Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The "Festival of Festivals" has presented the best of the best for over 4-decades.

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Toronto International Film Festival
  • Little Bird

    Movie

    Toronto International Film Festival

    Little Bird follows the journey of a young adult struggling to face the paramount loss of their mother. In this semi autobiographical film, we are taken on an afternoon journey through grief. This short film will break your heart and help piece it back togethe...

  • Angakusajaujak - The Shaman's Apprentice

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Annecy International Animation Film Festival
    SXSW

    We are transported to the arctic and beyond as a young shaman apprentice is met with her first obstacle. On a guided journey to the underworld she is tasked to find the answers needed to help heal an sick comm...

  • Death Of A Superhero

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Charming, raunchy and improbably uplifting." NPR

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Tribeca Film Festival
    Dublin Film Festival

    To the world around him, Donald appears to be a typical teenager. He's moody toward his parents, awkward around girls, and ambivalent about the struggle to fit in at ...

  • Starred Up
    Movie + 1 extra

    Starred Up

    Movie + 1 extra

    "an edgy, teeming thriller, brilliantly disorienting, making strange a world we thought we knew, at least from other movies." New York Magazine

    Telluride Film Festival
    Tribeca Film Festival
    Toronto International Film Festival

    Eric Love (Jack O'Connell), 19, is locked up in prison. On his first ...

  • What Richard Did
    Movie + 1 extra

    What Richard Did

    Movie + 1 extra

    "What Richard Did is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits." The Guardian

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Sydney Film Festival
    Tribeca Film Festival

    Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Room), What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen (Jack Re...

  • Neds
    Movie + 1 extra

    Neds

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A stringent street psychodrama in which brutality is an infection and every male is a carrier." NPR

    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    San Sebastian International Film Festival

    Neds follows the story of John McGill, a young boy growing up in 1970s, Scotland. While a b...

  • Passenger Side
    Movie + 1 extra

    Passenger Side

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A joy from start to finish. Bissonnette has crafted a unique, funny indie." Empire Magazine

    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Los Angeles Film Festival

    Funny, intelligent and moving, Matt Bissonnette's film sees two brothers (played by Adam Scott and Joel Bissonnette...

  • Roads In February
    Movie + 1 extra

    Roads In February

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival
    Miami Film Festival

    Katherine Jerkovic's poignant, intimate debut feature follows Sarah (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) who, after the death of her father, travels from Montreal to a small village in Uruguay to visit with her paternal grandmother...

  • Our Body

    Movie

    "one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival

    After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

  • Like A House On Fire

    Movie + 1 extra

    When Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. Featuring a remarkable performance from Sarah Sutherland in the le...

  • Our People Will Be Healed

    Movie + 1 extra

    "This film functions as both cinema and journalism, the camera pushing us into a world we might not otherwise see and illuminating that world on a human scale." NOW Magazine

    Toronto International Film Festival

    Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community...

  • 180 Degree Rule
    Movie + 1 extra

    180 Degree Rule

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Fajr Film Festival

    Based on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...

  • The Stone Speakers

    Movie

    "Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Berlin International Film Festival
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

    Igor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...

  • Angels Wear White
    Movie + 1 extra

    Angels Wear White

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Venice Film Festival
    Palm Springs International Film Festival

    Winner of the Best Director at Golden Horse Awards, director Vivian Qu pens a thoughtful story on security, solidarity, and abuse. As main character Mia struggles with the responsibility of knowing ...

  • Kati Kati
    Movie + 2 extras

    Kati Kati

    Movie + 2 extras

    "an original, vibrant and exciting statement from a talented filmmaker" The Playlist

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Chicago International Film Festival
    Seattle International Film Festival

    When Kaleche, a young amnesiac, wakes up in the middle of the wilderness, she has no idea how she got ...

  • Luk'Luk'I
    Movie + 1 extra

    Luk'Luk'I

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
    Vancouver International Film Festival

    Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...

  • A Young Patriot
    Movie + 1 extra

    A Young Patriot

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A gripping chronicle of the breakdown of the so-called Chinese Dream" Hollywood Reporter

    Toronto International Film Festival
    CPH: DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest

    'A Young Patriot' explores the patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. The film foll...

  • P.S. Jerusalem
    Movie + 1 extra

    P.S. Jerusalem

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    DOC NYC

    Filmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...

  • No Soy Lorena (I'm Not Lorena)

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Locarno International Film Festival
    Stockholm International Film Festival

    A case of mistaken identity becomes a living nightmare when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors, in this Kafkaesque fable for the information age.

    Chi...

  • Of Good Report
    Movie + 1 extra

    Of Good Report

    Movie + 1 extra

    "a sensational noir thriller" The Guardian

    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Durban International Film Festival

    Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's stylish and compelling thriller follows an introverted high school teacher, Parker Sitole (Mothusi Magano), in rural South Afr...

  • Hard Goodbyes: My Father

    Movie + 1 extra

    Locarno Film Festival Winner
    Thessaloniki Film Festival Winner
    Toronto International Film Festival

    Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travel...

  • The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Real-life references abound and it's a whole heck of a lot of fun hearing them because they're probably true." The Globe and Mail

    South by Southwest Film Festival
    Toronto International Film Festival

    Country music greats Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Ronnie Hawkins, and Donnie Fritts all g...

  • Sew the Winter to My Skin

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...an operatic mix of Western-style manhunt thriller and boldly experimental biopic." The Hollywood Reporter

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Seattle International Film Festival
    BFI Film Festival

    Directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka (OF GOOD REPORT, KNUCKLE CITY), SEW THE WINTER TO MY SKIN is a b...

  • We Were Wolves
    Movie + 2 extras

    We Were Wolves

    Movie + 2 extras

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Atlantic Film Festival
    Whistler Film Festival

    After the death of their father, two estranged brothers return to the family cottage to sort through his possessions. Over the course of three days, they must learn to let go of the man they mythologized and accept...