TIFF: Truth be told, the initial lineup for TIFF was decent but left me wanting more. Today, that has all changed. While there are still a few titles missing that I was hoping to see at TIFF like Blade Runner 2049, The Snowman, Murder on the Orient Express, Wonder, and The Greatest Showman but getting some expected surprises that showed up on today’s lineup like Brie Larson’s directorial debut of Unicorn Store has made me giddy.
Below are the latest additions including the updates from last week which we didn’t post yet here on the site.
Contemporary World Cinema
A Ciambra Jonas Carpignano, Italy/France/USA/Germany International Premiere
A Sort of Family (Una Especie de Familia) Diego Lerman, Argentina/Brazil/France/Poland World Premiere
Alanis Anahí Berneri, Argentina World Premiere
Ana, mon amour Călin Peter Netzer, Romania/Germany/France North American Premiere
Angels Wear White (Jia Nian Hua) Vivian Qu, China/France North American Premiere
April’s Daughter (Las Hijas de Abril) Michel Franco, Mexico North American Premiere
Arrhythmia Boris Khlebnikov, Russia/Finland/Germany North American Premiere
Beyond Words Urszula Antoniak, Netherlands/Poland World Premiere
Birds Without Names (Kanojo ga Sono Na wo Shiranai Toritachi) Kazuya Shiraishi, Japan World Premiere
BLACK KITE Tarique Qayumi, Canada/Afghanistan World Premiere
Breath Simon Baker, Australia World Premiere
Dark is the Night (Madilim ang Gabi) Adolfo Alix Jr., Philippines World Premiere
Directions (Posoki) Stephan Komandarev, Bulgaria/Germany/Macedonia North American Premiere
Disappearance (Verdwijnen) Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands/Norway International Premiere
Don’t Talk to Irene Pat Mills, Canada World Premiere
Euthanizer (Armomurhaaja)Teemu Nikki, Finland World Premiere
Félicité Alain Gomis, France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/Lebanon North American Premiere
Good Favour Rebecca Daly, Ireland/Belgium/Denmark/Netherlands World Premiere
Hannah Andrea Pallaoro, Italy/Belgium/France North American Premiere
Insyriated Philippe Van Leeuw, Belgium/France/Lebanon Canadian Premiere
Les Affamés Robin Aubert, France/Canada World Premiere
Life and nothing more Antonio Méndez Esparza, Spain/USA World Premiere
Longing (Gaagua) Savi Gabizon, Israel North American Premiere
Looking for Oum Kulthum Shirin Neshat, Germany/Austria/Italy/Lebanon/Qatar North American Premiere
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak) Mouly Surya, Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand North American Premiere
Meditation Park Mina Shum, Canada World Premiere
Miami Zaida Bergroth, Finland International Premiere
Motorrad Vicente Amorim, Brazil World Premiere
Nina Juraj Lehotský, Slovakia/Czech Republic North American Premiere
On Body and Soul Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary North American Premiere
Porcupine Lake Ingrid Veninger, Canada World Premiere
Public Schooled Kyle Rideout, Canada World Premiere
Pyewacket Adam MacDonald, Canada World Premiere
Samui Song (Mai Mee Samui Samrab Ter) Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/Germany/Norway North American Premiere
Sergio & Sergei (Sergio & Serguéi) Ernesto Daranas Serrano, Spain/Cuba World Premiere
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales (Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes) Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert, France North American Premiere
The Insult (L’Insulte) Ziad Doueiri, France/Lebanon Canadian Premiere
The Journey (Al Rahal) Mohamed Jabarah Al-daradji, Iraq/United Kingdom/France/Qatar/Netherlands World Premiere
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Simon Lavoie, Canada World Premiere
The Lodgers Brian O’Malley, Ireland World Premiere
The Number Khalo Matabane, South Africa World Premiere
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel Ishaya Bako, Nigeria World Premiere
The Summit (La Cordillera) Santiago Mitre, Argentina/Spain/France North American Premiere
Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle Mike van Diem, Netherlands/Italy/Canada World Premiere
Under the Tree (Undir Trénu) Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Iceland/Denmark/Poland/Germany International Premiere
Veronica (Verónica) Paco Plaza, Spain International Premiere
Wajib Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/France/Germany/Colombia/Norway/Qatar/United Arab Emirates North American Premiere
Western Valeska Grisebach, Germany/Bulgaria/Austria North American Premiere
Galas
55 Steps Bille August, Germany/Belgium World Premiere
Chappaquiddick John Curran, USA World Premiere
Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes François Girard, Canada World Premiere
My Days of Mercy Tali Shalom-Ezer, USA World Premiere
The Leisure Seeker Paolo Virzì, Italy International Premiere
Three Christs Jon Avnet, USA World Premiere
Special Presentations
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) Robert Schwentke, Germany/France/Poland World Premiere
The Conformist (冰之下) Cai Shangjun, China North American Premiere
The Cured David Freyne, Ireland/United Kingdom/France World Premiere
The Escape Dominic Savage, United Kingdom World Premiere
Eye on Juliet Kim Nguyen, Canada North American Premiere
The Florida Project Sean Baker, USA North American Premiere
Foxtrot Samuel Maoz, Israel/Germany/France/Switzerland Canadian Premiere
I Love You, Daddy Louis C.K., USA World Premiere
In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts) Fatih Akin, Germany/France North American Premiere
Journey’s End Saul Dibb, United Kingdom World Premiere
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/United Kingdom North American Premiere
Kodachrome Mark Raso, Canada/USA World Premiere
Lean On Pete Andrew Haigh, USA/United Kingdom Canadian Premiere
Loving Pablo Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain North American Premiere
Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D John Landis, USA Preceded By Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jerry Kramer, USA North American Premiere
Manhunt John Woo, Hong Kong/China North American Premiere
Mark Felt – The Man Who Brought Down the White House Peter Landesman, USA World Premiere
Marrowbone Sergio G. Sánchez, Spain World Premiere
Molly’s Game Aaron Sorkin, USA World Premiere
The Motive (El Autor) Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain World Premiere
Number One (Numéro Une) Tonie Marshall, France World Premiere
On Chesil Beach Dominic Cooke, United Kingdom World Premiere
Outside In Lynn Shelton, USA World Premiere
Papillon Michael Noer, Serbia/Montenegro/Malta World Premiere
Racer and the Jailbird Michaël R. Roskam, Belgium/France North American Premiere
Radiance (Hikari) Naomi Kawase, Japan/France North American Premiere
Redoubtable Michel Hazanavicius, France North American Premiere
Three Peaks (Drei Zinnen) Jan Zabeil, Germany/Italy North American Premiere
Unicorn Store Brie Larson, USA World Premiere
Who We Are Now Matthew Newton, USA World Premiere
You Disappear (Du Forsvinder) Peter Schønau Fog, Denmark/Sweden International Premiere
Youth (Fāng Huá) Feng Xiaogang, China World Premiere
Primetime
Dark Germany, 2 episodes
Showrunners: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese Director: Baran bo Odar
World Premiere
The Deuce USA, 2 episodes
Showrunners: David Simon, George Pelecanos Directors: Michelle MacLaren, Ernest Dickerson Episode 1, Canadian Premiere
Episode 2, World Premiere
The Girlfriend Experience Season 2, USA, 4 episodes
Showrunners and directors: Amy Seimetz, Lodge Kerrigan
World Premiere
Under Pressure Brazil, 2 episodes
Showrunners: Andrucha Waddington, Jorge Furtado Directors: Andrucha Waddington, Mini Kerti International Premiere
Alias Grace Canada/USA, 2 episodes Showrunner: Sarah Polley
Director: Mary Harron
World Premiere
Masters
The Day After (Geu-hu) Hong Sangsoo, South Korea North American Premiere
Faces Places (Visages Villages) Agnès Varda, JR, France Canadian Premiere
First Reformed Paul Schrader, USA Canadian Premiere
Happy End Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany North American Premiere
The House by the Sea (La Villa) Robert Guédiguian, France North American Premiere
Loveless (Nelyubov) Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia/France/Belgium/Germany Canadian Premiere
The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany Canadian Premiere
Our People Will Be Healed Alanis Obomsawin, Canada World Premiere
Rainbow – A Private Affair (Una questione privata) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Italy/France World Premiere
The Third Murder (Sandome no Satsujin) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan North American Premiere
Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain/France/Netherlands/Mexico/Portugal/USA North American Premiere
Short Film Program
Wavelengths 1: Appetite for Destruction
As pessimistic prognoses flood in during our age of decline, dictatorships and devastation, this sweeping appetite for destruction also fuels rebellious — even mischievous — forms of resistance and necessary counter-investigation.
Onward Lossless Follows Michael Robinson, USA
some cities Francesco Gagliardi, Canada
The Watchmen Fern Silva, USA
Wasteland No.1 – Ardent, Verdant Jodie Mack, USA
Phantasiesätze (Fantasy Sentences) Dane Komljen, Germany/Denmark
Dislocation Blues Sky Hopinka, Ho-Chunk Nation/USA
Wavelengths 2: Fluid Frontiers
A newly restored and astonishing short by film diarist Anne Charlotte Robertson launches this programme of portraits and homages, with links to notions of home and heritage.
Pixillation Anne Charlotte Robertson, USA (Restoration courtesy of Harvard Film Archive)
Ticino Friedl vom Gröller, Austria/Italy
Brown And Clear Kevin Jerome Everson, USA
Turtles Are Always Home (Sokun Al Sulhufat) Rawane Nassif, Canada/Lebanon/Qatar Configuration in Black and White Helga Fanderl, Germany
Fire Lucy Parker, United Kingdom
From Source to Poem Rosa Barba, Germany
Fluid Frontiers Ephraim Asili, USA/Canada
Wavelengths 3: Figures in the Landscape
There is much to manoeuvre in the world. When quotidian objects seemingly conspire against and constrict our movement, inevitably slowing us down in an over-accelerated world, attendant shifts in meaning and interventions can propose unforeseen detours.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook, USA
Yeti Wojciech Bąkowski, Poland
(100ft) Minjung Kim, South Korea/USA
Heart of a Mountain Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Taiwan/Canada
Rose Gold Sara Cwynar, USA
Division Movement to Vungtau Benjamin Crotty, Bertrand Dezoteux, France
Flores Jorge Jácome, Portugal
Wavelengths 4: As Above, So Below
Four exceedingly different films, each with its own documentary impulse, suggest rich interplay between metaphoric and physical horizon lines and amid shifting scales: of thread, of light and shadow, of environmental elements, of existential contemplation and of memory.
La Libertad Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France/USA
Palmerston Blvd. Dan Browne, Canada
below-above André Lehmann, Switzerland
Aliens Luis López Carrasco, Spain
Pairings
Beyond the One (Al di là dell’uno) Anna Marziano, France/Italy/Germany World Premiere
Preceded by Strangely Ordinary this Devotion Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson, USA International Premiere
PROTOTYPE Blake Williams, Canada North American Premiere
Preceded by Florence (Firenze) Erkki Kurenniemi, Finland North American Premiere
Ta peau si lisse (A Skin so Soft) Denis Côté, Canada/Switzerland North American Premiere
Preceded by Scaffold Kazik Radwanski, Canada North American Premiere
Features
Caniba Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France North American Premiere
Cocote Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic North American Premiere
Dragonfly Eyes (蜻蜓之眼) Xu Bing, China/USA North American Premiere
Good Luck Ben Russell, France/Germany North American Premiere
Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont, France North American Premiere
Le fort des fous Narimane Mari, France/Algeria/Switzerland/Germany/Greece/Qatar North American Premiere
Mrs. Fang Wang Bing, France/China/Germany North American Premiere
Occidental Neïl Beloufa, France North American Premiere
The Nothing Factory (A Fábrica De Nada) Pedro Pinho, Portugal North American Premiere
Short Cuts
The Argument (with annotations) Daniel Cockburn, Canada/UK World Premiere
Bickford Park Linsey Stewart, Dane Clark, Canada World Premiere
Bird Molly Parker, Canada World Premiere
Charles Dominic Etienne Simard, Canada/France World Premiere
Creatura Dada Caroline Monnet, Canada Toronto Premiere
Crème de menthe Philippe David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy, Canada North American Premiere
The Crying Conch (Le cri du lambi) Vincent Toi, Canada North American Premiere
The Drop In Naledi Jackson, Canada World Premiere
For Nonna Anna Luis De Filippis, Canada World Premiere
Grandmother (ʔEtsu) Trevor Mack, Canada World Premiere
homer_b Milos Mitrovic, Conor Sweeney, Canada World Premiere
An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking Sol Friedman, Canada World Premiere
Latched Justin Harding, Rob Brunner, Canada World Premiere
Lira’s Forest Connor Jessup, Canada World Premiere
Midnight Confession Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Canada/USA World Premiere
Milk Heather Young, Canada World Premiere
Nuuca Michelle Latimer, Canada World Premiere
Pre-Drink Marc-Antoine Lemire, Canada World Premiere
Rupture Yassmina Karajah, Jordan/Canada World Premiere
Shadow Nettes Phillip Barker, Canada World Premiere
Stay, I Don’t Want to Be Alone (Reste, je ne veux pas être toute seule) Gabriel Savignac, Canada World Premiere
The Tesla World Light (Tesla : Lumière Mondiale) Matthew Rankin, Canada North American Premiere
Threads Torill Kove, Canada/Norway North American Premiere
We Forgot to Break Up Chandler Levack, Canada World Premiere
TIFF Docs
The Carter Effect Sean Menard, Canada/USA World Premiere
Living Proof Matt Embry, Canada World Premiere
There is a House Here Alan Zweig, CanadaWorld Premiere
Discovery
A Worthy Companion Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez, Canada World Premiere
All You Can Eat Buddha Ian Lagarde, Canada World Premiere
AVA Sadaf Foroughi, Iran/Canada/Qatar World Premiere
Black Cop Cory Bowles, Canada World Premiere
Cardinals Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley, Canada World Premiere
Luk’Luk’I Wayne Wapeemukwa, Canada World Premiere
Mary Goes Round Molly McGlynn, Canada World Premiere
Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn, Canada World Premiere
Midnight Madness
Bodied Joseph Kahn, USA World Premiere
Crawl in Cell Block 99 S. Craig Zahler, USA North American Premiere
The Crescent Seth A. Smith, Canada World Premiere
The Disaster Artist James Franco, USA World Premiere
Downrange Ryuhei Kitamura, USA World Premiere
Great Choice Robin Comisar, USA Canadian Premiere
Let the Corpses Tan Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Belgium/France North American Premiere
Mom and Dad Brian Taylor, USA World Premiere
Revenge Coralie Fargeat, France World Premiere
The Ritual David Bruckner, UK World Premiere
Vampire Clay Sôichi Umezawa, Japan World Premiere
The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival starts on Thursday, September 7, 2017, and will run through Sunday, September 17, 2017. Here is a list of Ashley Menzel’s most anticipated films of TIFF 2017.
