TIFF Interest List 2016
by Col Needham | created - 25 Jul 2016 | updated - 30 Apr 2019 | PublicThis is a list to track things I want to catch at The Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. As usual it is an excellent line-up and obviously no chance of catching all of these in 10 days, but I will try my best. After the opening night film, everything is listed in alphabetical order.
My Top 10 picks are on a separate list. As I watch things they will be moved to this list.
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1. The Age of Shadows (2016)
TV-MA | 140 min | Action, History, Thriller
Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Gong Yoo, Song Kang-ho, Jeon Yeo-been
Votes: 11,043 | Gross: $0.54M
2. The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
97 min | Drama
A beautiful summer day. A garden. A terrace. A woman and a man sit at a table beneath the trees, with a soft summer wind. In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris. A ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Reda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Jens Harzer, Peter Handke
Votes: 680
3. Below Her Mouth (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
Director: April Mullen | Stars: Erika Linder, Natalie Krill, Sebastian Pigott, Mayko Nguyen
Votes: 14,315
4. Paris Can Wait (2016)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
Director: Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Diane Lane, Arnaud Viard, Alec Baldwin, Elise Tielrooy
Votes: 9,769 | Gross: $5.62M
5. Buster's Mal Heart (2016)
Unrated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A family man's chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter leaves him on the run from the police and an impending event known as the Inversion.
Director: Sarah Adina Smith | Stars: Rami Malek, DJ Qualls, Kate Lyn Sheil, Sukha Belle Potter
Votes: 11,640 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Carrie Pilby (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment.
Director: Susan Johnson | Stars: Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, William Moseley, Vanessa Bayer
Votes: 13,759 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Catfight (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Director: Onur Tukel | Stars: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone, Amy Hill
Votes: 7,305
8. Daguerrotype (2016)
131 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 1,000
9. Goldstone (2016)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the town of Goldstone to search for a missing person, and his simple duty becomes complicated when he uncovers a web of crime and corruption.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham
Votes: 6,247 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Graduation (2016)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Mãlina Manovici
Votes: 14,730 | Gross: $0.18M
11. A Family Man (2016)
R | 108 min | Drama
A headhunter whose life revolves around closing deals in a survival-of-the-fittest boiler room battles his top rival for control of their job placement company, but his dream of owning the company clashes with the needs of his family.
Director: Mark Williams | Stars: Gerard Butler, Gretchen Mol, Alison Brie, Anupam Kher
Votes: 13,604
12. Headshot (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
Directors: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto | Stars: Iko Uwais, Chelsea Islan, Sunny Pang, Very Tri Yulisman
Votes: 16,134
13. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Bob Balaban, Lucy Boynton
Votes: 15,911
14. In Dubious Battle (2016)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, History
An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.
Director: James Franco | Stars: Nat Wolff, James Franco, Vincent D'Onofrio, Selena Gomez
Votes: 4,519
15. The Journey (III) (2016)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Freddie Highmore
Votes: 2,066
16. The Journey Is the Destination (2016)
R | 123 min | Drama
Photographer Dan Eldon, was only 22 when he was killed by an angry mob in Somalia. He left behind 17 scrapbooks that held his art, chronicling his life from age 14. His work, seen in Time and Newsweek, showed only part of his talent.
Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Ben Schnetzer, Kelly Macdonald, Sam Hazeldine, Ella Purnell
Votes: 763
17. Mascots (2016)
TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy
A look into the world of competitive mascots.
Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Zach Woods, Wayne Wilderson, Sarah Baker, Michael Hitchcock
Votes: 8,122
18. Mean Dreams (2016)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.
Director: Nathan Morlando | Stars: Josh Wiggins, Sophie Nélisse, Joe Cobden, Bill Paxton
Votes: 4,850
19. Message from the King (2016)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jacob King, a mysterious outsider from South Africa, arrives in Los Angeles to look for his missing younger sister.
Director: Fabrice du Welz | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer
Votes: 17,980
20. 93 Days (2016)
TV-PG | 118 min | Drama
What happens when the deadliest infectious disease know to man arrives in a megacity with over 21 million people .
Director: Steve Gukas | Stars: Paul Adams, Seun Ajayi, Bimbo Akintola, Jide Attah
Votes: 1,726
21. Nocturama (2016)
130 min | Drama, Thriller
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa
Votes: 5,328 | Gross: $0.03M
22. The Oath (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Votes: 2,455
23. Planetarium (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
"Planetarium" follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar
Votes: 3,769
24. Rage (2016)
142 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
Director: Sang-il Lee | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Votes: 3,409
25. The Assignment (I) (2016)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard
Votes: 9,299
26. Souvenir (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A forgotten European Song Contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.
Director: Bavo Defurne | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kévin Azaïs, Johan Leysen, Muriel Bersy
Votes: 1,166 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Strange Weather (2016)
R | 92 min | Drama
in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.
Director: Katherine Dieckmann | Stars: Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon, Kim Coates, Choppy Guillotte
Votes: 1,891
28. Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany, Gordon Pinsent, John Ralston
Votes: 2,165
29. The Unknown Girl (2016)
Unrated | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Louka Minnella
Votes: 10,340 | Gross: $0.15M
30. Unless (2016)
90 min | Drama, Family
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets. Based on the novel "Unless" by Carol Shields.
Director: Alan Gilsenan | Stars: Hannah Gross, Catherine Keener, Matt Craven, August Winter
Votes: 283
31. Weirdos (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Just after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Dylan Authors, Julia Sarah Stone, Molly Parker, Allan Hawco
Votes: 561
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