TIFF 2016: Contemporary World Cinema
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- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsBérénice BejoCédric KahnMarthe KellerAfter 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsNatalia PoloTito Alexander GomezJesús VásquezAmparo flees the convent and lands in a marginal neighborhood at her sister's house. Cousin Libardo becomes infatuated with Amparo, forcing her to live under his roof; the Animal's family, witness to her captivity. The community, threatened by Libardo, doesn't intercede. Forced to become the Animal's wife, Amparo cannot escape bearing his child. Will she, through love and temperance, survive and save her daughter; bringing an end to the cycle of violence her mother also was a victim of?
- DirectorJunfeng BooStarsFirdaus RahmanWan Hanafi SuMastura AhmadInevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorChloé RobichaudStarsEmily VanCampMacha GrenonSerge HoudeEmily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsSnezana VidovicIzudin BajrovicVedrana BozinovicThe major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of the place waiting to Jacques, a special French guest, workers in the kitchen preparing a strike because they have spent months without pay and journalist records a television show on the roof.
- DirectorLukas Valenta RinnerStarsIride MockertAndrea StrenitzMartín ShanlyA housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.
- DirectorIan OldsStarsDominic RainsMelissa LeoJames FrancoA former Afghan journalist seeking asylum discovers the dark underbelly of his new small-town home in Northern California.
- DirectorJohn ButlerStarsFionn O'SheaArdal O'HanlonAmy HubermanNed and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsAngela FontanaMarianna FontanaAntonia TruppoDaisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, "I can separate you.".
- DirectorMarie NoëlleStarsKarolina GruszkaArieh WorthalterCharles BerlingFollows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsTairo CaroliWendy WeberArthur RobinThe young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNelly TagarJoy RiegerDoron TavoryPast Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsTemuera MorrisonAkuhata KeefeNancy BrunningFrom the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsTrond NilssenPer FrischLiv Bernhoft OsaA ruthless pyromaniac is on the loose in a southern village of Norway. They don't know he's not a stranger, but one of them. We follow him, the fire brigade chief's own son, spreading fear in secret.
- DirectorAlison MacleanStarsMichelle NyJames RollestonElla EdwardFirst-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
- DirectorDeepak RauniyarStarsDayahang RaiAsha MagratiRabindra Singh BaniyaAnti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father's funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.
- DirectorLucía CarrerasStarsCecilia CantúÁngeles CruzManuel Jimènez FraireA story about feminine solidarity at México City. Doña Meche an old lonely lady and Tamara a mentally challenged woman in her forties, meet in their solitude in an endeavor to return a baby that Tamara took from a newspaper stand.
- DirectorAdam LeonStarsCallum TurnerGrace Van PattenMichal VondelA young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.
- DirectorAkin OmotosoStarsMncedisi ShabanguSihle XabaMsimang SibusisoThree people board a Johannesburg-bound train. Strangers, each on their own mission with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city, invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots that intersect and intertwine in a gripping, deeply moving, and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and dignity in the city. In the first story, a rural man has been promised a job by his big-city cousin; his earnings will allow him to pay lobola back home, which will change his life forever. He's excited; his cousin is an important man whose patronage the village has relied on for many years. To work for him is a great honour. But on arrival he discovers that the job is not quite what he thought: He is required to kill his cousin's rival. In the second story, a young man is sent to Jozi to reclaim his father's body, but he discovers that the body has already been claimed: his father's hitherto-unknown 'city family' has taken it and they are not giving it back. The young man must find a way to return the body to his rural home or risk the family reputation forever. In the third story, a young woman takes her aunt's young daughter to Joburg to live with her mother for the first time, but she has her own plans to dump the child and finally escape the boredom of rural life to explore her own dreams and ambitions in the city. She soon discovers that her aunt is not who she thought she was: She runs a shebeen and lives with an extremely devious gangster who supports her. She is unable to take care of herself, let alone a small child. The young woman must now choose between her own dreams or saving the child and ruining everything.
- DirectorPetr VáclavStarsKlaudia DudováZdenek GodlaMiroslav HanusA paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. Weary of life and caring for her two sons, she develops an attraction to the nightclub bouncer, but he is in love with the club stripper, who is in turn waiting for the father of her child to return from the same prison where our prison guard works. A story about the demons of our day.
- DirectorJuan Andrés Arango GarciaStarsJembie AlmazanJonathan Diaz AnguloBernardo Garnica CruzThousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds.