephen KaramStarsRichard JenkinsJayne HoudyshellAmy SchumerDuring one evening, the Blake family gathers to celebrate thanksgiving in a broken-down flat newly rented by the daughter and her new man. As the darkness falls, we find that all have less to be thankful about.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsAvu-chanMirai MoriyamaTasuku EmotoA cursed dancer and a musician stun society with electrifying concerts in this animated rock opera.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAchouackh Abakar SouleymaneRihane Khalil AlioYoussouf DjaoroAmina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorEva HussonStarsOdessa YoungJosh O'ConnorColin FirthJane Fairchild is a maidservant who, between the wars, works for the wealthy Niven family. On Mothering Sunday, Jane is given the day off to spend as she likes. To her surprise, Paul Sheringham, the son of wealthy neighbours, invites her to spend the day with him at his family's house while his parents are out having lunch with the Nivens and the Hobdays.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorJane CampionStarsBenedict CumberbatchKirsten DunstJesse PlemonsCharismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTim RothAlbertine Kotting McMillanSamuel BottomleyNeil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorNathalie BiancheriStarsGeorge MacKayStuart GrahamHelen BehanYoung Jacob who suffers from zoanthropy believes he is a wolf and is committed to a mental asylum following an attack on his brother. There he meets and befriends the other patients and witnesses the brutal methods of treatment.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorClio BarnardStarsAdeel AkhtarClaire RushbrookMacy ShackletonAli and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMichael McGowanStarsAlison PillSarah GadonMare WinninghamBased on the 2014 international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters, one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, and the other a writer who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about her herself.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsJack LowdenThom AshleyOrlando JoplingLegendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorDavid HeilbronerDave WooleyStarsBurt BacharachJerry BlavatSnoop DoggSet against a music world profoundly divided between black and white, DON'T MAKE ME OVER tells the dramatic story of Dionne Warwick's meteoric rise from New Jersey gospel choirs to international cross-over super stardom.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTôko MiuraReika KirishimaA renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMichael PearceStarsRiz AhmedOctavia SpencerLucian-River ChauhanTwo brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsMaren EggertDan StevensSandra HüllerIn order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsBenoît PoelvoordeMélanie DouteyAlba Gaïa BellugiThe lives of a wealthy publisher and her novelist husband are changed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman at their country mansion.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorBent HamerStarsPål Sverre HagenNicolas BroTrond FausaFrank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsPenélope CruzAntonio BanderasOscar MartínezA wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsJoséphine SanzGabrielle SanzNina MeurisseNelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsAvshalom PollakNur FibakOded AzulayAn Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsRiccardo ScamarcioElena LiettiAlba RohrwacherThe story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsLéa SeydouxGijs NaberLouis GarrelJacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorTheodore MelfiStarsMelissa McCarthyChris O'DowdKevin KlineAfter Lilly suffers a loss, a combative Starling takes nest beside her quiet home. The feisty bird taunts and attacks the grief-stricken Lilly. On her journey to expel the Starling, she rediscovers her will to live and capacity for love.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsJake GyllenhaalRiley KeoughPeter SarsgaardA demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorMichael ShowalterStarsJessica ChastainAndrew GarfieldCherry JonesAn intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorTahir RanaÉric WarinStarsKeira KnightleyMarion CotillardBrenda BlethynAn account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir "Life? or Theatre?".Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsHernán MendozaHatzín NavarreteElián GonzalezA Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLéa SeydouxBlanche GardinBenjamin BiolayA celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsSebastian CroftRuby StokesEmily CareyKitty, the imaginary girl who Anne Frank wrote to in her 1940s diary during WWII, seeks out the deceased diarist while also inspiring a wave of modern social justice for refugees.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- DirectorJustine BatemanStarsOlivia MunnLuke BraceyJustin TherouxViolet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.Category: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS