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Beasts director eyed theatrical

BY JEREMY KAY

Beasts Of No Nation director Cary Joji Fukunaga lobbied for a theatrical component to the release of Netflix’s first original feature. “I believe in the theatrical experience and it was part of the conversation,” Fukunaga said of his Africa-set childsoldier drama starring Idris Elba.

Beasts Of No Nation, which screens again here tomorrow, will open via Bleecker Street in 19 Landmark Theatres in the US day-anddate with Netflix’s global streaming launch on October 16. Fukunaga paid tribute to Netflix for boarding the project. “It was far beyond our wildest dreams,” he said.

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TIFF market off pace after sluggish start

BY JEREMY KAY

The arrival in Toronto of a hefty cluster of prestige titles with US distribution already in place presaged a sluggish buying scene, and so it proved to be over the first five days.

The loud silence was punctuated by several mostly modest onsite deals as acquisitions teams continued to pack out screenings and trained their sights on promos and packages.

Bleecker Street paid $2m-$3m for US rights to drone thriller Eye In The Sky, while Momentum Pictures (eOne’s revived standalone label) pounced on Lance Armstrong drama The Program and Western thriller Forsaken.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate has made an offer for North American rights to Where To Invade Next, Michael Moore’s latest documentary, which

is also understood to have drawn a bid from Netflix.

In an industry where big deals no longer require the impetus of a festival or market, buyers are generally unwilling to commit to MGs for what could be paltry box-office returns many months down the line. The emphasis has shifted away from the usual frenzy that surrounds festival selections, although Paramount swooped on Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep after a private buyer screening here.

Meanwhile, EuropaCorp and FilmNation said they would partner on the political thriller Miss Sloane to star Jessica Chastain.

Oculus director Mike Flanagan’s micro -budget horror Hush screened for buyers and has also won fans but no deal as yet.

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Netflix is one of several parties circling the troublesome Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace following a secret buyer screening that reportedly provided another opportunity for the soul diva to express anger.

CAA has been touting several packages including the spy thriller Unlocked and Rebel In The Rye, which Bloom sells internationally.

A US deal on the latter may follow once a key piece of casting emerges in the coming weeks, but the value of Toronto is not lost on Bloom co-founder Alex Walton.

“We came specifically to nurture our new material,” said Walton, adding: “We have the time to do that here as opposed to AFM.” More deals will trickle in over the coming days and weeks but all eyes inevitably turn to Santa Monica.

TORONTO BRIEFS

Asia hails Cab

Cruise controls cast

BY MICHAEL ROSSER

Emily Ratajkowski and Spencer Boldman have been cast in the 1980s-set drama Cruise. The project will kick off a slate arrangement between AG Capital and online investor platform Slated, which will handle syndicate financing on a portion of the slate.

Australian box-office hit Last Cab To Darwin has been picked up by buyers in Asia and Latin America.

Following its first TIFF screening yesterday, Films Distribution has sold the road movie to Japan (Fine Films), Korea (T-Cast), Colombia and Venezuela (Cineplex) and Turkey (Fabula Films).

The film, about a terminally ill taxi driver who undertakes a 3,000mile journey in his cab, has taken more than $3.2m since its August 6 release, putting it on a par with Disney’s Tomorrowland in Australia.

Comfortably Numb Paris Film, Zed Filmworks and Go Insane Films are to co-finance and produce Zak Hilditch’s Numbskull, about a former wild man who goes in search of his estranged daughter.

Altitude Film Sales will handle international; Paradigm will take on North America.

Star Wars to stream Chinese internet giant Tencent has pacted with Disney and Fox to make the entire Star Wars saga available on its online platforms in the run-up to the release of Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.

Spotlight stars Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and director Tom McCarthy at the film’s international premiere here in Toronto last night.

Cromo feature in the works

BY PETER WHITE

Argentinian TV drama Cromo, playing here as part of TIFF’s first Primetime strand, is being developed into a feature film after Pyramide International acquired the sales rights.

The eco-thriller, produced by XXY film-maker Lucia Puenzo, was originally produced as a 12-part series — three of which are showing here. But Puenzo and her brother Nicolas Puenzo are now in talks to adapt Cromo into a feature

film after securing the deal with the Paris-based production and distribution house, which will also sell the TV series to international broadcasters.

The drama, directed by Pablo Fendrik (El Ardor), is based on the real stories of a team of scientists that set out to expose environmental crimes in northern Argentina.

TODAY

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NEWS TV guide TIFF to look east for expansion of Primetime television strand » Page 3

REVIEW High-Rise Ben Wheatley’s dystopian drama is wild and fearless » Page 4

Room A melancholy and moving tale of captivity and escape » Page 6

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No Escape directors bid for Freedom Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures and Laura Bickford Productions have partnered with Sesso Entertainment’s Samuel Franco on the action thriller Six Minutes To Freedom.

John Erick Dowdle will direct from a screenplay he will co-write with Drew Dowdle based on the novel by Kurt Muse and John Gilstrap. The Dowdle brothers’ action film No Escape is currently on release in the US and has grossed more than $24m through The Weinstein Company.

Six Minutes To Freedom centres on the true story of the rescue by US Delta Force of American Kurt Muse, who was imprisoned in Panama for operating a pirate radio station.

Butan launched financierproducer MadRiver in Cannes, backed by investors that include a $30m revolving equity investment from Christopher Woodrow’s Vendian Entertainment.

The early slate includes Harmony Korine’s The Trap, starring Idris Elba and Benicio Del Toro, and Mark Romanek’s Norco.

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Celluloid first to festival hat-trick

tiFF looks to channel tV projects from Asia, UK

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Celluloid Dreams has scored an A-list festival hat-trick following this weekend’s Golden Lion win for From Afar by Venezuela’s Lorenzo Vigas. It marked the third top prize at an A-list festival for a film handled by Paris-based Celluloid after the Golden Bear in Berlin for Jafar Panahi’s Taxi and the Palme d’Or in Cannes for Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, which it co-sold with Wild Bunch.

It is the first time a sales company has achieved the feat although Germany’s Match Factory came close in 2010, when it missed out at Venice.

“It’s very exciting to have achieved the ‘grand slam’, which I think no-one has ever managed because it’s so hard to have the three films that made it out of the 6,000 submitted,” said Celluloid’s founding chief Hengameh Panahi.

Celluloid acquired From Afar on the eve of Venice after a number of other sales agents turned it down. “I loved it straight away and it made perfect sense for us,” said Panahi, who is close to sealing deals in Toronto. Other films on Celluloid’s slate include Laurie Anderson’s Heart Of A Dog about love, death and language, which premiered in Venice and is screening here in TIFF Docs.

By Peter White

Toronto is looking to expand its television Primetime line-up next year with series from Asia and the UK. TIFF launched its inaugural Primetime schedule with six projects including Icelandic drama Trapped, created by Everest director Baltasar Kormakur, Hulu’s Jason Reitman-produced comedy drama Casual, Tim Kring’s reboot Heroes: Reborn and Argentinian eco-thriller Cromo.

Michael Lerman, who programmed the Primetime line-up, said he wanted to bring an international flavour to the schedule to

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echo the film line-up. “Heroes: Reborn is the equivalent to The Martian, but Cromo is like a small Argentinian movie,” he said.

“There are portions of the world that I would have loved to have covered, such as Asia.”

TIFF is also keen to bridge the gap between film and TV as many

Fridriksson plots Icelandic crime

By Wendy Mitchell

Icelandic film-making veteran Fridrik Thor Fridriksson has revealed his next feature will be an adaptation of Gunnar Gunnarsson’s The Black Cliffs.

The 1928 novel, which has been an international bestseller, was a favourite of Ernest Hemingway. The story is inspired by a true crime in 1802 in remote Iceland. The plot follows two couples who live on an isolated farm.

When one of the husbands disap-

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pears, and the wife of the other dies, the survivors are arrested and tried for murder.

The project, which is set on the remote west coast of Iceland, will reunite him with his Angels Of The Universe actor Ingvar E Sigurdsson (Jar City, Of Horses And Men). The female lead is not yet announced.

“I love crime stories,” Oscar nominee Fridriksson told Screen.

“This story is really how much you are willing to sacrifice for love.”

He has a further six scripts

Girl King reigns around world Scandinavian sales company The Yellow Affair has inked deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King and Dome Karukoski’s The Grump. Binci Media has picked up Chinese rights to 2014 Finnish comedy The Grump, about a cranky old man who must spend time with his family, while Film Buro has bought Spanish rights to English-language biopic The Girl King, which sees Malin Buska star as 17th century Sweden’s Queen Kristina.

Wolfe Releasing acquired The Girl King for the US during Cannes. Yellow Affair sealed a US deal with Breaking Glass Pictures for Tali Shalom Ezer’s drama Princess at the weekend.

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ready for future productions and is also awaiting financing on True North’s big-budget, Viking-era trilogy, Sturlungar: The Viking Clan.

Fridriksson, who is premiering art documentary Horizon in TIFF Docs, also plans to reunite with Bergur Bernburg, his co-director on that film, for a documentary project about blue whales.

Bernburg said: “There is so much mystery about blue whales, we don’t know where they breed, where they eat; we know nothing.”

FilmSharks surfs wave of sales

By JereMy KAy

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of the world’s most notable filmmakers move to the small screen.

“There’s no divide any more; nobody is looking at TV as a secondary medium,” said Lerman.

Kormakur’s crime drama Trapped and thriller Cromo played to sold-out crowds at the Lightbox and Scotiabank respectively.

Both shows have sold in the past week with The Weinstein Company picking up Trapped for the US market, while sales agent Pyramide International took global rights to Cromo, marking an increasing trend for film distributors to move into television.

Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has secured another raft of deals from its Toronto slate.

Wizard Of Oz spin-off Wicked Flying Monkeys 3D has sold to South Korea (Koreascreen) and Colombia (Cinecolombia).

Rud said talks were advancing for a studio deal in the US and there was interest from France and Spain. Deals previously closed in the UK (eOne), Australia/New Zealand (Rialto), CIS (Top Film) and Latin America (Videocine).

Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas featuring Alec Baldwin has gone in South Korea (Bridgeworks), Central America (Palmera International) and Turkey (Sinema TV).

Turner Broadcasting has

acquired the complete Torrente comedy franchise for Latin American pay TV. FilmSharks is in talks on a US offer and previously licensed South America to Disney and Spain to Sony.

Drama Papers In The Wind from Juan Taratuto has gone to Brazil (Lanca Films), Spain (Festival Films), Peru and Chile (Andes Films) and Central America (Palmera International). The Argentinian drama centres on three men who are left to figure out how to take care of a friend’s young daughter after he dies.

Spafax, Images in Motion and Global Eagle Entertainment acquired for various airlines. Disney previously acquired rights for South America.

Starline warms up Radiator UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has picked up world rights to Tom Browne’s debut feature, Radiator, about a couple struggling to cope with the challenges of old age.

Scooping prizes at film festivals including Dallas, Galway, Glasgow and Nashville after debuting at BFI London Film Festival in 2014, the film stars the late Richard Johnson and Gemma Jones, with Daniel Cerqueira playing their middleaged son who attempts to bring order to their lives.

Genevieve Stevens produces for Rattling Stick along with Turnchapel Films. Executive producers are Barbara Broccoli, Mel Agace and Rachel Weisz.

Starline partner and director of acquisitions Piers Nightingale said: “Striking the perfect temperature between sharply observed humour and tender humanity, Radiator has been spreading its warmth across audiences worldwide, shown by its growing collection of awards.”

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Buyers worship Angry indian Goddesses

By JereMy KAy

Mongrel International has licensed another key territory on Pan Nalin’s female buddy movie Angry Indian Goddesses.

Italia has licensed all Middle Eastern rights following previously announced deals with France (ARP Selection), Germany (NFP Marketing & Distribution) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).

Jungle Book Entertainment, One Two Films and Mongrel announced the sale of the TIFF Special Presentation title. Mongrel chief Charlotte Mickie is in talks for Benelux and Spain.

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High-Rise Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Entering JG Ballard’s High-Rise carries an apartment block’s worth of expectations for young UK director Ben Wheatley, even with Crash producer Jeremy Thomas’s seal of approval. Working with writer (and co-editor) Amy Jump again, Wheatley wades into the prescient 1975 text, delivering a complex, fluid interpretation that is respectful and almost-faithful while still being its own beautiful, crazed beast.

Although it’s wild and fearless, High-Rise is no queasily chilly Crash (Wheatley and Jump back away from the novel’s incestuous element, yet add in a more-disturbing pregnancy). In Tom Hiddleston, the director has found an actor who can deliver the central character’s essential distance with the right mix of sympathy, intelligence and raw carnality. The film sings and frequently dances; it’s long but it feels alive.

The intimidating challenge in adapting High-Rise was to make a movie that exists by itself, independent of the text, and not to fall into Ballard’s aesthetic traps — either fetishising the block in which a class war takes place between the upper echelons of society, or entering into Ken Russell-style 1970s key-party territory. Wheatley is clearly not easily intimidated.

The director has made the interesting move of world premiering High-Rise in TIFF’s inau-

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PLATFoRM UK. 2015. 112mins Director Ben Wheatley Production company Recorded Picture Company International sales HanWay Films, info@hanwayfilms.com Producer Jeremy Thomas Screenplay Amy Jump, based on the novel by JG Ballard Cinematography Laurie Rose Production designer Mark Tildesley Music Clint Mansell Editors Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley Main cast Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Reece Shearsmith

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gural Platform competition, after which it will travel to San Sebastian before a healthy arthouse life. High-Rise is unusual and, despite the visual sheen, grubby enough to retain the director’s Sightseers fanbase while reaching out to new, mainly young audiences looking for a chaotic ride. Ballard fans should be satisfied; newcomers could find it difficult.

Ballard said that his experiences as a teenager in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp — chronicled in Empire Of The Sun — were a brutal lesson on how quickly society’s thin veneer could melt in the heat. High-Rise was his response to the rash of post-war urban planning that delivered brutalist tower blocks as architectural social engineering and it is assumed the block’s creator Royal, played by Jeremy Irons, was based on Le Corbusier and his followers.

And how society melts in High-Rise. When the single, highly eligible young Dr Laing moves into his small apartment it’s clear the block is already seething with petty arguments, parties, alcohol and sex. His upstairs neighbour, attractive single mother Charlotte (Sienna Miller), is slutty and knowing, while documentary film-maker Wilder (Luke Evans), is a sexual predator married to the pregnant Helen (Elisabeth Moss) and resentfully living on the lower floors with their children.

There’s a social pecking order in the High Rise; at the bottom, the middle classes (signified by flight attendants in a fabulous dance montage) and families; in the middle, uppermiddle-class Laing and his orthodontist neigh-

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bour (Reece Shearsmith); at the top, in the penthouse, Royal and his rude aristocratic wife Anne (Keeley Hawes), who rides horses in their rooftop garden and organises masquerades.

It doesn’t take long for Laing to join the parties that are swinging throughout the block, although this protagonist always holds himself back. An electricity outage and a raid by the lower floors on the 10th floor swimming pool, which has been closed for a private party, is the spark for the seething frustrations to bubble over in an orgy of sex, murder and streams of filthy rubbish. Not to mention dance.

The aesthetics of the piece are more than a footnote but, thankfully, Wheatley does not let them dominate his High-Rise. He roots the film firmly and jubilantly in the mid-1970s, but keeps the costumes and interior sets as a flavour to relish. Accomplished production designer Mark Tildesley (most recently seen at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony) found the brutalist Bangor Leisure Centre in Northern Ireland to be his London tower block and it is, of course, a leading character in the action.

High-Rise certainly isn’t perfect but that’s always going to be the case with a film that forces you on board for a messy ride.

‘Ballardian’ entered the dictionary some time ago as a byword for dystopian modernity — usually blended with eroticism and death. That, 40 years and countless dystopias later, Wheatley can still make the novelist’s work look modern and edgy in times when we think we’ve seen it all, is a feat to be celebrated.

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Room Reviewed by Tim Grierson A survival tale in which the safe return home ends up being as harrowing as captivity, Room is a nuanced portrait of trauma that stings very slowly. This intimate drama may not be particularly revelatory, its twists and insights delivered with gentle, melancholy inevitability. Nonetheless, director Lenny Abrahamson has made a deeply moving story about how adults try to explain the world to their children — even when they don’t always understand it themselves.

Room will open in the US on October 16, with distributor A24 no doubt hoping it has an Oscar contender on its hands. Emma Donoghue has written the screenplay based on her own bestselling book, which chronicles the strange odyssey of Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a five-year-old who lives happily in a small shed with his mother, whom he calls Ma (Larson). Told from the boy’s naïve perspective, Room soon establishes they are actually being held captive by a man known as Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who kidnapped Ma seven years ago and has been sexually assaulting her ever since (Jack, of course, doesn’t realise Old Nick is his father).

Room shifts gears at the midway point as Ma hatches a risky plan to sneak Jack out of the shed and get help. The ploy works, and Jack and Ma are freed, the two of them returned

SPECIAl PRESENTATIONS Ire-Can. 2015. 118mins Director lenny Abrahamson Production companies Telefilm Canada, Film4, Irish Film Board, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Element Pictures, No Trace Camping, Duperele Films International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@filmnation.com US distributor A24, www.a24films.com Producers Ed Guiney, David Gross Screenplay Emma Donoghue, based on her original novel Cinematography Danny Cohen Music Stephen Rennicks Main cast Brie larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus, William H Macy

to Ma’s parents (Joan Allen, William H Macy) while Jack begins to discover an outside world he’s never known (in fact, he grew up believing the whole world was the shed, which he called “room”).

Moving from the surreal, sneakily poignant Frank, Abrahamson has made what in some ways is a more conventional tear-jerking drama, an examination of serious themes that is offset by a swelling, tasteful score from Stephen Rennicks. But within that refined frame-

work, the film-maker sharply stirs understated emotions, his restraint accentuating the inherently combustible subject matter.

His ally in this approach is Larson, who initially does a remarkable job suggesting little of her character’s inner life in front of her son.

But Larson reveals subtly the cracks in Ma’s psyche. When Room moves out into the wider world, her job is perhaps even more challenging, as Ma — whose real name is Joy — finally starts to unravel.

(Moore) and the much younger Andree (Page) plead for decent treatment and simple justice.

The film’s performances lift an earnest tale above standard-issue moralism. Moore first plays Hester as a bland, awkward cop and then takes her, head shaven, to the wheezing end of a gruesome illness. She and Page (who co-produced) leave no doubt about the women’s loving bond.

Michael Shannon, chameleon-like as ever, is

every bit the hard-bitten New Jersey detective who risks his career fighting for fairness in a male fiefdom. Freeheld is also saved from screen agit-prop by an hilarious Steve Carell, who plays the extravagantly aggressive gay activist Steven Goldstein, a self-described “loud, gay Jew”.

Given the prominence of gender equality in politics and the news, Carell’s performance could put him in line for supporting actor nods.

Freeheld Reviewed by David D’Arcy Freeheld revisits the battle by a dying New Jersey police detective, Laurel Hester, to transfer her pension to her domestic partner at a time long before marriage equality was law. A dutiful but bracing docu-drama, it couldn’t be more in tune with the US zeitgeist.

Freehold has some major movie stars — Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell — which may explain how it got made, but its by-the-book dramatisation of a cause celebre is not a film for film critics, following instead the conventions of the standard topical television drama. That approach should aid rather than hurt it in the broader marketplace.

Hester’s story was first seen on the screen in 2007, when Cynthia Wade’s short film won an Academy Award. A detective with more than 20 years on the force, Hester was diagnosed with lung cancer. She petitioned the Freeholders (council) of her New Jersey county to transfer her pension to her officially registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree. The panel of five men denied her petition at a private meeting. Hester, her partner and gay activists went to the press and the public to change that verdict.

Directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas), the film gets the tears flowing, as Hester

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GAlA US. 2015. 103mins Director Peter Sollett Production companies Endgame Entertainment, Masproduction, Head Gear Films, Vie Entertainment International sales Bankside Films, films@ bankside-films.com Producers Ellen Page, Phil Hunt, Kelly Bush, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Cynthia Wade, Jack Selby, Duncan Montgomery, James D Stern, Julie Goldstein, Compton Ross Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner Cinematographer Maryse Alberti Music Hans Zimmer, Johnny Marr Main cast Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, Josh Charles

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Sparrows Reviewed by David D’Arcy

Sunset Song Reviewed by David D’Arcy In Sunset Song, Terence Davies takes on the adaptation of one of the great works of Scottish literature — wellknown to Scots but not so celebrated outside that country. As expected, he’s made it a tour de force of composition and colour.

Davies’ latest, following on from the Second World War drama The Deep Blue Sea in 2011, will appeal to his admirers and to anyone who is drawn to cinema on the big screen: in this case, the broad canvas of a corner of northeast Scotland before the First World War. When it was published in 1932, Sunset Song was already looking back to rural life before the widespread mechanisation of agriculture on large farms threw men into unemployment and emigration, and before many thousands of them were killed in the First World War. Davies, who wrote the script, views these broad trends through the character of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), a promising pupil who passes up a career as a teacher to remain on the land. John Guthrie (Peter Mullan), her father, is a brutal farmer who drives his long-suffering wife to suicide after she can’t bear the news that she’s pregnant again. When John drops dead of a stroke — while working, of course — Chris steps beyond the traditional authority of relatives to marry local worker, Ewan (Kevin Guthrie).

The film gives us a portrait of rural austerity, but even in Davies’ limited palette of grey and brown there is a near-infinite spectrum of hues in the dusky interiors and surrounding hills. Sunset Song does not come close to romanticising the gruelling life on that land and it’s hard to imagine another director observing it more closely.

Davies’ nostalgia-free eye is often described as painterly, an obvious but accurate term. Deyn has the face of a young woman painted by Whistler, and also the willowy grace and colouring of a figure from the paintings of Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98). A former model, Deyn rises to the challenge of a Scottish accent and portraying the struggle between freedom and sacrifice. Guthrie, meanwhile, convinces as a coward who responds with violence to avoid being regarded as such.

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS UK-Lux. 2015. 135mins Director-screenplay Terence Davies Production companies Hurricane Films, Iris Productions, SellOutPictures International sales Fortissimo Films, info@fortissimo.nl Producers Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Nicolas Steil Executive producer Bob Last Cinematography Michael McDonough Editor David Charap Production designer Andy Harris Music Gast Waltzing Main cast Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie , Kevin Guthrie

A father-son conflict in a remote Icelandic village is framed by mountains and sea in the sad and delicate coming-of-age story Sparrows, lifted well above the teen drama genre by its solid directing and spectacular surroundings. With a steely palette and carefully calibrated performances, Runar Runarsson’s film observes a teenager who finds himself stuck in a rural village with a boozy father whom he barely knows. Sparrows should play well with critics at international festivals, but getting past the arthouse circuit may be a challenge, despite the mounting interest in Icelandic cinema.

Avi (Atli Oskar Fjalarsson) is a quiet, lanky teen who sings counter-tenor in a choir in Reykjavik, the capital city. When his mother takes off for Africa with her Danish husband, he’s sent to live with his father (Ingvar E Sigurdsson) in the distant western fjords of the country, where the locals medicate the ills of a declining economy with alcohol. The constant summer light exposes everyone’s secrets.

The natural beauty is overwhelming but the teenager is stuck in a dull job at a fish factory. His only links to the place are his gentle grandmother (Kristbjorg Kjeld), who disapproves of the father’s drunken partying, and a childhood friend, Lara (Rakel Bjork Bjornsdottir), who has taken up with a tough, angry boyfriend.

Runarsson directs Sparrows with what feels like a glacial slowness for a film about youth, yet that pace enables him to take in the nuances of a passage into a new and unwelcoming environment, where empty streets are ringed by mute hills and cold dark waters. Smalltown life here is anything but charming. Cinematographer Sophia Olsson creates a world full of visual specificity, striking in its restraint. In the fishing village, where the silence is broken by the sound of car engines or raucous party music, the characters seem stuck in wide expanses or in the confining spaces of stark family dwellings, with bottles spread across the tables.

In Volcano (2011), Runarsson dealt unsentimentally with the onset of old age. In Sparrows, his cold look at youth, he saves a tiny dose of sentimentality for the film’s last moments. Iceland should prepare for his next target.

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99mins Director-screenplay Runar Runarsson Production companies Nimbus Film, Nimbus Iceland International sales Versatile, info@versatilefilms.com Producers Mikkel Jersin, Runar Runarsson Executive producers Brigitte Hald, Suza Horvat Cinematography Sophia Olsson Production designer Marta Luiza Macuga Editor Jacob Schulsinger Music Kjartan Sveinsson Main cast Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Kristbjorg Kjeld, Rade Serbedzija, Rakel Bjork Bjornsdottir

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ma ma Reviewed by Allan Hunter

The Dressmaker Reviewed by Sarah Ward Light comedy, romantic drama, small-town secrets and revenge schemes might not seem an easy or winning mix; however the combination fits in The Dressmaker.

Making her first film since 1997’s A Thousand Acres, director/co-writer Jocelyn Moorhouse adapts Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel of the same name into a handsome, heartfelt crowd-pleaser.

The performance of Kate Winslet as Myrtle ‘Tilly’ Dunnage has much to do with the film’s charms, though The Dressmaker is more than just a vehicle for its leading lady.

A cast of recognisable local actors include Judy Davis and Hugo Weaving as fleshed-out comic relief, plus Liam Hemsworth as the requisite loveable hunk.

Perfecting an antipodean accent again (after 1999’s Holy Smoke), Winslet’s Tilly arrives in town under the cover of night, lights a cigarette and exhales the film’s first words with a cloud of smoke: “I’m back, you bastards.” After two decades away from Dungatar, including studying haute couture in Paris, her impeccably dressed homecoming is far from happy or welcome. Determined to uncover the truth of her past, Tilly starts to reconcile with her mother Molly, reluctantly falling for kindly local lad Teddy McSwiney (Hemsworth) in the process while endearing herself to the populace with her sewing skills.

Set in 1951 and always looking the period part, The Dressmaker provides many a ravishing costume with the intricate work of designers Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson clearly pivotal. The narrative is also as engaging as the aesthetics and scenic shots over the dust-laced setting, as co-translated to the screen by the director and her film-maker husband PJ Hogan (Muriel’s Wedding). Hogan also took on second-unit directing duties as he did on Moorhouse’s Proof and How To Make An American Quilt.

Flitting from mystery to tragedy to laughs, the graceful changes in tone provide some of the film’s highlights.

In Moorhouse’s gentle yet spirited direction, local quirkiness and universal themes of retribution and redemption make for a film that’s sincere and smart as it tells of clothing, clandestine affairs and comeuppance.

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GAlA Aus. 2015. 118mins Director Jocelyn Moorhouse Production company Film Art Media International sales embankment Films, mp@ embankmentfilms.com Producer Sue Maslin Screenplay Jocelyn Moorhouse, pJ Hogan, based on Rosalie Ham’s novel Cinematography Donald McAlpine Editor Jill Bilcock Production design Roger Ford Main cast Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Kerry Fox, liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook

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Misery loves company and in ma ma, it arrives in droves as unemployed schoolteacher Magda (Penelope Cruz) is abandoned by her errant husband at the same time as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Subsequent developments unfold with a mixture of calm detachment and overblown melodrama as the film reveals itself as a shameless tearjerker.

Audiences may be more prepared to succumb to the sustained assault on the emotions than more cynical critics but, commercially, star Cruz’s first collaboration with director Julio Medem is unlikely to reach the heights of her iconic Spanish-language roles in a string of Pedro Almodovar titles.

Magda responds to her cancer diagnosis by clinging to news that she has a 70% chance of survival. Her focus now is on protecting her football-mad son; at one of his games she meets scout Arturo (Luis Tosar) as he receives the news that his daughter has been killed in a car crash and his wife is now in a coma. The two become allies in adversity.

Set in the clinical white of hospital rooms, the steely blue of scanning machines and the bright light of a summer at the beach, ma ma takes on an otherworldly quality. Floating, gently see-sawing camerawork expresses the way Magda is discombobulated by her treatments and everything that befalls her.

Medem’s screenplay stretches credibility throughout as it becomes a salute to Magda’s indomitable earthmother spirit and belief that anything is possible, whatever logic and science might dictate. Julian reveals his talent for singing and stops the film with a beach-side serenade to Magda that becomes a strenuous power ballad in praise of life, love and the beauty of the moment.

This is very much Cruz’s film and she appears in virtually every scene; Magda is a plum role as she runs the emotional gamut through scenes as an ailing cancer patient shaving off her hair to those as a joyously defiant survivor. Cruz looks radiant throughout and makes Magda a heroic figure but the schmaltzy script and uneven tone of the film conspire to upstage her performance and diminish our capacity to feel moved by it.

Sp-Fr. 2015. 111mins Director-screenplay Julio Medem Production companies Morena Films, Ma Ma pc, Ma Ma peliculas Aie, Mare nostrum productions International sales Seville international, sevilleinternational@ filmsseville.com Producers penelope cruz, Julio Medem, Alvaro longoria Cinematography Kiko de la Rica Editors Julio Medem, ivan Aledo Production design Montse Sanz Music Alberto iglesias Main cast penelope cruz, luis tosar, Asier etxeandia

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Saylor, Devon Bostick.

A reckless teenager finds love and danger with a fellow resident in rehab.

Public

screenings

Special Presentations Winter garden Theatre

08:45

12:30

Parched

(India/USA) 118mins.

Seville International, The Gersh Agency (US).

Seville International (int’l). Dir: Leena Yadav. Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla.

In a rural Indian village, four women begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude.

ceMeTerY of SPlendour

(Thailand/United Kingdom/France/ Germany/Malaysia) 122mins. The Match Factory (int’l).

Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram.

A medium and a hospital volunteer investigate a case of mass sleeping sickness that may have supernatural roots.

Special Presentations The Bloor hot docs cinema

The MuSic of STrangerS: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk road enSeMBle

(USA) 96mins. Submarine Entertainment (US). Dir: Morgan Neville.

Profile of the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.

Tiff docs Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 3

09:00 Box

Masters Jackman hall

Public screening 10:30 The WaiT

(Italy) 100mins. Pathé International (int’l).

Dir: Piero Messina.

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Lou De Laage, Giorgio Colangeli.

A dazzling, Sicilian-set

(Romania/Germany/ France) 94mins. The Match Factory (int’l).

Dir: Florin Serban.

Cast: Rafael Florea, Sorin Leoveanu, Nicolae Motrogan.

A teenage boxer and a thirtysomething actress become entangled in a ritual that walks the line between flirtation and stalking.

Shadows (int’l). Dir: Zhang Yang. Cast: Yang Pei, Nyima Zadui , Tsewang Dolkar.

A band of pilgrims make a 2,000km journey on foot to the holy capital of Tibet.

contemporary World cinema Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 4 — Paul & leah atkinson family cinema

Bring Me The head of TiM horTon

The ProMiSed land

(China) 102mins. Turbo Films (int’l) Dir: He Ping. Cast: Wang Jiajia, Zhang Yi, Wang Zhiwen.

He Ping’s film spotlights the migration that has seen millions leaving their rural villages to find a new life in China’s cities.

Platform Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 1

09:30 PaThS of The Soul

(China) 115mins. Asian

contemporary World cinema Jackman hall

10:00

(Canada) 30mins.

Dirs: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson.

An anarchic behind-thescenes look at Paul Gross’s new feature, Hyena Road.

Wavelengths Tiff Bell lightbox

la giuBBa

meditation on grief and perseverance from a firsttime feature director, who tells the compelling story of an encounter between two women from two different generations. discovery Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 2

The forBidden rooM: a living PoSTer

(Canada) 119mins.

Mongrel International (int’l). Dir: Galen Johnson.

A host of moving posters that suggest a collision between digitally corrupted video files and a damaged silent-era film print.

Wavelengths Tiff Bell lightbox

10:30 The WaiT See box, above

11:15 The reTurned

(Thailand/Mexico) Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The new installation from the Palme d’Or-winning Thai filmmaker.

(France) 104mins.

Zodiak Rights (US).

Zodiak Rights (int’l). Dir: Fabrice Gobert. Cast: Anne Consigny, Clotilde Hesme, Céline Sallette.

The recently deceased return to (some kind of ) life in a mountain village.

Wavelengths contemporary galleries

Primetime Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 3

fireWorkS (archiveS)

10 Screen International at Toronto September 15, 2015

11:30 SPoTlighT

(USA) 128mins.

Entertainment One (int’l). Dir: Tom McCarthy. Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams.

True story about a team of Boston Globe reporters who uncovered massive child abuse within Catholic Church.

Special Presentations visa Screening room (elgin)

11:45 collecTive invenTion

(South Korea) 92mins. CJ Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Kwon Oh-kwang. Cast: Kwang-soo Lee, Chun-hee Lee, Bo-young Park.

A mutant fish-man becomes a celebrity, in this hilarious satire. vanguard The Bloor hot docs cinema

horizon

(Iceland/Denmark) 80mins. Icelandic Film Centre (int’l). Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Bergur Bernburg.

Documentary portrait of Icelandic landscape painter Georg Gudni.

Tiff docs Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 4 — Paul & leah atkinson family cinema

MounTainS MaY deParT

(China/France/Japan) 125mins. MK2 (int’l).

Dir: Jia Zhang-ke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jin Dong.

An examination of how China’s economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition and love.

Special Presentations Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 1

90mins. Dir: Corin Sworn, Tony Romano.

La Giubba follows the lives of five drifters over the course of two summer days in southern Italy.

Wavelengths clint roenisch gallery

13:30 hYena road

(USA/India) Dir: Shambhavi Kaul.

An installation by the artist-filmmaker Shambhavi Kaul.

(Canada) 120mins.

Creative Artists Agency (US). WTFilms (int’l).

Dir: Paul Gross. Cast: Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, Christine Horne.

War drama about Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

Wavelengths Scrap Metal gallery

gala Presentations Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 2

12:00 fallen oBJecTS

The faMilY fang

(USA) 105mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

QED International (int’l). Dir: Jason Bateman. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken.

A pair of grown siblings move back in with their eccentric parents.

Special Presentations ryerson Theatre

12:15 Being charlie

(USA) 97mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

Dir: Rob Reiner. Cast: Nick Robinson, Morgan

14:00 caMPo grande

(Brazil/France) 108mins.

Films Distribution (int’l).

Dir: Sandra Kogut.

Cast: Carla Ribas, Ygor Manoel, Rayane do Amaral.

A wealthy woman finds herself caring for two impoverished young siblings. contemporary World cinema Tiff Bell lightbox, cinema 4 — Paul & leah atkinson family cinema

five nighTS in Maine

(USA) 82mins. Creative Artists Agency (US). www.screendaily.com

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Dir: Maris Curran. Cast: David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest, Rosie Perez.

A grieving widower sets out to fulfil his wife’s last wish that he finally meet her irascible mother.

Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3

14:15 THE PEOPLE vs. FRITZ BAUER

(Germany) 105mins.

Beta Cinema (int’l).

Dir: Lars Kraume. Cast: Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg.

A historical thriller, which chronicles the Herculean efforts of district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice.

Contemporary World Cinema The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

14:30 LA GIUBBA

90mins. Dir: Corin Sworn, Tony Romano.

Wavelengths Clint Roenisch Gallery

14:45 BLACk MAss

(USA) 122mins. Warner Bros Pictures (US).

Warner Bros Pictures (int’l). Dir: Scott Cooper.

Cast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Johnny Depp stars as notorious Irish-American gangster Whitey Bulger. special Presentations Princess of Wales

FAMILIEs

(France) 113mins.

Cinetic Media (US). TF1 International (int’l). Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche.

A rollicking and romantic country-house farce. special Presentations TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1

THE DREssMAkER

(Australia) 118mins.

Creative Artists Agency (US). Embankment Films (int’l). Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse. Cast: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Judy Davis. www.screendaily.com

A dressmaker returns to her Australian hometown from the chic fashion houses of Paris — and revolutionises the local women’s couture.

Media Corporation (US). Content Media Corporation (int’l). Dir: Amy Berg.

Documentary portrait of rock legend Janis Joplin.

Gala Presentations Ryerson Theatre

TIFF Docs scotiabank 2

15:00 MA MA

(Spain/France) 111mins.

Creative Artists Agency (US). Seville International (int’l).

Dir: Julio Medem. Cast: Penelope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia.

A woman with cancer forms a bond with a soccer scout whose wife has been gravely injured. special Presentations visa screening Room (Elgin)

15:30 45 YEARs

(United Kingdom) 94mins. The Match Factory (int’l). Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay.

A retired English couple reflect on their lives after nearly a half-century together. special Presentations Winter Garden Theatre

15:45 CROMO

(Argentina) 120mins.

Dir: Lucia Puenzo, Nicolas Puenzo. Cast: German Palacios, Guillermo Pfening, Emilia Attias.

A team of scientists set out to expose environmental crimes in Argentina.

Primetime scotiabank 4

THE PARADIsE sUITE

(Netherlands/Sweden/ Bulgaria) 118mins. Ida Martins (int’l). Dir: Joost van Ginkel. Cast: Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Magnus Krepper.

The intersecting stories of six immigrants from very different backgrounds.

Discovery Jackman Hall

16:00

vETERAn

(South Korea) 124mins.

CJ Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Seung-wan Ryoo.

Cast: Jung-min Hwang, Ah-in Yoo, Hae-jin Yoo. A tough cop targets the tyrannical heir to a megacorporation. vanguard scotiabank 13

16:15 BLEAk sTREET

(Mexico/Spain) 99mins.

Latido Films (int’l). Dir: Arturo Ripstein. Cast: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Nora Velazquez, Sylvia Pasquel.

True-crime story about the bizarre murders of dwarf wrestling brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez.

Masters scotiabank 3

THE MIssInG GIRL

(USA) 89mins. Dir: AD Calvo. Cast: Robert Longstreet, Alexia Rasmussen, Eric Ladin.

A disillusioned comicbook store owner revisits an adolescent trauma when his beautiful young employee goes missing. vanguard scotiabank 14

16:30 DARk HORsE

(United Kingdom) 85mins. Protagonist Pictures (int’l). Dir: Louise Osmond. Cast: Dream Alliance (Horse), Jan Vokes, Brian Vokes.

A group of friends pool their modest resources to invest in a racehorse.

TIFF Docs TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3

LA GIUBBA

90mins. Dir: Corin Sworn, Tony Romano.

Wavelengths Clint Roenisch Gallery

JAnIs: LITTLE GIRL BLUE

MY nAME Is EMILY

(USA) 106mins. Content

(Ireland) 94mins. Visit

Films (US). Visit Films (int’l). Dir: Simon Fitzmaurice. Cast: Evanna Lynch, Michael Smiley, George Webster.

Packed off to a foster home, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he’s been confined.

Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 2

16:45 THE MEDDLER

LOUDER THAn BOMBs

(Norway/France/ Denmark) 109mins.

Memento Films (int’l).

Dir: Joachim Trier. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg.

A schoolteacher grappling with the death of his wife attempts to reconcile with his two very different sons. special Presentations Ryerson Theatre

18:00

(USA) 100mins. Creative Artists Agency, United Talent Agency — UTA (US). Dir: Lorene Scafaria. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, JK Simmons.

Comedy-drama about a doting mother who, after her husband passes away, follows her daughter to Los Angeles.

MY InTERnsHIP In CAnADA

special Presentations Isabel Bader Theatre

Contemporary World Cinema scotiabank 1

17:00

(Canada) 108mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Philippe Falardeau. Cast: Patrick Huard, Suzanne Clément, Irdens Exantus.

An independent MP finds himself thrust into the parliamentary spotlight, and it’s up to his young Haitian intern to help.

ROOM

Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 4 — Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema

(Ireland/Canada) 118mins. United Talent Agency (US). FilmNation Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Lenny Abrahamson.

Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen.

Escaping from the captivity in which they have been held for years, a woman and her five-yearold son struggle to adjust to the world outside.

THE AssAssIn

special Presentations Princess of Wales

HOW HEAvY THIs HAMMER

(Canada) 75mins. Dir: Kazik Radwanski. Cast: Erwin Van Cotthem, Kate Ashley, Seth Kirsh.

Character study about a middle-aged married man who finds his only outlet in online gaming.

(Taiwan) 104mins. Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Cast: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Zhou Yun. A beautiful assassin is sent to kill the powerful lord who was once her betrothed.

Masters The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

17:45 HEAT

(USA) 170mins. Dir: Michael Mann. Cast: Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Al Pacino.

A thief and a detective go head to head in Michael Mann’s classic crime saga from 1995.

TIFF Cinematheque TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1

18:15 HEROEs REBORn

(USA) 91mins. NBC Universal International Distribution (int’l). Dir: Tim Kring. Cast: Jack Coleman, Zachary Levi, Robbie Kay. This series from Heroes creator Tim Kring unites characters from the original series with an additional group of superhumans.

Primetime Winter Garden Theatre

Chattopaddhay.

An apolitical chemistry teacher is thrown into the maelstrom of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Discovery scotiabank 11

18:30 LOOkInG FOR GRACE

(Australia) 100mins.

Fortissimo Films (int’l).

Dir: Sue Brooks. Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young.

A couple embark on a road trip across Australia in pursuit of their runaway teenage daughter.

Platform visa screening Room (Elgin)

MAn DOWn

(USA) 92mins. Creative Artists Agency , William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US).

Solutions (int’l). Dir: Dito Montiel. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman.

Dystopian thriller about a former Marine searching for his wife and son in a post-apocalyptic America.

Gala Presentations Roy Thomson Hall

18:45 nAssER

(France/South Africa) 97mins. Dir: Jihan El-Tahri.

The history of Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

TIFF Docs scotiabank 14

sHERPA

(Australia/United Kingdom) 96mins.

Dir: Jennifer Peedom.

Cast: Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Russell Brice, Ed Douglas.

Phurba Tashi Sherpa undertakes his worldrecord-setting 22nd ascent of Mount Everest.

TIFF Docs scotiabank 4

MEGHMALLAR

(Bangladesh) 92mins.

Bengal Entertainment. (int’l). Dir: Zahidur Rahim Anjan. Cast: Shahiduzzaman Selim, Aparna Jara, Joyonto

THE DEvIL’s CAnDY

(USA) 90mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

HanWay Films (int’l).

Dir: Sean Byrne. Cast: Ethan Embry, Shiri

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ScreeningS

Yared Zeleke. Cast: Rediat Amare, Kidist Siyum, Welela Assefa.

A nine-year-old Ethiopian boy risks all to save his only friend — his late mother’s pet lamb.

Contemporary World Cinema Isabel Bader Theatre

19:45 rIver

Public screening 19:15 doWnrIver

(Australia) 99mins.

LevelK (int’l). Dir: Grant Scicluna. Cast: Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor, Reef Ireland.

When a young prisoner

Mekko

gets parole, he returns to his rural Australian home to discover the truth behind a crime he supposedly committed when he was a child. discovery Scotiabank 13

(USA) 84mins. Dir: Sterlin Harjo. Cast: Rod Rondeaux, Zahn McClarnon, Wotko Long.

An ex-con living on the streets of Tulsa becomes embroiled in a fateful conflict with a local thug.

Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 8

Appleby, Pruitt Taylor.

A painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his family move into their dream home.

Midnight Madness Scotiabank 9

19:00 Al Purdy WAS Here

(Canada) 92mins. Dir: Brian D Johnson. Cast: Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Leonard Cohen.

Documentary tribute to the late, great Canadian poet Al Purdy.

TIFF docs TIFF Bell lightbox, Cinema 2

Blood oF My Blood

(Italy/France/ Switzerland) 106mins.

The Match Factory (int’l).

Dir: Marco Bellocchio.

Cast: Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman.

Marco Bellocchio’s film takes us from the 17th century to the present as it traces the dark history of a cursed monastery.

Masters Scotiabank 2

CouPle In A Hole

(United Kingdom/ Belgium/France) 105mins. Dir: Tom

Geens. Cast: Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jerome Kircher.

A middle-aged couple who live in a cave deep in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.

City to City TIFF Bell lightbox, Cinema 3

JACk

(Austria) 97mins. Picture Tree International (int’l).

Dir: Elisabeth Scharang.

Cast: Johannes Krisch, Corinna Harfouch, Birgit Minichmayr.

Biopic of an Austrian convict who became a literary superstar while serving a 15-year sentence for murder.

Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 10

keePer

(Belgium/Switzerland/ France) 95mins. Be for Films (int’l). Dir: Guillaume Senez.

Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein, Galatea Bellugi, Catherine Salee.

Two love-struck teens grow up fast in the wake of an unexpected pregnancy. discovery Scotiabank 3

12 Screen International at Toronto September 15, 2015

THe evenT

(Netherlands/Belgium) 74mins. Dir: Sergei Loznitsa.

Sergei Loznitsa’s foundfootage epic tells the story of the failed coup of 1991 that signalled the fall of the Soviet Union.

Wavelengths Jackman Hall

19:15 doWnrIver See box, above

no HoMe MovIe

(Belgium) 115mins. Doc & Film International (int’l). Dir: Chantal Akerman.

A moving portrait of the director’s relationship with her mother, an Auschwitz survivor whose harrowing past and chronic anxiety has helped shape her daughter’s art.

Wavelengths TIFF Bell lightbox, Cinema 4 — Paul & leah Atkinson Family Cinema

19:30 lAMB

(Ethiopia/France/ Germany/Norway) 94mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir:

(Canada/Laos) 88mins.

XYZ Films (US) Kaleidoscope Films (int’l). Dir: Jamie M Dagg. Cast: Rossif Sutherland, Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh.

Accused of murder after intervening in the sexual assault of a woman, an American doctor in Laos is forced to go on the run. discovery The Bloor Hot docs Cinema

20:45 love

(France) 134mins. Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Gaspar Noé. Cast: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin.

A 3D melodrama about a ménage-a-trois. vanguard ryerson Theatre

21:00 A MonTH oF SundAyS

(Australia) 109mins.

Visit Films (int’l). Dir: Matthew Saville. Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Julia Blake, John Clarke.

A wrong number leads to an unlikely friendship between a middle-aged Adelaide realtor and an elderly woman.

Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 11

AS I oPen My eyeS

(Tunisia/France/ Belgium/United Arab Emirates) 102mins. Doc & Film International (int’l). Dir: Leyla Bouzid.

Cast: Baya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari.

The tale of an up-andcoming underground band as they are pulled in all directions by creativity, oppression and rebellion.

Seville International (int’l). Dir: Andrew Cividino. Cast: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett.

The volatile dynamics between three teenage friends are pushed towards a potentially dangerous imbalance. discovery Winter garden Theatre

21:15

(USA) 83mins. Forager Film Company (US).

Visit Films (int’l). Dir: Harrison Atkins. Cast: Lindsay Burdge, Peter Vack, Jen Kim. A twentysomething begins to undergo strange physical changes after a weekend tryst — with a ghost. vanguard Scotiabank 10

lAST CAB To dArWIn

SePTeMBerS oF SHIrAz

(Australia) 123mins.

Films Distribution (int’l).

Dir: Jeremy Sims. Cast: Jacki Weaver, Michael Caton, Ningali LawfordWolf.

A 70-year-old diagnosed with terminal cancer takes a 3,000-mile journey to visit a pioneering physician.

(USA) 110mins. Paradigm (US). Millennium Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Wayne Blair.

Cast: Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohreh Aghdashloo.

A secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 4

gala Presentations roy Thomson Hall

21:30 AnoMAlISA

(USA) 90mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US).

HanWay Films (int’l).

Dir: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson. Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis.

Animated fable about a motivational speaker seeking to transcend his monotonous existence.

Special Presentations Princess of Wales

FIre Song

(Canada) 85mins. Marina Cordoni Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Adam Garnet Jones. Cast: Jennifer Podemski, Andrew Martin, Harley LegardeBeacham.

A young man is forced to choose between staying in his community or exploring the possibilities of the world outside.

THe TreASure

(Romania/France) 89mins. Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu. Cast: Cuzin Toma, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei.

Two neighbours set out to unearth a buried treasure in their own backyard.

Contemporary World Cinema Jackman Hall

THe WAITIng rooM

(Canada) 92mins. Dir: Igor Drljaca. Cast: Jasmin Geljo, Masa Lizdek, Filip Geljo.

A Sarajevo-born immigrant struggles to find work in his new life in Toronto.

Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell lightbox, Cinema 2

WoMen He’S undreSSed

discovery Scotiabank 8

(Australia) 100mins.

Hollywood Classics (int’l). Dir: Gillian Armstrong.

Documentary tribute to Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly.

Full ConTACT

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SleePIng gIAnT

(Netherlands/Croatia) 105mins. Bac Films (int’l). Dir: David Verbeek. Cast: Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane Dazi.

A drone operator tries to deal with his guilt after an air strike goes wrong.

(Canada) 90mins. Seville International (US).

Platform visa Screening room (elgin)

Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 1

lACe CrATer

21:45 loST And BeAuTIFul

(Italy) 87mins. Istituto Luce Cinecitta (int’l).

Dir: Pietro Marcello.

Cast: Tommaso Cestrone, Sergio Vitolo, Gesuino Pittalis.

A tribute to a real-life shepherd who became www.screendaily.com

a symbol of hope in a country plagued by corruption and economic breakdown.

Wavelengths TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3

Anne Sewitsky. Cast: Ine Wilmann, Simon J Berger, Silje Storstein.

A brooding, sharply detailed study of incest.

Contemporary World Cinema scotiabank 13

MagaLLanes

(Peru/Argentina/ Colombia/Spain) 109mins. Meikincine Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Salvador del Solar.

Cast: Damian Alcazar, Magaly Solier, Federico Luppi.

An ex-aide to a feared military officer in the days of government repression during the Shining Path insurgency, unexpectedly re-encounters a young woman who was brutally victimised by his superior.

Contemporary World Cinema scotiabank 3

RaMs

(Iceland) 93mins. New Europe Film Sales (int’l).

Dir: Grimur Hakonarson.

Cast: Sigurour Sigurjonsson, Theodor Juliusson, Charlotte Boving.

Drama focusing on two Icelandic sheep farmers whose decades-long feud comes to a head when disaster strikes their flocks.

Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1

suMMeRTIMe

(France) 105mins.

Pyramide International (int’l). Dir: Catherine Corsini. Cast: Cécile De France, Izia Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky.

In France in 1971, a girl from a rural family moves to Paris and begins a lifechanging affair with a feminist activist. special Presentations scotiabank 2

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(Ukraine/USA/United Kingdom) 102mins. Dir: Evgeny Afineevsky.

A visceral, in-depth look at the bloody Ukrainian uprising in Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2013-14.

London FIeLds

(Hong Kong/Singapore) 90mins. Distribution Workshop (HK) Limited (int’l). Dir: Eric Khoo.

Cast: Choi Woo Shik, Kim Kkobbi, Koh Boon Pi. A group of tales about the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — all of them involving sex.

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Six short films depict hard realities and fantastical visions — sometimes both at once. short Cuts TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 4 — Paul & Leah atkinson Family Cinema

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(United Kingdom) 87mins. Protagonist Pictures (US).

Protagonist Pictures (int’l). Dir: David Farr.

Cast: Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore.

A couple become involved in a battle of wills with the tenants downstairs.

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ZooM

(Canada/Brazil) 96mins.

WTFilms (int’l). Dir: Pedro Morelli. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alison Pill, Mariana Ximenes.

A filmmaker, a comic-book artist and a novelist tell each other’s stories.

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hoMesICk

(Norway) 102mins.

TrustNordisk (int’l). Dir:

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(USA) 87mins. ICM Partners (US). Dir: Joe Begos. Cast: Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, John Speredakos.

A drifter with psychic powers takes on an evil doctor and his crew of telekinetic assassins.

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VILLe-MaRIe

(Canada) 101mins.

Films Boutique (int’l).

Dir: Guy Edoin. Cast: Monica Bellucci, Pascale Bussieres, Aliocha Schneider.

A tale of four people whose very different lives intersect one fateful night in downtown Montreal. special Presentations scotiabank 10

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(Poland/Ireland) 81mins.

HanWay Films (int’l).

Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski.

Cast: Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra.

A film that shuttles between several characters over 11 minutes on a single day in Warsaw.

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MaggIe’s PLan

(USA) 92mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Cinetic Media (US).

Protagonist Pictures (int’l). Dir: Rebecca Miller. Cast: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader.

A woman who wants to have a child gets involved in a love triangle with an unhappy academic and his eccentric wife. special Presentations scotiabank 2

The WhITe knIghTs

(France/Belgium) 112mins. Indie Sales (int’l). Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Cast: Vincent Lindon, Valérie Donzelli , Reda Kateb.

The head of an NGO tries to rescue 300 children during the Chad civil war.

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(Canada) 90mins.

Cinetic Media (US).

Fortissimo Films (int’l).

P&I screenIng Dir: Stephen Dunn. Cast: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Joanne Kelly.

A teenager struggles with his sexuality and his fear of his macho father. discovery scotiabank 14

08:30 London FIeLds

(United Kingdom) 118mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

IM Global (int’l). Dir: Mathew Cullen. Cast: Billy Bob Thornton,

Johnny Depp, Amber Heard.

Set in 1999 London, this noir crime thriller is based on Martin Amis’s novel of the same name. special Presentations scotiabank 4

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gIRLs LosT

(Sweden) 106mins. The Yellow Affair (int’l).

Dir: Alexandra-Therese Keining. Cast: Tuva Jagell, Emrik Öhlander, Wilma Holmén.

Three teenage girls get a new perspective on life when they are mysteriously transformed into boys.

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InTo The FoResT

(Canada) 101mins.

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (US). Celsius Entertainment. (int’l).

Dir: Patricia Rozema.

Cast: Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella.

Two sisters struggle to survive in a remote house after a continent-wide power outage. special Presentations scotiabank 3

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The protagonists in this programme contend with transitions large and small, some reflecting on the lives they leave behind while others encounter the thrill of new adventures. short Cuts scotiabank 5

The aPosTaTe

(Spain/France/Uruguay) 80mins. FiGa Films (US).

FiGa Films (int’l). Dir: Federico Veiroj. Cast: Alvaro Ogalla, Marta Larralde, Barbara Lennie.

A man navigates the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to formally renounce his faith.

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09:15 nInTh FLooR

(Canada) 81mins.

National Film Board of Canada (US). National Film Board of Canada (int’l). Dir: Mina Shum.

Cast: Rodney John, Clarence Bayne, Senator Anne Cools.

A study of the Sir George Williams University riot of 1969, when a protest against racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation.

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The dRessMakeR

(Australia) 118mins.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US).

Embankment Films (int’l). Dir: Jocelyn

Moorhouse. Cast: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Judy Davis.

A dressmaker returns to her Australian hometown from the chic fashion houses of Paris — and revolutionises the local women’s couture. gala Presentations scotiabank 1

09:30 BLood oF My BLood

(Italy/France/ Switzerland) 106mins.

The Match Factory (int’l).

Dir: Marco Bellocchio.

Cast: Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman.

A centuries-spanning history of a cursed monastery.

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10:45 RaBIn, The LasT day

(Israel/France) 153mins.

Indie Sales (int’l). Dir: Amos Gitai. Cast: Ischac Hiskiya, Pini Mitelman, Michael Warshaviak.

A gripping docudrama about the final hours in the life of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

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(Canada/Laos) 88mins.

XYZ Films (US).

Kaleidoscope Films (int’l). Dir: Jamie M Dagg. Cast: Rossif Sutherland, Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh.

An American volunteer doctor in Laos is forced to go on the run after being accused of murder.

Black

(Belgium) 95mins. Be for Films (int’l). Dir: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah. Cast: Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi, Emmanuel Tahon.

A girl in a black gang falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang.

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Honor THy FaTHer

(Philippines) 115mins.

Dir: Erik Matti. Cast: John Lloyd Cruz, Meryll Soriano, Tirso Cruz III. A pair of married whitecollar swindlers fall foul of their latest victims.

THe arDenneS

(Belgium) 90mins.

Attraction Distribution (US). Savage Film, Attraction Distribution (int’l). Dir: Robin Pront.

Cast: Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens, Kevin Janssens.

Two bandit brothers become involved in a potentially explosive love triangle.

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SunSeT Song

(United Kingdom/ Luxembourg) 135mins.

Fortissimo Films (int’l).

Dir: Terence Davies. Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie.

A farming family struggles to eke out a living in northeast Scotland, in this adaptation of the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

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(Spain) 100mins. Film Factory Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Alex De La Iglesia. Cast: Mario Casas, Pepon Nieto.

The preparations for

a New Year’s Eve TV spectacular become a flashpoint for comic mayhem in this ensemble comedy from Spain’s madcap maestro.

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THe Family Fang

(USA) 105mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). QED International (int’l). Dir: Jason Bateman. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken.

A pair of grown siblings move back in with their eccentric parents.

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VeTeran

(South Korea) 124mins.

CJ Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Seung-wan Ryoo.

Cast: Jung-min Hwang, Ah-in Yoo, Hae-jin Yoo. A tough cop targets the tyrannical heir to a megacorporation in this hardhitting thriller.

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A spectacular movie musical about high-level corporate intrigue.

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The characters in these arresting shorts face many challenges — some easier than others.

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11:30 BaSkin

(Turkey) 97mins. XYZ (US). The Salt Company. (int’l). Dir: Can Evrenol.

Cast: Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Mehmet Cerrahoglu.

A squad of cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass.

Cast: Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, Christine Horne.

A drama about Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

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(USA) 110mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (US). William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (int’l). Dir: Michael Moore. Cast: Michael Moore, Amel Smaoui, Jenny Tumas.

Michael Moore tours the globe to discover what America might learn from the policies of other countries.

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PaTHS oF THe Soul

(China) 115mins. Asian Shadows (int’l). Dir: Zhang Yang. Cast: Yang Pei, Nyima Zadui , Tsewang Dolkar.

A band of pilgrims make a 2,000km journey to the holy capital of Tibet.

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(China) 102mins. Dir: He Ping. Cast: Wang Jiajia, Zhang Yi, Wang Zhiwen.

He Ping spotlights the massive migration that has seen millions leave their villages to find a new life in China’s cities.

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(China/Hong Kong) 117mins. Edko Films. (int’l). Dir: Johnnie To. Cast: Sylvia Chang, Chow Yun Fat, Eason Chan.

(Canada) 120mins.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). WTFilms (int’l). Dir: Paul Gross.

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Croatia) 99mins.

Versatile (int’l). Dir: Runar Runarsson. Cast: Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld.

A teenage boy is forced to leave his happy life in Reykjavik and move back in with his dissolute father in a rural town.

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13:30 STarVe your Dog

(Morocco) 94mins. Paul Thiltges Distribution (int’l). Dir: Hicham Lasri.

Cast: Latefa Ahrrare, Jirari Ben Aissa, Fehd Benchemsi.

A once-famous journalist desperate to make a comeback lands a major interview with the dreaded interior minister of the

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25 aPril

(USA) 100mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Dir: Lorene Scafaria. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, JK Simmons.

Comedy-drama about a doting mother who, after her husband passes away, follows her daughter to LA.

(New Zealand) 85mins.

K5 International (US).

K5 International (int’l).

Dir: Leanne Pooley.

Cast: Fraser Brown, Andrew Grainger, Chelsie Preston-Crayford.

A recreation of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign during the First World War.

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(France/Argentina/ Spain) 85mins. Pyramide International (int’l). Dir: Pablo Aguero. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Denis Lavant, Daniel Fanego.

The true story of the transport of the embalmed body of Argentina’s beloved Eva Peron.

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FiVe nigHTS in maine

(USA) 82mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Dir: Maris Curran.

Cast: David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest, Rosie Perez.

A grieving widower sets out to fulfil his wife’s last wish that he finally meet her irascible mother.

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HurT

(Canada) 84mins.

Dir: Alan Zweig.

A profile of the fall from grace of one-time Canadian national hero Steve Fonyo.

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PariSienne

(France) 119mins. Films Boutique (int’l). Dir: Danielle Arbid. Cast: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy.

A coming-of-age story about a young woman from Beirut. contemporary World cinema Scotiabank 10

14:15 our laST Tango

(Germany/Argentina) www.screendaily.com

85mins. Wide House (int’l). Dir: German Kral.

Cast: Maria Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Pablo Veron.

Chronicle of the sevendecade career of Argentine tango legends Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves.

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ReTuRn oF The ATom

(Finland/Germany) 110mins. Deckert Distribution (int’l).

Dir: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola.

Documentary about the first new nuclear power plant in the West following the Chernobyl disaster.

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14:30 eye In The Sky

(United Kingdom) 102mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (US). Entertainment One Features (int’l). Dir: Gavin Hood. Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman.

Thriller about a terroristtargeting drone mission that becomes a flashpoint when a civilian girl enters the kill zone.

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15:00 ColonIA

(Germany/Luxembourg/ France) 110mins. United Talent Agency (UTA) (US). Beta Cinema (int’l). Dir: Florian Gallenberger. Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist.

Two lovers find themselves trapped in the crackdown following the 1973 coup against Chilean president Salvador Allende.

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15:45 In JACkSon heIGhTS

(USA) 190mins. Zipporah Films (US). Doc & Film International, Zipporah Films (int’l). Dir: Frederick Wiseman.

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which www.screendaily.com

is thought to be the most diverse place on the planet.

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16:00 BleAk STReeT

(Mexico/Spain) 99mins.

Latido Films (int’l). Dir: Arturo Ripstein. Cast: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Nora Velazquez, Sylvia Pasquel.

A true-crime story about the murders of dwarf wrestling brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez. masters Scotiabank 11

16:30 InCIDenT lIGhT

(Argentina/France/ Uruguay) 95mins. UDI — Urban Distribution International (int’l). Dir: Ariel Rotter. Cast: Erica Rivas, Marcelo Subiotto, Susana Pampin.

A young woman struggling to raise twin daughters accepts the courtship of a mysterious older suitor.

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A young French infantry volunteer is plunged into the maelstrom of trench warfare on the Western Front.

a lonely security guard catches him shoplifting.

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17:00 BeInG ChARlIe

(USA) 97mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Dir: Rob Reiner.

Cast: Nick Robinson, Morgan Saylor, Devon Bostick.

A reckless teenager finds love and danger with a fellow resident in rehab.

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17:45 heAT

(USA) 170mins. Dir: Michael Mann. Cast: Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Al Pacino.

A thief and a detective go head to head in Michael Mann’s crime saga.

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The GIRl In The PhoToGRAPhS

(USA) 95mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Dir: Nick Simon.

Cast: Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald, Toby Hemingway.

A celebrity photographer and his entourage descend upon a sleepy community to investigate a serial killer. midnight madness Scotiabank 9

16:45 leT Them Come

(France/Algeria) 95mins.

KG Productions (int’l).

Dir: Salem Brahimi.

Cast: Amazigh Kateb, Rachida Brakni.

A family must defend itself from the violence between government forces and radical Islamists in 1980s Algeria.

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The FeAR

(France) 93mins. Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Damien Odoul. Cast: Nino Rocher, Pierre Martial Gaillard, Theo Chazal.

(Australia) 100mins.

Fortissimo Films (int’l).

Dir: Sue Brooks. Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young.

A couple embark on a road trip across Australia in pursuit of their runaway teenage daughter.

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18:45 Demon

(Poland/Israel) 94mins.

Dir: Marcin Wrona.

Cast: Itay Tiran, Tomasz Schuchardt, Andrzej Grabowski.

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration.

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19:00 A PATCh oF FoG

(United Kingdom) 90mins. The Fyzz Facility (US). 13 Films (int’l).

Dir: Michael Lennox.

Cast: Stephen Graham, Conleth Hill, Lara Pulver.

An upstanding professor is blackmailed into a very one-sided friendship after

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(Netherlands/Belgium) 74mins. Dir: Sergei Loznitsa.

A found-footage epic about the failed coup of August 1991 that signalled the fall of the Soviet Union.

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19:15 no home moVIe

(Belgium) 115mins. Doc & Film International (int’l). Dir: Chantal Akerman.

A portrait of Chantal Akerman’s relationship with her mother, an Auschwitz survivor whose harrowing past and chronic anxiety has shaped her daughter’s art.

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19:30 TRuTh

(USA) 121mins. Sony Pictures Classics (US). FilmNation Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: James Vanderbilt.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Elisabeth Moss, Robert Redford.

A gripping docudrama about the 60 Minutes investigation into George W Bush’s alleged draftdodging during Vietnam.

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19:45 SemAnA SAnTA

(Mexico) 85mins.

Mundial (int’l). Dir: Alejandra Marquez Abella. Cast: Anajosé Aldrete, Tenoch Huerta, Esteban Avila.

A young widow’s attempt to bond with her son and new boyfriend on vacation becomes a strained exercise in isolation and longing.

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(Germany) 110mins.

ARRI Media World Sales (int’l). Dir: Christian Zübert. Cast: Jördis Triebel, Chara Mata

Giannatou, Benjamin Sadler.

A nightmarish crisis occurs after a pregnant young Greek immigrant takes a job as a nanny to a young professional couple.

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21:30 Full ConTACT

(Netherlands/Croatia) 105mins. Bac Films (int’l). Dir: David Verbeek. Cast: Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane Dazi.

A drone operator tries to deal with his guilt after an air strike goes wrong.

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mounTAIn

(Israel/Denmark) 83mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Yaelle Kayam. Cast: Shani Klein, Avshalom Pollak, Haitham Ibrahem Omari.

An Orthodox Jewish woman becomes ensconced in a nocturnal community of prostitutes and drug dealers.

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21:45 FeBRuARy

(USA/Canada) 93mins.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), United Talent Agency (UTA) (US).

Highland Film Group (int’l). Dir: Osgood Perkins. Cast: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton.

Two students at a prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they are stranded at school over their winter break.

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loST AnD BeAuTIFul

(Italy) 87mins. Istituto Luce Cinecitta (int’l).

Dir: Pietro Marcello.

Cast: Tommaso Cestrone, Sergio Vitolo, Gesuino Pittalis.

A tribute to a humble, real-life shepherd who became a symbol of hope in a country plagued by corruption and economic breakdown.

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