Soi Cheang

Cast  Richie Jen, Louis Koo, Shui-Fan Fung, Suet Lam, Michelle Ye

Gripping and smartly constructed, this unconventional crime thriller/psychological drama, revolves around assassins who commit murder by making perfectly staged crimes look like unfortunate accident… 

Language  Cantonese      Country  Hong Kong, China

   Atom Egoyan

Cast  Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Jennifer Dale…

Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster is one of the filmmaker’s most acclaimed works, and remains one of the most significant contributions to what became known as the Toronto New Wave. The film focuses on Noa… 

Language  English      Country  Canada

   Bui Thac Chuyen

Cast  Do Thi Hai Yen, Pham Linh Dan, Jonny Tri Nguyen, Nguyen Duy …

This is a sensual drama about a newlywed couple, exploring sexual awakening, forbidden lesbian desire and marital infidelity within modern Vietnam. 

Language  Vietnamese      Country  Vietnam

   Christian Carion

Cast  Guillaume Canet, Anna Maria Lara, Willem Dafoe, David Soul

In 1981 Moscow, a KGB colonel, disgusted with what Soviet policy has become, decides to break with the system. With the help of a French engineer he will play a part in one of the key events in worl… 

Language  French      Country  France

   Alejandro Amenábar

Cast  Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom

In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brill… 

Language  English      Country  Spain/Malta

   Bob Richman

Cast  Ruth Gruber

This directorial debut from acclaimed cinematographer Bob Richman (The September Issue, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) creates a vivid portrait of Ruth Gruber. From the time she became the world’s… 

Language  English      Country  USA

   Hirokazu Kore-eda

Cast  Bae Doo-na, Arata, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri, Masaya Takahash…

This compelling tale of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person and abandons her status of mere sex object comes to life with the superb performance of Korean actress Bae Doo-na. 

Language  Japanese      Country  Japan

   Scandar Copti and Yaron Shan…

Cast  Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani

An original, powerful film in which an accidental murder and a murky drug deal spur uncontrolled violence in a Palestinian community in Jaffa. 

Language  Arabic, Hebrew      Country  Israel/Germany

   Philip Hoffman

Cast  George Lachlan Brown

Local legend Philip Hoffman’s formally adventurous and emotionally devastating documentary looks at the tortured last years of Toronto writer George Lachlan Brown, setting the account against a back… 

Language  English      Country  Canada

   Margreth Olin

Cast  Maria Bonnevie, Gunilla Röör, Antti Reini, Börje Ahlstedt

A young mother (played brilliantly by Maria Bonnevie) struggles with a history of drug abuse in this exquisitely rendered and deeply compassionate piece, the first fiction film from one of Norway's … 

Language  Finnish, Swedish      Country  Norway/Sweden/Finlan…

   Lars von Trier

Cast  Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe

Lars von Trier's controversial movie was the talk of Cannes this year with its groundbreaking, deeply disturbing and graphic nightmare vision about men and women and their relationship. 

Language  English      Country  Denmark/Sweden/Franc…

   Lars von Trier

Cast  Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier rarely travels to film festivals, and will not be coming to Toronto, but he has agreed to participate in a 90-minute video news conference that is being organized Friday, September 11… 

Language  English      Country  Denmark/Sweden/Franc…

   Jesper Ganslandt

Cast  Samuel Haus, Olle Sarri, Eva Rexed

A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life he knew the day before is gone. 

Language  Swedish      Country  Sweden

   Martin Pieter Zandvliet

Cast  Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sarah-Marie Maltha

Paprika Steen delivers a tour-de-force performance in this devastating drama about an alcoholic actress trying to put her life back together. 

Language  Danish      Country  Denmark

   Don Argott

Cast  Albert Barnes

This art-world whodunit investigates what happened to the Barnes collection of Post-Impressionist paintings—valued in the billions—that fell prey to a power struggle after the death of owner Albert … 

Language  English      Country  USA

   Ho Yuhang

Cast  Chui Tien You, Wai Ying Hong, Ng Meng Hui

Two young people of different classes are bound together by restless ennui. But when the girl is revealed to be underage, lies and blackmail spiral out of control. 

Language  Cantonese, Mandarin      Country  Malaysia/Hong Kong, …