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Deals off to a slow start

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Soda takes UK and Canada for Face Of An Angel

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Soda Pictures, newly backed by Thunderbird to expand into Canadian distribution, has acquired UK/Ireland and Canadian rights to Michael Winterbottom’s TIFF world premiere The Face Of An Angel. The deal was negotiated by Eve Gabereau of Soda Pictures and Eve Schoukroun and Fabien Westerhoff of WestEnd Films.

Gabereau said: “The Face Of An Angel is such a great film with poignancy in its treatment of the search for truth within the notorious Amanda Knox case. It is a perfect one for our new venture in that we were able to pick it up at its world premiere and across territories. Also, to be working again with Michael Winterbottom and Melissa Parmenter is fantastic.”

Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne star in the film, which premiered here last night.

Soda also has UK distribution for three other films in the festival: Jauja, National Gallery and Still The Water. » See reviews, page 10

A torpid start to the market allied to a muted reception for festival opener The Judge and concerns over the desirability of acquisition titles has left buyers looking expectantly towards a slew of weekend first-looks.

As buyers circled Big Game, Pawn Sacrifice and Welcome To Me, hopes were high heading into Saturday evening for a positive response to premieres of Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, Chris Rock’s Top Five, Mike Binder’s Black And White, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Francois Ozon’s The New Girlfriend and Simon Pegg starrer Kill Me Three Times.

Acquisitions teams were also targeting P+I screenings of Lone

US deal is not unusual these days, however many say the lack of energy has been compounded by the new premieres policy that has shunted films that received their world premiere in Telluride into the second week of TIFF. The result, sources say, is a vacuum caused by the delayed arrival of Telluride hits The Imitation Game, 99 Homes and Wild.

“It’s a dud market,” one buyer told Screen.

Still, anticipation was building for world premieres of several high-profile titles with distribution in place, such as Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children and Kevin Smith’s Tusk yesterday and The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington and The Theory Of Everything today.

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to Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher for Hungry Hearts.

Romain Paul took the best young actor award for The Last Hammer Blow while best screenplay went to Rakhshan Bani-E’temad and Farid Mostafavi for Tales. The special jury prize went to Sivas by Kaan Mujdeci and the Lion of the Future award for debut film went to Court by India’s Chaitanya Tamhane.

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NEWS French connections Unifrance’s Isabelle Giordano talks about the international push for French cinema at Toronto and beyond » Page 4

PROFILE Retail therapy Boo Ji-young talks about the inspiration for Cart » Page 6

REVIEWS Night moves Jake Gyllenhaal gives a gutsy performance in the uneven Nightcrawler » Page 8

Thank you for the music Mia Hansen-Love’s Eden avoids nostalgia in its portrait of an ageing DJ » Page 10

Nimbus scares up ghost story

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Cara Delevingne, Kate Beckinsale and Daniel Brühl at last night’s world premiere of The Face Of An Angel

Pigeon takes top Venice prize Roy Andersson’s lauded absurdist comedy, A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, has scooped Venice’s Golden Lion for best film.

Silver Lion for best director has gone to Andrei Konchalovsky for The Postman’s White Nights, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence has taken home the grand jury prize.

Best actor and best actress went

Scherfig’s The Riot Club, Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter and Michael Douglas starrer The Reach.

Today’s offerings include a P+I screening for Adam Sandler-starrer The Cobbler, and premieres of Oren Moverman’s Time Out Of Mind and Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.

Meanwhile buyers were still poring over Friday and Saturday shows that included Boychoir with Dustin Hoffman, Ruba Nadda’s October Gale and Richard Loncraine’s Ruth & Alex.

Two days into TIFF and the only deal to speak of is RADiUS’s US acquisition of The Last 5 Years, however that closed before the festival.

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Hugo Weaving casts light on Anand Gandhi’s Bird Eclipse

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Hugo Weaving is in talks to star in fantasy period drama Bird Eclipse, the next project from Ship Of Theseus director Anand Gandhi.

Ship Of Theseus star Sohum Shah will also star in Bird Eclipse, which has been selected for Ontario Media Development Corporation’s annual International Financing Forum here. Ship Of Theseus premiered at TIFF in 2012.

Spanning three decades post Second World War, Bird Eclipse follows the illegitimate son of a feudal family who is searching for treasure hidden under a dilapidated mansion guarded by a fallen god.

Weaving is being lined up to play a dubious poppy-trading South African, who follows his friend to the house and is afflicted by a curse that makes him a sleeping immortal.

Producer Lars Bredo Rahbek of Copenhagen’s Nimbus Film, whose Itsi Bitsi premiered here last night, is now developing a bigscreen adaptation of In Search Of A Distant Voice by Japanese author Taichi Yamada.

The story’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen. Director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrom is attached to direct and is working on the first draft of the script now.

Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story “Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer said. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that to Denmark.”

The film is likely to shoot in 2015. Rahbek, whose credits include Flame & Citron, is also working on the next feature film from Charlotte Sieling, Mesteren, which is in development now and could also shoot in 2015. The story is about a world famous artist who reunites with his estranged son, a graffiti artist.

Before either of those shoots, he produces Henrik Ruben Genz’s Vice Admiral Tordenskiold… And Dog.

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Toronto briefs Shoreline sails to W2 Shoreline Entertainment has been appointed sales agent of the W2 Entertainment library of more than 60 features, and is in talks with buyers here. The W2 Medias titles were produced between 2004-11 and raises the Shoreline catalogue to more than 300 features.

Keanu Reeves sees God Keanu Reeves and his Knock Knock co-star Ana de Armas will reunite on Gee Malik Linton’s thriller Daughter Of God that Fortitude International represents in Toronto.

Buyers’ hello to Farewell Beta Cinema has sold The Farewell Party (Mita Tova) to Benelux (Cineart), Germany (Neue Visionen), Switzerland (Frenetic), Austria (Polyfilm) and Australia/ New Zealand (JIFF). Negotiations are ongoing for France, Spain, Italy and Japan. The film won the Venice Days BNL People’s Choice award and screens in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema.

China Lion roars for Breakup Buddies China Lion Film Distribution has picked up Xu Zheng and Huang Bo starrer Breakup Buddies from IM Global for North America and Australia/New Zealand. Ning Hao directs the Mandarin-language comedy.

Breakthrough hits a new High

By Jeremy Kay

Breakthrough Entertainment has launched sales in Toronto on marijuana documentary The Culture High, which it is screening here for buyers.

The sales roster also includes the caper Cas & Dylan starring Richard Dreyfuss. That film’s latest deals include to the Middle East (Eagle), Benelux (One 2 See) and Australia/New Zealand (Sky New Zealand and Vendetta).

Breakthrough is surging ahead with its production push and has signed a two-film deal with Lionsgate associate Grindstone Entertainment for US distribution of family features Bark Ranger and Alpha Dogz: Pups United.

Duncan Christie directed Bark Ranger, which is in post and centres on a 12-year-old boy and his talking dog.

Guy Distad is currently shooting Alpha Dogz: Pups United, about a team of dogs out to foil a plot to sabotage the Youth World Cup.

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Breakthrough’s new management team, headed by president of distribution Nat Abraham and evp of feature films Tim Brown, has targeted 10 productions over the next two years.

Brown joined last May after

French cinema ups profile with bigger international push

By Andreas Wiseman

Relativity grabs Kidnap Relativity Studios has picked up US rights to Lotus Entertainment and Gold Star Films’ upcoming Halle Berry thriller Kidnap, with Luis Prieto to direct. CAA packaged the project and represented US rights.

Spotlight shines on Chloe And Theo Spotlight Pictures has acquired world sales rights to the environmentally conscious fable Chloe And Theo starring Dakota Johnson and Mira Sorvino.

The Liberator joins Academy Award race Alberto Arvelo’s Simon Bolivar epic The Liberator will represent Venezuela as the foreign-language Oscar submission. Mundial handles international sales; Cohen Media Group releases in North America on October 3.

Breakthrough Entertainment acquired his company, Joker Films.

The pipeline includes epidemic horror Antisocial 2, a Breakthrough co-production with Black Fawn Films under their freshly

French cinema is enjoying a boom at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which hosts a record 41 French films.

French productions and majority co-productions make up around 15% of the line-up, more than any other international territory. The growth complements the expansion plans of French promotion agency Unifrance, according to executive director Isabelle Giordano.

“I want to be more aggressive in giving French cinema a greater presence in the international marketplace,” Giordano told Screen in Toronto.

The push includes a greater presence in North America, Asia and Europe at festivals, markets and through new events.

“We want to have a bigger presence at the AFM, the US exhibitors’ conference ShowEast and festivals like SXSW. In Asia,

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we see places like Busan as important growth areas.

“We want to organise more masterclasses at universities in the US, Asia and in Europe,” she continued. “Young viewers don’t see enough French films in the US so this is one way to be more proactive in that area.”

According to Giordano, it is the perfect time to capitalise on a new wave of commercial French features. “French cinema is powerful at the moment. There are many fresh independent voices emerging such as Mélanie Laurent and

Mia Hansen-Love while the likes of Luc Besson have played a leading role in inspiring young French directors and making sure French cinema is known for its commercial potential as well as its arthouse credentials.

“A film like Cédric Jimenez’s La French — which plays at Toronto — is really a symbol of the new cinema in France.”

There are 35 French sales companies attending Toronto.

Still, Giordano recognises major challenges ahead, not least in the digital sphere.

“Getting more French films on VoD platforms is a big push for us,” she said. “We are in discussions with CNC and the French government about this.”

Bolstering Unifrance’s 35-man team will be former Pyramide executive Yoann Ubermulhin who will join this autumn to shore up relationships in the UK, Germany and Italy.

minted eight-film deal. Producer Chad Archibald recently wrapped photography in Toronto.

Sublet is another horror project from Archibald and Black Fawn scheduled to shoot later this month.

Stampfer, Vogelbacher launch IFP Former Deutsche Bank executive Bernie Stampfer and outgoing Bavaria Film Partners (BFP) managing director Markus Vogelbacher have joined forces to launch the film financing broker and consultancy International Film Partners Entertainment (IFP).

IFP will advise international film and TV productions “in the areas of film financing and the provision of technical services with a special focus on Germany.”

The new company will have a presence in Munich, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Moscow and Hong Kong.

With the establishment of IFP, Bavaria Film closed operations of its 100% subsidiary BFP at the end of last month. BFP had been managed by Vogelbacher since being set up in February 2011 to attract international service-driven co-productions.

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Boo Ji-young Cart And with D.O., he had never had any acting training but he showed us something different every time he read, and gave good feedback to direction.

In Korea, actors tend not to make political or social statements. With a film like this, they could get defined a certain way and it could be risky for them, but none of them cared.

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Boo Ji-young’s sophomore feature, Cart, is a topical tale of workers protesting their treatment by a giant retailer. A graduate of the Korean Film Academy of Arts, Boo was a director’s assistant to Hong Sangsoo on Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors and a script supervisor on E J-yong’s Untold Scandal before she made her feature directorial debut in 2009 with Sisters On The Road. Cart premieres today in City to City: Seoul; 9ers handles sales.

How did you come to do this film?

Myung Films sent me an early draft in 2011. The true story the film is based on took place right in my neighbourhood.

The World Cup stadium branch of HomeEver, a big-box discount retail store affiliated with E-Land, had fired a great number of the ajumunis [middleaged ladies or ‘aunties’] who worked there. They occupied the store for 21 days. It was very close to home and my neighbourhood friends held a culture festival to support them.

Cart; (inset) Boo Ji-young

After reading the script it was hard to refuse. I knew how hard those ajumunis fought. In the end, police were sent in but they still carried on the fight for 500 days.

They were ordinary people, but so brave.

How did you cast the film?

The lead was a difficult role to cast

because it had to be an actress in her 40s who would be alright playing the mother of big teenage son. But Yum Jung-ah didn’t care. She was keen to play an ordinary person’s role, and well.

Kim Young-ae could have felt a burden because she had just come off The Attorney, but she accepted readily.

Can you tell us a bit about the shoot?

We had to rent a warehouse for three months, build half the set and used CGI for the rest. We shot for two months, eating and sleeping together there, and a sort of synergy arose with the actors.

They practically became the big-box store employees, and shot with no makeup. There were many tough scenes but they were so good — even when they were hit with a water cannon.

Justin Benson and aaron Moorhead Spring The two leads have a strong chemistry.

Was this something that developed from the rehearsal process?

Benson What we learnt is that they’re both really good actors, that’s what you need in a romance, more than the chemistry. You need two people that on day 30 make it look like they’ve just met that day.

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Spring centres on Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) who, when his mother dies, decides to head to Italy where he meets Louise (Nadia Hilker), a beautiful young woman harbouring a dark secret. It is the second feature from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who enjoyed critical acclaim with Resolution in 2012. Spring screens again today having premiered on Friday in Vanguard and is handled worldwide by XYZ Films.

Having made a critically acclaimed debut feature, did you feel added pressure going into making Spring?

Moorhead We wanted to make sure we chose the right project next. Making Spring wasn’t about pressure of expectation but more about being able to hold true to what made Resolution work for people.

Benson The only tiny bit of pressure was that when you go and make a microbudget movie that does pretty well critically, there’s this weird thing where people aren’t entirely convinced you can make a

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movie with a real budget. We knew we could, but you still have a lot to prove.

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Were there any lessons you took from making Resolution?

Benson You learn something on everything you shoot, but we prepare so much before we get on set, and for us there’s not much that can go wrong because our producer David Lawson is so amazing.

We leave just enough open to chance to make something really special happen.

How do you two work together on set?

Moorhead Once the camera’s on my shoulder, I’m right next to the actors, but for the most part Justin is driving the show and I’ll be shooting. It’s not something where either of us step into or out of a role, more like just when the camera’s on my shoulder which is 10% of the time on set.

Benson Sometimes I’ll jump in with make-up effects or operating a tail if they need help. It’s all very hands on.

Moorhead There’s definitely times when I look over and Justin has got his hands covered in blood or he’s wading out into the water, doing whatever it takes to make it happen.

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» Nightcrawler p8 » The Drop p12 » Madame Bovary p18 » The Face Of An Angel p10 » The Grump p14 » Haemoo p18 » Eden p10 » Sunshine Superman p14 » Good Kill p19 » The Riot Club p12

Nightcrawler Reviewed by Tim Grierson In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal gives a fully invested, gutsy performance as a morally slippery Angeleno who stumbles into the shadowy world of night-time freelance news videographers. Unfortunately, film-maker Dan Gilroy’s tonally bold directorial debut cannot quite pull together its differing ambitions, resulting in a story that is not entirely satisfying as a dark character study, amoral thriller or curt commentary on the sensationalism of local TV news.

Because the likeable star plays a quietly sinister, mentally unstable man, Nightcrawler may suffer some in terms of word of mouth. Still, praise for Gyllenhaal’s controlled turn may make this movie an attractive counterprogramming option for those who want to ditch the late-October glut of horror films.

Set in Los Angeles, Nightcrawler stars Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, who is stealing materials from a construction site and overwhelming a security guard when the movie begins, an ominous warning about the sort of individual we are dealing with. A drifter without direction but armed with a fierce determination to make something of himself, Lou is looking for a job when he happens upon a fiery car accident on the freeway.

While the cops try to rescue the driver, Lou

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SPEciAL PRESENTATioNS US. 2014. 117mins Director/screenplay Dan Gilroy Production company Bold Films International sales Sierra/Affinity, www. sierra-affinity.com Producers Michel Litvak, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy Executive producers Gary Michael Walters, Betsy Danbury Cinematography Robert Elswit Production designer Kevin Kavanaugh Editor John Gilroy Music James Newton Howard Main cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton

notices Joe (Paxton), a man with a video camera who swoops in to record the incident. Joe explains he is a “nightcrawler,” a freelance videographer who films horrible car crashes and bloody murder scenes, selling the footage to local news stations that cannot get enough grisly material. Intrigued, Lou decides to become a nightcrawler, hiring a well-meaning, oblivious young man named Rick (Ahmed) to be his assistant as they drive around Los Angeles with their police scanner, looking for potentially horrifying footage.

Decked out with big bushy eyebrows, Gyllenhaal speaks in an unsettlingly low tone, trying to sell himself as a confident, put-together man who nonetheless lets his facade drop occasionally so we see the true unease within him. Gyllenhaal digs deep into Lou’s misanthropy and need to belong — qualities that, ironically, make him an ace nightcrawler because he is willing to get shots that no-one else will, even if it pushes up against the boundaries of taste or ethics.

The problem with Nightcrawler is that Gilroy has created a vivid world of lowlifes and losers without always making that world convincing.

Most notable is his depiction of the local news station that soon becomes Lou’s bread and butter. Rene Russo plays an unscrupulous news editor who embraces the “if it bleeds, it leads”

ethos of bottom-feeding sensationalist journalism. Russo gives the woman enjoyable layers of sliminess, but Nightcrawler seems overly pleased with its ho-hum revelations about TV journalism that are not particularly shocking.

The film works best in its exchanges between Lou and Rick, when we see the depths of selfdelusion eating into Lou’s personality. Intimidating the younger, impressionable Rick, Lou rules the roost in their nightly drives, and as his actions become more ethically questionable, Nightcrawler creates a claustrophobic unreality between them. The two actors have a chilly rapport that is apt for their relationship, as the audience — along with Rick — slowly begins to understand the depths of Lou’s depravity.

About two-thirds of the way through Nightcrawler, Gilroy throws a major twist into the narrative, shifting the film away from character study into the realm of thriller. The film-maker does a fine job increasing the tension, leading to a few expert action and suspense sequences, but it does not fit smoothly with what comes before — and it segues awkwardly into a finale that proves too predictable. Gilroy and cinematographer Robert Elswit have given us a lurid portrait of night-time Los Angeles that hums with raw dread, but Nightcrawler cannot execute its story as effectively as its pungent mood.

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Eden Reviewed by Tim Grierson

The Face Of An Angel Reviewed by Mark adams The grim fascination surrounding the notorious and much-reported killing of UK student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007 and subsequent court cases involving Amanda Knox will help provoke interest in Michael Winterbottom’s intriguing film. While he does not try to provide any answers, the UK film-maker uses the murder as a leaping off point to dwell on the public and the media’s fascination for violent stories, whether real or fictional.

For those who look closely enough, there are clear echoes to the real-life case but this is no old-fashioned true crime story brought to the big screen with a focus on blood and guilt, but rather a look at the aftermath and how it might affect people who are only tangentially involved.

As usual, the prolific Winterbottom can be relied on to deliver a film that looks impressive and is appropriately provocative, though it is also a rather plodding film that rarely reaches dramatic highs and loses its focus in the middle section. But the central performances are impressive, with Kate Beckinsale especially good as journalist Simone (though perhaps too wonderfully dressed for a struggling hack) who has written a book about the crime.

For the purposes of film, the murder of a young UK student takes place in the medieval town of Siena, and it is there that film director Thomas Lang (Brühl) arrives, planning to adapt Simone’s book about the trial of US student, Jessica Fuller, for the murder of her flatmate, Elizabeth Pryce. He wants to find out more about the incident and trial, but finds himself drawn into the media frenzy surrounding the case while also battling his film financiers.

Thomas — who is separated and talks to his Los Angeles-based daughter by Skype — descends into his own torment as he becomes obsessed with the subject, though he finds some kind of solace with fresh-faced UK student Melanie (an impressive debut role for Cara Delevingne, one of the world’s most high-profile models) who acts as an innocent muse and helps him focus away from the darkness dragging him down.

Quite who The Face Of An Angel refers to is deliberately vague. It may be Melanie, or the dead Elizabeth or Thomas’s daughter — and there are also lots of references to Dante’s Inferno to reflect his emotional descent — but in the end it is that ‘face’ of innocence that saves Thomas from his own private hell.

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MaSTeRS UK. 2014. 100mins Director Michael Winterbottom Production companies Revolution Films, BBc Films, Multitrade, Ypsilon Films, lipsync llp, Vedette Finance Producer Melissa parmenter Executive producers christine langan, eric anidjar, leon Benarroch, Roberto Mitrani, norman Merry, andrew eaton, anthony Jabre, Reza Safinia, Susana Hornil Screenplay paul Viragh Cinematography Hubert Taczanowski Editor Marc Richardson Production designer carly Reddin Music Harry escott Main cast Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea, cara Delevingne, Sai Bennett, ava acres, Genevieve Gaunt, Ranieri Menicori, andrea Tidona, peter Sullivan

Heartbreaking and profound in its beautifully modest way, Mia Hansen-Love’s Eden tackles one of fiction’s oldest themes — the awkward transition from youthful idealism to wised-up, resigned adulthood — and finds rich new terrain to explore. The director of Father Of My Children and Goodbye First Love once again chronicles life’s nagging habit of not working out quite how we hoped, but her latest film shows her working in a slightly more accessible vein, charting the 20-year odyssey of an aspiring French DJ who comes to learn what most of us eventually discover: the things we love can define and imprison us in ways we could not have imagined.

Eden could prove to be more of a box-office draw than Hansen-Love’s small-scale indies, though its introspective tone will keep the film a limited arthouse offering in the US. Strong reviews, however, could boost its profile.

Starting in the early 1990s, Eden is interested in the journey of two young men who are starting up a DJ group in Paris called Cheers, but in reality the film is more invested in Paul (de Givry), the handsome, unsettled member of the duo. Over two decades, Eden checks in on Paul as Cheers finds limited international success and he goes through a series of girlfriends, including a commitment-phobic American (Gerwig) and a loyal local girl (a stellar Pauline Etienne) who may end up being the love of his life — if he is smart enough to realise it.

At first, Eden risks being merely a very enjoyable, nostalgic look at the French dance scene that spawned a modern electronic disco movement in the form of Daft Punk and others. But Eden’s deliberate, careful pacing turns out to be one of the film’s great strengths, giving the narrative room to grow and develop as we begin to grasp what Hansen-Love is after.

Greta Gerwig’s role is small but crucial as her character, Julia, represents for Paul a certain kind of unbridled love that only happens in one’s youth when the future seems to be stretching ahead endlessly.

Movies about one’s childhood music cannot help but feel a bit precious, though Eden is remarkably pointed in its laceration of nostalgia. For most of us, the music of our youth reconnects us to an earlier, probably romanticised version of our lives. For Paul, the sting is more palpable, a constant reminder of everything he wanted — success, love, fame — and didn’t quite get.

Special pReSenTaTionS Fr. 2014. 131mins Director Mia Hansen-love Production company cG cinema International sales Kinology, www.kinology.eu Producer charles Gillibert Screenplay Mia Hansenlove, Sven Hansen-love Cinematography Denis lenoir Production designer anna Falgueres Editor Marion Monnier Main cast Félix de Givry, pauline etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani, laura Smet, Vincent lacoste

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Manuel and Lucia are married and find an excuse to live separated. The unspoken rupture begins to affect the one person they want to protect: their son.

From the producers of „Whisky“ and „Giant“. The director of „A Year Without Love“ (Teddy Award), „Encarnación“ (Innovation Award in Toronto Film Festival). Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (Wild Tales).

Drama / 102 min / Spanish with English subtitles / Argentina 2014

by Dave McKean Screenings: Mon, 8th at 9h00 @ Jackman Hall Mon, 8th at 13h15 @ Scotiabank 5 (Press & Industry) Thu, 11th at 19h15 @ in Scotiabank 6 (Press & Industry) Sun, 14th at 20h45 @ Scotiabank 9

Grant and Christine visit a friend in the seaside.

Secrets are revealed and the life of their dead child is lived out in fantastical dreams that become an opportunity for spiritual healing.

The director Dave McKean is a celebrated illustrator of graphic novels and concept artist for films such as „Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.“ He produced the image that launched the Sony PlayStation; and contributed with films like „Blade“, „Alien“, „Resurrection“ and „Sleepy Hollow“.

Fantasy, Drama / 104 min / English / UK 2014

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Sky has a debt to the mafia and hopes to convince his wife to sell her flat. Looking for a way out, she rents the flat to an evicted single father while unintentionally setting into motion a series of unfortunate events.

Ken Kwek‘s previous compilation of short films „Sex.Violence.

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Thriller, Dark Comedy / 122 min / English, Tagalog / Singapore 2014

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The Drop Reviewed by Allan Hunter

The Riot Club Reviewed by Mark Adams A powerful delve into the darker side of young, well-todo British men who dub themselves upper class and celebrate their life of privilege through the excesses of an exclusive Oxford University undergraduate dining society, Lone Scherfig’s highly watchable The Riot Club will likely reinforce poor opinion about these posh youths as they dress up, get drunk and behave astonishingly badly.

Scripted by Laura Wade — and based on her acclaimed play Posh — The Riot Club will gather further attention in the UK media at least, given it is a fictionalised take on Oxford’s Bullingdon Club, a society noted for boisterous rituals and fine dining, with former members including UK prime minister David Cameron and mayor of London Boris Johnson. Whether this helps or hinders the film remains to be seen, but as a slick, classy and provocative drama it works very well, and offers a cast of young and good-looking UK actors some juicy roles.

As term begins at Oxford, new arrivals include genial Miles (Irons), keen to embrace university life and who is attracted to working-class student Lauren (Grainger), and far posher Alistair (Claflin). Both are targeted as possible Riot Club members and after a series of initiation tests are admitted to the historical 10-person club.

Banned from all local establishments for their consistent bad behaviour, the club gathers at an out-of-the-way village pub for an evening that promises a 10-bird roast, unlimited alcohol and old-fashioned debauchery. As the booze flows so does Alistair’s drunken protestation of his class’s superiority and blustering rhetoric about how they are not treated with appropriate respect. Bluster turns to rage, which he — and some of the other club members — take out on the well-meaning pub landlord.

With the police called in and all of their reputations at threat, the Riot Club must decide who takes the fall. The performances are all very impressive — with Max Irons especially good as a young man torn between his morals and the lure of the elite — though at times the club members can seem all very familiar as they wallow in pomposity, privilege and an inbred sense of entitlement.

As a non-Brit, Scherfig offers an appropriate outsiders’ perspective — as she did in An Education — delivering a challenging and provocative film that hints at compassion and regret as well as bad behaviour. A striking new film.

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GAlA UK. 2014. 107mins Director lone Scherfig Production company Blueprint pictures International sales HanWay Films, www. hanwayfilms.com Producers Graham Broadbent, pete czernin Executive producer Steve norris Screenplay laura Wade, based on her play Posh Cinematography Sebastian Blenkov Editor Jake Roberts Production designer Alice normington Music Kasper Winding Main cast Sam claflin, Max irons, Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Farthing, Matthew Beard, Freddie Fox, Josh o’connor, olly Alexander, Holliday Grainger, Jessica Brown Findlay, natalie Dormer

Desperate men are driven to desperate, bloody acts in The Drop, a flinty, hardboiled thriller that marks the English-language debut of Bullhead director Michael R Roskam. It is also the first screenplay by Mystic River and Shutter Island author Dennis Lehane.

The combination of Lehane’s terse, punchy dialogue and cleverly constructed plot with Roskam’s fondness for character and fresh eye for US locales makes for an idiosyncratic, slow-burning tale that ultimately satisfies.

Positive reviews and an attractive cast should be sufficient to nudge the film from sturdy arthouse attraction towards more mainstream success.

Lehane has relocated his short story, Animal Rescue, from Boston to Brooklyn. Cousin Marv’s is an unremarkable neighbourhood dive that also serves as a dropping point for some of the dirtiest money in the city.

Marv (Gandolfini) was once a respected figure in the crime fraternity but is now just a front for a collection of ruthless Chechen gangsters. His cousin Bob (Hardy) tends bar, goes to church and seems to struggle with the morality of a life defined by violence and betrayal.

Hardy’s Bob is the most interesting character in the film. His shuffling, awkward manner and heavy accent seem to have taken their inspiration from a mixture of Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront and Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. He is a big-hearted, seemingly slowwitted fellow who is kind to stray dogs and orphans in the storm. We are to learn there is much more to him than meets the eye as he befriends waitress Nadia (Rapace) and gives a home to a bull terrier pup that belonged to Nadia’s violent boyfriend Eric (Schoenaerts).

As we become more aware of hidden lives, guilty secrets and the ghosts of the past, the various strands of the story start to come together, gathering much needed momentum and building towards a climax made all the more tense by the crisp editing of Christopher Tellefsen and the urgent score by Marco Beltrami.

Roskam has the confidence to let Lehane’s story and Runyonesque individuals have space to breathe before he starts to tighten the screw. He also brings out the best in his cast, from a compelling Hardy to the charismatic Matthias Schoenaerts. And the late James Gandolfini exudes affable ambiguity as a slippery character who has never quite come to terms with the loss of his power or the fatal flaws in his nature.

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The Grump Reviewed by Allan Hunter Audiences who savoured the comic odyssey of The Hundred Year-Old Man are equally likely to embrace the journey of another elderly rascal in The Grump (Mielensapahoittaja), a sweetly sentimental adaptation of the bestselling Tuomas Kyro novel.

The comedy is often broad but the emotional upheavals become increasingly heartfelt in what ultimately emerges as a poignant exploration of loneliness, old age and the pitfalls and pleasures of remaining resolutely stuck in your ways.

All the ingredients are present to ensure another crowd-pleasing domestic success for Finnish director Dome Karukoski (The Home Of Dark Butterflies, Lapland Odyssey) and the film should also travel. There is even remake potential in a film that would serve as an ideal star vehicle for someone of the Eastwood/ Nicholson generation.

The Grump (Litja) is a sour-faced old curmudgeon happily attached to a rosy-eyed vision of the past. Stubbornly independent, he believes in a time when bankers were honest, women were submissive home-makers, a car could last a lifetime and no man’s sense of his own masculinity was complete without the ownership of a chainsaw. Montage sequences testify to the paradise of a past when “skis were

coNTEMPoRARY WoRLd cINEMA Fin. 2014. 104mins Director dome Karukoski Production companies Solar Films Inc, The Icelandic Film company International sales Yellow Affair, contact@ yellowaffair.com Producers Jukka Helle, Markus Selin Executive producers Ingvar Thordarson, Julius Kemp Screenplay dome Karukoski, Tuomas Kyro based on the books by Kyro Cinematography Pini Hellstedt Editor Harri Ylonen Production designer Betsy AngermanEngstrom Music Hilmar orm Hilmarsson Main cast Antti Litja, Petra Frey, Mari Perankoski, Iikka Forss

made of wood and men were made of iron”.

Incapacitated by a fall, the Grump is forced to rely on the kindness of his family. His mildmannered son (Forss) moves to the family farm while daughter-in-law Liisa (Perankoski) is left to babysit the old man during his physiotherapy in the city. A good deal of the comedy in The Grump stems from the clash of temperaments between the old man and the increasingly exasperated Liisa.

In the first half of the film, the Grump is a sanctimonious, sexist, racist windbag and you can quite understand why people find him insufferable. His attitude is tiring and the film loses a little momentum as the character

threatens to become wearing. The situation is redeemed as it becomes apparent the old fellow still has something to offer the modern world as he charms Liisa’s business clients from Russia and offers bed and board to a young homeless man.

Returning to the role he originally created on the radio, Antti Litja expertly plays the range of his character, from irritating to endearing, and both Iikka Forss and Mari Perankoski are given the opportunity to show more facets to their characters then mere exasperation.

In the end, the Grump wins everyone over by discovering that the perhaps the modern world isn’t so bad after all.

living as an electrical engineer. But his true passion was skydiving, which he parlayed into a career by strapping cameras to his and his colleagues’ helmets when they executed their jumps off cliffs and then, later, tall buildings.

Utilising a relatively straightforward approach that combines talking-head interviews, period rock songs and extensive use of Boenish’s gorgeous film archives, Sunshine Superman is primarily a look at a man who proudly insisted that he did not want to grow up. His inspiration was children, whose endless curiosity and excitement are unencumbered by

the reality of what is and what is not possible.

Strauch’s interview subjects paint Boenish as a warm, geeky individual, the sort of person who never fully connected with anyone until he met his wife, Jean.

Not surprisingly then, Boenish’s footage is the star of Sunshine Superman, offering endlessly beautiful images of human bodies hurtling into the abyss. Without overselling skydiving, the film sufficiently convinces us why men like Boenish would find it liberating, a way to get in touch with the most primal sensations of panic and ecstasy.

Sunshine Superman Reviewed by Tim Grierson A portrait of Carl Boenish, a California man who in the 1970s and ’80s popularised skydiving and founded the BASE jumping movement, Sunshine Superman captures both the awe and terror of the sport he loved until the day it brought about his death. The most vertigo-inducing documentary since Man On Wire, Sunshine Superman does a solid job chronicling this loveable eccentric through interviews with friends and his widow, resulting in a breezy, engaging film that gently asks deeper questions about humanity’s fascination with pushing the extremes.

Sunshine Superman would seem to be a natural for theatrical release, with cable and other platforms sure to be welcoming as well. Considering the interest in skydiving and its offshoots, the film should attract extreme-sports buffs, especially since film-maker Marah Strauch does not condemn its practitioners in light of Boenish’s tragic end.

Sunshine Superman traces the history of Boenish, who grew up in Southern California and was stricken with polio as a boy. Despite that — or, perhaps, because of it — he developed into an adventurous, athletic, inquisitive man who could play the piano, make films and earn a

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Haemoo Reviewed by Jason Bechervaise

Madame Bovary Reviewed by allan Hunter Gustave Flaubert’s once scandalous 1856 novel has defeated many an experienced director, from Vincente Minnelli to Claude Chabrol. In only her second feature, Cold Souls director Sophie Barthes wrestles a refined, languid period drama from the novel that is not without its flaws but impresses with its fastidious attention to detail, craftsmanship and oppressive atmosphere. It may lack the emotional intensity that the material might suggest but there are enough elements here to attract lovers of period dramas and adaptations of the classics.

Barthes and co-writer Felipe Marino have condensed the novel, narrowing the focus to Emma (Wasikowska).

The film begins as she staggers through the autumn woods, clutching her sides in agony as a lethal poison works its way through her system.

Barthes quickly covers the young Emma’s convent education and arranged marriage to Charles Bovary (Lloyd-Hughes). Described as a “ good man and a good doctor”, the gravely handsome Charles is also a man of set routines and modest ambitions.

When hot baths and embroidery are the only distractions to fill a long day, time begins to weigh heavily on Emma. She takes comfort in lavish spending on frocks and furnishings before seeking more dangerous diversions in the form of law student Leon (Miller) and subsequently the seductive cad Marquis d’Andervilliers (Marshall-Green).

Mia Wasikowska is not afraid to make Emma completely unsympathetic. She is a selfish creature ruled by desire. It is a strong, stern performance but one that feels less assured as Emma becomes more unhinged.

A multinational cast includes Paul Giamatti as pharmacist Homais and Rhys Ifans as the snake-like merchant Monsieur Lheureux. The fact they all speak English in their native accents is jarring, especially when Emma’s father is played by Dardenne brothers regular Olivier Gourmet speaking English with his native Belgian accent. You wonder how he could have produced a daughter who speaks like Mia Wasikowska.

In the end, this Madame Bovary, like so many others, is unlikely to stand as the definitive version of the Flaubert text but it makes an honourable, beautifully crafted attempt to understand a woman crushed by the morality of the times and her unrealistic expectations of the world.

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SPeCial PReSeNTaTioNS UK-Bel. 2014. 118mins Director Sophie Barthes Production company occupant entertainment International sales Radiant Films international info@radiant-films.com Producers Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter, Jaime Mateus-Tique, Sophie Barthes Executive producers anders erden, Tim Smith, anne Sheehan, Paul Brett Screenplay Sophie Barthes, Felipe Marino, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert Cinematography andrij Parekh Editor Mikkel eG Nielsen Production designer Benoit Barouh Music Sacha Galperine, evgueni Galperine Main cast Mia Wasikowska, Henry lloydHughes, logan MarshallGreen, ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti, Rhys ifans, olivier Gourmet, laura Carmichael

Produced and co-written by one of Korea’s most prolific film-makers Bong Joon Ho, Haemoo is a bleak but superbly orchestrated character-driven tragedy based on a true story (and subsequent stage play) about a group of fishermen who smuggle 25 Chinese-Korean immigrants aboard their boat.

The film’s dark narrative appears to have been too grim for local audiences, given its rather disappointing theatrical run generated an underwhelming $11.4m for a highprofile summer release. But this engrossing feature is ably directed by debut director Shim Sung-bo who also co-wrote Bong’s widely acclaimed Memories Of Murder.

Beginning at sea, the film introduces the members of the boat crew as they carry out their duties, with careful attention paid to the vessel’s interior and exterior structure, while Shim — with cinematographer Hong Kyeong-pyo — captures beautifully the sea fog (or haemoo) that encircles the boat.

Once the boat returns to port with a meagre catch, the captain (Kim Yoon-seok) is handed a wad of cash in exchange for the crew’s services in smuggling 25 Chinese-Koreans on board. Things take a sour turn when tragedy strikes the immigrants, turning the already volatile captain into a monstrous individual, while the crew struggle to come to terms with what has happened.

Among the crew is also a young man (Park) who develops a relationship with one of the immigrants (Han) and seeks to protect her from his increasingly unstable colleagues.

It is tempting to see this film as a Bong Joon Ho feature as exemplified through the well-crafted characters, dark tone and the expertly delivered mise-en-scene, but its lack of dark humour coupled with its venture into genre territory in the final hour reveals Shim’s tangible direction.

Comparisons to Snowpiercer are inevitable given Hong’s role in both films as cinematographer, along with the fact both movies take place in a confined space (Hong again demonstrates his talent at capturing the limited space, while the exterior shots provide a beautiful yet an eerie backdrop).

Haemoo may have struggled to achieve the local success that other Korean blockbusters have achieved this summer, but its international potential along with the overall quality of the film should help offset any disappointment.

Gala S Kor. 2014. 111mins Director/screenplay Shim Sung-bo Production company Haemoo Co ltd International sales Finecut, www.finecut.co.kr Producers Bong Joon Ho, Cho Neung-yeon, lewis Taewan Kim Screenplay Shim Sung-bo, Bong Joon Ho, based on the stage play Haemoo by Kim Min-jung Cinematography Hong Kyeong-pyo Editors Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum Production designer lee Ha-joon Main cast Kim Yoon-seok, Park Yu-chun, Han Ye-ri, Moon Sung-keun, lee Hee-joon, Kim Sang-ho

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Good Kill Reviewed by Lee Marshall The guilty conscience of America gets a Hollywood workout in this worthy but plodding Andrew Niccol drama about a stressed-out US air force pilot turned military video-gamer — his job now being to carry out remote drone strikes in Afghanistan from the comfort of a Nevada military base. The film stars Ethan Hawke and every forand-against argument you have ever heard about the collateral damage caused by the US’s technology-delegated war on terror, spoken by characters who seem created for this express purpose.

It is just a shame the regulation-issue script goes through the motions in such an obvious way, providing Hawke’s increasingly embittered and worn-down rocketfiring major with a hot young wife so his marriage can suffer, a feisty operations-room ‘co-pilot’ (Kravitz) to speak his conscience and provide some romantic frisson, and a whole supporting cast of innocent Google-Earthview Afghan women, kids and minibuses whose main role seems to be to stray into target range in the 10 seconds between missile launch and explosion.

It moves along briskly enough, and Hawke’s committed, unshowy performance goes some way towards keeping things real. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the whole exercise is the juxtaposition between the Afghan desertscapes that Hawke’s Major Tommy Egan flies over remotely every day and the suburban desert he lives in with pretty wife Molly (Jones), where just-built, standard-issue houses with their lawns, sprinklers and barbecue parties are separated by a thin fence from the wilderness beyond.

Set in 2010 during what an opening caption informs was “the greatest escalation in targeted drone killings”, the film takes us straight into the control room — later revealed to be an air-conditioned container on a desert military base — where Tommy and the other three members of his crew survey targets, launch air strikes and count bodies afterwards.

What Tommy really wants is to return to being a real Top Gun in a real plane, but though sympathetic, his commanding officer (Greenwood) tells him that he is more useful as a drone pilot. It is true that USAF now trains more UAV (drone) pilots than jet-fighter pilots, and scraps of dialogue helpfully fill us in on other Wikipedia points: that the software system used to launch strikes was modelled on Xbox, and that many UAV pilots are gamers.

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Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatises true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love and a bold act of militancy.

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Headlined by newly restored animations by the great Norman McLaren, this programme muses on the many facets of fame, with tales of war heroes, TV stars and local mayors.

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Dir: Lee Do-yun. Cast: Ji Sung, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Kwang-soo.

When a faked robbery ends in a real death, three long-time friends have their fierce loyalty to one another put to the test.

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(Denmark/Croatia/ Sweden) 107mins. The Match Factory (int’l).

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Based on events that led to the founding of the short-lived but massively influential Danish rock

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Filmoption International (int’l). Dir: Harold Crooks.

The dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens. tiff Docs Jackman hall

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A troubled 11-year-old boy

In Britain in 1984, a ragtag band of activists from London’s gay community form an unlikely anti-Thatcherite alliance with striking Welsh miners.

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at a prestigious East Coast music school clashes with the school’s demanding choir master. gala Presentations isabel Bader theatre

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Follows a group of teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their selfimage and their love lives.

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In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Portau-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend. masters tiff Bell Lightbox cinema 3

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Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost 40 years ago, an eccentric small-town locksmith tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend.

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Tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist forces him to confront both the career that made him famous and the life he left behind.

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(United Kingdom) 111mins. Bankside Films (int’l). Dir: Morgan Matthews. Cast: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins.

A socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

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Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Mikael Marcimain. Cast: David Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, David Fukamachi Regnfors.

A would-be novelist discovers the story of a lifetime when his host — a bon vivant and possible spy with friends in the highest of places — reveals the existence of a decadesspanning conspiracy by Europe’s ultra-wealthy elite, who are secretly remodelling the continent to serve their own sinister needs.

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(US) 90mins. Cinetic Media (US). Dir: Laura Nix, The Yes Men. Cast: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Chandia Bernadette Kodili.

The sequel to the hit 2003 documentary follows activistpranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano as they pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, government officials and a complacent media in a series of outrageous stunts designed to draw awareness to the issue of climate change.

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(Australia) 96mins.

Arclight Films (int’l).

Dir: Robert Connolly.

Cast: Sam Worthington,

WhIlE WE’RE YouNG

(US) 94mins. United Talent Agency (US). FilmNation Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Noah Baumbach. Cast: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin.

Noah Baumbach’s exploration of ageing, ambition and success stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a middle-aged couple whose careers and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.

Special Presentations Roy Thomson hall

12:45 PM

Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman, Ena Imai, Terry Norris.

In a small town in Western Australia, an estranged father and son are brought

back together as the boy prepares for the World Paper Plane Championships in Tokyo.

1:00 PM

vENICE

ThE NEW GIRlfRIEND

(France) 105mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Francois Ozon. Cast: Romain Duris, Anais Demoustier, Raphael Personnaz.

A woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

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1:30 PM PaPER PlaNES See box, above

1:45 PM lIfE IN a fIShBoWl

(Sudan/South Africa) 65mins. Big World Cinema (int’l). Dir: Hajooj Kuka.

Director Hajooj Kuka immerses us in the world of the Sudanese farmers, herders and rebels of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions, who defiantly celebrate their heritage and tend their lands in the face of a government bombing campaign.

(Iceland/Finland/Sweden/ Czech Republic) 130mins.

Films Boutique (int’l).

Dir: Baldvin Z. Cast: Hera Hilmar, Thorsteinn Bachmann, Thor Kristjansson.

Follows three people — a struggling single mother, a former athlete trying to scale the corporate ladder, and a once-acclaimed author turned full-time drunk — whose lives intersect in surprising ways.

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BEaTS of ThE aNToNov

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(Cuba/Colombia) 74mins.

Habanero Film Sales (int’l).

Dir: Kiki Alvarez. Cast: Claudia Muniz, Marianela Pupo, Maribel Garcia Garzon.

A rare independent film from Cuba, this charming and tender portrait of female friendship follows three hair-salon employees as they hit the town looking for excitement in those parts of Havana that tourists rarely get to see.

Contemporary World Cinema TIff Bell lightbox cinema 4 — Paul & leah atkinson family Cinema

2:00 PM MISS JulIE

(Norway/United Kingdom/ Ireland/France) 129mins.

Creative Artists Agency (US). Wild Bunch (int’l).

Dir: Liv Ullmann. Cast: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton.

A stunning adaptation of the classic August Strindberg play.

Special Presentations Winter Garden Theatre

SoNGS fRoM ThE NoRTh

(US/South Korea/Portugal)

2:45 PM RoGER WaTERS ThE Wall

(United Kingdom) 133mins.

Cinetic Media (US). Mister Smith Entertainment Ltd. (int’l). Dir: Roger Waters, Sean Evans. Cast: Roger Waters, Dave Kilminster, Snowy White.

A rib-rattling, sonically stupendous account of the Pink Floyd frontman’s continent-crossing concert tour with his epic stage show The Wall Live.

Special Presentations Ryerson Theatre

3:00 PM ThE GooD lIE

(US) 112mins. Black Label Media (US). Dir: Philippe Falardeau. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmauel Jal. An American woman takes four refugees from the Sudanese civil war under her wing.

Special Presentations visa Screening Room (Elgin)

WhERE I aM KING

(Philippines) 91mins.

Reynafilms, Inc (int’l).

Dir: Carlos Siguion-Reyna.

Cast: Robert Arevalo, Liza Lorena, Rez Cortez.

When his fortune is wiped out, an arrogant, self-made tycoon is forced to return to the slum tenement where he grew up.

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FROM THE NETHERLANDS Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng.

A passionate young Englishwoman finds dull married life in a provincial Norman town is steering her towards adultery.

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kill Me THree TiMeS

(Australia) 90mins.

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US). Cargo Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Kriv Stenders. Cast: Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga.

A small Australian town becomes a hotbed of scheming, scamming, blackmail and murder in this blackly comic, sunscorched neo-noir. contemporary World cinema Scotiabank 3

Public screening 4:15 PM love in THe TiMe oF civil War

(Canada) 120mins. Les Films du 3 Mars (int’l/ US). Dir: Rodrigue Jean.

3:15 PM Magical girl

(Spain) 127mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Carlos Vermut. Cast: José Sacristan, Barbara Lennie, Luis Bermejo.

Desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter’s last wish, a grief-stricken man plunges into a vortex of blackmail, deception and double-cross.

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SaMba

(France) 115mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

Gaumont (int’l). Dir: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Sy, Tahar Rahim.

A recent migrant to France fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker. gala Presentations roy Thomson Hall

Tokyo Fiancée

(Belgium/Canada/ France) 100mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Stefan Liberski. Cast: Pauline Etienne, Taichi

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Cast: Alexandre Landry, Jean-Simon Leduc, Simon Lefebvre, CatherineAudrey Lachapelle.

A fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction Inoue, Julie Lebreton.

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student. contemporary World cinema TiFF bell lightbox cinema 2

3:45 PM kabukicHo love HoTel

(Japan) 135mins. Nikkatsu Corporation (int’l). Dir: Ryuichi Hiroki. Cast: Shota Sometani, Atsuko Maeda, Eun woo Lee. Traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious ‘love hotel’ in Tokyo’s red-light district. contemporary World cinema Scotiabank 4

WeT buM (preceded by nineminute short ‘red alert’)

in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal. contemporary World cinema Jackman Hall

4:00 PM MeeT Me in MonTenegro

(US/Germany/Norway) 88mins. Cinetic Media (US). Dir: Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saasen. Cast: Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saasen, Rupert Friend.

His life and career at a crossroads, a film-maker is reinvigorated when he runs into an old flame while in Berlin — but things are not so simple as that first blush of renewed love would lead them to believe. contemporary World cinema TiFF bell lightbox cinema 1

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(Brazil) 80mins. FiGa Films (int’l/US). Dir: Gregorio Graziosi. Cast: Irandhir Santos, Lola Peploe, Julio Andrade.

A young architect is brought face to face with dark secrets from his ancestral past.

(Canada) 104mins. Clique Pictures (int’l). Dir: Lindsay MacKay. Cast: Julia Sarah Stone, Kenneth Welsh, Leah Pinsent.

An awkward teenage outcast finds unlikely companions in two aged residents of the retirement home in which she works.

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(France) 99mins. Gaumont (int’l). Dir: Anne Fontaine.

4:15 PM geMMa bovery

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DISCOVERY

ATLANTIC. Dir: Jan-Willem van Ewijk Prod: Augustus Film Sales: Fortissimo Films (feature, 94’) 16:45 Scotiabank 11 (press & industry)

(Netherlands/Belgium/ Luxembourg) 94mins.

Sola Media (int’l). Dir: Dennis Bots. Cast: Maas Bronkhuyzen, Joes Brauers, Pippa Allen.

In 1943, two young best friends in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands find their bond put to the supreme test in this bittersweet ode to innocence lost.

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4:30 PM THe FareWell ParTy

(Germany/Israel) 90mins.

Beta Cinema (int’l). Dir: Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit. Cast: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelshtein, Aliza Rosen.

A devoted elderly couple living in a Jerusalem retirement home is faced with a pair of devastating challenges that threaten to divide them after decades of marriage. contemporary World cinema Scotiabank 14

TIFF KIDS

SECRETS OF WAR Dir: Dennis Bots Prod: Rinkel Film, Bijker Film & TV Sales: Sola Media (feature, 94’) 16:15 Cinema 3

5:00 PM i aM noT lorena

(Chile/Argentina) 82mins.

Forastero (int’l). Dir: Isidora Marras. Cast: Loreto Aravena, Paulina Garcia, Maureen Junott.

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when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors.

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5:15 PM BlaCk anD WHITe

(US) 121mins. IM Global (int’l). Dir: Mike Binder.

Cast: Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Anthony Mackie.

An attorney, struggling to raise his bi-racial granddaughter after the deaths of his wife and daughter becomes embroiled in a custody battle with the child’s paternal grandmother. gala Presentations Scotiabank 1

5:30 PM IraqI oDySSey

(Iraq/Switzerland/ Germany/United Arab Emirates) 162mins.

Autlook Filmsales (int’l).

Dir: Samir.

Tracing the migrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting 3D documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war and foreign occupation.

Public screening 5:30 PM my olD laDy

(US) 107mins.

Protagonist Pictures (int’l). Dir: Israel Horovitz. Cast: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith.

A harried New Yorker

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Moon Jeong-hee, Kim Young-ae.

The employees of a big-box discount retail store band together when contract workers are summarily laid off.

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neD rIFle THe reaCH

(US) 90mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US).

Good Universe (int’l).

Dir: Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. Cast: Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Hanna Mangan Lawrence.

A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave desert.

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6:00 PM CarT

(South Korea) 110mins.

9ers Entertainment (int’l). Dir: Boo Ji-young.

Cast: Yum Jung-ah,

(US) 85mins. Fortissimo Films (int’l). Dir: Hal Hartley. Cast: Liam Aiken, Aubrey Plaza, Martin Donovan.

A delightfully offbeat tale about Henry and Fay’s teenage son, Ned, who emerges from a witness protection programme with a single, fixed purpose: to kill his father for ruining his mother’s life.

Special Presentations ryerson Theatre

THe THeory oF eVeryTHIng

(United Kingdom/USA) 123mins. Focus Features (US). Universal Pictures International (int’l). Dir: James Marsh. Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox.

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trying to sell the Parisian apartment he’s inherited from his late father runs up against its current occupants — a spirited elderly woman and her acid-tongued daughter.

Special Presentations Winter garden Theatre

While students at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde fall deeply in love. His earth-shattering diagnosis leads him to embark on his ambitious study of the nature of time with Jane fighting tirelessly by his side.

Special Presentations Princess of Wales

6:15 PM TIme ouT oF mInD

(US) 117mins. Paradigm, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, ICM Partners (US). QED International (int’l).

Dir: Oren Moverman.

Cast: Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone.

A New York man forced into a homeless shelter tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Special Presentations Visa Screening room (elgin)

6:30 PM 1001 gramS

(Norway/Germany/ France) 88mins. Les Films du Losange (int’l).

Dir: Bent Hamer. Cast:

Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge.

A recently divorced, workobsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris.

Bros. Pictures (int’l/US).

Dir: Shawn Levy. Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda.

A death in the family brings together an expansive, far-flung clan for a weekend of mourning, bonding and healing.

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From WHaT IS BeFore

(Philippines) 338mins. sine olivia pilipinas (int’l). Dir: Lav Diaz.

Cast: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio.

On the eve of Marcos’s proclamation of martial law, a small village is visited by a series of strange, perhaps supernatural occurrences in Lav Diaz’s latest epic.

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monSoon

(Canada) 108mins.

Intuitive Pictures (int’l).

Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson.

Sturla Gunnarsson journeyed to India to create this stunningly shot meditation on the phenomenon that some call “the soul of India”.

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THIS IS WHere I leaVe you

(US) 103mins. Warner

6:45 PM

Hyena

(United Kingdom) 112mins. Independent Film Productions (int’l).

Dir: Gerard Johnson.

Cast: Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell.

A ruthless undercover cop tries to rescue a young Albanian woman sold into sex slavery.

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CHarlIe’S CounTry

(Australia) 108mins. Visit Films (int’l). Dir: Rolf de Heer. Cast: Peter Djigirr, David Gulpilil, Luke Ford.

Semi-autobiographical drama, about an aged Aborigine who journeys into the Outback to live in the traditional ways of his ancestors.

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FelIx anD meIra

(Canada) 105mins.

Urban Distribution International (int’l).

Dir: Maxime Giroux.

Cast: Hadas Yaron, Martin Dubreuil, Luzer Twersky.

A young married woman from Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.

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SanD DollarS

(Dominican Republic/ Argentina/Mexico) 80mins. FiGa Films (int’l). Dir: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas.

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio.

In an idyllic seaside city in the Dominican Republic, the long-time relationship between a beautiful and impoverished young local girl and her wealthy European lover is put to the test as issues of class, inequality and exploitation rise to the surface.

Contemporary World Cinema Isabel Bader Theatre

7:00 PM SHorT CuTS InTernaTIonal Programme 3

127mins. Dirs: various As these six cautionary tales illustrate, the words we use and the actions we take in our daily lives can have profound consequences.

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SprIng

(US) 109mins. XYZ Films (int’l/US). Dir: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead.

Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti.

The tale of an American backpacker in Italy who falls in love with a beautiful young woman harbouring a dark, primordial secret.

7:15 PM

The LaST FIVe yearS

8:30 PM

WaVeLengThS 3: TaLeS ToLd

99mins. Dirs: various A programme of tales told, but also delayed, reconfigured, substituted, and even falsified which presciently speak to the present, with films

by Johann Lurf, Yuri Ancarani and Ken Jacobs.

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Beyond The LIghTS

(US) 116mins. Relativity Media (Int’l/US). Dir: Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Cast: Gugu Mbatha Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver.

A rising young musician falls into a passionate love affair with the police officer assigned to protect her.

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7:30 PM

(US) 94mins. Creative Artists Agency (US). The Exchange (int’l). Dir: Richard LaGravenese.

Cast: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan.

A struggling actress and her novelist lover look back on the last half-decade of their relationship from very different viewpoints.

Special presentations ryerson Theatre

8:45 PM

9:00 PM SeCond CoMIng

(United Kingdom) 105mins. Protagonist Pictures (int’l). Dir: Debbie Tucker Green.

Cast: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai FrancisLewis.

A middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception. discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox cinema 2

The WorLd oF KanaKo

(Japan) 118mins. Wild Bunch, Gaga Corporation (int’l). Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima. Cast: Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Joe Odagiri, Miki Nakatani.

An ex-cop finds out more than he wanted to about his missing teenage daughter.

Vanguard Isabel Bader Theatre

The yearS oF FIerro

VoICe oVer

BIrd peopLe

heCTor and The SearCh For happIneSS

(France) 93mins. Iliade & Films (int’l). Dir: Tamara Erde.

Israeli-born director Tamara Erde visits six independently run Israeli and Palestinian schools to investigate how history is taught in this contested region.

(Chile) 96mins. Jirafa Films (int’l). Dir: Cristian Jiménez. Cast: Ingrid Isensee, Maria Siebald, Paulina Garcia.

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a ‘disconnection vow’ — returns to her parents’ home but finds a situation far from the peace she had imagined.

(France) 128mins.

IFC Films (US). Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Pascale Ferran. Cast: Josh Charles, Anais Demoustier.

A whimsical fable about the magically crossing paths of a disgruntled American businessman and a daydreaming French hotel maid.

(Germany/Canada) 114mins. Bankside Films (int’l). Dir: Peter Chelsom. Cast: Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer.

A dissatisfied London psychiatrist embarks on a continent-crossing trip to discover the secret of happiness.

(Italy) 109mins. Radiant Films International (int’l). Dir: Saverio Costanzo. Cast: Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher, Roberta Maxwell.

A young married couple in New York City engage in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child.

(Mexico) 98mins.

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia (IMCINE) (int’l).

Dir: Santiago Esteinou.

An empathetic and powerful documentary portrait of César Fierro, a Mexican convict who has spent the past 30 years in a Texas prison awaiting his sentence of execution by lethal injection.

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Press & Industry 8:30 AM MangLehorn

(US) 97mins. Creative Artists Agency, Cinetic Media (US). WestEnd Films (int’l). Dir: David Gordon Green. Cast: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine.

Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost 40 years ago, an eccentric small-town locksmith tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend.

Special Presentations Scotiabank 2

PaPer PLaneS

9:30 PM a SIngLe Word

(Senegal/Qatar) 63mins. Guiss Guiss Communication (int’l).

Dir: Mariama Sylla, Khady Sylla. Cast: Penda Diogo Sarr, Doudou Dieye, Anta Sarr.

In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese film-makers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, who is one of the last repositories of their culture’s oral tradition.

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Public screening 9:30 PM Love & Mercy

(US) 120mins. Creative Artists Agency (US).

Lionsgate (int’l). Dir: Bill Pohlad. Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks.

(South Korea) 175mins.

Finecut Co Ltd (int’l).

Dir: Park Jung-bum.

Cast: Park Jung-bum, Lee Seungyeon, Park Myunghoon.

A simple labourer in a remote mountain village is driven to desperate measures to provide for the women in his life. city to city TIFF Bell Lightbox cinema 3

imperilled young woman from the Russian mob.

Special Presentations Princess of Wales

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Love & Mercy

The vaLLey BeLoW

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(Canada) 87mins. North Country Cinema (int’l).

Dir: Kyle Thomas. Cast: Stephen Bogaert, Kris Demeanor, Mikaela Cochrane.

Dividing four related narratives of hope and struggle into four selfcontained vignettes, first-time feature director Kyle Thomas creates a Raymond Carver-esque portrait of life in the Alberta Badlands.

(France/Greece/ Iran) 87mins.

Urban Distribution International (int’l).

Dir: Sepideh Farsi.

Cast: Mina Kavani, Vassilis Koukalani.

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate the future of their country while hiding from the police. contemporary World cinema Scotiabank 13

BreaKuP BuddIeS

(China) 116mins. Injo Films Limited (int’l).

Dir: Ning Hao. Cast: Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, Zhou Dongyu.

Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road — and

Special Presentations visa Screening room (elgin)

the bar — with his all-toohelpful best buddy.

red roSe aLIve

A chronicle of The Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson’s struggles with mental health and substance abuse.

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9:45 PM

The equaLIzer

La SaLada

(US) 128mins. Columbia Pictures (int’l). Dir: Antoine Fuqua. Cast: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz.

An ex-CIA agent uses his lethal skills to protect an

(Argentina) 88mins.

Sudestada Cine (int’l).

Dir: Juan Martin Hsu. Cast: Ignacio Huang, Yunseon Kim, Chang Sun Kim. Buenos Aires’ enormous, informal street market

26 Screen International at Toronto September 7, 2014

La Salada is the vibrant setting for this thoughtful and affecting study of the immigrant experience in Argentina.

and raw documentary as the film follows a young heroin addict who finds mad love in the streets of New York.

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The LITTLe deaTh

117mins. Dir: various.

From animation to observational realism, these films employ experimental visual approaches to explore the fragility of family connections.

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TuSK

(US) 102mins. XYZ (int’l). Dir: Kevin Smith.

Cast: Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez.

Canuck-baiting chiller about a popular podcast host who descends into straight-up madness when he heads north of the 49th parallel.

Midnight Madness The Bloor hot docs cinema

10:00 PM heaven KnoWS WhaT

(US/France) 93mins.

ICM Partners (US). Dir: Benny Safdie, Joshua Safdie. Cast: Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress.

Blends fiction, formalism

(Australia) 96mins. Natja Noviani Rosner, Level K (int’l). Dir: Josh Lawson.

Cast: Josh Lawson, Bojana Novakovic, Damon Herriman.

Takes us inside the homes of a group of seemingly straight-laced Australian suburbanites to reveal a gallery of kinks, fetishes, oddball turn-ons and pent-up repression. discovery Scotiabank 8

11:59 PM IT FoLLoWS

(US) 97mins. Cinetic Media (US). Visit Films (int’l). Dir: David Robert Mitchell. Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto.

Stuck with a sexually transmitted serial haunting after a romantic night out, a beautiful 19-year-old girl finds herself pursued by a legion of malevolent phantoms that will track her forever — unless she passes the curse on to someone else.

Midnight Madness ryerson Theatre

(Australia) 96mins.

Arclight Films (int’l).

Dir: Robert Connolly.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman.

In a small town in Western Australia, an estranged father and son are brought back together as the boy prepares for the World Paper Plane Championships in Tokyo.

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8:45 AM Beyond The LIghTS

(US) 116mins. Relativity Media (int’l/US). Dir: Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Cast: Gugu Mbatha Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver.

A rising young musician falls into a passionate love affair with the police officer who is assigned to protect her.

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PrIde

(United Kingdom) 120mins. Pathé International (int’l).

Dir: Matthew Warchus.

Cast: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine, Dominic West, George MacKay. In 1984, a ragtag band of activists from London’s gay community form an unlikely, anti-Thatcherite alliance with striking Welsh coal miners.

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(France) 105mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Francois Ozon. Cast: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphael Personnaz.

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend. gala Presentations Scotiabank 1

9:00 AM A mIDSummeR nIghT’S DReAm

(US) 144mins. LOH Inc. (int’l). Dir: Julie Taymor.

Cast: Tina Benko, Max Casella, David Harewood.

An immersive cinematic record of director Julie Taymor’s virtuosic stage production of Shakespeare’s immortal fantasy. mavericks Scotiabank 7

France/Germany) 103mins. FiGa Films (int’l/US). Dir: Oscar Ruiz Navia. Cast: Jovan Alexis Marquinez Angulo ‘Ras’, Calvin Buenaventura Tascon, Atala Estrada.

Follows two young street artists as they explore the vibrant and exciting milieu of the director’s hometown of Cali.

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ReD ARmy

(US/Russia) 85mins.

Wild Bunch (int’l). Dir: Gabe Polsky. Cast: Slava Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman.

Gabe Polsky’s exhilarating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Soviet hockey in the 1980s.

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LoS hongoS

The TheoRy oF eveRyThIng

(Colombia/Argentina/

(United Kingdom/USA)

123mins. Focus Features (US). Universal Pictures International (int’l). Dir: James Marsh. Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox. While students at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde fall deeply in love. His earth-shattering diagnosis leads him to embark on his ambitious study of the nature of time with Jane fighting tirelessly by his side.

Special Presentations Princess of Wales

9:15 AM Teen LuST

(Canada) 80mins.

Arclight Films, TAJJ Media (int’l). Dir: Blaine Thurier. Cast: Jesse Carere, Daryl Sabara, Annie Clark.

High schooler Neil has even more reason to pop his cherry when he discovers his stuffy, Satanworshipping parents are

planning to use him as a virgin sacrifice.

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shoe repairman discovers a magical heirloom that allows him to ‘walk in another man’s shoes’.

TouR De FoRCe

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(Germany) 95mins.

Beta Cinema (int’l). Dir: Christian Zübert. Cast: Florian David Fitz, Julia Koschitz, Jürgen Vogel.

While on a cycling tour of Belgium, a close-knit group of friends must deal with one of their members’ decision to end his life with dignity.

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10:15 AM The CobbLeR

(US) 99mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Gersh Agency (US). Voltage Pictures (int’l). Dir: Thomas McCarthy. Cast: Adam Sandler, Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith, Ellen Barkin.

A lonely New York City

10:30 AM They hAve eSCAPeD

(Finland/Netherlands) 101mins. The Yellow Affair (int’l). Dir: JP Valkeapaa. Cast: Teppo Manner, Roosa Soderholm, Pelle Heikkila.

Two teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey. vanguard Scotiabank 9

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(India) 100mins. Ishan Talkies (int’l). Dir: Shonali Bose. Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, Sayani Gupta, William Moseley.

In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy leaves India for New York University, where she falls for a fiery young activist.

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The DARk hoRSe

(New Zealand) 124mins.

Seville International (int’l). Dir: James Napier Robertson. Cast: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance.

A former speed-chess champion, struggling with bipolar disorder, takes over as coach of a chess team for at-risk youth, in the inspirational true story of New Zealand chess legend Genesis Potini.

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(US) 103mins. Warner Bros. Pictures (int’l/ »

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US). Dir: Shawn Levy.

Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda.

A death in the family brings together an expansive, far-flung clan for a weekend of mourning, bonding and healing.

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Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg.

US chess phenomenon Bobby Fischer squares off against his Russian rival Boris Spassky in the 1972 ‘Match of the Century’ in Reykjavik.

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ThE FaCE oF aN aNGEl Tokyo FIaNCEE

(Belgium/Canada/ France) 100mins. Films Distribution (int’l). Dir: Stefan Liberski. Cast: Pauline Etienne, Taichi Inoue, Julie Lebreton.

A Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.

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(Netherlands) 63mins.

Van Brummelen & De Haan (int’l). Dir: Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, the inhabitants of Urk. Cast: Femmy Brands, Hennie De Bruijne, Tinie De Boer.

Document of the tenacious traditionalism of the remote Dutch fishing community of Urk. Wavelengths Scotiabank 6

PaWN SaCRIFICE

(US) 114mins. Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US).

Lionsgate (int’l).

Dir: Edward Zwick.

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev

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(United Kingdom) 100mins. WestEnd Films (int’l/US). Dir: Michael Winterbottom.

Cast: Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea.

A fiction feature inspired by the notorious Amanda Knox murder case.

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11:45 AM BlaCk SoulS

(Italy) 103mins. Rai Com (int’l). Dir: Francesco Munzi. Cast: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane.

A former narcotics trafficker now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

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ShoRT CuTS INTERNaTIoNal PRoGRaMME 2

91mins. Dirs: various From the simple pleasures of an ice cream to the realisation of our deepest and darkest wishes, desire has many names and faces in this shorts programme.

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12:00 PM INFINITEly PolaR BEaR

(US) 88mins. Paper Street Films (int’l). Dir: Maya Forbes. Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky.

A loving husband and father struggling with manic depression is forced to raise his two young daughters on his own.

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SaNd dollaRS

(Dominican Republic/ Argentina/Mexico) 80mins. FiGa Films (int’l). Dir: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas.

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio.

In a seaside city in the Dominican Republic, the relationship between a beautiful and impoverished local girl and her wealthy European lover is put to the test as issues of class, inequality and exploitation rise to the surface.

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12:15 PM ThE EqualIzER

(US) 128mins. Columbia Pictures (int’l). Dir: Antoine Fuqua. Cast: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz.

An ex-CIA agent uses his lethal skills to protect an imperilled young woman from the Russian mob.

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1:15 PM PaSolINI

(France/Italy/Belgium) 87mins. Funny Balloons (int’l/US). Dir: Abel Ferrara. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scarmacio.

Willem Dafoe uncannily embodies the legendary Italian film-maker, poet and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini in this biopic from controversial director Abel Ferrara.

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1:30 PM BaNG BaNG BaBy

(Canada) 85mins. Scythia Films (int’l). Dir: Jeffrey St Jules. Cast: Jane Levy, Justin Chatwin, Peter Stormare.

A surreal, fever-dream fusion of small-town musical and 1950s sci-fi. discovery Scotiabank 6

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(US) 102mins. XYZ (int’l). Dir: Kevin Smith.

Cast: Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez.

Canuck-baiting chiller about a popular podcast host who descends into straight-up madness when he heads north of the 49th parallel.

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1:45 PM ShoRT CuTS CaNada PRoGRaMME 2

87mins. Dirs: various From the most intimate spheres to the wide open

spaces, this programme explores our physical connections to our environment and to each other.

the infant formula he is peddling, a young salesman challenges the system and the powers that be.

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MERChaNTS oF douBT

Tu doRS NIColE

(US) 96mins. Participant Media (int’l). Dir: Robert Kenner. Cast: Naomi Oreskes, Bob Inglis, James Hansen.

Documentarian Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) investigates the shadowy world of professional sceptics, whose services are bought and paid for by corporations, think tanks and other special interests to cast doubt and delay public and governmental action on climate change.

(Canada) 93mins. Seville International (int’l). Dir: Stéphane Lafleur. Cast: Julianne Coté, Catherine St-Laurent, Marc-André Grondin.

The tale of a recent university graduate lounging in dreamy, directionless ennui during a long hot summer in her small hometown.

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ThREE hEaRTS

(France) 106mins. Elle Drive (int’l). Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni.

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

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TIGERS

(India/France/United Kingdom) 90mins. The Match Factory (int’l).

Dir: Danis Tanovic.

Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Geetanjali, Danny Huston.

Devastated when he discovers the effects of

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3:00 PM ThE REaCh

(US) 90mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (US).

Good Universe (int’l). Dir: Jean-Baptiste Leonetti.

Cast: Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Hanna Mangan Lawrence.

A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave desert.

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3:45 PM ThE VaNIShEd ElEPhaNT

(Peru/Colombia/Spain) 110mins. El calvo films (int’l). Dir: Javier Fuentes-Leon. Cast: Salvador del Solar, Angie Cepeda, Lucho Caceres.

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8:30 PM IN thE CRoSSWIND See box, left

9:00 PM I Am hERE

(China) 88mins.

EE Media, Oriental Companion Media (int’l).

Dir: Lixin Fan. A very different look at contemporary China with this documentary that follows the eager young hopefuls who audition for the country’s most famous televised singing competition. tIff Docs Scotiabank 11

SoNGS ShE WRotE ABout pEoplE ShE kNoWS

Press & industry 8:30 PM IN thE CRoSSWIND

(Estonia) 87mins.

Deckert Distribution (int’l). Dir: Martti Helde. Cast: Laura Peterson, Mirt Preegel, Tarmo Song.

In 1941, an Estonian woman and her young

receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his longmissing fiancée, in this mind-bending mystery that pays homage to Hollywood film noir and the reality-twisting fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar.

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4:15 PM AtlANtIC.

(Netherlands/Belgium/ Germany/Morocco) 94mins. Fortissimo Films (int’l). Dir: Jan-Willem van Ewijk. Cast: Fettah Lamara, Thekla Reuten, Mohamed Majd.

A young windsurfer from a small Moroccan coastal village undertakes a perilous solo voyage across the ocean to Europe.

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tAlES

(Iran) 88mins. Noori

daughter struggle to find their way home after being deported to Siberia by the Soviet occupiers, in this dreamlike saga of survival inspired by a true story.

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Pictures (int’l). Dir: Rakhshan Banietemad.

Cast: Fatemeh Motamedaria, Peiman Moadi, Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani.

Knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.

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4:45 PM tAlES of thE GRIm SlEEpER

(US/United Kingdom) 105mins. Submarine Entertainment (int’l).

Dir: Nick Broomfield.

Perennially provocative documentarian Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the ‘Grim Sleeper’, who terrorised South Central Los Angeles over a span of 25 years. tIff Docs Scotiabank 7

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6:15 PM RED RoSE

(France/Greece/ Iran) 87mins.

Urban Distribution International (int’l).

Dir: Sepideh Farsi. Cast: Mina Kavani, Vassilis Koukalani.

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist engage in a debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police.

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6:30 PM BEhAvIoR

(Cuba) 108mins. Latido Films (int’l/US). Dir: Ernesto Daranas. Cast: Armando Valdes Freire, Alina Rodriguez, Silvia Aguila.

A spirited, septuagenarian schoolteacher becomes the target of an official witch hunt when she mounts a campaign to have one of her young students released from a government ‘re-education facility’.

Ortega (int’l). Dir: Luis Ortega. Cast: Daniel Melingo, Ailin Salas, Nahuel Perez Bizcayart.

Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground.

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(Italy) 93mins. Indie Sales (int’l). Dir: Michele Alhaique. Cast: Greta Scarano, Pierfrancesco Favino.

A loyal Mafia enforcer becomes a hunted man when he protects a beautiful young escort from his boss’s sadistic son.

(Latvia/Germany/ Greece) 98mins. Red Dot Media (int’l). Dir: Juris Kursietis. Cast: Kristers Piksa, Rezija Kalnina.

In this tough but compassionate comingof-age drama, a Latvian teenager with a serious gambling addiction sets out to find his long-lost father.

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(Hong Kong/China) 113mins. Media Asia Film Distribtuion (HK) Limited (int’l). Dir: Johnnie To. Cast: Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung, Yuanyuan Gao. Two former lovers who find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else.

(Argentina) 84mins.

Ignacio Sarchi, Luis

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Meeting room 12, fifth floor, TIFF

(Canada) 80mins. A Blue Car Films Inc (int’l).

Dir: Kris Elgstrand.

Cast: Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough, Ross Smith.

A timid office worker becomes both pariah and Pied Piper when she unleashes her confessional, scathingly honest pop compositions upon friends and co-workers.

(Spain) 96mins. Filmax International (int’l/US).

Dir: Jaume Balaguero.

Cast: Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo, Hector Colome, Ismael Fritschi, Crispulo Cabezas.

Confined to a highsecurity quarantine facility in the bowels of an ocean liner, a ragtag group of survivors fights for their lives against infected zombie hordes.

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