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Davis Guggenheim
Twenty years after the release of 'Achtung Baby', director Davis Guggenheim's documentary 'From The Sky Down' will open the Toronto Internationa… 
CastBono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen J…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has… 
CastAndré Wilms, Kati Outinen and Jean-Pierre Da…
LanguageFinnish, French   CountryFinland | France | G…
MAST$14A

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Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks… 
CastJean Dujardin, Malcolm MacDowell, John Goodm…
LanguageEnglish | French   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Lynne Ramsay
The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief -- and feelings of responsibility for her child… 
CastJohn C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Fernando Meirelles
A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in in physical relationships. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's cla… 
CastRachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Ben…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$18A

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George Clooney
An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on… 
CastPaul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymou…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Fernando Meirelles
A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in in physical relationships. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's cla… 
CastRachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Ben…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$18A

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Bennett Miller
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-gene… 
CastBrad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Derick Martini
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Tired of fending for herself and her m… 
CastChloe Moretz, Blake Lively and Juliette Lewi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Alexander Payne
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King (Clooney), takes his daughters on a trip from Oa… 
CastGeorge Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Julian Farino
A guy falls for the daughter of a good friend, resulting in a massive upheaval for all the families involved. The Ostroff and Walling familie… 
CastHugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Kee…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Robert Lieberman
Breakaway is a cross-cultural hockey drama set in the Indo-Canadian community in suburban Toronto, Canada. It’s also a keenly observed cross-cul… 
CastVinay Virmani, Russell Peters, Ludacris, Anu…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$$PG

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Lasse Hallström
Ewan McGregor stars as a fisheries scientist who finds himself saddled with the task of introducing salmon fishing to the Highlands of Yemen. Di… 
CastEwan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Th…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Alexander Payne
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King (Clooney), takes his daughters on a trip from Oa… 
CastGeorge Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Todd Solondz
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector and a woman who is the dark horse of her family. … 
CastJustin Bartha, Christopher Walken, Donna Mur…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Fred Schepisi
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act … 
CastGeoffrey Rush, Dustin Clare and Charlotte Ra…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$$18A

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Agnieszka Holland
In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Stumbling upon a group of Jews … 
CastRobert Wieçkiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka…
LanguagePolish | German   CountryGermany | Poland
SP$14A

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Pawel Pawlikowski
A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Lights, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series o… 
CastKristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Ku…
LanguageFrench, English   CountryUnited Kingdom, Fran…
SP$$14A

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Roland Emmerich
Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? In this vivid drama from Roland Emmerich, mystery swirls around the authorship of classic plays, as the ba… 
CastRhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richards…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Oren Moverman
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own sur… 
CastWoody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wri…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Rodrigo García
A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublin’s most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couple’s… 
CastGlenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Rhys M…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom, Irel…
GALA$$14A

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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Juan and Mia, two children who live in different countries, are visited every night by a faceless intruder – a terrifying being that wants to ge… 
CastClive Owen, Carice Van Houten, Daniel Brühl,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Roland Emmerich
Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? In this vivid drama from Roland Emmerich, mystery swirls around the authorship of classic plays, as the ba… 
CastRhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richards…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Ralph Fiennes
The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extr… 
CastRalph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Van…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Anne Fontaine
Agathe doesn’t realize to what extent her life is going to be turned upside down when she takes in Tony, the best friend of her son Adrien. Tony… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André D…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Belgium
SP$18A

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Johnnie To
What do a bank teller, a small-time thug and a police inspector have in common? Nothing. Not until a bag of stolen money worth $10 million cross… 
CastLau Ching Wan, Richie Jen, Denise Ho
LanguageCantonese   CountryHong Kong
SP$PG

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Luc Besson
The story of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and the academic and writer Michael Aris; a true story of love set against political turmoi… 
CastDavid Thewlis, Michelle Yeoh and William Hop…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom / Fra…
GALA$$14A

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Jamie Linden
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation. Ten Year focuses on a group of friends – married and unmarried, succ… 
CastChanning Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Madonna
A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance betw… 
CastAbbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D'A…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$14A

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Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Da…
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who temporarily left him in a children's home. By chance, he meets Samantha who runs a … 
CastCecile de France, Thomas Doret, Jeremie Reni…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance?Belgium
MAST$PG

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Whit Stillman
Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dyna… 
CastGreta Gerwig, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie Ma…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Te-Sheng Wei
Wei Te-Sheng’s epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history which is little-known … 
CastLin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching,Vivian Hsu, Ando Mas…
LanguageMandarin   CountryTaiwan
SP$14A

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Huh Jong-ho
Jeon Do-youn plays a beautiful ex-con who, after being released from prison, tries to make some quick cash by manipulating a heartless debt coll… 
CastDo-yeon Jeon and Jung Jae-Young
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

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Bruce Beresford
An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend get… 
CastJane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olse…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Jim Field Smith
A comedy set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious lo… 
CastOlivia Wilde, Ashley Greene, Hugh Jackman, J…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Pankaj Kapur
Mausam is a story of timeless love in the face of political hostilities and religious conflict, between a proud Punjabi air force officer and an… 
CastShahid Kapur, Sonam A Kapoor, Anupam Kher
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
SP$$PG

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Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
When he leaves his house on a seemingly banal errand for his disgruntled mother, Jeff discovers that the universe might be sending him signals a… 
CastJason Segel, Ed Helms and Judy Greer, Susan …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
When he leaves his house on a seemingly banal errand for his disgruntled mother, Jeff discovers that the universe might be sending him signals a… 
CastJason Segel, Ed Helms and Judy Greer, Susan …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Joel Schumacher
What happens when a man with everything – a beautiful wife, a teenage daughter and a wealthy estate – is confronted with the reality of losing i… 
CastNicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, L…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18A

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Geoffrey Fletcher
Violet & Daisy, the whimsical story of a teenager’s surreal and violent journey through New York City, follows Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Hann… 
CastMarianne Jean-Baptiste, Danny Trejo, Saoirse…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Ribhu Dasgupta
Michael, an ex-cop, lives with his 11-year-old son and works in a theatre as a projectionist pirating DVDs for a living. When he starts receivin… 
CastNaseeruddin Shah, Purab Bhandare, Mahi Gill,…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CWC$14A

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Tanya Wexler
A romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world's first electro-mechanical vibrator in the name… 
CastJonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$14A

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Derick Martini
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Tired of fending for herself and her m… 
CastChloe Moretz, Blake Lively and Juliette Lewi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Paddy Considine
The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance… 
CastPeter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, P…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$18A

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Andrea Arnold
A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isol… 
CastKaya Scodelario, Oliver Milburn, Steve Evets…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Alexander Payne
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King (Clooney), takes his daughters on a trip from Oa… 
CastGeorge Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Bennett Miller
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-gene… 
CastBrad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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David Hare
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving beh… 
CastRalph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Rachel Weisz,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$14A

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William Friedkin
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. When 22-ye… 
CastMatthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Ha…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$R