TIFF Interest List 2016
This 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.
My Top 10 picks are on a separate list. As I watch things they will be moved to this list.
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- DirectorJee-woon KimStarsLee Byung-hunGong YooSong Kang-hoKorean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsReda KatebSophie SeminJens HarzerA 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 conversation begins: questions and answers between the woman and the man. It deals with sexual experiences, childhood, memories, the essence of summer and the difference between men and women. It illustrates both, feminine perspective and masculine perception. In the background, inside the house that opens onto the terrace, on the woman and the man: the writer, in the process of imagining this dialogue and typing it down. Or is it the other way around? Might it be that those two characters over there tell him what he's putting down on paper: a long, final dialogue between a man and a woman?
- DirectorApril MullenStarsErika LinderNatalie KrillSebastian PigottAn unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
- DirectorEleanor CoppolaStarsDiane LaneArnaud ViardAlec BaldwinThe wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
- DirectorSarah Adina SmithStarsRami MalekDJ QuallsKate Lyn SheilA 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.
- DirectorSusan JohnsonStarsBel PowleyNathan LaneWilliam MoseleyA person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment.
- DirectorOnur TukelStarsSandra OhAnne HecheAlicia SilverstoneThe rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsTahar RahimConstance RousseauOlivier GourmetWhen 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.
- DirectorIvan SenStarsAaron PedersenAlex RussellJacki WeaverIndigenous 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.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAdrian TitieniMaria DragusLia BugnarA film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
- DirectorMark WilliamsStarsGerard ButlerGretchen MolAlison BrieA 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.
- DirectorKimo StamboelTimo TjahjantoStarsIko UwaisChelsea IslanSunny PangUwais 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.
- DirectorOz PerkinsStarsRuth WilsonPaula PrentissBob BalabanA young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsNat WolffJames FrancoVincent D'OnofrioAn activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.
- DirectorNick HammStarsTimothy SpallColm MeaneyJohn HurtDuring 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.
- DirectorBronwen HughesStarsBen SchnetzerKelly MacdonaldSam HazeldinePhotographer 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.
- DirectorChristopher GuestStarsZach WoodsWayne WildersonSarah BakerA look into the world of competitive mascots.
- DirectorNathan MorlandoStarsJosh WigginsSophie NélisseJoe CobdenFollows 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.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsChadwick BosemanLuke EvansAlfred MolinaJacob King, a mysterious outsider from South Africa, arrives in Los Angeles to look for his missing younger sister.
- DirectorSteve GukasStarsPaul AdamsSeun AjayiBimbo AkintolaWhat happens when the deadliest infectious disease know to man arrives in a megacity with over 21 million people .
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsFinnegan OldfieldVincent RottiersHamza MezianiSome 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.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsBaltasar KormákurHera HilmarGísli Örn GarðarssonA 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.
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsNatalie PortmanLily-Rose DeppEmmanuel Salinger"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.
- DirectorSang-il LeeStarsKen WatanabeMirai MoriyamaAoi MiyazakiA grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
- DirectorWalter HillStarsMichelle RodriguezTony ShalhoubAnthony LaPagliaAfter waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.
- DirectorBavo DefurneStarsIsabelle HuppertKévin AzaïsJohan LeysenA 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.
- DirectorKatherine DieckmannStarsHolly HunterCarrie CoonKim Coatesin 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.
- DirectorKim NguyenStarsDane DeHaanTatiana MaslanyGordon PinsentSet 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.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsAdèle HaenelOlivier BonnaudJérémie RenierA 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.
- DirectorAlan GilsenanStarsHannah GrossCatherine KeenerMatt CravenA 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.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDylan AuthorsJulia Sarah StoneMolly ParkerJust 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.