48th Toronto International Film Festival®
September 7-17, 2023

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18A


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Eva Sørhaug
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising so… 
CastAksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord, Bjørn Floberg, A…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
VAN$18A

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Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet…
The ABC's OF DEATH is an ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary g… 
CastIngrid Bolsø Berdal, Iván González and Kyra …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Sara Johnsen
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past — and the menacing pre… 
CastMaria Bonnevie, Kristoffer Joner, David Denc…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
CWC$18A

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Barry Levinson
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs. A brutal and harrowing film about a deadly parasite, The Bay ch… 
CastKristen Connolly, Jane McNeill and Michael B…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Mikael Marcimain
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and… 
CastPernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berg…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
DISC$18A

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Costa-Gavras
We are slaves to the Capital. We tremble when it trembles. We celebrate when it grows and triumphs. Who will set us free? Should we liberate our… 
CastGabriel Byrne, Jordana DePaula and Gad Elmal…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18A

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Maja Milos
Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens, leading a crude life in postwar Serbia. With a terminally ill father and dispirited mother, she is d… 
CastIsidora Simijonovic, Vukasin Jasnic, Sanja M…
LanguageSerbian   CountrySerbia
DISC$18A

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Makinov
Beth and Francis vacation before the birth of their child. Francis insists on venturing to a more serene island, Beth hesitantly agrees. They se… 
CastVinessa Shaw, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Ebon Mos…
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico
MM$18A

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Tony Krawitz
Isaac, a late 20s Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he’s forced to confront his own family’s cursed legacy on his first trip to Euro… 
CastEwen Leslie, Marton Csokas and Kodi Smit-McP…
LanguageEnglish, Greek   CountryAustralia
CWC$18A

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Henry Alex Rubin
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world. A former Marine (Alexander Skarsgard) reacts to h… 
CastJason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Pau…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Pete Travis
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down… 
CastKarl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Rak…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Michael Winterbottom
Everyday tells the story of four children separated from their father, and a wife separated from her husband. The father, Ian (John Simm), is in… 
CastShirley Henderson, John Simm and Laurence Ri…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MAST$18A

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Zézé Gamboa
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pul… 
CastAlberto Magassela, Lázaro Ramos, Pedro Hossi…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryAngola/Portugal/Braz…
CWC$18A

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J.T. Petty
Hellbenders, an R-rated 3D exorcism comedy, follows the Order of Hellbound Saints (Brooklyn Parish), a highly secretive and profoundly blasphemo… 
CastClancy Brown, Clifton Collins Jr., Robyn Rik…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Adrián García Bogliano
On a family vacation, a couple’s son and daughter disappear while exploring a cave-riddled mountainside. The children eventually return home see… 
CastFrancisco Barreiro, Giancarlo Ruiz and Laura…
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico, Argentina
VAN$18A

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Sudz Sutherland
Three Jamaicans who are deported from the U.S. Canada and England must make their way in a land that they are not familiar with. Home Again is … 
CastTatyana Ali, CCH Pounder, Lyriq Bent, Fefe D…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
CWC$18A

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Ariel Vromen
Story of real-life mob hit-man Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, who was reportedly responsible for over 200 murders. Based on Anthony Bruno's bo… 
CastWinona Ryder, Chris Evans, David Schwimmer, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
A Quebec doctor discovers the heartbreaking absurdity of life in Israel's divided West Bank, in this intense, politically-charged drama from the… 
CastEvelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy,…
LanguageFrench, English, Ara…   CountryCanada
SP$18A

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Valeria Sarmiento
After the failed attempts of Junot and Soult in 1807 and 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte sent a powerful army, commanded by Marshal Massena, to invade … 
CastJohn Malkovich, Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, M…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryPortugal
SP$18A

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Manon Briand
A coat check attendant in a bar decides to take an unclaimed coat back to its owner, but soon finds herself in the middle of criminal intrigue. … 
CastStéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre Dubé, …
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
SP$18A

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Rob Zombie
Residents of Salem, Massachusetts are visited by a 300-year-old coven of witches. Heidi, a blond rock chick, DJs at a local radio station, and … 
CastSheri Moon Zombie, Clint Howard, Sid Haig, U…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Andrew Adamson
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expect… 
CastXzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darvil…
LanguageEnglish   CountryNew Zealand
SP$18A

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Sean Garrity
To win back his unsatisfied ex-girlfriend, conservative accountant Jordan Abrams enlists the help of Julia — an uninhibited exotic dancer — to g… 
CastJonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manni…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
CWC$18A

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Ryûhei Kitamura
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they see… 
CastLuke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

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Takeshi Kitano
Hard-boiled Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano returns with the sequel to his 2010 yakuza thriller. As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on … 
CastTakeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase and Toshiyuki Nishi…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
SP$18A

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Ulrich Seidl
Perennial provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Import/Export) explores the politically charged issue of sex tourism in the sun-kissed "paradise" … 
CastMargarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany/Austria
CWC$18A

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Brian De Palma
An erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed To Kill and Basic Instinct, Brian de Palma's Passion tells the story of a deadly power struggle b… 
CastRachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfu…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$18A

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Kioshi Kurosawa
Fifteen years ago, tragedy struck a small town when a young elementary school girl Emili (Hazuki Kimura) was abducted and killed by a stranger. … 
CastKyoko Koizumi, Yû Aoi, Teruyuki Kagawa
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CWC$18A

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Luis Prieto
In London, a drug pusher's life spins out of control over the course of one week. Nicolas Winding Refn serves as executive producer on this Eng… 
CastRichard Coyle, Bronson Webb and Agyness Deyn
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

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Ben Wheatley
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong tu… 
CastAlice Lowe, Steve Oram and Dan Charles
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

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Barry Berk
John Wraith, a man in his mid-40s, regains consciousness in hospital. His wife and daughter were killed in a car accident because he fell asleep… 
CastLionel Newton, Deon Lotz, Jay Anstey
LanguageEnglish, Afrikaans   CountrySouth Africa
CWC$18A

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James Ponsoldt
Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and d… 
CastMary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
CWC$18A

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Daniele Ciprì
È stato il figlio is an Italian drama film directed by Daniele Cipri. The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen… 
CastToni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castr…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$18A

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Harmony Korine
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a night… 
CastSelena Gomez, James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Stuart Blumberg
Three people undergo a 12-step treatment for sex addiction. Comedy-drama about a group of people who are brought together when they join a supp… 
CastMark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Brillante Mendoza
Shaleha Sarail is a barren woman who believes that to fulfill her husband’s greatest wish of having a son is tangible proof of Allah’s grace. Sh… 
CastNora Aunor, Mercedes Cabral, Lovi Poe, Bembo…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$18A

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Aldo Tambellini, Josh Solond…
Influential intermedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s 1960s revolutionary Black films (currently being restored and archived by the Harvard Film Archi… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18A

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Ying Liang
Inspired by the notorious case of a young man's 2008 murder of six Shanghai police officers, the remarkable new film from independent Chinese au… 
CastNai An, Kate Wen, Sun Ming
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
WL$18A

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Pablo Trapero
In a poverty-stricken and highly dangerous Buenos Aires slum, two men – both friends, both priests, both deeply respected by the local community… 
CastMartina Gusman, Ricardo Darin, Jérémie Renie…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina/Spain
SP$18A

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Nick Cassavetes
A dramedy centered on Mary Holmes, a young woman with a drug habit and a myriad of other problems. Nick Cassavetes' seminal work, Yellow, is a … 
CastSienna Miller, Gena Rowlands, Ray Liotta, Da…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Eran Riklis
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn … 
CastStephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Tagli…
LanguageArabic   CountryIsrael
SP$18A

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