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Andrew Haigh
A retired English couple (played by screen legends Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) reflect on their lives after nearly a half-century toge… 
CastCharlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$PG

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Gaby Dellal
Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon and Elle Fanning star in this funny and touching story about a NYC teenager struggling with gender identity. The to… 
CastElle Fanning, Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon, T…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Pan Nalin
On the eve of their friend’s wedding in Goa, a group of women discuss everything under the sun — from their careers, sex lives, and secrets to n… 
CastTannishtha Chatterjee, Sandhya Mridul, Sarah…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
SP$14A

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Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnso…
A man struggles with his inability to connect with other people. Charlie Kaufman, the celebrated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adapt… 
CastJennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thew…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Cary Fukunaga
After his parents are killed, a young African boy is forced to become a child soldier in a rebel army led by a brutal commandant (Idris Elba, Ma… 
CastIdris Elba, Ama Abebrese, Abraham Attah
LanguageEnglish   CountryGhana
SP$$14A

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Rob Reiner
When his political-candidate father ships him off to a rehab facility, a reckless teenager finds love and danger with a fellow resident, in the … 
CastNick Robinson, Morgan Saylor, Devon Bostick,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Scott Cooper
Johnny Depp stars as notorious Irish-American gangster Whitey Bulger, who spent thirty years as an FBI informant while rising to the top of the … 
CastJohnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberb…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Malgorzata Szumowska
The lives of a young woman with an eating disorder, her coroner father, and a physical therapist who believes she can communicate with the dead … 
CastJanusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwa…
LanguagePolish   CountryPoland
SP$18A

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Robert Budreau
Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in this remarkably creative reimagining of the legendary jazz trumpeter's struggle to overcome his drug addictio… 
CastEthan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Renn…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$$14A

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John Crowley
In the early 1950s, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) crosses the Atlantic to begin a new life in America, in this exquisitely crafted adaptat… 
CastSaoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen…
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
SP$$14A

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Pablo Larraín
Four men live in a secluded house in a seaside town. Sent to purge sins of the past, they live under a strict regime and the watchful eye of a c… 
CastRoberto Farías
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
SP$14A

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Florian Gallenberger
Two young lovers (Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl) find themselves trapped in the murderous crackdown following the 1973 coup against Chilean presi… 
CastEmma Watson , Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist
LanguageEnglish   CountryLuxembourg
SP$$14A

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Tom Hooper
Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars as Lili Elbe, the 1920s Danish artist who was one of the first recipients o… 
CastEddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Simon Stone
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of t… 
CastGeoffrey Rush, Paul Schneider, Miranda Otto,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$14A

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Jonás Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón directs Gael García Bernal in this thriller about a group of would-be immigrants whose dream of entering the US becomes a nightmare… 
CastGael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico
SP$$14A

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Jacques Audiard
To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. These strangers try to bui… 
CastJesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Sriniva…
LanguageEnglish, Tamil, Fren…   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Drake Doremus
In a futuristic, utopian society known as the Collective — where inhabitants have been bred to be peaceful and emotionless — a man and a woman d… 
CastKristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
When Shanghai-based businessman Jérome Varenne learns that his childhood home in the village of Ambray is at the centre of a local conflict, he … 
CastMathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellou…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$PG

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Jason Bateman
After an unlikely accident, a pair of grown siblings (Nicole Kidman and director-star Jason Bateman) are compelled to move back in with their ec… 
CastNicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Wa…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Meghna Gulzar
Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi, The Lunchbox) stars in this dramatization of the notorious “Noida Double Murder Case,” which set off a media frenzy aro… 
CastIrrfan Khan, Konkona Sensharma, Neeraj Kabi,…
LanguageHindi, English   CountryIndia
SP$14A

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Marc Abraham
Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen star in this biopic of country-music legend Hank Williams. This film tells the story of legendary country we… 
CastTom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Bradley Whi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Adam Salky
Sarah Silverman gives an astonishing performance as a drug-addicted, self-destructive New Jersey housewife whose life begins to come apart at th… 
CastSarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadosk…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Hany Abu-Assad
Acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar) directs this biopic about Mohammad Assaf, the Gazan wedding singer who becam… 
CastKais Attalah, Hiba Attalah, Ahmad Qasem, Abd…
LanguageArabic   CountryPalestine
SP$PG

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Patricia Rozema
Two teenage sisters (Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood) struggle to survive in a remote country house after a massive, continent-wide power outage… 
CastEllen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$$14A

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Nicholas Hytner
The legendary Maggie Smith stars in this adaptation of the based-on-fact play by acclaimed author Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George), abo… 
CastMaggie Smith, Dominic Cooper, James Corden
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Tim Godsall
A legendary, reclusive music producer (Rhys Ifans) has his shut-in routine disturbed by the unexpected arrival of his aspiring musician son (Jac… 
CastRhys Ifans, Juno Temple, Jack Kilmer, Keir G…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Yorgos Lanthimos
In a dystopian near future, single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the w… 
CastColin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Matthew Cullen
*** The festival has removed LONDON FIELDS from the festival. *** Check ___ TIFF.net/festivals/festival15/changes ___ for latest screening upda… 
CastAmber Heard, Cara Delevigne, Theo James, Bil…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Joachim Trier
An aging schoolteacher (Gabriel Byrne) grappling with the recent death of his photojournalist wife (Isabelle Huppert) attempts to reconcile with… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisen…
LanguageEnglish   CountryNorway
SP$14A

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Julio Medem
This is the story of Magda. Confronted with tragedy, she reacts with a surge of life that flows inside of her, from the imaginable to the unimag… 
CastPenélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
SP$PG

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Rebecca Miller
Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the bri… 
CastGreta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Lorene Scafaria
Marnie Minervini, recent widow and eternal optimist, moves from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughter. Armed with an iPhone and… 
CastSusan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Zhang-ke Jia
The new film from master filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near-future as it examines how Ch… 
CastTao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jin Dong Liang, Zijian D…
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

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Guan Hu
A former Beijing crime boss swings back into action when his son is kidnapped by thugs. With his son captured, Mr. Six and his old pals stand u… 
CastFeng Xiaogang, Hanyu Zhang, Li Yifeng, Kris …
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$14A

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Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Five young sisters living in a coastal Turkish village on the Black Sea are placed under the tyrannical regime of traditional morality by their … 
CastGunes Sensoy, Dogba Doguslu, Tugba Sungurogl…
LanguageTurkish   CountryTurkey
SP$14A

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Nanni Moretti
In the touching new film from Italian master Nanni Moretti, a harried filmmaker tries to juggle the production of her new film with visits to th… 
CastNanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, John Turturro…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$PG

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Johnnie To
Hong Kong master Johnnie To (Drug War, Mad Detective) directs superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Sylvia Chang in this spectacular movie musical about h… 
CastSylvia Chang, Yun Fat Chow, Eason Chan, Wei …
LanguageCantonese, Mandarin…   CountryChina, Hong Kong
SP$PG

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David Gordon Green
Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton star in this based-on-fact story about rival American political strategists working … 
CastSandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Leena Yadav
Three ordinary women dare to break free from the century old patriarchal ways of their village in the desert heartland of rural India. In a rur… 
CastTannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
SP$14A

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Lenny Abrahamson
Escaping from the captivity in which they have been held for half a decade, a young woman and her five-year-old son struggle to adjust to the st… 
CastBrie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sea…
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
SP$$14A

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Denis Villeneuve
An idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) joins two shadowy government operatives (Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro) in a high-risk, cross-border st… 
CastEmily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, …
LanguageEnglish, Spanish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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László Nemes
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful and gripping Holocaust drama follows a concentration-camp inmate who goes to… 
CastGéza Röhrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd…
LanguageHungarian   CountryHungary
SP$14A

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Tom McCarthy
Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton star in this true story about a team of Boston Globe reporters who uncovered a massive scandal o… 
CastMark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Catherine Corsini
In 1971 France, a young girl from a rural family moves to Paris and begins a life-changing affair with a feminist activist. Delphine, the daugh… 
CastCécile De France, Izia Higelin, Noémie Lvovs…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Terence Davies
Celebrated director Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, The Long Day Closes) returns with this adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic nove… 
CastAgyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Natalie Portman
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman makes her debut as writer and director with this adaptation of the best-selling memoir by celebrat… 
CastNatalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA/Israel
SP$PG

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Mabel Cheung
Based on the miraculous true story of Jackie Chan’s parents, this film is about the unbreakable bond of love between an opiumpeddling widow and … 
CastTang Wei, Sean Lau
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$14A

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Jay Roach
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars as the famous screenwriter and Hollywood blacklist victim Dalton Trumbo, in this engrossing biopic. 
CastBryan Cranston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Lo…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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James Vanderbilt
Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford star as 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather, in this gripping docudrama about the newsmagazin… 
CastCate Blanchett, Elisabeth Moss, Robert Redfo…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Claude Lelouch
A successful film composer (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist) falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retell… 
CastJean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Alice Pol, …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$PG

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Sebastian Schipper
A beautiful young Spanish nightclubber in Berlin becomes wheelwoman for a quartet of bank robbers, in this stunning heist thriller shot in a sin… 
CastLaia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
SP$14A

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Guy Édoin
An actress shooting a movie hopes to reconcile with her son. A paramedic haunted by his past tries to stay the course, while a caring nurse keep… 
CastMonica Bellucci, Patrick Hivon, Pascale Buss…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
SP$14A

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Roar Uthaug
In this pulse-pounding thriller, a geologist tries to prevent a cataclysm when a mountain overlooking a popular Norwegian tourist destination be… 
CastKristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff …
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
SP$14A

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Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore returns with what may be his most provocative and hilarious film yet: Moore tells the Pentagon to "… 
CastMichael Moore
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Robert Eggers
The astonishing feature debut by director Robert Eggers evokes Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in its tale of a family of settlers in 17th-century… 
CastAnya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$14A

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Paolo Sorrentino
Two old friends (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) reflect on their past, present, and the beauty and absurdity of the world during a vacation in… 
CastMichael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A